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Final Cut Pro Efficient Editing
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Final Cut Pro Efficient Editing

by Iain Anderson
October 2020
Beginner to intermediate
796 pages
17h 6m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 5: Choose Your Favorites: Selecting, Rating, and Searching

"I've edited on everything from a KEM table to an iPhone, and FCP X is the most enjoyable way I've ever translated ideas into edits."

— Alan Seawright is an Emmy-winning director and editor from the mountains of Utah (www.alanseawright.com)

Organizing your clips with Keywords is an important first step, but it's not the whole story. Keywords tell you roughly what each clip contains, or what it can be used for, but just as important is knowing which parts of a clip are best. Soon after you apply Keywords to entire clips, you should select the best parts and then mark them for later retrieval. Final Cut Pro makes all that easy, allowing you to define a range with an In and Out ...

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ISBN: 9781839213243