Hey guys, what’s up.
My name is Serge, and in today’s video,
I have 7 tips for you to help you edit faster in Final Cut Pro.
There’s a lot of videos out there on how you can speed up the app itself,
but today, I’m going to focus more on what you can do
to edit more efficiently, therefore faster.
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We all know you can edit faster by learning
and using keyboard shortcuts.
I’m going to go a little deeper,
and talk about custom keyboard shortcuts.
If there’s something you do all the time,
like blading a clip for example,
even if you already use the default keyboard shortcut Command B,
you can save quite a bit of time by making this a one key shortcut.
Open the Commands popup in Final Cut Pro,
and select Customize.
You can’t edit the default command set,
so first thing you need to do is make a copy of it.
Next, select the B key on the virtually keyboard,
and on the right hand side, you see all the assigned shortcuts.
Pressing B with no modifier
is assigned to select the blade tool.
I hardly ever use this, so to me,
it would make much more sense swapping these two around.
I’ll drag the Blade Tool command down here to one of these empty spots,
drag up blade to No Modifier,
bring the blade tool up to the command modifier spot,
and drag the duplicate off to the side to remove it.
I’ll also drag the blade all command up to Option B.
Now, when I need to blade my clip,
instead of having to press 2 keys, I only have to press 1.
This may not seem like a big deal, but trust me,
it will save you a lot of time.
Tip number 2 is organizing your workspace.
Depending on the what stage of your project you’re on,
there are certain elements you need to see in your Final Cut window,
and some are just a distraction.
Using workspaces can really help with this.
Final Cut Pro come with three built in workspaces.
To switch between them, select Window, and workspace.
Here, you have the option of using the default workspace,
one for organizing your media,
and one for Color and Effects.
You can also make your own space,
and save it as a custom preset.
While we’re on the topic of eliminating distractions,
tip 3 is Rejecting clips.
If you have clips in your media browser you know you’re not going to use,
but can’t delete them,
you can reject these clips and hide them from your media browser.
For example, when I record my A-Roll,
I record my video and audio separately,
then sync them after import.
I
know I’m not going to use these clips,
but I can’t delete them because I need them for my synched clip.
What I can do is select these clips,
and press Delete to reject them.
Now, if I select Hide Rejected from the view dropdown,
all the clips I marked as rejected are gone.
But they’re not really gone, just hidden.
The 4th tip I have for you today
is placing your most used titles and effects into a separate category.
This is especially useful if you download third party plugins,
with tons of presets.
Select the title or effect you keep going back to,
right click on it, and select Open in Motion.
Next, from the menu bar select File, and Save As.
Give it a name, and from the category dropdown,
select New Category.
Name this category,
click Create,
and Publish it.
Now, instead of scrolling through all your titles
trying to find the one you want,
you can just select your Most Used category,
and your title is right there.
Tip number 5 is the keyboard shortcut Shift Command V.
What this does is pastes the attributes from a copied clip.
So, if you have one clip,
and you added some effects to it,
or changed it in any way,
and you need the same effects added to another clip,
you select the clip, and press Command C to copy it.
Now, iff you select another clip,
and press Shift Command V, a Paste attributes window pops up.
Select the attributes you want to transfer to this clip,
and press Paste to apply all these attributes to the selected clip.
This can be a huge timesaver.
And while on this topic, if you have a certain effect,
or a set of effects,
like a color grade you apply to your clips across multiple projects,
or even libraries,
you can save these as an effect preset.
Select the clip that has the adjustments applied to it,
and in the video inspector, at the bottom,
click the save effect preset button.
Select the attributes you want to save in this preset,
give it a name, select the category you want to save it in,
and click the save button.
Next time you need to apply these same effects to a clip,
just select it from the effects browser,
and drag and drop it on your clip.
Easy, and can save you a ton of time.
Last topic I want to talk about is Custom Audio Folders.
If you have a library of royalty free music
and sound effects you use for you videos,
you can have these readily available in Final Cut Pros audio sidebar.
To add your music,
select the folder with all your music and SFX,
right click on it, and select make alias.
Drag this folder out to your desktop.
Next, press Shift Command C to open the computer window,
select your system drive,
Library,
Audio,
Apple Loops,
Apple,
and Final Cut Pro Sound Effects.
Drag your folder shortcut into this location,
and remove alias from the name.
Now, when you need to access your sound effects in Final Cut Pro,
go into your Audio Sidebar,
select Sound Effects,
and pic your custom audio folder from the dropdown menu.
The nice thing about doing it this way,
instead of importing you folder into Final Cut Pro,
is if you download and add more tracks to this folder,
they automatically show in in Final Cut Pro.
I hope you found at least one of these tips helpful,
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or in the comments below.
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