Final Cut Pro X Guru: Keyboard Shortcuts

Course details

Most professionals agree that one way to become more efficient with an editing program is to learn and use keyboard shortcuts. Final Cut Pro X is no exception to this rule. It has a wide range of keyboard shortcuts that can speed up many tasks and workflows, and options for tailoring keyboard shortcuts to the way you work. This course will focus on the most essential keyboard shortcuts for working with metadata, navigating in the timeline, and editing footage, as well as methods for customizing shortcuts with Final Cut's Command Editor.

Learning objectives
Using global keyboard shortcuts
Adding keywords with shortcuts
Rejecting clips with shortcuts
Navigating and marking footage with shortcuts
Editing with shortcuts
Customizing keyboard shortcuts

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - Exercise files

1. The Power of the Keyboard

03 - Making the most out of shortcuts
04 - Using the Mac help menu and Final Cut Pro Command Editor to help you learn shortcuts
05 - Understanding the four main Mac modifier keys

2. Global Shortcuts

06 - Window shortcuts
07 - Undo and redo - The power of Cmd+Z and Shift+Cmd+Z
08 - Cut, copy, duplicate, and paste
09 - Not saving, closing libraries, and quitting
10 - Starting Final Cut shortcuts on the dock

3. Project and Metalogging Shortcuts

11 - Creating a New Project and Event
12 - Importing
13 - Adding keywords
14 - Adding keyword shortcuts
15 - Creating favorites and rejecting clips
16 - Revealing clips in Finder

4. Shortcuts for Navigating and Marking Footage

17 - The power of navigating with J, K, and L
18 - Advance by 1, 8, or 10 frames and range selection
19 - Navigating and clearing ranges
20 - Play in to out and looped playback
21 - X marks the spot or marking clips
22 - Creating markers
23 - Navigating and editing markers
24 - The Timeline Index

5. Using Metadata for Export

25 - Appending and inserting clips
26 - Connecting and overwriting clips
27 - Bringing in video or an audio-only source
28 - Top and tail editing
29 - Zooming in on the timeline and fitting to the window
30 - Moving to the beginning, end, and between clips on the timeline
31 - Ways of deleting in the timeline
32 - The power of the Play Around shortcut
33 - Toolbar shortcuts
34 - Toggling snapping, skimming, and soloing
35 - Enabling and disabling clips
36 - Appending, inserting, and connecting from the media library

6. Customizing the Keyboard

37 - Exploring the Command Editor window
38 - Duplicating and renaming a keyboard
39 - Remapping a keyboard layout
40 - Sharing keyboard presets

Conclusion

41 - Goodbye