Tuesday Tips: Mark Clip
Here’s how to quickly mark in and out points on a clip. Just park your playhead over the clip you want to select in the timeline and press X. This will mark an in and out point around the clip without the need to select the clip first. Final Cut Pro uses the Auto Select buttons to decide which clip to mark with video tracks taking priority over audio tracks and low numbered tracks taking priority over high numbered ones.
Option-X will clear the in and out points (this also works in the Viewer for source clips).
Living and working in the wilds of Western Australia, Jude Cotter is a freelance offline and online broadcast editor with more than 300 television programmes to her credit. In her spare time, she is a moderator at the LAFCPUG forum and writes FCP tutorials for kenstone.net. She also occasionally teaches in person for Apple centres and Universities.
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