Final Cut Pro Cheat Sheet

Browser

-Storage of .mov, stills, .aiff, sequences

-Sequences are timelines

-Nesting means putting timeline into timelines

-Folders are called Bins

-Control + U = Reorganizes windows

-Apple + N = Creates new sequence

-Deleting clips in Browser doesn’t delete off mac

Canvas

-Shows video at playhead in timeline

-Overlay window for:

  • Image and Wireframe- handles on clips
  • Title Safe window

Percentage Viewer- Adjust size of clip play Overlays- title-safe/image and wire frame

-Motion/Filters

 

Viewer

-Previews clips

-Adjust Filters/Effects

-Add Motion to clips
I = In point on viewer

O = Out point on viewer

Option + X = Clear in & out points

J = Rewind- tapping it makes it move faster

K = Stop

L = Fast forward

Timeline

  • Sets duratinon and order of clips
  • Allows you layer audio and video simultaneously
  • Up to 99 Tracks of audio and video.
  • Snapping- n -aligns play head to end points of clips
  • Overwrite (down arrow) &  Insert Edits (right arrow)
  • Shift  Z = Shrinks clips in timeline
  • Selecting clips- clip and drag
  • Sync issues with audio

Adding tracks and targeting

Track height/zoom- shift + (z)

Snapping- (n)

Linking audio & video

Apple  R = Render all clips

Option + P = See clips before rendering

Control + Click = Move back into sync

- Shift + L = Linking-connects & disconnect audio&video


General Shortcuts

Apple + Z = Undo

Apple + C = Copy

Apple + V = Paste

Apple + A = Select all

Apple + S = Save

Apple + Q = Quit

Apple + Tab = Switch between application

Tool Bar Short Cuts

A = Selection tool

B = Blade

Z = Zoom tool

ZZ = Zoom out tool

P= Pen tool for adding key frames

Crop\

and distort

-ripple and roll

 

Edits from Viewer

  • 3 Point Edit- (I) + (O) and playhead Using a Marker
  • Superimpose- holds one shot over the other
  • Fit to Fill- squeezes footage into set In and Out points.

 

Filters and Effects

  • Transitions –adjust type, properties, speed
  • Filters- always load media from timeline into viewer before applying a filter
  • Opacity: transparency.  Use ‘clip overlay’ feature in timeline or ‘motion’ tab in viewer
  • Speed: changes rate of clip. “Modify”  à “Speed” “Reverse”
  • Create still Images from video- Modify- Make freeze frame (Remember to De-Interlace or you get shakey-shakey) Filters> Video> Dinterlac