Final Cut Pro X (14) Flashcards
A replace edit (p. 219, p. 253) gets dropped into a ___ clip. A clip or storyline would have been lifted to create that ___ clip in the first place
gap
Open the Audition window of the clip by pressing _
Y
“Trim the tail” is officially ____ ___
Trim End
“Top the head” is officially ____ _____
Trim Start
“Top and tail” is officially ____ __ _________
Trim To Selection
To Trim End (or “trim the tail”), select the clip, cue the Playhead to the desired point in the clip, and press ______-_. The end of the clip is trimmed to the Playhead, and the rest of the storyline ripples.
Option-] (right bracket)
If skimmer is on:
Position the skimmer at the point of the trim.
To trim from the beginning of a clip to the position of the skimmer, type Option+[
To trim from the end of a clip to the position of the skimmer, type Option+]
This trim is blindingly quick – position the skimmer, press the keys, done. No razor blade. No removing clips. Simple. And the magnetic timeline automatically removes the gap.
yep
If skimmer is turned off:
If the skimmer drives you nuts in the Timeline, this trick works equally well, if not quite as fast. The keyboard shortcuts are the same.
Position the playhead at the point of the trim.
To trim from the beginning of a clip to the position of the playhead, type Option+[
To trim from the end of a clip to the position of the playhead, type Option+]
If the skimmer is active and in the Timeline, the skimmer determines the point of the trim. If the skimmer is not active, or not in the Timeline, the playhead determines the point of the trim.
yep
If skimmer is on or off:
Whether skimming is turned on or off makes no difference for this next tip.
To trim to a selection, use the Range tool (R) to select a range within A clip, or across MULTIPLE clips on the same layer, and press Option+\
The cool thing about this tip is that you can select more than one clip on the same layer and trim them all at once.
Notice that these three shortcuts work with three keys that are grouped together on the keyboard: [ - ] – \
NOTE: You can also access these three options from the Edit menu, but that isn’t nearly as much fun.
yep
Sometimes it’s best to adjust the ___ clip’s duration in order to move the regular clips
gap
To create a reminder:
- Click in the gray area above the storylines to make sure no clip is selected
- Skim over the first half of the Aerials clip and press M _____
- A ________ marker is set, and the Marker window appears
- Name the marker “speed to reveal, change the marker type to __-__, and then click Done
- That’s one less sticky note tagging your display!
twice
standard
to-do
By default, new markers are ____ standard markers with placeholder text
blue
By default, new markers are blue ________ markers with placeholder text
standard
alt or option M
to set a marker and open up the marker window at the same time
control-click on the marker
open up the marker shortcut menu
to move or copy a marker
control click on marker to bring up shortcut menu, then copy or cut
to go to the next marker
Control-Apostrophe (’)
to go to the previous marker
Control-Semicolon (;)
when ____ _______ is turned on, you can solo the audio and video of a clip
clip skimming
in clip skimming, the _______ is contained in the clip you are skimming
skimmer
in clip skimming, no matter where the clip is in vertical relationship to the other clips, the ____ _______ solos that clip’s contents
clip skimmer
To find and reveal the source event clip for a Timeline clip…
Choose File > Reveal in Browser (or press Shift-F) OR
Control-click the clip and choose Reveal in Browser from the shortcut menu.
To locate the source media file for an event clip…
- In the Libraries list, select the event that contains the clip.
- Select the clip in the Browser.
- Choose File > Reveal in Finder (or press Command-Shift-R).
Clip skimming reveals in the Dashboard the ______ ________ of the clip
source timecode
After marking the start and end points in a clip, perform a “____ __ __________” to remove extraneous material outside that range
“Trim to Selection” (“top and tail”)
To “Trim to Selection”, press ______ _
Option \ (backslash)
When you trim just a connected clip (rather than a connected clip in a storyline), it comes to rest at the ______ location rather than sliding left to the head of the storyline
range’s
Now you need one more copy of the audition clip for the third aerial clip in this series. You can make that copy from the existing Audition clips in the Timeline. ______-drag a copy of the Aerials audition off of itself and release the mouse button before releasing the ______ key
Option
____ skim this audition clip and then set a start point at 1:42:00 and an end point at 1:46:00. Press Option-\ (backslash) to “Trim to Selection” or “top and tail” the clip to the marked _____
clip
range
To experience a different ________ approach, you lifted the sound bites out of the primary storyline to be replaced by a longer music clip
workflow
You created an ________ clip to house the similar aerial clips
audition
That audition allowed you to stay in the ________ when looking for a clip rather than digging back into the Browser to get the clip you need
Timeline
Reverse Tab
shift Tab
