From iMovie to Final Cut Pro X

Lesson 4Editing Basics

Now that you’ve organized your material in the Final Cut Pro Browser, it’s time to edit your clips into the Timeline to assemble your project. FCP has several different ways to do most of the editing functions, some of which will be familiar to iMovie users. 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.

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If you skipped directly to this lesson, then first you must download the tutorial material from the www.routledge.com/products/9781138209978 web page and going to the eResources tab. For this lesson we’ll need the ZIP file called FCPX3.zip

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