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

Introduction

Welcome
Exercise files

The Power of the Keyboard

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

Global Shortcuts

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

Project and Metalogging Shortcuts

Creating a New Project and Event
Importing
Adding keywords
Adding keyword shortcuts
Creating favorites and rejecting clips
Revealing clips in Finder

Shortcuts for Navigating and Marking Footage

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

Using Metadata for Export

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

Customizing the Keyboard

Exploring the Command Editor window
Duplicating and renaming a keyboard
Remapping a keyboard layout
Sharing keyboard presets

Conclusion

Goodbye