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Category Archives: Intermediate
Subclips are Great for Dealing With Long Source Clips
When you do a “capture now” to bring an entire tape into your system and it winds up sitting in your Browser as a single long clip (i.e., camera starts and stops have not broken it into numerous distinct clips), you may find it awkward to work with. Same thing for long source clips you [...]
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Navigate Your Keyframes Within a Clip
If you have laid out several keyframes (maybe for audio levels, opacity, a motion parameter or some filter parameters) on a clip and want to move from keyframe to keyframe in order to make some tweaks, use OPT K (to go to the previous keyframe) or SHIFT K (to go to the next keyframe)
Now before [...]
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Change Duration Great for Stills
The “Duration” dialogue can be called forth by selecting a clip or transition and hitting CTRL D
This one is pretty straightforward in that you type in the new duration (preferably by using timecode entry “shorthand” with numbers and periods to replace sets of zeros, i.e, “3.” for 3 seconds or “1..” for 1 minute), hit [...]
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Gearing Down for Audio Adjustments
If you’ve ever tried making adjustments to the audio levels without knowing about the “Gear Down” modifier key, which happens to be COMMAND, here’s a little helper that’s worth remembering:
When you grab a levels clip overlay line with your Selection Tool (see below) and try to tweak an audio level by just a decibel or [...]
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Remove Clip Attributes
You know how to use a shortcut to paste attributes (OPT V), so here’s one for removing attributes: CMD OPT V
As with OPT V, this shortcut is a particular timesaver when you apply it to a group of clips.
Suppose you have color correction in place on all clips in a timeline that is destined for [...]
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Paste Attributes Saves You 3 Precious Seconds Every Time You Use It!
Building on yesterday’s discussion of pasting options, you should be aware that you can also just “paste attributes.”
This means that you can copy (CMD C) a clip and then apply its attributes (filters and motion tab settings) to another clip or clips. Much easier way to bring up the Paste Attributes dialogue box than doing [...]
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Paste Insert is a Handy Option
When I am working on multiple sequences at the same time–usually preparing different versions of the same basic material, I find that I frequently use copy and paste to move a clip or set of clips from one timeline to another. Another copying scenario might arise when you are adding an overlay or graphic “bug” [...]
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Getting the Most Out of Labels
“Labels” are a clip organizing tool in FCP that not only assigns a label (such as “good” or “b-roll”), but also color codes the clip which really makes it stand out in the browser or timeline. If you already use them, then you’ll find it much easier to apply them via keyboard shortcuts and remember, [...]
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CTRL K for Setting Keyframes