Thank you for all the hard work and content you put in for us. Your production is always top tier. Just wanted to take time and remind you how much we appreciate you, man!
I've been using FCP for a decade, and have gotten used to some time consuming habits rather than finding the best/better way. I knew I'd learn something useful by watching this and as it turns out I learned 2 things. Previously to trim I always used cmd+B then deleted the section I didn't want, now I'll use opt+[ or ] Same with the clip anchors, I never knew you could easily change the anchor, so I would cut the clip (cmd+b) to regenerate a new anchor then extend it back to the desired length.
THIS. Literally never used ripple trim once but i'm gonna try it. The way i remember the anchor shortcut is 'desperately hammer every combination of ALT CTRL CMD OPTN and click the clips until that little leg goddam moves' works every time 67% of the time 💪🏻
Another great tip for dealing with clip connections is to use the grave key ( ` ) to "override connections". Next time you want to move a clip that has clips connected to it, press and hold the grave key (to the left of the 1 key on US keyboards) and move your clip and the connected clips will stay in place. 🤘🏻🙌🏻
Thank you for taking the time out to do this Beginner Tutorial, as I am starting to move forward as a content creator. I hope you continue to dive deeper into Final Cut Pro!
Whoa, hold the phone! This tutorial is an absolute game-changer! Seriously, where have you been all my editing life? I mean, I'm not gonna lie, I've had my fair share of struggles with FCP. But your clear and precise instruction is helping me to become an editing ninja! I can't thank you enough for sharing your expertise and showing me the ropes. It's like you're reading my mind, knowing exactly what I need to up my editing game. You're a wizard, my friend, and I'm forever grateful for your mad skills! Looking forward to watching all of your FCP tips!
This is a phenomenal overview of this program. I use this with my students. I greatly appreciate that he discusses the importance of setting up folders before the project and establishing whether or not you trust Apple to handle your media files (or create endless massive backups that clog your computer). Super helpful and concise!
I was searching for this exact video yesterday and wasn't finding the right video and then bam! You literally read my mind thank you Tyler!! Always great content.
You are an answered prayer! am self learning (w/ aid from amazing folks like you) on many things like FCP and i am mostly retired, 50yo. i am ❤ all the into!
That one graphic at 7:00 cleared up the relationships among Libraries, Events and Projects. I have been confused about those three for the longest time. Thank you for making it clear. Finally.
As someone who is NOT a tech-savvy person and who is having to teach himself FCP after a quick initial lesson from an editor friend, I just want to let you know your content is wonderful. Your demeanor is not obnoxious or "youtuber"-ish and you don't clutter your videos with needless asides. Well done, all around. From one ginger to another. *fistbump*
Excellent overview, Tyler! I especially love the emphasis on working *_with_* the Magnetic Timeline instead of against it - that it's what makes FCP really exceptional in comparison to the other NLEs. One pro tip! Changing the clip connection is a great way to move clips while leaving connecting clips alone - an even faster method is to press and hold the grave key ( ` ) - which is to the left of the number 1 key on US keyboards - and that enables the "override connections" function so you can move a clip that has other clips connected to it without those connected clips moving too. When you're done with the move the previously connected clips connect to whatever new clip takes the old clip's place. A HUGE timesaver and especially helpful to folks who are editing a lot of images to music and/or using sound effects. Love your FCP vids!
I've been editing in FCPX for years and apparently have been doing it all wrong for years! Thank you so much for making such an amazing and detailed video! I appreciate you showing us how you organize your clips and creating libraries for each project. This makes so much more sense!
Just downloaded Final Cut today on my new Mac Book Pro recently bought a go pro to start some vlogging and vids while fishing, golfing, etc…. Stoked to dive into the video editing side of things
Man. You've got some of the best tutorials on RU-vid. If I did them it would essentially be me saying "then you click this thingy right here... wait no this one..." for 20 mins.
I love the amount of time you dedicate to the magnetic timeline feature. It’s such an unique and important feature of FCP. It certainly isn’t the most intuitive thing to learn, but once people get the touch of it, it makes me scratch my head to edit with DaVinci and Premier… I highly appreciate the weight and explanations you put into this starter video for FCP.
This is a treasure trove! Amazing tutorial. I'll be using it over the summer to prepare for my post-production course this fall. This video probably helped my GPA!
Thanks Tyler, this is helpful for someone like me who is fumbling through learning how to video and edit content and not doing the greatest job of it but learning as I go.
I've been wringing every last drop of editing juice out of iMovie for years but am finally taking the FCP plunge. Thanks so much for this video, I am headed over to your Libraries vid next!
Thank you for this Tyler, agreed i always keep coming back to FCP made the switch to resolve a while back but since covid i have been appreciating FCP again as the workflow is just so much better for fast quick turnaround edits for social content. Learned some great tips on this video thank you.
great overview. The issue about leaving files in place is that you can not delete the bad footage/clips you may get from an action camera. Then you would have to go through all the footage with a different program and you may delete something accidentally you need.
Do you mean rejecting specific parts of a clip or rejecting whole clips? Maybe I’m unclear about how final cut handles rejects but this isn’t usually a problem for me
@@stalman I mean rejecting whole clips. I use 2 GoPros for spearfishing. I may come back with 60 clips and I only need 20 or less, as in many nothing happens. If I allow FCPX to just reference them if I delete them, they will only disappear from the Library, but will still stay in the original folders and not be moved to the trash. So you end up keeping stuff you do not have any need. That is my main reason to allow FCPX to manage the files. But it makes it easier also to copy events to a separate drive. Deleting portions of an original clip is not possible. Actually, if you mark a portion of a clip as rejected but another one a favorite, if you then delete all rejected clips it will delete the whole clip (this is the downside of managed mode). It is not perfect. Having managed files by FCPX I can not have separate folders for separate cameras. I wish FCPX had similar features as Adobe Lightroom to show different cameras etc. Anyway, I am totally happy with FCPX, I like how it allows you to see which portions of a clip have been used on the timeline. Resolve and Premiere doesn't allow that. But deleted junk footage is a priority for me.
Gotcha, yeah that makes sense for what you’re doing. What I really want to see in FCP is batch exporting of every clip in the timeline with handles. I have lots of projects where I don’t need to keep all the originals but I do need to maintain flexibility in case of future edits. Better yet? Transcode all the favourited and timeline clips with handles OR transcode everything except rejects. Basically an archive feature
@@stalman I think LumaFusion for iPad has such a feature. I really like LumaFusion, but stopped using it because the iPad file system is so limited that all the speed is lost in the slow and cumbersome way to import footage. The feature is great. Too often with a GoPro, especially in the ocean is too easy to not press the shutter to stop filming. I may end with a 5-minute clip where only 20 seconds are what I intended to shoot. I could export a portion of the clip, then reimport it and delete the original. But If I had used any of it already in a project it would be shown as missing. To trim the "fat" from long clips in a single step would be a great feature (if the new shorter clip is not larger in size than the original due to different compression). Yes FCPX could delete the rejected or unused portions of a clip and reencode. But so far if you leave the files in their folders it does not delete even the full clips from the storage. You may have 3 takes of the same shot, you want to keep only one or 2, with "leave the files at the original location", those unwanted takes will stay on your drive, but never show in Final Cut's library after you delete them. It would be nice if in that case FCPX would put a red finder color label on the original fully l rejected files. SO you can delete them yourself in the finder pretty quickly.
I've just moved from Lumafusion to FCP because of getting a MacBook Pro from an iPad Pro, and I was baffled when you said that other softwares don't have a magnetic timeline! I thought that was a standard thing after having it on Lumafusion too. Great video - thanks for uploading
Wow! I am SO impressed with this tutorial! You are precise with your words, efficient with your instruction and cover exactly what I need to know to get started. I really appreciate you adding the bit about where to store files, so that I don't have duplicates taking up space on my computer. This drove me insane with iMovie. Thanks again. I will definitely be watching more of your videos and am now subscribed to your channel.
First time user for Final Cut pro and you explain it so well, it's very easy to follow and you make it look easy XD Thanks for the cache deleting tip! That's definitely a laptop saver!
Great video, Even as a pro videographer i always find something new in these videos that i never even knew about that makes life so much easier. So Thank you for making this videos
Yes yes yes.. having been stiffed by our local South African Apple “reseller” who don’t know their product, you have saved my sanity. Thanks .. will watch again and again till I get back to the sheer joy I had using iMovie before Apple changed that so it didn’t work for me. And .. now I know why in FCP X I don’t like Apple controlling my files! Can’t wait to get back to editing without expletives.
This is a terrific overview Tyler. Love the bit on media management. As someone working in FCP 7 and super intimidated of the Magnetic Timeline I love how you approached this and would love to see a video which focuses on just that. It would help me make the transition (finally)!!
Thank you so much Tyler for creating this amazingly informative content! This is tremendously helpful as I am just about to start using Final Cut Pro. You have gained a new fan!
I’ve just started on FCPX and I absolutely couldn’t agree more with the sentiment that it’s actually more fun to edit in. Most things work as you expect and the UI is clean and intuitive. Love this video I’ll rewatch many times when I need help. Thanks so much Tyler! 😁
Thank you for all the hard work and content you put in for us. Your production is always top tier. Just wanted to take time and remind you how much we appreciate you, man! Also just how much PR thinks they're giving us the time but they aren't, PR just sucks...
Thank you Tyler. I’m considering getting FCP as a step up from iMovie (yes, I’m fairly new to video editing) so this was immensely useful as an introduction as to what to expect. Some great tips in there too.
I occasionally use FCP for quick turnarounds, but I mainly live in Davinci Resolve. And yes, I agree. Although I understand the terms, the naming structure of Library/Event/Folder/Project is the dumbest thing ever. They really need to go through and change all of that
Wow that was such an awesome video! I struggle with learning shortcuts + this has been the first video that was of a good learning gradient for me. Love the way you explain things!
I just bought a an iMac and along with it Final Cut. I always used to edit things on iMovie and this seems very similar to that except more technical. Thanks for all the tips, it was actually very helpful. I’m new to the channel and you just got a sub from me.
Thank you for this tutorial. I'm a Premiere Pro editor through and through and nothing in Final Cut seems to make any sense to me but this made things a little clearer. I want to switch for the performance increase etc but I'm working so much slower on it I'm still losing time, just in different areas, haha
This was great. I've just started to explore video and was using iMovie for editing. It was okay but I wanted to do more. I use Adobe CC for my photo editing, layout and illustration. So, I figured I'd use Premiere since it's included in my subscription. I watched a few tutorial videos and thought, "Ugh!", I have a lot to learn. Then I thought I'd check out your video introducing Final Cut. Wow! The interface is similar to iMovie. I understood everything you described. It's going to be Final Cut for me. THANKS again.
Thank you so much Tyler for explaining this so simple, it's greatly appectied, It helps me understand the editting part of becoming a Travel Vlogger on YT, As someone who's never editted before or owns an Apple Product, will be purchasing a Macbook Pro 16" Max for my R5 to start YT next year!! Cheers from Ireland
Helpful video. Thanks! Though I ended up slowing you down to 0.85 speed to have a chance of keeping up. Also, a larger pointer would make it easier to follow where you are clicking since you move so fast.