this video is jam-packed with 100 Final

Cut Pro shortcuts and how to use them as

well as a ton of bonus tips along the

way and the goal is for this to be the

only Final Cut Pro shortcuts video you

ever have to watch it's going to be fast

because I don't want you to grow old

watching a super long video don't worry

about taking notes though because you'll

be able to download a cheat sheet of all

the shortcuts and I'll leave a link to

it down below one quick note before we

start when I say alt it might be option

on your keyboard let's start with some

of the ones that I use the most when

trimming Clips you can use alt and the

left square bracket to trim the start of

your clip to the playhead and ALT and

the right square bracket to trim the end

of the clip to the playhead or you can

use alt and the backslash key to trim

whichever point the start or the end

point that is closest to the playhead to

the playhead like this

Ctrl D will change the duration of a

clip to an exact duration so you can hit

Ctrl D and then 5 0 0 and return for 5

seconds and zero frames or you can

include a plus or a minus key to extend

or shorten the duration for example you

can hit Ctrl D and then minus to 10 to

reduce the duration of a clip by 2

seconds and 10 frames you can even

adjust multiple clips at the same time

by selecting them all hitting Ctrl D and

then plus three zero zero to extend each

clip by three seconds you can set an end

point using the shortcut I and an out

Point using the shortcut o this is Handy

if you want to export a specific range

for example you can export a range or

just the full timeline if there is no in

an arc Point selected to your default

setting by hitting command e if you

haven't set up your default export

setting hit command comma to open up

your Final Cut Pro preferences head over

to destinations and right click on the

destination you want to make your

default and then select make default

instead of using I and O you can also

set a clip range to the length of an

entire clip using the shortcut X and you

can clear that selection using alt X

let's say you've been tweaking this clip

and you want to play it back a few times

you can hit X to make a range selection

and then hit command L which will enable

or disable Loop playback and you can see

whether it's enabled or not with this

little arrow over here with Loop

playback enabled hit Ctrl forward slash

to play back that selection

command shift F will play back in full

screen and you can hit escape to exit

full screen mode

alt shift I will play back from the

beginning of your timeline which is nice

if you've made some edits and you want

to see how your video is coming together

from the beginning a couple more

playback keys for you Jay will play Back

In Reverse K will pause and Owl will

play forwards you can tap J or L

multiple times to increase the playback

speed in either direction you can also

hold down K and then tap J or L to move

backwards or forwards frame by frame or

you can hold down K and then hold down J

or L to playback at a reduced speed the

left and right arrows will also move the

playhead left and right one frame at a

time but shift and the left or right

arrows will move the playhead by 10

frames at a time your up and down arrows

will move the player head to the

previous or the next edit points on the

timeline

you can also use I and O to set in and

out points in the browser window like

this and then if you want to add that

clip to the timeline there are a few

options you can obviously click and drag

or you can use something like Q which

will connect the clip to the primary

storyline at the playhead W will insert

the clip at the playhead and everything

else beyond that point will move later e

will insert the clip at the end of the

timeline and D will overwrite the clip

at the playhead removing anything that

was there before if you use the range

tool to make a selection and then hit D

only that range will be overwritten

starting from the end point of the clip

in the browser if you want to lift the

clip or clips from the primary storyline

select them and hit command alt and the

up Arrow you can also overwrite Clips to

the primary storyline with command alt

and the down arrow

with a clip selected you can nudge its

position on the timeline one frame at a

time to the left using the less than key

or one frame to the right using the

greater than key holding down shift and

hitting either the less than or the

greater than key means you can nudger

clip by 10 frames at a time in either

direction if you select the edge of the

clip you can extend or shorten the clip

by one or 10 frames using these

shortcuts as well if you activate the

trim tool with the shortcut T you can

select a clip and perform a roll edit

like this or a slip edit with the

duration of the clip stays the same but

the in and out points of the clip change

or by holding down Alt with the trim

tool still activated you can perform a

slide edit that keeps the middle clip

the same but adjusts the clips to the

left and the right of it

let's talk about some of the other

editing tools usually if you try to move

Clips with the select tool Clips will

move between each other when dragged and

that is Final Cut Pro's magnetic

timeline in action you can kind of

override that to a degree if you hit P

which activates the position tool now

you can drag Clips to exactly where you

want them to be R will activate the

range tool and one of the handy uses for

this is to make a selection on an audio

track and to drag the volume line to

change the volume and Final Cut Pro will

automatically create keyframes B

activates the blade tool allowing you to

make Cuts in your Clips Zed activates

the zoom tool and you can click to zoom

in or hold down alt and click to zoom

out there are also other ways to zoom

you can hit shift Z to zoom out to fit

the timeline to the entire screen double

tapping on a MacBook trackpad with two

fingers will do the same thing you can

zoom into the playhead using command

plus and you can zoom out using command

minus or with the zoom tool selected you

can simply click and drag to zoom into a

selection command shift plus will

increase the track kite and command

shift minus will decrease the track

height H will activate the hand tool so

that you can navigate around the

timeline a goes back to the select tool

a cool tip is that you can also hold

down a key like the b key for example to

activate the blade tool make your cuts

and then when you're done let go Final

Cut Pro will then automatically go back

to the previously selected tool an

insanely powerful shortcut key is the

tilde key this key right here there are

a few ways to use it and you can learn

more about it in a totally separate

video I did on the tilde key link down

below but one example of how to use it

is when using the delete key normally if

you have a bunch of Clips connected to a

clip on the primary storyline if you

delete this clip all of the connected

Clips are deleted as well by holding

down the tilde key when you hit delete

you override the magnetic timeline and

delete only that clip and not the

connected clips if you have an extended

keyboard like me then you'll have a

backspace and a delete key backspace

will delete a clip and the clips to the

right will move up the delete key will

delete a clip and leave a gap clip of

the same duration in its place if you

use a Macbook and you only have a delete

key and not a backspace key there is a

way around it the delete key works like

a backspace key on the extended keyboard

but if you hold down shift and delete

you can delete the clip and leave a gap

clip to create a gap clip hit alt w

to create a marker on a clip hit M or

double tap M to create the marker and

open it up to edit it with your playhead

on a marker you can hit Ctrl M to delete

it or if you have a bunch of markers on

a clip you can hit C to select the clip

under your playhead and then hit Ctrl

shift M to delete all the markers in

that selection you could also use the

range tool across multiple clips to

delete markers across that entire

selection with Ctrl shift m

command and the arrow keys let you

select Clips by cycling left right up

and down it might seem like an odd one

but when combined with rolls it's really

handy let's say you have some dialogue

Clips some b-roll clips titles images

sound effects and music each with its

own role using command and the arrow

keys lets you cycle between the clips

that are in the same role so if you have

a long edit with a bunch of images

scattered throughout the edit and you

want to make changes to them instead of

zooming out to find the next image

zooming back in and repeating that for

every image you can select the first one

make the change you want to make and

then use the command right arrow to move

to the next image without having to zoom

in and out multiple times

if you want to learn more about roles

then you'll love this video that I did

on roles in Final Cut Pro I'll link to

it down below as well we're at the

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the shortcut in toggle snapping on and

off notice how as I move my playhead it

jumps to each cut with snapping on and

with it off it scrubs smoothly snapping

affects scrubbing with the playhead and

moving or cutting Clips as toggles video

skimming on and off with skimming on you

can also toggle audio skimming using

shift s what's done I'll go ahead

you probably already know that command C

is to copy a clip and command v pastes a

clip but what you might not know is that

if you hit alt V instead of command V

you can paste the clip as a connected

clip above the primary storyline you can

also copy attributes and paste them to

another clip using command shift V which

allows you to paste effects and

properties like scale position volume

and a whole lot more you can use command

shift X to remove attributes from a clip

or a selection of Clips let's say you

have some volume keyframes on a music

track to drop the music when there's

dialogue you can use the range tool to

select them then hit alt shift C to copy

those keyframes and then you can scrub

ahead and hit alt shift V to paste those

keyframes at the playhead from there you

can adjust them if you need to

show or hide video animation properties

hit Ctrl V and you can navigate to the

different parameters that might have

keyframes on them and you can adjust the

timing of the keyframes from there alt

shift backspace or alt shift delete will

delete the keyframes on selected clips

and that works on video and audio clips

and easily copy a clip or selection of

Clips by holding down alt and clicking

and dragging to make a copy alt G will

create a compound clip and command shift

G will break that compound clip Up

control minus will decrease the volume

of a clip by 1 DB and Control Plus will

increase the volume of a clip by 1 DB

Ctrl alt L will let you change the

volume of a clip to a specific DB value

so you could select a music track hit

Ctrl alt L and then negative 12 to drop

the level of the music to negative 12 DB

control s expands the audio of selected

Clips allowing you to easily make J and

L cuts and even fade the audio of a clip

in before you actually cut to that clip

create small crossfades between cuts

which is really handy to smooth out

audio between cuts in interview or

talking head footage and if you want to

totally disconnect the audio from the

video you can do that using Ctrl shift s

which makes them independent clips

command alt e adds a channel EQ effect

which is something that I use so often

so it's really nice to be able to apply

that without having to search for it in

the effects window speaking of the

effects window you can show and hide the

effects window using the shortcut

command 5. there are loads of other

shortcuts to show and hide various

windows so let's quickly go through them

command 5 like I said is for the effects

window but command control 5 is for the

transitions window command control 1 is

for the browser window command 4 is for

the inspector window and you can use

command control 4 to toggle the

inspector height on and off very handy

if you have a lot of effects or a plugin

with lots of parameters that you need to

see you can also double click on the top

of the inspector to toggle the height

command 6 will bring up the color

inspector command control 6 is for the

comparison viewer which is handy when

you're trying to match color grades on

different cameras command 7 will bring

up your video scopes and command shift 7

is for the multicam viewer when you're

in a multi-cam you can actually just hit

one two or three or up to however many

angles you have to change angles command

shift 8 is to maximize the audio meters

on the right hand side of the screen and

command 9 will bring up the background

tasks window so that you can check on

transcoding analysis rendering or

exporting if you feel like you've messed

up the window layout you can always

reset it to default using the shortcut

command 0. let's say you've moved things

around the way you like it you can head

over to window workspace save workspace

as and save your layout I've done that

and called it Brad's default and if I

select that I go to my preferred window

layout the final shortcut for the

different Windows is command F which

brings up the index window and will

allow you to search for or find

different assets I can type the name of

a clip in here selected from the results

and my playhead jumps to that clip

if you have added a bunch of effects

onto a clip where you have a bunch of

layers and your computer is struggling

to play it back you can render that

selection using Ctrl R so that it plays

back more smoothly or you could render

your entire timeline using Ctrl shift R

if you need to

command G will create a secondary

storyline with Clips on top of the

primary storyline you can select a cut

between clips and hit command T to add

the default transition which is across

dissolve you can also right click on any

transition and make it the default

transition then let's say you have a

bunch of clips and you hit command T the

new default transition will be applied

to each of the cuts command shift R will

reveal a clip in finder which is Handy

if you need to go where the file is

located or you can use shift F to reveal

the clip in the browser command alt B

adds the balance color effect onto a

clip which is especially handy if you

want to quickly correct the white

balance of the clip we spoke about the

blade tool earlier but another way to

cut a clip is to use command B command

shift B will make a count on everything

at the playhead

some of my favorite shortcuts are for

Speed ramping and retiming like command

R which opens up the retime editor or

Control Alt R which is to set a custom

speed I use shift b a lot to create a

blade speed edit notice the little cut

in the timing bar up here if you make

two of those you can re-time this middle

section shift H will create a hold frame

and shift n will reset the clip back to

normal 100 speed that is 100 shortcuts

but there are a few bonus ones I want to

mention these are ones that you will

need to set up as custom shortcuts and

it's easy to do head over to Final Cut

Pro commands customize click on the drop

down over here and duplicate the default

keyboard and give it a new name the

first custom shortcut is for automatic

speed I'll search for it select it and

then I'll hit command backslash to

assign that shortcut to that command

I'll save that and now if I have a high

frame rate clip on my timeline then I

want to slow down I can hit command

backslash and it automatically sets the

speed of the clip the other speed

ramping shortcuts that I use are to set

a clip to two times four times or eight

times speed using the shortcuts shift to

Shift 4 and shift 8. you can set them up

in the same way

when setting up custom shortcuts just

make sure you are not overriding

shortcuts that already exist unless you

don't use those particular shortcuts

don't forget that you can download the

free 100 shortcuts every Final Cut Pro

editor must know PDF using the link in

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