Completing Lesson 1 was a lot of fun.
You have taken your first step in understanding the nuts and bolts of Final Cut Pro.
In your opinion what is the most useful function(s) you learned in Lesson 1?
(Describe as if I was a beginner and you were teaching me.)
I would have to say "I" and "O" on the viewer which is one of the windows in final cut, because its allows to to cut your film and edit shots that are to long or even maybe a fast clip that half a second. Its the most useful source I have found on Final Cut.
ReplyDeleteThe most useful functions in Final Cut Pro is the the Home and End keys go to the beginning of the clip and the end key to the end of the clip. There are three ways to import a clip in the viewer Double click,Drag to browser
ReplyDeleteHighlight and hit return. Pressing the I and O keys will help you get an endpoint and an outpoint. If you see a blue Line at the end of a clip that means you are at the end of a sequence.
The main steps to take in Final Cut Pro are: knowing how that there are 6 windows when opening Final Cut Pro: Browser, Viewer, Canvas, Timeline, Tool Palette and the Audio Meter. The how to's to edit clips, by using I and O on the keyboard, knowing how to create new bins and files by double clicking or file click new bin.
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How to play and go forwards and backwards with clips, by clicking J and L.
The 4 modifier keys to help you use the shortcuts, which are SHIFT, CONTROL, OPTION and COMMAND.
Knowing that the film strip in the beginning of each sequence means that it is the 1st frame of the sequence. And the end film strip means the end frame.
The red overwrite button automatically drops your clip from the canvas to the timeline.
And pushing the Home button to watch your sequence from the beginning.
Two ways you can set edit points they are I n O now the edit point there selected point that you want to take out of a film to edit in the timeline.
ReplyDeleteAfter editing the film that you took out with I n O you should save it but there are two way you can save it. the first way is Command S and the second way is FILE save as. Now within the two way you can name it anything you want to help you remember the selected part you edited.
I think the keyboard shortcuts are the most useful functions that we learned in lesson 1. Like Command B creates a new bin. JK&L rewind, pause, and fast forward clips. I&O start the in point and outpoint. Command S saves your project. Command Q quits Final Cut. Space Bar Plays a clip. Shift Space Bar plays a clip backwards. The four modifier keys are Shift, Control, Option, and Command.
ReplyDeletefinal cut pro is a mac software that helps you easily edit film. it is simple to use, once you learn how to use it.first of all there are 6 windows in final cut pro, 4 primary and 2 secondary. the four primary are the top left one which is the browser, the middle top one which is the viewer, the far top right one which is the canvas, and the bottom one which is the timeline. the two secondary are on the far right lower conner next to the timeline; the top one is the tool pallet and the lower one is the audio meter. the browser is where you keep all of your film and audio files; you can keep these files in a bin which is like a folder and you can get one of these bins by right clicking and clicking on new bin. there are arrows next to the bin icon and you can see all of the contents in each bin. the contents of the browser are dragged to the timeline and that is where your whole film begins. you can play the clips and audi files in the timeline by pressing on the space bar. by having pieces of film and audio in the timeline is what makes your film, a film.
ReplyDeleteIn FCP, the most useful functions that I learned in Lesson 1 were: how to rearrange the windows, how to select in points and out points of a video, how to delete specific in points and out points of a video, and how to play a video in slow motion or fast forward it. Knowing the functions of FCP are very helpful and make an editing job go quicker.
ReplyDeleteTo rearrange the windows of FCP, (which windows are the Viewer, Canvas, Browser, and Timeline) there is a setting that can be saved under the Window Layouts. To put the windows back into their default setting, Ctrl+U would be used.
An in point is the beginning of a clip and an out point is the end of a clip. There are two buttons that are used to select in points and out points. To select an in point, you press the I key. To select an out point, you press the O key.
To delete and in point, you press Option+I. To delete and out point, you press Option+O. To delete both points, you press Option+X.
To play a video forwards, you can press the spacebar, L key, or press play on the player. To play a video backwards, you can either press the J key or Shift+spacebar.
These are great comments. I can't wait to see what the PM class has to say. As we go further into the lessons you will find new tools that will help in the way you CUT.
ReplyDeleteKeyboard shortcuts are probably the most important functions in Final Cut Pro. There are a great many of them, only a few of which we've learned so far; but they're all important. The simplest ones to know and remember are the ones that use a single key. The J key rewinds a video, the K key and the Spacebar simply play it, while the L key fast-forwards it. The X key will set In and Out points for an entire clip, but Option-X gets rid of them entirely. Two button shortcuts often have more diverse functions than single key shortcuts. Shift-Spacebar plays a video backwards just like the J key. Command-B allows you to create a new bin to hold all the audio and video clips you may need. Control-U resets the layout of the windows to the default, which is useful if the new layout you're using just doesn't work out for you.
ReplyDeleteProbably the two most important keys we learned about were the I and the O keys. Respectively, they set up in and out points. These can be used to put only a part of a clip into the Timeline if the rest of the clips is unusable for some reason. Deleting an in point or out point is as simple as using the Option-I and Option-O shortcuts.
The Home key lets you go to the beginning of either a clip, if you're in the Viewer, or the beginning of the sequence, if you're in the Timeline. The End key does exactly the opposite, taking you to the end of a clip or sequence depending on which window you're editing in.
For the more integral parts of Final Cut Pro, shortcuts that affect the entire program, they're relatively simple. Command-S saves your sequence. Command-Q quits Final Cut Pro, although not before helpfully asking if you'd like to save the changes you made to the project. Command-H hides Final Cut Pro, but it can be brought back by clicking its icon on the dock.
The most important keys to remember while using Final Cut Pro are SHIFT, COMMAND, CONTROL, and OPTION.
This is going to sound very cliche, but knowing the short cuts. There are so many of them but if you use them enough you will find that they can save you tons of time. they are there for a reason, why not use them. there is a shortcut for almost everything in the editing process from save to blade to insert to what ever else you want. In short, shortcut are the most useful tool in FCP, because you can run the whole thing off of them.
ReplyDeleteI liked my first lesson in FCP, i really got more friendlier with the program and its techniques. I really wanted to see more of Final Cut Pro in a learning aspect. I learned a lot about each of the six windows in this program. Each of these windows have a function. For example, Viewer helps preview the clip or audio. You can also edit where the clip starts or ends. After that you can drag it to the timeline in many ways. After putting it in the timeline you can see the final version in the canvas. There are many ways to do different functions in FCP. I am excited to learn more tools and techniques for this really complex software and make any film look very professional but also unique.
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ReplyDeleteI liked the first lesson of Final Cut Pro. Here are some shortcuts I found to be most useful in FCP. The most useful one I like the most was Control + U. I really like that one for some reason. Another shortcut I like is shift + spacebar shortcut to play the clip backwards in slow motion. That one is neat as well. I use I & O a lot for creating input and output points. I'm starting to use the JKL and keys a lot more now. Command + I is good for importing clips nice and fast. Command + Q is good for quitting Final Cut Pro fast. Just make sure you save your file first.
ReplyDeleteIn Final Cut Pro, there's more than one way to do many things. For example, to open FCP, you can get it from the dock, the applications folder or an already made file. The four modifier keys are shift, command, option, and control.
ReplyDeleteWhen you want to use a clip in the viewer, you can double click, drag and drop the clip to the viewer,right click, or select it and then press enter. The film strip on the viewer will tell you if you're at the beginning of a clip or at the end of one.
Instead of using the spacebar to play a sequence or clip, you're able to use the keys J K and L. J makes the clip go in reverse (or shift+spacebar), K pauses the video, and L has the same ability as the spacebar, which is to play the video in normal time.
The L shape in the canvas will tell you if are at the beginning of the clip in the timeline.
To activate the "snapper" you can press N or click the button on the timeline.
And lastly, to make a bin, you can either right click on the browser, press command B, or got to File>New>Bin.
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I think that just understanding how to place the in and out points are the most important part of lesson 1. Also knowing the keys that help place the in and out points are very important. They are the the main basic keys to success from lesson 1. Determining where you place those points can be the difference in a great clip or a terrible clip.
ReplyDeleteThe shortcuts are the things to remember. The SHIFT, CONTROL, OPTION, and COMMAND buttons are the four keys that pretty much control everything. Command S saves what you are doing. Command H hides the window(s). Command Q will quit what you are doing. J,K,L are important single key shortcuts. Think of J,K,L of rewind, pause, and play. The spacebar will also play and if you hit Shift Spacebar it will play the clip backwards. Of course you can always use the mouse to rewind, pause, and play. When you are trimming I and O are important because I will mark your Inpoint and O will mark your Outpoint. X will mark the entire thing and option x will get rid of the in and out points. Option I and Option O will also get rid of the in and out points.
ReplyDeleteIn Final Cut Pro there are many functions and shortcuts that you can do to make your life easier when editing. One of my favorite shortcuts on it are the keys J,K, and L. These keys (in order) let you rewind, pause, and play the clip. Its useful when you want to maybe just skim through your video and see if there is anything like a screw up or maybe just want to do a quick run through of it. One of my all time favorite functions on Final Cut is using the mark in and mark out buttons by using the buttons I and O. It has saved me a lot of time so when I'm going through the clip I can just edit it really fast and have other time editing other parts it. :)
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