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Hello, to access any tutorial click on the topic tab button on any of the topic tags below. The intent of this site is to help anyone and everyone who needs help using Final Cut Pro. I am an Apple Certified Pro user working toward my Apple Certified Trainer Certification. I don't sell anything and there is never a charge for anything here. You can access, use and share this information with everyone you know if it helps them be more comfortable using Final Cut Pro. You can ask questions by sending me a direct message. To send a DM you need to be a member of my Wikidot page which is also completely free of any charge ever. Just fill in a short form, answer a confirmation e-mail and that's it. Our goal is to share our knowledge, experience and expertise with the world. And to watch better television and movies because we have better editors.

The Creative Editing Process...

There have been a lot of questions lately about not only how to use the FCP Suite of tools but also the process to follow to get your creative vision from your head to the screen in the shortest time...
Final Cut Pro Keyboard Shortcut Flash cards

If you install a program like iFlash (http://www.loopware.com/iflashtouch/) on your iPhone, you can copy and paste these lines into your copy of iFlash touch and all those spare moments in the...
SoundTrack Pro Keyboard Shortcut Flash Cards

If you install a program like iFlash (http://www.loopware.com/iflashtouch/) on your iPhone, you can copy and paste these lines into your copy of iFlash touch and all those spare moments in the...
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Basic 3 Point editing Rules

There are a specific set of rules to follow when doing three point editing. Keeping them in mind while working will make your results more predictable and reliable. Rule #1 If you don't set an in...
Smooth-Cam Filter

The smooth-cam filter is useful when you need to reduce or remove the amount of camera shake in your shot. One very important issue to note with the smooth-cam filter is that when you analyze a clip...
Nudge Overwrite

If you're working in your timeline and you have clips on tracks V1 and V2 and you'd like to delete the clip from track V1 and replace it with the clip from track V2. You could select the clip on V2...
Recent Clips Pop-up Menu

The Recent Clips Pop-up menu is a handy menu that stores (up to) the last 20 clips you've used. Click the filmstrip in the bottom right corner of the viewer window to access the menu and click any of...
Actual letter from a producer to his editor

From the editor to the producer after 3 letters requesting payment Man, I don't know what happens to my e-mail at your end but not all of them seem to be getting through I've rebuilt the final...
Still Images

When you create a new freeze frame from a clip in Final Cut Pro (Shift-N), you cannot open in editor this type of a still image to use Aperture or Photoshop to edit the picture. To be able to edit a...
Schmeckle Blur

This is the procedure to blur out a portion of an image that you don't want to share with the audience, It could be the face of a person who's requested anonymity or some other such portion of any...
Add an Alpha Channel

Add an Alpha Channel When you use a built in generator like the One Color Ray or the Spirals generator you may want to add an alpha channel to the image so you can see through the dark portion of the...
Travel Matte Alpha

Travel Matte Alpha The travel matte alpha is a unique composite mode that can give you complex and interesting results. First you need to understand what a “Travel Matte Alpha” is. Simply put...
Final Cut Funny

When studying Final Cut Pro for hours on end, silly things seem to become funny. I've always found it funny that the add marker key is the Accent-Grave key. Get it grave-marker. Well today I noticed...
Dream Keys

This page is dedicated to all the functions that don't exist in Final Cut Pro that I would add if I were king. Replace to Fill Edit (Option-F11) Like the replace edit it aligns the playhead positions...
Fit to Fill Edit

Fit to Fill The fit to fill edit is a unique tool, its purpose is to force your source clip to fit into whatever space in the timeline that you need it to. If your source clip is five seconds long and...
Canvas Edit Overlay

Canvas Edit Overlay Above the timeline there is a row of tabs for each open sequence, click the sequence called Canvas Edit Overlay to bring it to the front. Drag a source clip directly from the clips...
Default Canvas edit

Default Canvas Edit When you drag a clip from either the browser or viewer window over to the canvas window a screen appears to cover half of the canvas called the Canvas Edit Overlay. The Canvas Edit...
Log & Transfer Window

Log and Transfer Window Logging Window The logging window gives us a convenient place to add unique and valuable information to each clip that we import. Here you can and should enter as much...
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