41 FCPX Shortcuts to Speed up Your Workflow
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
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We edit all of our vlogs and videos on Final Cut Pro X and over the years we have been able to improve the speed at which we can edit, ultimately speeding up our entire workflow, by using shortcuts.
In this tutorial, I'll show you 41 FCPX shortcuts that will help you to speed up your workflow!
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We had a few people asking for a PDF they could download and print to keep as a handy guide, so we've done that for you guys. Here is a link to download it: bit.ly/2VELWyD And yes, it's free 😊
Thank you! :) This was an excellent video, and this will be a handy guide. I am new to Final Cut Pro X, and I'm looking forward to learning slowly.
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Amazing ! I was looking at your video taking notes, then saw you made the PDF already. Very helpful !
@@CyrilJap Glad you found it helpful! Thanks for watching! 😊
Thank you so much !!
Not mentioned, but two shortcuts I use a lot involve replacing a clip on the timeline. Select a clip on the timeline (or a Gap clip), then select a clip from the Library and (either) Option-R to replace the clip on the timeline but keeping the length of the timeline clip, or Shift-R to do the same but the length of the clip on the timeline changes to the length of the source. Fast! If you intend to keep the timeline clip length the same, then all you have to do is choose an IN point on the clip in the Library.
Great tip!
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At 6 minutes - When dragging the volume up or down, hold the CMD key to 'gear down' to a finer (slower) change in the value of the volume.
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This is some of the best content for FCPX Users. Awesome video!!!!!!
Thank you so much! I’m so glad that you found it useful 😊🙏🏼
Excellent .. FCP is such a powerful tool, but it’s maybe overly complicated. So this helps get to the creative part quicker. Thanks!
Absolutely! That’s the power of shortcuts for you! Thanks for watching Nicholas! 😊🙏🏼
THESE are amazing. I'm trying to speed up my workflow in FCP. Thanks a bunch!
Awesome! I’m glad you found it helpful 😄🙌🏼 Thanks for watching 🙏🏼
That last shortcut is a gamechanger! 😄 Thanks again Brad!
Glad you enjoyed it Jonas 😄🤙🏼
Great tips. Nice and fast. I knew most of these but the ones i didnt know about are very helpful. I opened a project and did these tips while you were talking. Hopefully i remember
Glad you found it helpful! Here is a newer video with even more shortcuts (and there is a downloadable PDF too): ua-cam.com/video/VjiVYTR5Hp4/v-deo.html
Great video! I've been using FCPX since v10.0.0, and still learned a few shortcuts I've never used. One comment: #5 at 1:27 - As you show, "M" creates a marker. Alt+M creates a marker and opens the marker's pop-up where you can enter the marker's text and specify whether it is a normal marker, a "To Do" marker, or a Chapter Marker.
Thanks for sharing Bill! It's always handy to learn new shortcuts and to add them to your repertoire 😊
Thanks Brad, a lot of great info delivered at a good pace.
Glad you enjoyed it! I recently updated this video with 100 shortcuts I use regularly. You can also download a free PDF cheat sheet if you’re interested: ua-cam.com/video/VjiVYTR5Hp4/v-deo.html
@@Brad_West I'll look into it thanks.
You have no idea how much this video has helped me - blessings man - i made all the notes pausing the video now and then and taking notes - thanks man really appreciate you for this nice video .. and you know what i didn't know a PDF is available , got to know while writing back to u here ..
I’m so glad that the video was helpful to you 😄🙌🏼 Thanks for watching and commenting 😊
Amazing tutorials!!!! I have learnt so much to use for my work. You are legend! Thank you!!! 👏👏👏
So glad it was helpful to you Tien! Thanks for watching 😊🙌🏼
@@Brad_West keep them tutorials coming my friend! Just subbed! You deserve more subs!💪💪💪
Thanks for the support! More tutorials every week. Just dropped a new one today 😊🤙🏼
By far the best FCP tutorial!
Thanks very much. I’m glad you enjoyed it 😊👊🏼
Great speed of delivery. It reminded me of a couple items I don’t know the keystrokes to. Well done.
Awesome! Thank you! 😄👊🏼
We ain’t going to talk about how smooth that intro to the video was ⁉️🔥🔥🔥
Haha glad you enjoyed it 😂🙏🏼
So thankful for this
THIGS Visual Glad you found it useful 😊👍🏼
Great video thank you. Be great if there were time stamps in the description to help me navigate easier. Keep up the good work.
Thanks Kev. Appreciate that. There is a link to a PDF in the pinned comment on this video with a guide to all the shortcuts. Hope that helps! 😊
@@Brad_West That's really helpful thank you.
@@KevWright No problem! 😊
This was amazing! It took me 20 minutes to get through b/c I had to keep stopping to write down all the shortcuts. I’ve been doing at least half of these the loooooong way. Awesome video thank you!
Dede Targowski Ah I’m so glad you found this video useful! 😄🙌🏼 Thanks for the kind words! Looking for ideas for future videos, anything in FCPX that you would want to see a tutorial on? 😊
Well since you asked..... how about how to take a video and create a one minute portrait version out of it for Instagram? I’ve seen one but would love to see how you would do it. And....how to really use compound clips. I don’t fully understand how they work. And while I’m on a role here......is there an easy way to clean up your projects in FCPX? For example, before I learned how library, event, and project worked, I created “projects” randomly. So now I have a “project” that isn’t in a “project” and I don’t know how to reorganize and get it into one. I realize this one might be hard b/c yours are not all messed up like mine are and not sure if you could recreate that. Any of those would be great! But what you do is awesome!
ME TOO! this is the best one yet!
Sorry for the super delayed response here! For some reason your comment was marked as spam by UA-cam and we only found it now! Thanks for the suggestions! Really appreciate that! 😊
This is the best video on this!! Love you brother! Thanks a lot
You’re welcome 😊👊🏼
Some short cuts I use a lot are ~ to unleash the clip from the magnetic line to the clip above. For example to remove a clip from the timeline without the connected clip above. And changing the connecting line by standing on the clip and press comm-option the change the position of the connecting line. Great video , Although I already use a lot, I still learned some new ones!
Thanks Jaap! glad you found a few in there that were new to you. Thanks for watching 😊
Very helpful mate, thanks so much for making an easy 'How-to' without all the fluff. Cheers
Glad you found it helpful. I tried to put as much useful info in there as possible 😊
Great video! Definitely going to save me a lot of time
Thanks David. Yeah shortcuts will definitely speed up the editing process. Thanks for watching 😊🙏🏼
Thank you so much for this video!I was writing down all shortcuts and at the same time was applying them so exited to use them in my videos!Thank you for PDF file 🙏
You are so welcome! I love using shortcuts! Thanks for watching 😄
this video was super helpful for me and the best 'FCPX shortcut' video I've watched so far👌🏽. thanks a lot 🙏🏾
Thanks so much for the feedback! Super happy that you found it so useful! 😊
Thanks for the video. I’m thinking of switching from DaVinci Resolve Studio to FCPX and am trying to see if it will do everything DR can do. This video was a huge help. Thanks!
Glad I could help! 😊
J-K-L keys at 2:15 - Also, if you hold the K key then hold the J or L keys, the video will play in reverse or forward in slow motion.
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you just gained a sub from that DB meter shortcut!
Thanks John! Glad you enjoyed it! I recently updated the shortcuts video with 100 shortcuts that I use often. Here it is if you’d like to check that out: ua-cam.com/video/VjiVYTR5Hp4/v-deo.html
There’s also a free downloadable PDF cheat sheet.
Great tips! Thanks!
I'm glad they were helpful. Thanks for watching! 😊
You just made my night by introducing CMD + SHFT + X. Thank you so much!
Glad you found the video useful. I use that shortcut all the time haha 😄
this video was set from heaven ! thank you
Team Stacie Haha! Glad you found it helpful 😊🙏🏼
Hey, thanks for this! It's like an instant course. I was fairly proficient in the old FCP some years back. This "new" version does the same things in different ways. It's easy to get lost looking for something you know must be there. Your little video is like an instant roadmap.
Glad you found it helpful Richard 😊🙌🏼 Years ago I was hesitant to switch from FCP7 but FCPX changed quite a lot and I love it now. Hopefully the PDF download in the comments will be a handy reference for you 😊
@@Brad_West The project I've started is pretty daunting, but I think it would have been much easier in FCP7. I wonder if it was easier to learn than the new program. I can see this one could be pretty fluid once you have got the language down. My old version of FC wouldn't work on the current machines. I had a look at Premier as I'd heard that's where the Pros went when Apple dropped the new version on them. I didn't like Premier much, so I decided to take the plunge. Today I feel I am drowning, but after gasping enough, I'll get to the surface. At least half the tools in your video will help a lot! I'm glad I came cross it. thanks again.
There’s a little bit of a learning curve coming from FCP7 but once you get the hang of it, it’s really user friendly. Since you’re brand new to FCPX, I’d recommend watching my Basics of FCPX video: ua-cam.com/video/-kpjUytfNR4/v-deo.html
That might help you to get started on the right foot 😊👍🏼
This is a great video ,I'm glad that stumble upon this channel and definitely liked what I saw ,will use those videos to learn more and more about video making .Thanks for the inspiration and the help mate.
Love it so much. Well done!
I'm so glad you found it helpful! Keep creating! 😊
Amazing, thank you I've been editing for many years and some of these shortcuts were new to me and very helpful.
Great to hear! Glad there were some new ones for you 😄
Thank you for this brother!
My pleasure! Thanks for watching 😊
Thank you very much , this was very helpful. please make more tutorials like this, I'm new to FCPX
Thanks for your feedback. There will definitely be more tutorials in the future! 😊
Great tips. So helpful. I've been doing things the hard way!!!
So glad you found the video useful 😄 Thanks for watching 👊🏼
THIS WAS SO HELPFUL THANK YOU !!
I'm so glad you found it helpful Tahana! Thanks for watching 😊
This was an incredibly helpful video!
I'm so glad it was helpful to you! 😄
Great!!!...Greetings from Uruguay!!!!
Thank you for watching! Cheers from SA! 🇿🇦😄
Incredible tips man
Loved it 😍 cmd shift R
So happy to hear that! 😄🙌🏼
Brilliant work! I subscribed.
Thanks for the sub Robert! Appreciate it 😊
Hey thanks for this. Great stuff!
Glad you enjoyed it Lachlan! I recently updated the shortcut ma video with 100 shortcuts that I use often. Here it is if you’d like to check that out: ua-cam.com/video/VjiVYTR5Hp4/v-deo.html
There’s also a free downloadable PDF cheat sheet.
thanks for sharp and fast present! really appreciate !
You're welcome! 😊
@@Brad_West thanks Brad and Donna, may i know whether you can share me how to create the red square box with number in fcp from the above clip? That the number to introduce next short cut. Many thanks :)
@@yauyukfong9273 That was created using After Effects but you can create something similar using Apple Motion too if you don't have After Effects 😊
@@Brad_West oh i see, thanks for providing the way. :) have good day @Brad and Donna :D
@@yauyukfong9273 You too! 😊
Thanks a lot. Excellent video.
Glad you found it useful 😊
THANK YOU! That was great info!
You are so welcome! Glad it was helpful 😊
At 3:30 scrubbing the timeline. If using a mouse, hold Shift and roll the center wheel to scroll the timeline. I use a trackpad and have set it up so that I simply drag two fingers to scroll the timeline.
Great tip!
Great video. More here than in the 5 other FCPX videos I've seen so far. It's painful to switch, but PP makes me feel like I'm editing a dubbed old movie.
Glad it helped! I've given PP a try in the past and it just doesn't suit our workflow as well as FCPX. I feel like I can edit way faster in FCPX too 😊
@@Brad_West I'd love to see a video (maybe you have it) that shows how to edit a talking head video (for UA-cam) with FCPX. In PP, I drop the clip into the timeline, blade and ripple delete until I have the core. Lots and lots of cuts and delete. Literally, two keystrokes. I can't seem to find an easy way in FCPX, yet. Any thoughts?
@@358studios Sure! In FCPX, if you have your talking head on the timeline you can scrub through or play through the clip and hit Cmd+B at all the points you want to cut. To get rid of the parts you don't want, there are two options.
1. Hitting the delete key - which will remove that part and leave a blank space.
2. Hit the backspace key and that will ripple delete that section.
Hope that helps 😊
Let us know if there are any other topics you'd be interested in seeing videos on, we're always looking for ideas for new videos.
@@Brad_West I appreciate the information. Thank you. Do you know if there is any way to remap the delete key to the left-hand side of the keyboard? To accomplish the same thing in PP, I remapped ripple delete to F which allows me to activate the blade tool, cut with a click of the mouse as I scrub through the timeline and F (ripple delete) without removing my hand from the mouse or the keyboard. Super fast. Maybe I just need to learn to be more patient. :)
A video of interest that immediately comes to mind (again you may already have it) is best plug-ins for FCPX and is there a way to get motion graphics like you can via After Affects in FCPX? I'm at the beginning of my research and this journey to switch over, so these things will probably present themselves along the way but thought I'd ask.
Thanks again for your help.
@@358studios Yeah you can customize all your shortcuts. Click on the Final Cut Pro menu, select Commands, then Customize and you can remap any shortcut you want. 😊
Thanks for the suggestions. You can use Apple Motion to create and incorporate motion graphics in FCPX. I'll look into creating a best plug-ins video sometime in the future 😊
Just Amazing Thanks!
You’re welcome! I recently did an updated video with 100 FCP shortcuts that I use regularly which you might like if you enjoyed this one: ua-cam.com/video/VjiVYTR5Hp4/v-deo.html
Thank you much!!!
You’re welcome 😊🙏🏼
Great video, life is easier now. two more shortcuts very helpful, to delete the section of the clip bring the cursor where you want the trim to be started and hit option+[ it will delete all the footage before the cursor and same for option +] it will delete all the after. its very useful for trimming in single clip. hopefully this makes sense. Thanks
Glad you found it useful! 😊Thanks for sharing the trimming shortcuts. That's a great one to add to the list!
Awsome bro!! Thank you very much
Thanks Ignacio 😊👊🏼
cmd + E. Thanks!
You're welcome! Glad you found it helpful 😊
Took notes! Thank you!!!
SUPER helpful. thank you for the effort and the sharing. thumbs up.
You're welcome! Glad you found it helpful! 😊
Excellent video really good keyboard tips I’m just starting out in editing, and finding using a mouse is not only slow but “fiddly” too so getting a “Handel” on this will really help thanks again stay safe.
Glad it helped! Learning to make keyboard shortcuts a part of your workflow will help you edit way faster! 😊
Thanks alot , i just upgraded from imovie to finalcut pro and was struggling adjusting. The only thing that stayed the same was the cmd+R , and E command. This is going to push me in the right direction :)
jalen moore Really happy that you found the video useful! 😄🙌🏼
Thanks man, really helpful tips! Especially tip number 32, cool trick )
So glad you found the video helpful! 😊Looking for ideas for new FCPX videos, so is there anything else in FCPX you want to know/learn? 😊
Awesome...expecting more
Thanks 😊 Stay tuned 😉
Just what I needed ... Cheers man!
I’m so glad this helped you out! 😊🙌🏼
Thank you 🙏 have been very useful 😉
Glad it was helpful Javier! 😊 Thanks for watching!
Brilliant tips !!
Thanks Ben. Glad you found it helpful! 😊
great tutorial, thanks for the video! super Sri
Glad you enjoyed it! 😊🙌🏼
A big help!! Thanks!!
You’re welcome 😊👊🏼
Nice to hear an SA accent!
Right on! 😄👊🏼
Thank you so much ! for this video
You're so welcome! Thanks for watching 😊
Wow!!! Now that is a great help for a newbie!!! Have you got a video on how to manipulate individual letters in text?
Glad you enjoyed it Ettiene! If you can send me an example of the exact effect you are hoping to achieve I can try to help. In the meantime, this video might have some tips that are relevant 😄
Thanks for this video.
You’re welcome Heinrich. Thanks for watching 😊🙌🏼
Awesome thank you so much
Glad you found it helpful Jack 😊
Excellent learning tools. Thank you.
Glad you found it useful 😄🙌🏼
very helpfull thank you !
Glad you enjoyed it 😊👊🏼
Thanks very much useful
Glad you found the video useful!
Thank you SO MUCH for this video! You just saved me HOURS!
So glad you found the video helpful! 😄👍🏼
Great knowledge, even though I knew more than Half of them, I appreciate the additional info!
Matticulous Mee Thank you. I’m glad you found it useful 😊🙌🏼
😎🙌 thank you bro!!!
There is an updated video with more shortcuts and a downloadable PDF here: ua-cam.com/video/VjiVYTR5Hp4/v-deo.html if you want to check it out.
You are a brilliant!!!!
Glad you found the video helpful 😊👍🏼
Awesome video! got some really helpful tips!
Glad you enjoyed it and that you found it useful 😊
A super guide, thank you! :)
No problem Nick! Glad it was helpful! 😄
Thank you so much! I saved this to a private playlist so I can come back to it often 🙌🏻
That's awesome Joey! 😊 So happy that you found the video useful!
THANKS!!!
You’re welcome! 😊🙌🏼
I learnt a few new shortcuts i never knew... just gotta remember them now haha.. great video.
Haha! 😄If you start using some of them and find them useful, you'll remember them easily. Out of interest, what was the most useful shortcut you learned from the video? 😊
Thanx brother ❤️
You’re welcome!
Thank you so much, your an absolute Legend, Just Subscribed, May god Bless you.
Thanks! Appreciate that!
fantastic video
Thank you! 😃
great tutorial, thanks for the video!
Thank you! Glad you found it useful! 😊
So much to remember!
The more you practice using the shortcuts the more you’ll remember 😄👍🏼
Great information. I seen your tutorial about magntic timeline line I search it but yet I don't find it
I haven’t made a dedicated video on the magnetic timeline. I’m trying to remember where I might have mentioned it 🤔 It might have been in my FCPX for beginners video: ua-cam.com/video/-kpjUytfNR4/v-deo.html
Broooo dope video!! REALLY WELL DONE!
Thanks Jerick. Appreciate that! 😊
The audio handling is one of the best easy to use features on FCPX that give such a professional look and a smoother experience to the viewer. As a heavy After Effects user, when clips come with audio it’s a bit of a pain to always have them duplicated and treat one as the audio and the other as the video, the way FCPX handles it I find it a lot friendlier in that sense (detach or show, expand one of the end, give the viewer a hint of what’s coming or a nice ease-off of what just happened).
Now... the one thing I can’t really get my head around is, replacing footage. I find it hard and breaks all the time, any pointers on this front?
Thanks for the video and the shortcuts PDF!
Absolutely! FCPX gives you way more audio control than After Effects. 😊
Can you give me a bit more information on what you are trying to replace? Is it a case of replacing a render from After Effects? For that to work, you need to make sure the format and codec is the same when you re-render from AE. Also, if the original render had audio, make sure the new render also has audio. If not, FCPX won't see it as a suitable clip to replace.
If you're trying to replace a clip in your edit with another clip, this might give you the info you need: support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/final-cut-pro/ver4e2fcf0/mac
Hope that helps! 😊
Brad and Donna Thanks for the pointer will take a look at this.
My main issue with FCPX vs AE replacing files, in AE it’s super easy for example to work with a still image stretched along a layer’s timeline, cut, manipulate, animate, etc and replace all of them later with anything else: a movie file, an image sequence (that plays back like a movie file), so on and so forth. For example, updating a PSD file with updated graphics, if they were used in FCPX, good luck getting that to sync. Even worse if import media, create proxy/optimized, etc files was on... great for keeping it all together, not so great for updating/replacing footage.
Granted, for that type of workflow I do think Motion is more suited for that but haven’t really tried it properly yet in that situation.
I think the best way in this case is to plan ahead and work with compound clips, that way anything can be replaced later inside the compounded clips which is then use in a main project’s storyline.
At the same time, FCPX is truly aimed at very fast video editing and less at compositing, so it definitely favors being able to quickly move, change, drop new things from scratch than replacing or piggybacking after the fact. Example, replacing a clip with another keeps none of the effects of the original one, I find myself copy/pasting attributes very often.
@@alejmc Yeah FCPX doesn't have that "alt-drag-and-drop" kind of replace feature that AE has unfortunately. Using compound clips or copy and pasting attributes is probably your best bet. I do all my editing in FCPX and compositing/animation in AE. What you could do is edit any video and audio elements in FCPx and export a video file to work with in AE. Then if you need to change anything, you can change the edit in FCPX and replace that video file in AE to make any compositing and animation changes. That's generally what I do when working with FCPX and AE on the same video 😄
At 3:50 - Slowing a high-framerate clip - You can also try a 'natural' rate. Try selecting the clip and going to the clock-looking icon in the Viewer and choosing 'Automatic Speed'. Instead of displaying, in this case, 240 frames every second, the clip will play at one frame per 'natural' framerate of the Project. Frame-for-frame in other words. Nice and clean if the speed of the motion is good for you.
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Thanks for the great video! Very informative, and the largest collection of FCPX shortcuts I've ever seen. Question: how did you generate the keyboard graphics used in the video?
Thanks Chris! Glad you found it useful. We created them from scratch in After Effects 😊
thanks for making this video!!
Glad you found it useful Dan! 😊
very useful, very good explanation followed up with great examples, thx. subscribed.
thanks a lot bro 🙏🏻
You’re welcome 😊👊🏼
At 4 minutes - Once you retime a clip, be aware that if you drag the right end of the colored shelf and drag left or right, you are changing clip's speed whereas if you drag the right END of the clip and drag left or right, you're changing the length of the clip to be affected by the chosen speed. Extra Credit: If the clip is a secondary storyline, the stem from the clip is the center point if you change the speed of the clip by dragging the right end of the shelf. In fewer words, Hold Option and CMD and click in the middle of the clip to relocate the Stem and clip will expand or collapse in both directions centered around the Stem.
Thanks so much for all these extra shortcuts! Some of these we've never tried, but will definitely give them a try 😄👍
THIS IS AMAZING !
Thanks! Glad you found it useful! 😊
Thank you for the Geat Video!!!
You’re welcome. Thanks for watching 😊🙌🏼
you guys are amazing! thank you so much!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video!
Thank you there! I copied them all down!
Great! Glad you found the video useful. There is also a pinned comment with a link to a PDF that you can download if you like 😊
I have a useful one i use all the time, press "T" (without modifier keys) and then you can move what is displayed by the clip without moving it (if that makes sense). You can also use it to move a cut without moving the timeline.
That is such a great shortcut! Thanks so much for sharing Kevin. I'll definitely be using that one from now on! 😊