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Hey guys, whats up.
This is Serge and welcome back to my channel.
Today, I want to talk about a plugin
slash workflow extension
that I think everyone should have.
It’s called Command Post,
and it allows you to add mossing features or mods,
such as moveable markers,
missing from Final Cut Pro.
And the best part of it all,
is it’s completely free.
You cab download Command Post from their website,
which I’ll have linked in the video description below,
Let’s take a look at just a few things we can do with it.
Ever need to rotate your clip to straighten it out.
You can eye ball it,
but Final Cut Pro doesn’t give you
nothing to reference it to.
With command post,
you can add viewer overlays to help you out.
With Final Cut Pro open,
click on the Command post icon in the menu bar,
and in the Viewer section,
hover over Overlay,
and either select Enable Overlays,
or what I like to do
is select Toggle Overlays with Caps Lock.
Now, hitting the Caps Lock key
will turn on or off a grid overlay
over your viewer to help you straighten,
align, or compose your shot.
You can change the appearance
and density of your grid,
add draggable guides, crosshairs,
and even a saved image as an overlay to your project.
Once you’re done with the overlays,
simply hit the Caps Lock key to turn them off.
Take a look at the bottom of my viewer window.
This part right here,
this is a miniature version of my entire timeline.
It even has a little white line
to show me where my playhead is.
This is actually really handy
to have when editing larger projects.
To turn on this feature,
select Command Post from the Menu bar,
and open the Preferences window.
In the Hidden Preferences part,
select Show Timeline in the Viewer.
Close the Preferences window,
and now you have a mini version
of your timeline in the viewer.
In Final Cut pro, by default,
if you add a marker in the wrong spot,
to move it, you have to delete the original marker,
and add another one where you want it.
Not very intuitive.
Wouldn’t it be much nicer
if we could just grab the marker and move it?
Well, with Command Post, you can.
After downloading and installing Command Post,
open the preference window,
and select Final Cut Pro.
In the bottom right corner,
click the Moveable Markers button
to open a webpage with instructions
on how to enable moveable markers.
What you have to do,
is copy this command,
and paste it in your terminal window.
Restart Final Cut Pro,
and your markers are now moveable.
You can now click and drag
any marker in your timeline to move it,
or drag it off your clip to delete it.
An extremely handy feature.
The last feature I want to talk about today,
and this is probably my favourite feature
of Command Post is the Search Console.
Once you activate it,
you can use it just like Spotlight search
to find any effects,
titles, transitions and more in Final Cut Pro.
Say for example,
I want to add a basic title to my project.
Instead of going into the Titles and Generators browser
and searching for it,
all I have to do is Activate the search console,
and type in Basic Title.
Now, Command 1
and a basic title is connected to my timeline.
This is a huge time saver,
and can be used for a ton of features
in Final Cut Pro.
To turn on Search Console,
all you have to do is go into Command Post preferences,
select Shortcuts,
scroll down and Find Activate Console,
and set a keyboard shortcut for it.
While here,
you can assign keyboard shortcuts
to a ton of other Final Cut Pro features.
Now, when editing,
all you have to do is enter your keyboard shortcut
to Activate the Search Console,
and type in what you’re looking for.
Nice and simple, and extremely fast.
Using Command Post
is basically like having a jail broken versions of Final Cut Pro.
It’s has a ton of useful features,
and since it’s open source,
new features are constantly being added,
so by the time you’re watching this,
there’s probably more even more
cool features that I don’t even know about it.
And it’s completely free.
You can download command post from their website,
which I’ll have linked in the video description below.
If you enjoy using command post as much as I do,
you can donate money to the creators,
but you don’t have to.
Check it out,
and let me know what useful features you find
in the comments below.
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Thanks for watching,
and I’ll see you back here next week.