Top 10 tips list

[Tom Wolsky]

Interesting how much of the keyboard has been remapped for no reason, other than I guess to conform to another application, h instead of n, Opt-v instead of Control-V. There are a others as well.

All the best,

Tom

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[Shane Ross]

One of my favorite tips in FCP is the TTTT tool. Press “T” four times and you get a double arrow pointing to the right. When you click on the timeline or clip on the timeline, everthing from that clip on down the the timeline is highlighted, and you can move it down to the right to make room to edit, or to the left to close a gap.

That is the most frequent tool I use.

Shane

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[Russell Lasson]

For that, I hit “T” and then hold the shift key. It’s less work.

I’ll also add a couple of my favorite remapped key strokes:

Reconnect Media: shift+command+R
Media Manager: shift+command+M
Reveal in Finder: shift+command+F

Other commands that I love:

Paste Attributes: option+V
Remove Attributes: option+control+V
Insert Paste: shift+V
Move Video or Audio clip up or down one track: option+up or down (doesn’t work with both video and audio selected)
Easy slip: select clip, select slip tool and use the brackets to go back and forth (hold down shift to move 5 frames at a time instead of one)

There are so many more, but these come to mind off the top of my head.

-Russ

[Arnie Schlissel]

I know. Like mapping Command-F9 to do what LLL does. I don’t really see how that’s any easier.

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[Matt Larson]

I had a hard time getting used to J-K-L control on a MacBook Pro with your right hand on the trackpad and the left hand on J-K-L (you have to cross your hands) so I saved a setup with J-K-L remaped to 1-2-3 for when I don’t have a mouse handy.

And if I need to nudge something in the timeline +1 sec, once I hit the “+” the numbers act like numbers again.

Works great… alot better than hitting control+F9!

[Andy Mees]

well bloody hell … I’m an “select all tracks forward tool” (tttt) guy too, and I don’t think I ever knew that the Shift key modified that behaviour with the “select track forward tool” (and visa versa)
(or if i did, then clearly I forgot) thanks Russel!

Andy

[Rocco Rocco]

I like Cmd-Q.

[Kevin Monahan]

Nice. I didn’t know that either. Where’d you get that one? The manual? 😉

Kevin Monahan
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[Russell Lasson]

I had an editor that wanted to learn more keyboard short cuts, so we started quizing each other. The goal was to stump each other on the keyboard short cut list that comes with FCP.

You know in this industry, you can never stop studying. Even then, someone will always know more than you.

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

So I’ve been spending a lot of time in AE recently (a couple of weeks straight). Now I come back into FCP and I want to move the timeline quickly to a certain point.

What do you do in AE? Hold down the spacebar and drag. So what do I try in FCP, the same thing!!! And it doesn’t work. I want it to have the same functionality in FCP as it does in AE. Even if it is still the “h” key. I just want it so when I press it down it works and when I let go, it doesn’t.

It’s such a nice feature in AE instead of having to push two keys. (I’m a spoiled, keyboard shortcut brat arent’ I).

-Russ