Chapter 4 Editing

Now that you’ve organized your material in the Final Cut Pro Event Browser, it’s time to edit your clips into the Timeline to assemble your project. FCP has several different ways to perform most of the editing functions. You can edit directly into your project Timeline with the mouse or with keyboard shortcuts, which is probably the most efficient way to edit in most instances.

Loading the Media

If you skipped directly to this chapter, first you must download the tutorial material from eResources on the www.routledge.com/products/9781138735842 web page. For this chapter, we’ll need the ZIP files called BB3.zip and BB4.zip. Proceed like this:

  • 1. Download the first ZIP file and then double-click it to unzip the BB3 library to ...

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