The video that you are about to watch is the fourth chapter in my 12
part series on video production for small business owners and nonprofits.
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the project files so that you can follow along a PDF guide filled with
all the most important shortcuts.
My business library template, and a lot more without any further ado, let's begin.
Hey folks.
And welcome to the fourth chapter in my 12 part series on video production for small
business owners and nonprofits in the last chapter, I taught you how to import your
footage into your final cut pro library so that everything is organized into events.
events.
Beautifully might I add in this chapter, we are going to
begin to assemble our edit.
We're going to start by creating a new project.
Then I'm going to teach you how to set in and out points in order to
bring your footage into your timeline.
From there, I'm going to show you how to use the select and positioning tools.
So that, that way you can start to reorder your shots.
I've got one product recommendation that I am going to make.
For those of you out there who are following along on a desktop computer.
And finally, I'm going to teach you the difference between cutting and
trimming into the wise guy in the back, who just said scissors versus Clippers.
For those of you who are following along on Thinkific in the last chapter, I had
you import footage from the folders of footage, into the corresponding events.
During that process, you may have noticed that one of the events that
was listed there is called project.
I always create an event just for the project file, because that way
it's really easy to locate in the.
So let's start by creating a new project to do this.
I'll highlight the event called project.
Then I'll click on the file menu, go to new and finally select.
At this point, I'm going to name my project now, despite the
fact that most of our footage in this project is all shot in 4k.
I am actually going to make this project 1,000 ADP, which will still
make sure that everything looks great.
And that way we have a little bit better ability to fine
tune everything in editing.
When it comes to the frame rate, it doesn't really matter
whether we use 29.9, seven or 30.
In this case, I'm just going to do 29 97.
It doesn't actually make a difference when you're done click OK.
There are two different viewing options.
When you are in the browser.
One of them is called filmstrip mode.
The other is list mode.
I have to be honest with you guys.
I use list mode about 98% of the time.
And the only time that I ever used filmstrip mode is when I'm
having to work with clips that are over an hour long per shot.
So not often.
This icon right here, will switch between filmstrip and list mode.
If this is the first time that you're ever using final cut pro, it does
come by default in filmstrip mode.
So I recommend you switch it over.
When you're in list mode, you can click on a shot and no matter how long that shot
is, this is where that shot will begin.
And this is where that shot ends.
And if I move my cursor over the shot, you will see a thin
red line moving with my cursor.
That line is called the skimmer.
And as I move my cursor over the shot known as skimming, you'll see that that
part of the clip appears in the preview.
You can probably imagine if the length of that shot is five minutes, it's
really easy to skim through it and find the part that you're trying to isolate.
But when that shot is an hour long, it's really hard to
pinpoint a particular moment.
So that is the one case where film strip mode tends to be a lot easier.
You guys aren't dealing with hour long content, so let's
just leave it in list mode.
Let's now check out one more setting.
Right? Next door.
I want you to click on this icon just to the right and here, where it says group by
I strongly recommend that you select none.
Don't really want to get into it.
It's just so much easier to navigate
we are now going to begin the process of isolating the best moments from each clip.
And we are going to bring them into the timeline.
Let's go over one of the most important shortcuts, how to undo.
If you make a mistake, when you make a mistake and you need to go
back in time, just press command and the letter Z on your keyboard
because we know that our commercial is going to open with
local identifiable landmarks.
We might as well start this process with the point of interest
folder, abbreviated as POI.
When I click on a clip to select it, I can play it just by tapping
the space bar to pause it, tap it.
From here, we are going to set what are called in and out points in order to
isolate the best parts of each shot.
Now, the most important thing that you need to know about this process is you do
not need to be precise when you do this.
You don't need to tell it exactly where you want that clip to start
or where exactly it's going to end.
The reason why is because you can always make refinement
corrections later on down the road.
And we'll get into that.
Once we start talking about.
Let's use this drone shot as an example, I'm going to start by tapping the
space bar so that it starts to play.
When I find the approximate place where I want my shot to start, I'm going to
just tap the space bar to pause it for a moment now I'll set my end point by
tapping the "i" key on my keyboard.
Now I'll tap the space bar again to resume and right here, it's starting
to look like it's getting good.
So I'll tap the space bar again, deposit, and now I'll tap the 'o'
key in order to set my outpoint.
As you can see, final cut pro has placed a yellow box around the part
of the shot that I've isolated.
There are technically four different ways that you can bring
that clip into the timeline.
You guys are just starting to learn this stuff.
So I'm only going to teach you two of these methods.
If you tap the E key on your keyboard, that will send the clip to the end
of the project now, because this is the first shot, the beginning
and the end are of course the same.
So let's now repeat that process.
Once again, with this shot, I'll press the space bar to play.
Tap the I key to set my end point.
Let it play out.
Tap the 'O' to set my outpoint and finally I'll tap the 'E'
key to send it to the end.
That was pretty easy.
Right?
Let me know, teach you the other method.
If you don't want your clip to go to the end of the project, once
you've set your in and out points, you can just use your cursor to drag
it and drop it wherever you want.
Okay.
Thinkific students, your homework assignment is to now repeat that process.
All of the remaining shots.
Now I'm going to do the same thing right now, but I'm going to
speed up my process a little bit.
Thank you so much for watching everyone.
We will be right back.
Now that we have isolated our favorite clips and we've
brought them into the timeline.
I now want to show you how to navigate the timeline.
Now this process is slightly different for laptop owners versus desktop owners.
So laptop owners, hang out a second.
I need to have a quick top with the desktop owners.
Hey, desktop owners.
If you are using a mouse with your computer, let me give
you a little piece of advice.
Don't!
When you are working in the timeline, you are going to have to do a lot
of horizontal scrolling, as well as zooming in and out of your project.
Well, you can technically navigate the timeline using a mouse.
It's so much more complicated let me show you why when I want to scroll
left and right on the timeline.
If you're using a mouse, you have to tap the H key on your keyboard, which
will switch the cursor into a hand icon.
Then you have to constantly grab the timeline and drag it left.
And right now, technically you can horizontally scroll if you have the apple
magic mouse, but the problem is you don't have a lot of surface area to work with.
Solution get the apple magic.
Trackpad just, don't hate me.
When you see the price tag.
No idea why it's so expensive.
All I can tell you is it's absolutely worth it.
Here's the reason why, when you want to scroll on the timeline, all
you need to do is make sure that your cursor is in the timeline.
Then you can swipe left or right with two fingers on the track pad.
Now another function that's really important.
And also that we need to be clear on is zooming in and out of the timeline.
The reason why is sometimes when you want to make changes, you really need to make.
refinement corrections.
Whereas other times you need to zoom back and see a bigger
picture of the entire project.
So if you are using a track pad, the gesture to zoom in or out is to
pinch or pull your fingers apart.
It's the exact same gesture as you would do on an iPhone or an iPad.
If you were looking to zoom in or out of a website.
Now, if you don't have a track pad, the way that you can zoom in
is command plus and command minus again, so much easier.on here.
The next step in our process is we need to start to reorder our shots.
So at this point, let's talk about the difference between
the select and position.
When you want to move a shot from one part of the timeline to somewhere else, there
are two different ways that you can do it.
Sometimes when you want to move a clip, you want to push everything off to the
side so that it makes room for the shot.
Whereas other times, when moving a clip, you might want to overwrite
the footage that you're dropping it.
On top of that way, it does not affect the timing of the clips that.
The two tools that we're talking about are select and position.
Usually when I talk about the select tool, I usually just call it the arrow tool
because it makes it easier to remember the shortcut, which is the letter a.
So when you just simply tap the letter a and then go to drag and drop a
clip, it moves the other shots off to the side in order to make room,
let me undo that command Z so that I can show you the alternative.
When I tap on the P key on my keyboard, you'll notice that
my cursor turns into a pointer.
So now when I go to drag, the shot is writing over the shot
that I'm laying it on top of.
Thank you for watching everyone.
We'll be right back after this brief commercial break.
Let's now talk about the difference between trimming
and cutting, starting with.
Let's say, I want this shot to end earlier to do that.
I'll just place my cursor at the very end of the clip.
And as you can see here, when I approach the end of the clip, the arrow
changes into the symbol for trimming.
So now, if I were to click and drag to the left, it will trim that shot back.
You can also do this at the beginning of a clip.
You remember when we were setting our in and out points.
And I told you that you don't really need to worry about being precise about
when your shot starts or where it ends.
Well, this is the reason why, in addition, to being able to trim
away at a shot, you can also restore footage from the original.
So this time I'll drag the trimmer to the right.
And as you can see, it is actually bringing back footage that was not
included in the original, in and out.
One more thing on the topic of trimming.
You can technically trim when you're using the select tool or the position
tool, and the results are different.
If you go to trim while you are using the position tool again, by
tapping the P key on your keyboard.
In that case, when you go to remove footage, it's going to
replace it with a blank space.
This is perfect.
Anytime you want to replace that exact amount of time with another
shot without disturbing the timing of the shots around it.
When it comes to cutting, you have a few different options.
If you tap the B key on your keyboard, that is the shortcut for the blade tool.
So now you can just click anywhere on the timeline to create a cut.
Here's an example of when using the blade tool can be really.
Let's say I want to slice out the middle section of this clip.
All I need to do is tap the 'B' key.
Now I can click to create a cut here, another one right here.
And to remove that middle chunk, I am going to need to
switch back to the select tool.
So now I'll tap the 'A' key so that I can highlight that middle
part of the clip, and then just tap the delete key on my keyboard.
Now I don't personally use the blade tool very often because you're constantly
having to switch back and forth between that and the select or position tool.
Another option is you can just place the cursor over where you
want to create that cut and then press command B on your keyboard.
In chapter five, I'm going to teach you how to add titles and
transitions to your project.
And I'm also going to turn you on to a bunch of my favorite effects packages
for small businesses and nonprofits.
Thinkific students, as I mentioned earlier, your homework is to practice
what we covered in this chapter.
I want you to create in and out points for each of the clips
that you would like to use.
Bring that footage into your timeline.
Start the process of reordering the shots and just have fun.
And if you screw up and when you screw up, always remember that
command Z is the shortcut for undo.
Thank you so much for watching everyone.
This is David, a Cox with tech talk America class.