9 Tips & Tricks To LEVEL UP in FCPX | Final Cut Pro X Tutorial

hey everyone its Matthew here at Midland pictures we're diving back into a Final Cut Pro 10 tutorial I've got 9 tips to help you level up your editing game as you continue to master Final Cut Pro 10 so I've got Final Cut Pro 10 open and we're in the project for the short documentary that I produce called the toy maker it's just easy to do some of these tutorials through an existing project especially one that was an actual edit that I put together and has all of the sort of the the basic components of an edit that you might run into while you're working on your projects so the first tip that I have is a key command that you can use when you're in list mode in your event browser and you need to expand clips that have favorites or keywords on them so we want to go up to list mode here in your event browser and you're gonna see all of your Clips here drop down into the list mode with the filmstrip up at the top I'm going to switch this to the favorites view so that all of my favorite clips are listed here now you see all of these little carrots here on the left hand side it's a real pain to have to go into each one and expand them over and over again luckily Final Cut has a key command that you can use to expand all of them at once so you can simply select all by hitting command a and then hit the right arrow on your keyboard and you'll see them all expand and open up so you can see what parts you've used what the notes that you've put in are what the names of your favorited clips are what the key words are and even collapse it all back down by hitting the left arrow so just a quick little thing that saves a few steps and allows you to work a little bit better in list mode a little bit faster in list mode so you're not trying to spend a bunch of time opening and closing all of those clips so the next one I learned a while back oftentimes before I was setting up custom workspaces moving back and forth on my laptop from one monitor to another final code would often be kind of a mess to look at certain windows wouldn't be open they wouldn't be sized the way I wanted to I was having to sort of rework everything every time I switch monitors or was working on different computers so one window that would often not be there when I wanted it to be was the audio meters window and I learned from someone who saw me going up through the menu to get the audio meters that there's just a simple button that you can click to pull it up originally I would go up to window then would go into show in workspaces and then I would hit audio meters then you there's a key command command shift 8 that brings it on and off but there's something way easier to do so let's say it's gone and you want to bring it up there's audio meters right here on your screen just tap that button and your audio meters are up tap it to make them disappear tap them to bring them back super simple and something that is often overlooked by even the more advanced Final Cut editors so if you didn't know that one like me no big deal but now you know the next tip might be best for some of you who are transitioning out of avid Premiere Pro or even Final Cut 7 and moving into Final Cut 10 one of the big differences in Final Cut 10 is by default there's only one viewer or preview window on the display not a lot of people know that you can pull up on what's called the Event Viewer if you want to be able to see the clips from your event browser in one window and then the clips from your timeline in another so there's two ways to bring that up one way is to do showing workspace and hit event viewer and then you can see we'll switch out of list mode here you can see that as you scan your clips you're seeing them move in the event viewer on the left but then as you come down to your timeline you're seeing those things change on the right window I personally don't use this method but some people that are transitioning again might feel a little bit more comfortable having two windows instead of one I've just gotten used to the one preview window switching back and forth as I move from the event browser to the timeline the second way that you can get that event viewer up is by hitting ctrl command 3 and you can see that that toggles that back up so another key command that's really helpful and something I should have included in my how to master the magnetic timeline video which I'll link up above is another way to delete Clips out of your timeline without having the magnetism of the magnetic timeline affect the timing of your Clips so if you're down here in your browser and let's say you want to delete this clip and replace it with something else but you don't want to mess up the timing of your your edit or let's say you want to preserve this clip connection here one way to do it would be to hit command arrow up and then hit the Delete key that's kind of an extra step what you can do is you can hit shift delete and that clip goes bye-bye so if you're in a situation where you need the magnetic timeline to step aside for a moment so that you can remove a clip from the timeline without having it expand or contract that's all you need to do shift delete and that'll bring that clip out of the primary storyline and replace it with a slug so that your timing and everything is preserved so another key command that I've learned the last couple of years is how to do what's called a hold frame before what I would do is if I wanted to do a freeze frame on someone I would usually pick the frame like this and then hit the option F key and then that would add in a freeze frame in the middle of the clip and maybe that's a separate tip you didn't know how to add a freeze frame so maybe a little bonus there for you to have the option F key command for adding a freeze frame a hold is something that is a part of the speed ramping tools that Final Cut has and it's a way for you to also be able to transition into a hold on a clip as opposed to just an abrupt stop which is what the freeze-frame option does so let's say you're looking at this clip and there's there's some action on it and you want to be able to do a hold on the clip and maybe you're gonna like push in slowly as you know things get more serious whatever it is you want to do if you select your clip and the Edit and you know and you have your playhead where you want to make that if you hit shift H you'll see that you'll insert a hold clip and if we play it back you can see it has a similar effect to the freeze-frame method I just did but what's nice is you can first of all control the speed but you can also double click this edit point here and you can add a speed transition if you want and you can bring that down and it's not like a huge noticeable difference but you can you can see that it just kind of there's that last little flick on the frame which which can be fine-tuned but you can see that it kind of slows us into a hold frame as opposed to being just this abrupt stop and freeze you can also click on the down arrow here and add what's called a smooth end transition and you can see that we you know smoothly go into the hold frame and then smoothly back outs I don't use things like that a ton but I do find that when I have photos that I'm putting into and edit and I want to do different you know push ins and Ken Burns or whatever effects I want to do every once in a while I need to hold on that frame as we move closer to the subject that we're talking about and have a nice hold or a freeze frame on them and then transition out of that with maybe a cross dissolve or something like that this is a really handy way to be able to do a freeze frame or a hold frame but but to have a little bit more options than the freeze frame method you can transition in and out of them adjust the speed different things that you can do a little bit more than the freeze frame way and this is something that I wasn't aware of until just a few years ago so you have the freeze frame method and the whole frame method I really like the whole frame method this next tip is one that comes up often when I'm laying in b-roll especially on some of my youtube videos or videos where there's gonna be sections of b-roll under an interview a lot of times I know for sure that I am NOT going to use the audio in that clip and I'm never going to need it back into that clip so it can be annoying sometimes when you're laying in a bunch of b-roll like this and you're not going to be using the sound but you have to go to each and every clip and turn the volume down or you have to select all of the video clips and let's say these all are at you know 0 DB and then you have to go up into the audio menu and drop them down to negative 96 to get all the volume to drop down there's a way where you can add clips to your edit without having the audio come with it so let's say we want to add a bunch of B rolls at this section here we have Steve talking on camera and we're gonna go through and make these selects we've got this clip marked with an in and out we're gonna hit Q to just add it to the top of the primary storyline and we've got some audio in here and let's say we don't want any of that audio to come with this clip and all of the additional selections that we make because we don't want to have to turn down the volume on this so what we can do is we can either click here and choose video only or audio only or we can hit shift to for a key command and now all of the clips that we add to the primary storyline are gonna come in without any audio on them so let's pull this clip here and this clip here and again this is great when you know for sure that you do not want to have audio on the clips that are above let's say an interview you're never gonna put that audio into the Edit and it's not a big deal to be missing that audio so let's say that you do decide oh man I really need the audio for that clip I don't want to have to go hunting for it and figuring it out and reattaching it or making a compound clip with the piece of audio from that clip it's really easy to get everything put back together so you want to select the clip in your timeline hit shift F it's going to reveal in the event browser the portion of the clip that you used then all you have to do is hit option R and it's gonna replace that clip with the one that's selected in the event browser same thing here shift F you'll see there that it's selected and then just hit option R and now you've got your audio back in so again it's not a huge deal if you put something down in the timeline without audio and need to add it back in later but if you do know that you're not going to use the audio or that you at least are pretty sure you're not going to use the audio and you don't want to have to go through and kill all of the audio levels on each clip as you work through putting your b-roll in just use the shift - key command to put video only down into the timeline if you want to do audio only you can hit shift 3 and then that puts your event browser into audio-only mode so that any selections that you may put down in your timeline like here let's do shift three and then if I hit Q it's only going to put the audio down so let's say you are working with a clip and there's a cool sound effect in there of a bandsaw starting up and you want to use that as a sound effect in your edit that's a good situation where you would just put the audio down in the timeline normally what you would do is you'd be in shift one mode which is audio and video you'd hit Q you'd have to click it you detach the audio then you would delete the video and then you would start using that as your sound effect just save yourself a bunch of time hit shift three to go to audio only mode select the clip hit Q and now you've just got the audio down on your timeline much faster the only thing you have to remember though is is your event browser now is an audio only mode so if you go on and start doing other things where you want the video and audio in your timeline or you want video only in your timeline you have to keep track of what shift one shift to shift three mode you're in so keep in mind shift one takes you back to video and audio which is usually the default mode that you're in when you're editing so that's a really good tip for being able to work with b-roll where you don't want to use the audio how to reattach audio if you bring something down in the timeline with video only and let's say you're mining your b-roll for sound effects how you can just bring the audio down to the timeline and not have to deal with the video so the next tip I wasn't originally going to keep on this list but I have found in forums and in working with other people that use Final Cut that not a lot of people know how to do this so this trick is just how to solo a clip let's say you're watching through your edit and something sounds a little funny but you need to kind of eliminate the score and some of your sound effects and other things and you just want to listen to that one clip instead of selecting all of the clips and disabling them and then picking the one clip you want and re-enabling that one there's an option to solo this clip and make it so that all you hear is this there's two ways to do it you can hit this button up here and it solos that clip or you can hit option s and solo it that way I use this a lot when I'm going through and list audio and looking for blips and little weird things in it and I just need to zero in on that one clip keep in mind that this is for soloing the audio which is why it has a headphone icon on it it doesn't keep you from being able to see some of the other video clips that are present in your timeline it just lets use solo in on the audio aspect of that clip it's a really handy trick something that again I use a lot and I was surprised that not a lot of people that I know who are working with Final Cut regularly knew about doing this so here's another key command that comes up every once in a while it doesn't happen a ton in narrative or documentary editing because we tend not to stack a lot of Clips on top of each other sometimes we do if we're doing a lot of split-screen stuff or maybe we're compositing a lot of items together on occasion you have a bunch of clips stacked up on your timeline and you want to be able to blade all of them at the same time so let's say we've got all these clips here stacked up and you need to be able to make an edit to every single clip all the way up and down and you don't want to have to hit the B key and click and then click and then click and then click and then click you're at risk of not getting it on the exact same frame and it's just a lot more steps but if you use this key command you can blade everything top to bottom on your timeline all at once so you want to move your playhead to where you want your cut to be and then you'll hit command shift B to blade everything and I mean everything every track top to bottom so as you can see this does do some destruction to your audio so in my case right here this would might be a little bit of a pain to use the command shift B but in certain instances maybe there's no music or audio tracks or you know you you know that you want to cut everything that's in your time line along the playhead that's a quick key command that allows you to do that it doesn't come up very often for me but when it does it comes in handy to be able to hit command shift B blade everything instead of going one clip at a time and making sure I'm making those cuts on the playhead exactly alright so now we're onto our final tip and this is one that not a lot of people know about as well so one of my complaints of Final Cut Pro 10 is that it's not terribly easy to navigate back and forth between the different projects that you've been working on in your library the way that you do it now is they have these left and right arrows that let you go back and forth between the different projects that you've worked on it can be a little bit of a pain because if you all want to go back three projects you have to click this arrow three times to go back to that whatever that was and sometimes it feels like it's not in the order that you remembered that you went through but it is but it just feels a little bit disorienting sometimes it's hard to explain and Final Cut 7 and Premiere and I'm not sure about avid because it's been a long time since I've been in an avid but in Final Cut 7 they used to have tabs that show the name of each of the different timelines now called projects in Final Cut 10 that you had open and you could just see quickly the name and click on that tab to be able to switch and back back and forth between those timelines well Final Cut isn't limited to just these left and right arrows to navigate between the different projects that you've had open while you've been working you can actually click and hold on these arrows and pull up a menu that shows you the different names of the projects that you can get to so this shows the project that I'm in but then three other projects that I can switch to and let's say I need to get back to my rough edit v2 I can just click there and I'm back and then let's say that I need to go back to the titles edit this can be a way to more quickly see what projects you have open and you have been working with and it's a little bit easier sometimes to toggle back and forth using the click and hold as opposed to just clicking back and forth left and right until you get to the project that is finally the correct one this is one of those tips that not a lot of people know about and it can certainly help especially if you have a lot of projects that you've been working on as you've worked in your library I know for some of you these tips and tricks are common knowledge and others of you are gonna find that a lot of them are really helpful the best thing that you can do 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Length: 17min 43sec (1063 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 29 2020