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Category Archives: Repeats
Do You Use Labels?
The “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 [...]
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“Match Frame” is a Perfect Shortcut
NOTE: This post has been updated with new content here.
Here’s one of the greats: the Match Frame functionality. Let’s say you have a clip on the timeline and you want to quickly pull up the source clip from which it was taken in the Viewer. Perhaps you want to use another clip that you know [...]
Don’t be a “Render-holic”
So you’ve added a fancy transition to an edit point and want to see how it plays. Is it over the top? Is it smooth enough? Have you added a superimposed lower third or graphic treatment or perhaps a heavy duty filter and want a quick reality check? Well, if this is the case, please [...]
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Destination? Powerhouse Shortcutville.
In honor of being linked on the venerable FCP Daily site (for which I am very appreciative and humbled), I want to toss out a full-on “ninja level” shortcut today that is worthy of the hardcore FCP Daily readership, so I’m reaching forward in my schedule to share a real gem: setting source destination for [...]
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Setting In and Out Quickly
This set of shortcuts, which all work together, is pretty basic, but if you’re not using them for some reason, you absolutley need to start and if you’re an FCP newbie, this is probably one of the most important habits to form early on. Learn it, live it.
The proper workflow for setting up a rough [...]
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Setting Pan for Audio
NOTE: This shortcut has been updated.
Every audio clip can be easily adjusted for pan with keyboard shortcuts. Sure beats opening the clip in the Viewer and fussing with that pan slider). When you adjust “pan,” you are determining, for a single channel of audio, how much of the sound comes out of each speaker. If [...]
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Adjust Audio Levels With Ease
NOTE: This shortcut has been updated.
When you are working on a piece that is already laid out in the timeline, there are a couple of very powerful tools to help you get the audio levels where they need to be. The one will will discuss today is CTRL + and - and CTRL [ and [...]
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Easily Move Clips Up or Down From One Track to Another
Say you want to move a clip or group of clips straight up (or down) into another track while retaining timecode position. You might do what I used to do when I started out using FCP: you click and drag the clip while holding the SHIFT Key down. That works OK, but I’ve always found [...]
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Gear Down (and Up)
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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