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Category Archives: Intermediate
Best of the Track Tools: TTTT
In spite of the many powerful tools for ripple editing available on the timeline (which we will cover in time), there will be occasions when you simply have to move everything over to make room for some kind of new construction. You’ve got a 20 minute piece laid out with sync and a music bed, [...]
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Nest Sequences With a Shortcut
Since I tend to nest sequences frequently, I’m a big fan of the “Nest Items” shortcut:
Simply select clips on your timeline that you’d like to nest and hit OPT C. You will be presented with the nesting dialogue box and away you go. Nesting is useful in several scenarios, the most obvious being that, in [...]
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Toggle Your Tool Bench Window On or Off
If you open any of the awesome Toolbench windows (Audio Mixer, Frame Viewer, Quick View, Video Scopes or Voice Over) you’ll notice that they open by default over the Viewer. Here’s a quick little shortcut that will enable you to quickly show or hide that Toolbench window:
Note that OPT 5 fits right into the sequence [...]
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The Power of Arranging Your Windows with Shortcuts
After a long weekend, we’re back with a powerful little set of Monday shortcuts to get the week off to a productive start. One of the most commont shortcuts I use in the course of my editing is CTRL U
When you hit this, all the windows in your FCP interface (Browser, Viewer, Canvas, Timeline, Tools [...]
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On Zooming (And More on My Customization Hypocrisy)
There are several ways to zoom in and out of the timeline and a couple of those methods also work in the Viewer and Canvas. We’ll cover all of them here today, but naturally, we’re going to focus on the keyboard methods because being able to quickly zoom in and out on your work is [...]
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Audio Scrubbing On and Off
Audio scrubbing can be very irritating when you’re moving around on the timeline, but very useful when you’re trying to pinpoint an edit point. I’ve noticed that a lot of people tend to turn it off and leave it off due to the annoyance factor, but then they miss out on it’s occasional great usefulness. [...]
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Where Toggling “Loop Playback” On and Off is Most Valuable
The shortcut for toggling looping (“Loop Playback”) on and off is pretty basic:
When you hit CTRL L, you do the same thing that menu command View>Loop Playback does. If looping is on and you’re playing your timeline (or a clip in the Viewer), the playhead will cycle back to the start of the sequence when [...]
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Why Yes, You Certainly Can Nudge Clips in FCP
Here’s one of my personal favorites and I use it all the time:
When you have a clip selected on the Timeline and you want to nudge it forward or backward just a frame at a time, use the Comma and Period keys. To nudge one second at a time, simply add the SHIFT modifier key [...]
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Control-V for Victory
Perhaps this is a familiar scene in your editing life: You position the playhead at exactly the right spot on the timeline for a cut, then you switch to the Razor Blade tool (hopefully you do that by typing B and not by using the mouse, for God’s sake), then you bring the blade [...]
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Quickly Shift Transition Points