1. FINAL CUT PRO TIPS

2. FILE TYPE
• NTSC (North American Television Standard)
• We’re going to choose DV-NTSC Anamorphic (wide screen)
• 29.97 frames per second

3. SAVE YOUR PROJECT
• File > Save Project As
• Final Cut will want to know where it should save your files

4. USER PREFERENCES
• File > User Preferences
• Levels of Undo: Set to 35
• AutoSave Vault: Save copy every 5 minutes
• Keep at Most: 100 copies

5. WINDOW > ARRANGE > STANDARD

6. THE INTERFACE:
BROWSER WINDOW
• Browser Window
• Top Left
• Where we organize all of
the media we’re going to
use: Video, Audio, & Images
• File Folders = Bins

7. THE INTERFACE:
VIEWER WINDOW
• Drag your media into this
window
• This is where you can
control what part of a clip
you want to put in your
show
• Examples: In points, Out
points, Change color, filters,
modifying audio

8. THE INTERFACE:
CANVAS WINDOW
• Representswhat your
viewer sees when watching
your program
• All
special effects, titles,
everything is seen here
when you play back your
show

9. THE INTERFACE:
THE TIMELINE

11. THE INTERFACE:
TOOL PALETTE
• You can use these tools to
edit in the timeline

12. THE INTERFACE:
AUDIO METERS
• Tells
you the strength of the
Audio

13. 4 WAYS TO EDIT IN FCP:
Pull Down Menus

14. 4 WAYS TO EDIT IN FCP:
Keyboard Shortcuts
(seen in Pull Down Menu to the right of tool)

15. 4 WAYS TO EDIT IN FCP:
Buttons

16. 4 WAYS TO EDIT IN FCP:
Ctrl + Click or Right Click

17. AN ORGANIZED BROWSER

18. ADDING A NEW BIN
File > New > Bin or Command + B

19. HOW TO SET STILL DURATION
a default value when you bring in stills

20. RIPPLE DELETE
shift + forward delete key
(moves everything forward in time line)

21. SHUFFLE EDIT
Hold OPTION Key down when you’re dragging a clip to a new
location and it will shuffle the clips rather than overwrite

22. ADD NEW TRACKS
Right Click > “Add Track”

23. CHOOSE WHICH TRACK TO ADD TO
Move “V1” tab on left to track

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