Edit Your Project

Question 0

Define timecode.

Answer 0

A signal recorded with your video that uniquely identifies each frame. By default, timecode appears in Final Cut Pro in the format hours: minutes seconds: frames.

Question 1

What are the steps to making a movie in FCP?

Answer 1

Create a Project
Add Clips to the Timeline
Cut and Trim Clips
Add effects and corrections

Question 2

What are the project properties?

Answer 2

These are the project’s video, audio, and render properties. You can set them manually or Final Cut Pro will manage the properties automatically based on the first clip you add to the project.

Question 3

How do you change a project’s settings?

Answer 3

Select your project>
Choose Window>Project Properties>Click the inspector button>info>Modify Settings.

Any changes should be based on how you intend to finally share out your project.

Question 4

How do you save a project or changes in Final Cut Pro?

Answer 4

Final Cut Pro automatically saves all the changes you make as you work on a project. You never have to save changes manually.

Question 5

How often does Final Cut Pro make automatic backups of your library?

Answer 5

Every 15 minutes. Backups are saved with the time and date in the filename.

Question 6

How do you select an entire clip?

Answer 6

1. Click the clip once
2. Move the skimmer over the clip and press X
3. In the Browser, use the up or down arrow from a selected clip to another selected clip.
4. In the Browser, Option-Drag from start to end of the clip
5. In the Timeline move the skimmer, or the play head if skimming is turned off, over the clip you want to select and press C. This method selects the clip in the primary storyline.

Question 7

What is the difference between selected and deselected clips in the Browser.

Answer 7

Selected clips have a thick yellow border. Deselected clips have a thin yellow border.

Question 8

What are two ways to select clips

Answer 8

Drag within a clip if it’s the first selection.
Command>drag within a clip to add a second selection
Command click a colored marker line at the top of a clip.

Question 9

Remove an individual range in a clip.

Answer 9

Option>click the range or choose Mark>Clear Selected Ranges or press option-x
To remove all ranges choose Edit>Select All (or command A) to select then press Command X

Question 10

What do you do to go to the start of a range selection.

Answer 10

Choose Mark>Go To>Range Start or press shift I

Question 11

What do you do to go to the end of the range selection?

Answer 11

Choose Mark>Go To>Range End or press Shift-O.

Question 12

what do you do to select the previous clip?

Answer 12

Press shift-up arrow

Question 13

What do you do to select the next clip?

Answer 13

Press shift-down arrow

Question 14

What shortcut key over writes a clip in Final Cut Pro?

Answer 14

From the menu bar you can go to Edit>Overwrite
or
Press D

Question 15

What is an audition?

Answer 15

You can organize related clips into sets, called auditions, from which you can choose one clip to use. When you record live audio, you can have Final Cut Pro automatically group multiple takes into auditions. Auditions appear in the browser and timeline as clips with an audition icon in the upper left corner.

Question 16

How does the replace command work?

Answer 16

A preselected target clip is replaced with a source clip selection. This will cause a ripple if the duration of the source clip and target clip are different.

Question 17

How does replace from start work?

Answer 17

The target clip is replaced with the source clip selection starting from the beginning of the source selection. The duration is determined by the timeline selection. This might mean that the source clip gets cut off earlier or goes longer than you had intended.

Question 18

How does replace from and work?

Answer 18

The target clip in the timeline is replaced with the source clip selection from the browser starting from the end of the source selection. The timeline clip selected determines the duration of the source used.

Question 19

How does replace with Reed time to fit work?

Answer 19

A target clip is replaced with an entire source clip selection. The source clip selection is retimed to fit the duration of the timeline clip.

Question 20

What is the default initial duration for range selections and still images?

Answer 20

The default duration for Photos is four seconds. You can change this setting in the editing pane of the final cut pro preferences. You can also use any of the trimming techniques. To adjust the duration of multiple still image clips at once, select the clips and choose modify>change duration or press control D.

Question 21

What do freeze-frame clips look like in the timeline?

Answer 21

If you create a freeze-frame clip from the browser, it is attached to the primary story line at the play had location as a connected clip.

Question 22

What does the snap function do?

Answer 22

Magnetizes the play head to the edit point between clips. The keyboard shortcut for snapping is the N key.

Question 23

What does audio skimming do?

Answer 23

If you turn audio skimming on the audio plays it whenever you skim over a clip. It’s a toggle on off.

Question 24

What is the shortcut key for fitting the timeline sequence into the screen?

Answer 24

Shift Z

Question 25

How do you nudge a clip one frame left or right?

Answer 25

Select the clip
The, key will nudge it to the left
The . Key will nudge it to the right
Shift, or shift. Nudges it by 10 frames

Question 26

What tool is used to cut clips?

Answer 26

The Blade Tool which you access from the Select Tool drop down or press B. To cut while in Playback, use command>B.

Question 27

What does Blade All do?

Answer 27

The blade all command is used to cut all primary story like flips and connected clips at the skimmer or play had locations simultaneously. It is accessed through command>shift>B.

Question 28

What process do you use to cut multiple selected clips at once?

Answer 28

Select the clips that need to be cut
Move the skimmer to the frame you want to cut
Choose edit>blade or use command>B
Note that if you don’t make a selection this command acts only on the clip in the primary storyline.

Question 29

What does a red clip edge indicate?

Answer 29

During trimming, the red clip edge indicates that you have extended clip to its maximum length.

Question 30

When using the trim to selection option does the program keep the part that you’ve selected or delete the part that you selected?

Answer 30

Final Cut Pro trims the clip start and end points to the range selection. The unwanted sections are removed from the clip in the project and the subsequent clips in the project ripple accordingly.

Question 31

Where will you find the trim selection tool?

Answer 31

The trim selection tool is only available through the menu bar under edit.

Question 32

What is a subframe?

Answer 32

A subframe has 1/80 the duration of the video frame and is thus a more precise unit of reference when editing audio at the sample level. You can view subframes in the timecode display of the dashboard. In the editing pane of the Final Cut Pro preferences window, choose the subframe option in the time display pop-up menu.

Question 33

When performing a top and tail edit with no clips selected, which clip gets trimmed?

Answer 33

In the case of connected clips or storylines Final Cut Pro trims the selected clip. If there is no selection, Final Cut Pro the topmost clip.

Question 34

What is a role edit?

Answer 34

A Roll edit adjusts the start point and the end point of two adjacent clips simultaneously.

Question 35

What is a slip edit?

Answer 35

A slip edit doesn’t change the position or length of the clip but adjusts what portion of the clip’s media is shown.

Question 36

What is a slide edit?

Answer 36

A slide edit lets you slide an inserted clip over the underlying clips without changing its content or duration. The combined duration of the 3 clips involved all stays the same. To use the slide edit you must be in Trim edit mode and hold down option while dragging.

Question 37

What is trimming feedback and how do you get it to show?

Answer 37

Trimming feedback automatically shows a two-up in your viewer whenever you’re using a supported edit type or when trimming in the precision editor. Turn this option on in Final Cut Pro preferences.

Question 38

What is key framing?

Answer 38

A drawing or point that defines any smooth transition in an animation or film.

Question 39

What keyboard shortcut adds a key frame to audio tracks to make adjustments.

Answer 39

Option > click