9 MORE Tips for FCPX That Feel Like MAGIC! | Final Cut Pro X Tutorial

hey everyone it's matthew here at midland pictures i wanted to do a follow-up video today on my now viral video the video that is blowing up the channel we've added over a thousand subscribers the video has over 17 000 views i'm getting a ton of feedback including from you cody wanner thank you very much i appreciate it love your channel by the way the video is the nine tips nine tips for fcpx that feel like magic final cut pro 10 tutorial so i'm gonna do a follow-up a sequel if you will and show you a few more tricks in final cut that are going to feel like magic once you see them i want you finding out about these magic tricks to make you feel like luke did when he did the trench run on the death star and shot the proton torpedoes into the exhaust vent i want you to feel like lex in jurassic park when she's working on the computer to get the power back on and dr sadler is in the hallway in the bunker place with the power coming on lights going on mr hammond i think we're back in business and then the velociraptor jumps out and attacks her and she's super scared but okay maybe not that part and you know there aren't any velociraptors in final cut pro 10 fortunately or unfortunately maybe unfortunately velociraptors are pretty sweet but anyway that's the feeling i want you to have of absolute power and domination over what you're trying to accomplish your back's up against the wall you've got a big deadline you're trying to get a vlog out you've got a client video and there's things in final cut that are just seem like they're in your way or slowing you down and these tips and tricks are going to help you go oh oh my gosh how did i not know that before everything is different now now i can really get to work and plus you know sequels sometimes are better than the original the empire strikes back the godfather two um aliens uh back to the future too sorry haters i know there's a lot of haters on back in the future too but personally i prefer that movie over the original i love the original but i just enjoy back to the future too a little bit more all right so enough i'm just kind of endlessly rambling here as we set up this video you're all screaming at me just get to the tips and tricks okay let's do it so this first tip tip and trick requires you to update to the new final cut final cut 10.4.9 if you're on a previous version you won't be able to use this it's a new feature they've added in and finally this one we were waiting a long time for so this feature is called audio crossfades and if we look at my timeline here i've got my toy maker short documentary that i did this summer for the omaha summer arts festival go ahead and link to it above and in the description you can check it out there we're looking at some clips here and these both have audio on them and we want to do just a little cross fade of that audio because maybe there's a little pop or there's some different noise floor between the two clips and we just want them to be able to blend a little bit more now the key command to do this is option t i've actually reprogrammed the keyboard shortcut to be option c for crossfade option c was open in my keyboard layout so it was a little bit easier of a keystroke to do so you can select both clips and then hit option t and it's going to create a crossfade you didn't see much here with these clips but if i zoom in you can see that there's a cross fade applied i'm going to undo it and show you again and then put it back on if you hit control s on both of these keys you'll see them pop plop down here and they added some frames plop what a weird word why would you say plop down here these will expand down here and you'll see where they've added some frames here to do the crossfade i'll go ahead and undo all that and then i'll apply the crossfade with the clips audio expanded so let's go ahead and select them and then hit option c and that's what it's doing so you get an understanding conceptually of what the shortcut actually does i think it's just such a huge time saver it's one of those tricks that for some of us that are more intermediate or advanced we've been begging apple for something like this to speed up our workflow so what you'd have to do in the past is you'd have to select both clips hit control s to expand the audio then you'd have to manually drag one over and then drag this one over and then put the crossfade on and there is a key command for applying a crossfade so you could do this step a little bit faster this was basically what you would have to do and it gobbles up a lot of time even over the length of a short documentary so being able to do all that with one key command that truly is magic so my next magic trick you actually saw within me doing the first magic trick and that's the control s key command for some of you beginners this may be a little bit more magical for you whereas our intermediate and advanced users already know about this key command you may know also about the right-click menu that shows how you can expand audio components there's a key command that does that a lot faster so what i see in a lot of facebook forums and groups and different threads reddit whatever is people uh showing screenshots and they've detached their audio in order to crossfade them because they don't know how to kind of separate without detaching the audio from the clips in their timeline so if you want to be doing crossfades or j and l cuts you need to be able to drop that audio down so you can edit it independently of the video and to be able to do that you just hit control s and it separates things while still keeping them linked it expands it and then you can drag out the audio without affecting the video when you don't do this what you get is them moving together and we don't want that we want to be able to edit the video and audio separately from each other sometimes again especially for j and l cuts or doing crossfades luckily with the crossfade key command you don't have to worry about expanding the audio anymore you can just do it with a key command so what we don't want to do is we don't want to detach the audio which is ctrl shift s that actually separates the audio completely from the video and unless you hit undo you can't put it back that seems simple right i can hit just hit undo and put it back well let's say you can do a bunch of edits and you've gone through maybe spent 10 15 20 minutes and all of a sudden you realize you need that audio reattached to the video it's causing a problem whatever it is you can't put it back on you have to actually do a ripple replace thing to be able to put it back to the way it was so for all of you beginner beginning editors that want to to edit the audio on a video clip independently of the video you need to use the control s key command to expand the audio so you can edit it by itself and not affect the video so that's my second magic trick for final cut pro 10. so this next one is one that i literally just learned there is a video editor out in la who has worked with avid for a long time his name is josh beal and he's got this awesome series called hollywood fcp where he's showing how avid can do one thing one way but final cut does it in a much better way he's basically making the argument that it's time for a 21st century nle that avid is a 20th century nla and final cut should and could possibly be the future of all professional video editing give his channel a look i'll link it up here and in the description but this is um a variation on how to zoom in and out of your timeline and i didn't know this and i don't believe it's in the list of keyboard shortcuts on the apple website or in the help menu so the way that you would traditionally zoom in and out of your timeline most of you know this is you hit command plus or minus or you use the zoom tool and you can click and then option click to go in and out using the zoom tool i use command plus and minus for the most part or sometimes because i edit with a magic trackpad i'll pinch to zoom and pinch back out to zoom out and sometimes you want to very quickly zoom into a section of your edit and have the bulk of that section fill the frame well josh showed me a trick in his video where if you press and hold the z key and then draw a box using click and drag or three finger drag it will zoom in to roughly the area of that box this is awesome because i cannot tell you how many times i'm pressing command plus plus plus to get down into a small area that i want to go into what's interesting about the key command is the it really it really tries to match the the size of the box that you're drawing the smaller the box you draw the more zoomed in it's going to get and it can get really zoomed in you could draw a little teeny tiny box and it's going to zoom in to you know getting close to where you could almost edit frames on the audio so i'm really excited to work this into my workflow because when i just use the command plus minus keys it feels a little time-consuming like i'm having to step in multiple times and it's just taking a little bit too long whereas if i just do the zoom trick by pressing and holding the z key and then drawing a box i can quickly zoom into an area exactly the size that i need that when i saw it in the video i literally watched the video this morning i did not know about this i was like oh that is amazing how did i not know about that and that's the whole point of this video to show you to show you all tips and tricks that make you have that reaction so the next tip this is tip number four we got a lot to go this is one that came up a lot in the comments on my last video i talked about how you can use the trackpad and double tap it to zoom out and then everybody in the comments was saying just use shift z and that is the key command to do that but because i'm a trackpad editor both on my laptop and with the magic trackpad in my desktop situation it's way faster for me to just double tap the trackpad to zoom all the way out on the timeline instantly but for those of you who are using a mouse when you're zoomed in like this and you want to quickly pop out just hit shift z and you're good to go so that's the fourth magic trick here in final cut and i hope that for some of you who didn't know about that you're like oh man i'm a mouse editor i didn't know you could do shift z now maybe you have a programmable mouse and you can program one of your sort of keys that you don't really use a lot on your mouse maybe to shift z and have it just pop you out on your timeline so you can see the whole thing uh in your timeline viewer so the next magic trick i have i'm pulling from my seven tips and tricks to help you master the magnetic timeline and this revolves around the tilde key now i did have someone in the comments in that magnetic timeline video mentioned where's the tilde key they actually use a european keyboard i tried doing some research into figuring out how the different keyboards international keyboards can use a tilde key and i really got nowhere so apple if you have anything that you can add to this not that you're watching but if you were to help our non-qwerty keyboard users locate the equivalent of the tilde key on their keyboards that would be a huge help if any of you out there know drop it in the comments so we can help out our users that aren't using qwerty keyboards for those of you who are using qwerty keyboards the tilde key remember is the key immediately to the left of the number one key on your keyboard so let's say i want to swap this clip here and i want to move it to this edit point but i don't want this clip to go with it normally what i would do is i would click and drag and then this is where people get frustrated with the magnetic timeline they have to they have to move this back over so they have to do two things to be able to just move one clip well you don't have to do that anymore because you can press and hold the tilty key and you'll see your cursor change it has this little orange circle with a little letter in there whatever it is and you can click and drag and move that clip over without having to worry about the clip connection being messed up when i found out about this i was like this changes everything it shortens my editing time so much when i'm when i'm well into an edit and doing revisions and it's going to be a huge helpful trick in my process absolutely magic the next one is pretty straightforward i've mentioned it in a couple other videos but it's a way to change the duration of clips without having to click and drag the sides and and get like the exact frame number down and all that what you can do is you can click on a clip and hit control d and you'll see in your time code window here underneath the viewer that it goes purple and this tells you how many frames that clip is but if you want to change it now you can type in how many frames you want it to be let's say that this clip is 205 but you want it to be three seconds just type in three zero zero and hit enter and it'll change it to three seconds in duration same thing for for transitions you can select them hit ctrl d and let's say we want them to be half as long we want them to be 12 frames because i'm in a 24 frames per second timeline so 24 frames equals one second half of one second isn't half a second it's 12 frames so i'm going to type in 12 and then hit enter and both of them will change to 12 frames let's say i want to make them longer i'll hit ctrl d and then i'll do two seconds and now they're two seconds so that's a quick way to be able to change the duration of something without having to click and drag the edges and do it you know frame by frame all right so where control d really comes in handy is for all of you who edit something to the beat of the music that's scoring your video you know that when you're marking out the beats in music a lot of times the interval is consistent so every time that bass hits there's you know one second and 12 frames and you want to drop down a bunch of b-roll on top and just quickly have the video clips match the duration of that beat so let's say i've pulled all of these clips from my event browser but they're all different lengths and instead of sitting here and even with the snap tool and the markers enabled going through and dragging all of them to the markers that i've made you can quickly change the duration using control d to make it instantaneous so let's go back so we know that this clip is going from marker to marker and we can check what its duration is right here it's three seconds and five frames so simply select this first clip and then hit shift and select this last clip then hit ctrl d type in 305 and they're all set to three seconds and five frames ctrl d to set custom durations for multiple clips especially if you're someone who edits where you cut to the music i do this all the time for the concert video content i enter for jlo and gwen stefani when i'm working on those shows you have a music track boom boom boom boom boom and you want the images to cut to that music this is a great way uh figuring out what that interval is with the beat let's say it's again one second twelve frames and you wanna drop a bunch of clips on the timeline and immediately make them all one second and twelve frames ctrl d is how you do it absolute magic a must-know thing if you don't know it and aren't using it already you gotta start alright so this next one is something that will be magic if you come along with me on a journey to set up a custom key command for this feature now i'm not going to do the step by steps for how to set up the custom key command but i'll link to a video that shows you how to do that and this feature has to do with slow motion clips stuff that was filmed in 60 frames per second 120 frames per second 240 frames per second you know that in final cut and this is a little bit frustrating that you can't view clips in your event browser that were filmed in let's say 60 frames per second you can't view them in slow motion you have to put them in a timeline and use this feature called automatic speed what you normally have to do is i've got three slow-mo clips here 60 frames per second you click on the clip go to the retime menu here and choose automatic speed that can be a slow process you can select multiple clips and do automatic speed but going into menus just is time consuming so we want to set up a custom key command so we can just tell things to go automatic speed with an easy key command so i set up my own key command to be option z i mean there are two keys that are right next to each other so it's just a really easy key command to do and the way that you go into your custom key commands is by going up to final cut pro commands customize you can then search for automatic speed and you'll see it pop up and then you can assign the option z key command if it's open for you to that keyboard shortcut and then from there you'll have the magic trick of being able to select all these clips to one key command and immediately changing them so that you can view them as 60 frames per second in a 24 timeline so it's going to look like it's slow motion so that's a great magic trick to be able to create that custom keyboard shortcut for something that a lot of us use a lot with slo-mo footage all right so next on the list let's take a look here this one is one that i really like i'm gonna go back to steve baldwin and i use this fairly frequently when i need to just kind of quickly play a selected clip in the timeline so let's say i'm doing something here and i've just done some editing between these two and i just want to kind of get a sense of how that flows but i need some lead in time i want to play it from the beginning of the clip if i have this clip selected and i hit the slash key which is uh forward slash where the question mark is it'll play that clip from the beginning without you having to drag the playhead back over normally what you have to do if you you know you hit the space you got to come back here with a skimmer or you can hit the colon semi-colon key to go backwards to the left or forward to the right and then hit play but if you're already on the clip just the thing to remember is you have to have the clip selected so there is a click involved you have to have the clip selected then hit the slash key and then it'll play it back this one's one of those kind of slightly lamer magic tricks but i do still think it's magic because there's there's those times where you just want to play from the beginning of that selection and uh you don't want to have to move this the playhead all the way back to the beginning or use the colon key and then hit the spacebar the play selection key command works really nicely so that leads me to the next magic trick and this is especially applicable to those of you who are messing with audio you're adding filters you're tweaking sounds maybe there's something weird in the audio noise whatever it is and you need to hear that clip over and over again so you can make sure that you got it dealt with i'm closing my eyes here to show you how i listen to my audio i'll put my headphones on and really close my eyes to focus in on those sounds so what you want to do to be able to loop playback is you want to hit command l and that'll that'll put everything into the loop playback mode and then when you make the selection on the clip and hit the forward slash it's going to play that clip from the beginning and it's just going to continuously loop the playback and you can keep listening to it over and over again to make sure the audio that you're working on or whatever it is that you're doing is done to your satisfaction so that one's really helpful again command l puts the player into the loop playback mode and then selecting a clip and hitting the forward slash plays that selection in loop mode and then when you're done looping playback on that you want to remember to hit command l again to get out of loop playback mode because what's going to happen then is if you watch your whole video and get to the end it's going to pop the playhead back to the beginning of the timeline and loop the entire video so that's one especially if you're an audio person you're gonna love that magic trick so those are the nine tips that feel like magic part two for final cut pro 10 the sequel right but i've got a little bonus for you there's something that i think everyone should know if they're using a trackpad on their macbook pro or a magic trackpad with their mac mini mac pro or imac and that's the three finger drag gesture this used to be a gesture that was in the normal trackpad preferences in system preferences but it's since been moved to a very hidden area and i highly recommend using three finger drag when you're a trackpad editor because it allows you to very quickly make selections with your trackpad instead of having to click and drag to be able to make selections for those of you that have any kind of carpal tunnel or sort of pain in the middle of your hand clicking and dragging can be something that really exacerbates those those issues or it can help create those issues i think if you're doing them over and over and over again so to be able to enable the three finger drag which allows you to very easily do that new zoom magic trick i showed you you're going to want to go up to system preferences and then go into the accessibility menu which i always have an impossible time finding there it is and then you're gonna want to scroll down to your pointer controls and then you're gonna go into trackpad options and you're gonna say enable dragging by using a three finger drag and again this this is system wide it's not just final cut so it allows you to let's say in finder you want to select all these things i'm using three fingers to make all these selections instead of having to click and then drag one finger up clicking with your thumb and holding it and then moving one finger is very stressful and strenuous i think on the middle of your hand and sometimes on your wrist but being able to just smoothly drag three fingers over the timeline is much easier to do and it's especially helpful in final cut pro x you will move so much faster once you get used to it you will go this is magical this is something i wish i was doing the whole time this helps so much with being able to edit very quickly and for long periods of time without any kind of pain in your hand so i would highly recommend enabling that setting in system preferences and start editing that way right away so i got a little bonus trick in there that feels like magic i can't thank all of you enough for watching my previous video and all my final cut pro content i honestly never dreamed of having 17 000 views on that video i did know what i was doing i i was conscious of calling it you know a magic trick and nine tips that would help and then really thinking about what keyboard shortcuts gave me that emotional response when i found out about them knowing that if you found out about them you would probably have a similar response and it would make you you know really excited to start editing with those with those tips in mind and it would make you excited to share the video but i never expected seventeen thousand views i never expected all of these subscribers to come in the last week and a half i am so grateful for all of you who have come over to the channel and i hope that this sequel lives up to the original and honestly exceeds it because i think that these 10 tricks are incredibly magical and if you learn them and put them into your workflow especially you beginner and intermediate editors you're going to be so happy with the results you get and you're going to love final cut that much more so with that being said i think that's going to do it for this video everyone again thank you so much for watching if you want to help out the channel the best thing that you can do is click the like button below if you have any questions or comments on these key commands and keyboard shortcuts please hit us up in the comments below if you're not a subscriber and there are so many of you who aren't click the subscribe button hit the bell you'll get notifications every time we upload a video we've got lots of cool content coming in the future especially final cut pro 10 stuff so you'll definitely want to subscribe to see future videos that's gonna do it alright i'm out of here until the next one i'll see you all soon i want you to feel like ripley and aliens when she puts the power loader on shh get away from her you [Music] luckily there's no facehuggers or aliens in final cut pro 10 either [Music]

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Length: 23min 48sec (1428 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 11 2020