Keyboard Shortcuts
Final Cut Pro Interface
Tips
Organizing Project Elements
Misc. Review
100
Create a new bin
What is Command-B
100
A graphical representation of all the editing decisions you make.
What is a Timeline
100
You can dynamically resize more than one window at a time by ?
What is dragging a border diagonally.
100
To see as many project elements as possible in the Browser window, ? in the empty grey area, and from the shortcut menu choose View as List.
What is Control-click
100
In what main menu can you find the Import command?
What is The File Menu
200
Take playhead to the head of the sequence or clip.
What is Home
200
They reflect the volume level of whatever audio is playing.
What is Audio Meters
200
Audio clips created in Apple's Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF) have a ? extension.
What is .aif
200
To highlight the name, click the Bin 1 icon and press ?
What is Enter
200
What four modifier keys are often used in conjunction with keyboard shortcuts to initiate functions or commands?
What is Shift, Control, Option, Command
300
Play clip or sequence backward.
What is Shift-Spacebar
300
Displays edits visually like a movie.
What is The Canvas
300
When using a two button mouse, you can also access a shortcut menu by ?
What is right-clicking in that area
300
You can select any number of noncontinuous clips by ? a clip to select or deselect it.
What is Command-clicking
300
Besides clicking the Play button, what keys on your keyboard can you press to play a clip or sequence forward?
What is The Spacebar and the L key
400
Move playhead to the In point.
What is Shift-I
400
A collection of Final Cut Pro Editing Tools.
What is The Tool Palette
400
If you change your mind about an edit point, press ? or choose ? to remove the mark or return to a previous mark.
What is Command-Z or Edit > Undo
400
To place all the clips in the bin at one time, click the top clip, then hold down the ? key and click the last clip. Drag the selected clips into the bin.
What is Shift
400
What button in the Canvas window do you click to edit a clip?
What is The red Overwrite button
500
Set an Outpoint.
What is O
500
Where you organize all of the project elements, or source material you use when editing.
What is The Browser
500
The ? function can be turned off or on in the Timeline button bar.
What is snapping
500
How many ways are there to create a bin?
What is three
500
When viewing the audio portion of a clip, what do you see instead of a video image?
What is A waveform display