Welcome back to my Final Cut Pro 10 tutorial.
Today we are going to discuss
one my my favourite FCP features,
clip auditions.
This is part eight of my series.
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So, that being said, lets get started.
I’ll open up FCP and open my Bike Adventures project.
First thing I’d like to discuss today is markers.
As I mentioned before
you can place a marker by pressing
the M key on your keyboard.
But, if you press the M key twice,
you open up a marker menu,
where you can name your marker,
and select the type.
You can choose a normal marker,
a to do marker or a chapter marker.
There’s no sound at the start of my video,
so I’m going to add a to do marker.
Select the clip and double press the M key,
select To Do marker and name it Add Sound Effects.
To do markers show up as red,
and later on when I add SFX,
I can mark the task as complete.
Double click the marker and select the complete checkbox.
The marker turns green to show that it has been completed.
I’m going to add one more To Do marker
to the end of my project to make an ending.
This will reming me later on whats left to do in my project.
Now, lets talk about auditions.
Sometimes you might have a few different
clips you want to try out in your project,
or even a few takes of the same clip you want to try.
You can place one clip into your project,
watch it, then find the second clip,
drag it down and replace edit that into your project,
review it, and so on.
You have to tediously repeat this
for every additional take.
FCP’s auditions feature lets you combine
all these clips or takes into one clip
and lets you edit that into your project.
Then you can review multiple clips
by switching from clip to clip
and not performing multiple edits.
Close to the start of my project,
in my first set of cutaways,
I have two clip in a row from the same angle,
with a jump cut in the middle.
I’m going to replace one of the clips
with a different angle.
I’ve selected a few clips I want to try there
and added an Audition One keyword to them
to get them all in one place.
For more information on keywords
and organizing your clips,
check out part two of my tutorial series.
I’ll select all these clips,
right click on any of the selected clips
and choose Create Audition.
You can also use the keyboard shortcut
Command Y.
An audition clip is created in the browser,
and is identified by the spotlight icon
in the top left corner of the clip.
If I click on the spotlight icon,
an auditions window opens up.
I can cycle through my clips
by using the arrow keys on my keyboard.
I’ll select my audition clip and drag
it down into the timeline over the clip
I want to replace and choose the replace option.
For more information on the replace edit options,
check out part six of my series.
My audition clip is placed in my timeline
where I can review it.
I can try my other clips by clicking
on the spotlight icon and using the arrow keys.
Since I chose the replace option,
my timeline will ripple to make room
for the full clip in the audition window.
If I choose a longer or shorter clip,
the other clips in my timeline will move
ahead or back to fit my clip.
Once you choose which clip you want to use,
click done in the audition window.
If you have your b-roll clips connected
to other parts of your project,
and you don’t want to mess up the sync points,
you can use FCP’s lift from storyline option.
Right click the audition clip and choose lift from storyline .
Your clip is lifted out of the connected storyline
and replaced with a gap clip to keep timing the same.
Now, if I choose a longer clip in my audition window,
my other clips stay in the same place.
By default, your connection point to the primary storyline
is at the beginning of your connected clip.
You can change this connection point by holding down
the Command and Option keys
and clicking the bottom of your clip.
This moves the connection point to where you clicked.
To add some more b-roll footage to my video,
I’ve made another audition clip.
This time, instead of replacing a clip in the storyline,
I’m going to connect my audition clip to my storyline.
Set the playhead where you want the clip to go,
select the audition clip and press Q
to connect it to your storyline.
Now I can click the spotlight icon
and preview my clips to decide which on I want to use.
The clip I’ve chosen flows perfectly
with my other clips, but it’s a little bit too long.
Last thing I’m going to go over in this video
is more ways you can trim your clips.
In part three , I showed you how to ripple trim clips
by clicking and dragging the start and end points.
Today I’m going to discuss
three other ways to trim your clips.
The first method is called “Top The Head”,
and is used when you have extra material
to remove from the start of your clip.
I’ll zoom in on my timeline,
select the clip I want to trim,
and skim to the first frame I want to use,
and “Top The Head” by pressing option
and left square bracket key.
The start of the clip is trimmed to my skimmer.
Second method is called “Trim the Tail”,
and is very similar.
It’s used to trim the extra material from the end of your clip.
I’ll select the frame after the last frame of my clip
I want to use and “Trim the Tail”
by pressing Option and Right Square Bracket key.
Once again, the clip is trimmed to my skimmer.
The last method is called trim to selection.
This will trim the extra material from
the start and the end of your clip at the same time.
To “Trim to Selection”, first I’ll select
the range selection tool from the tools menu,
or by using the keyboard shortcut R.
I’ll skim to the first frame of the clip
I want to keep, and click and drag
to the last frame of the clip.
Now, I’ll press Option Backslash and the clip
is trimmed to my selection.
Press A to go back to select tool.
Because there’s more than one clip inside my audition clip,
I can use one of the other clips in another part of my video.
I’ll hold down the option key and click and drag my audition clip.
This duplicates the clip,
creating a copy that can be used elsewhere in my timeline.
Release the mouse button before releasing the option key.
Now I’ll change the pick of this audition clip
and trim it using one of the three methods discussed.
I’ll press Shift Z to have an overall look at my project.
There’s still lots of work left to do,
but I’m happy with how it’s looking.
Over the next few videos,
I’m going to fine tune the video and audio to perfect my project.
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