Hey there! Welcome to this week's 'Fast Key Fridays' if you saw last week's
episode we taught you how to get around Final Cut Pro X windows and effects
panels. If you want to see the episode you can click up here or
see the entire playlist all the way through by checking out the link in the
description below. This week I'm going to show you the timeline tools and not only am
I going to show you all of the keyboard shortcuts for this area I'm going to
show you how each tool works and some of the secret tricks that some of the tools
can do, so let's jump into it!
So pressing 'A' will bring up the Select Tool and this is the tool you'll be
using most of the time and with the Select tool you can select clips and
move them around but notice when you do that the gap is filled by another clip
you can place a clip back in. Okay so next is the 'T' key this will bring up the
Trim Tool now there's actually a few different ways you can use the trim tool
so let me show you this first of all you can use it to trim in the beginning or
ending of a clip and you'll notice how the clips around it kind of follow the
trim that we're making at either end but what if you want to keep the length of
your sequence the scene and just move around the footage within a clip well
you can use the trim tool just to highlight your clip in the middle and
you'll notice here you can drag the clip left and right and the footage will move
around within that clip not affecting the clips on either side thirdly you can
place the trim tool between two clips and you'll notice that it highlights the
ends of both clips and then you can drag this left and right again this is handy
if you want to keep your sequence the same length but if you want to adjust
the start and end points of two Clips okay so to bring up the position tool
just simply press the 'P' key now most people actually overlook the
position tool thinking it's similar to the Select tool but it's really not you
can move a clip around and a gap clip will be inserted instead of those clips
filling in that space so it's quite handy if you want to again keep your
sequence the same length but move or take away a clip and put it somewhere
else be warned though that the position tool
is destructive so position a clip onto another and it will remove the footage
from that clip handy though if you just want to add in a little cutaway pressing
art will get you the range tool now I like to use in a few different ways for
creating speed ramps so for example let's just say that we have this clip
here I've created speed ramp there let's say I want to speed up that little
section there where he's lifting up the the barbecue what I can do is select
that there I can then come here and say speed it up by four times and then if we
play that back we now have a nice little speed ramp using the range selection
tool there we go and I've used this here as well on this section going from where
he's walking away from the barbeque to the fireplace let's plate after him you
can also use the range selection tool to duck audio so let's say you're talking
over a clip and you have your background music you can play create a range
selection tool here and then you can just pull down the audio and then it
will just duck this section here you don't have to cut the clip or do any
further adjustments just use the range tool and then pull down the audio clip
now if you want to chop your Clips up simply press B to bring up the Blade
tool now you can use this anywhere in your timeline to chop up a video clip
which is pretty handy but did you know here's a lot of secret shortcut that if
you let's get to this point here if you press Shift + D you'll notice that the
blade icon now changes to two blades so if we chop that clip there you'll notice
it cuts through every clip at this point in the timeline handy little - all there
now as you build up clips on your timeline you'll need to zoom in and out
and you can access the zoom tool by pressing the Z key from here if you
click into your timeline at any point you'll notice that obviously the
timeline zooms in now if you want to zoom out you can simply hold the option
key and you'll notice that the magnifier head has a minus on it and if you click
- it will now zoom out okay so as you build up your footage in Final Cut Pro
10 it can get quite messy so you'll find that you'll zoom in and out quite a lot
but if you want to instantly show your entire timeline there's an extra hidden
shortcut which is Shift + Z and you'll find that when you press that you can
see your entire timeline in one window finally if you press H this will get you
the hand tool now the hand tool is a tool I
don't really use much personally but once you've got loads of clips say
you're working on a big TV show you can use this to drag through your timeline
so let's say we use e and zoom in we can now change to the hand tool and we can
kind of drag along our timeline without making any adjustments or possibly
moving a clip okay that's this week's fast key Friday is done I hope you
enjoyed that video and if you did leave me a comment below I promise I do get
back to every single one and also if you want to check out the keyboard cover
that's in this video check out the link in the description below as well I'll
put a link in there so you can check that out if you want to get some of the
more advanced keyboard shortcuts but anyway that's it for this week next week
we'll have a load more shortcuts you can learn and if you want to see the entire
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