Overview
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Get critical, time-saving keyboard shortcuts for Final Cut Pro X, and tips for customizing shortcuts to fit your workflow.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Exercise files
- Making the most out of shortcuts
- Using the Mac help menu and Final Cut Pro Command Editor to help you learn shortcuts
- Understanding the four main Mac modifier keys
- Window shortcuts
- Undo and redo: The power of Cmd+Z and Shift+Cmd+Z
- Cut, copy, duplicate, and paste
- Not saving, closing libraries, and quitting
- Starting Final Cut shortcuts on the dock
- Creating a New Project and Event
- Importing
- Adding keywords
- Adding keyword shortcuts
- Creating favorites and rejecting clips
- Revealing clips in Finder
- The power of navigating with J, K, and L
- Advance by 1, 8, or 10 frames and range selection
- Navigating and clearing ranges
- Play in to out and looped playback
- X marks the spot or marking clips
- Creating markers
- Navigating and editing markers
- The Timeline Index
- Appending and inserting clips
- Connecting and overwriting clips
- Bringing in video or an audio-only source
- Top and tail editing
- Zooming in on the timeline and fitting to the window
- Moving to the beginning, end, and between clips on the timeline
- Ways of deleting in the timeline
- The power of the Play Around shortcut
- Toolbar shortcuts
- Toggling snapping, skimming, and soloing
- Enabling and disabling clips
- Appending, inserting, and connecting from the media library
- Exploring the Command Editor window
- Duplicating and renaming a keyboard
- Remapping a keyboard layout
- Sharing keyboard presets
- Goodbye
