Final Cut Pro X Guru: Keyboard Shortcuts

Get critical, time-saving keyboard shortcuts for Final Cut Pro X, and tips for customizing shortcuts to fit your workflow.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Exercise files

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. Customizing the Keyboard

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

Conclusion

• Goodbye