Is there a keyboard shortcut for blading within the timeline?

[Steven Gonzales]

Control-v will place an add edit (cut point) in the auto selected clip.

Check here for more info on auto select:

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/auto_select_fcp_4_balis.html

[Todd Beabout]

Pressing “b” will switch your tool to the blade. “a” takes you back to the arrow. That’s what I use.

-Todd Beabout
Vazda Studios

[Tim Snider]

Thanks, Todd. But the CTRL-V allows me to actually apply the cut at the play head. And that’s what I needed.

Thanks again,
Tim

[Todd Beabout]

Yeah, I’m going to try that one out too. Thanks, Steven.

-Todd Beabout
Vazda Studios

[Steven Gonzales]

I can’t take much credit, as I posted the same thing several years ago, and Lisa Brenneis (author of the Visual QuickPro Guides for FCP) told me this trick.

I feel I’m obligated to pass along all the generous help I’ve been given.

Another mantra she signed in my copy of her book for FCP 1.0 “Don’t Forget to Save often!”

[Jeremy Garchow]

Another hint is while the clip is playing and you want to time out some cut points you can hit control -v (while the clip is still playing) and it will insert markers wherever you hit control-v. When you hit the space bar to stop, the clip will then divide wherever the markers were set.

Jeremy

[Tom Adams]

right on. big time saver. thanks for the tip about doing it while playing…

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