Thank you for taking the time out to do this Beginner Tutorial, as I am starting to move forward as a content creator. I hope you continue to dive deeper into Final Cut Pro!
Thank you for all the hard work and content you put in for us. Your production is always top tier. Just wanted to take time and remind you how much we appreciate you, man!
Whoa, hold the phone! This tutorial is an absolute game-changer! Seriously, where have you been all my editing life? I mean, I'm not gonna lie, I've had my fair share of struggles with FCP. But your clear and precise instruction is helping me to become an editing ninja! I can't thank you enough for sharing your expertise and showing me the ropes. It's like you're reading my mind, knowing exactly what I need to up my editing game. You're a wizard, my friend, and I'm forever grateful for your mad skills! Looking forward to watching all of your FCP tips!
I was searching for this exact video yesterday and wasn't finding the right video and then bam! You literally read my mind thank you Tyler!! Always great content.
This is a phenomenal overview of this program. I use this with my students. I greatly appreciate that he discusses the importance of setting up folders before the project and establishing whether or not you trust Apple to handle your media files (or create endless massive backups that clog your computer). Super helpful and concise!
As someone who is NOT a tech-savvy person and who is having to teach himself FCP after a quick initial lesson from an editor friend, I just want to let you know your content is wonderful. Your demeanor is not obnoxious or "youtuber"-ish and you don't clutter your videos with needless asides. Well done, all around. From one ginger to another. *fistbump*
I've been using FCP for a decade, and have gotten used to some time consuming habits rather than finding the best/better way. I knew I'd learn something useful by watching this and as it turns out I learned 2 things. Previously to trim I always used cmd+B then deleted the section I didn't want, now I'll use opt+[ or ] Same with the clip anchors, I never knew you could easily change the anchor, so I would cut the clip (cmd+b) to regenerate a new anchor then extend it back to the desired length.
THIS. Literally never used ripple trim once but i'm gonna try it. The way i remember the anchor shortcut is 'desperately hammer every combination of ALT CTRL CMD OPTN and click the clips until that little leg goddam moves' works every time 67% of the time 💪🏻
Another great tip for dealing with clip connections is to use the grave key ( ` ) to "override connections". Next time you want to move a clip that has clips connected to it, press and hold the grave key (to the left of the 1 key on US keyboards) and move your clip and the connected clips will stay in place. 🤘🏻🙌🏻
That one graphic at 7:00 cleared up the relationships among Libraries, Events and Projects. I have been confused about those three for the longest time. Thank you for making it clear. Finally.
I've been editing in FCPX for years and apparently have been doing it all wrong for years! Thank you so much for making such an amazing and detailed video! I appreciate you showing us how you organize your clips and creating libraries for each project. This makes so much more sense!
Excellent overview, Tyler! I especially love the emphasis on working *_with_* the Magnetic Timeline instead of against it - that it's what makes FCP really exceptional in comparison to the other NLEs. One pro tip! Changing the clip connection is a great way to move clips while leaving connecting clips alone - an even faster method is to press and hold the grave key ( ` ) - which is to the left of the number 1 key on US keyboards - and that enables the "override connections" function so you can move a clip that has other clips connected to it without those connected clips moving too. When you're done with the move the previously connected clips connect to whatever new clip takes the old clip's place. A HUGE timesaver and especially helpful to folks who are editing a lot of images to music and/or using sound effects. Love your FCP vids!
You are an answered prayer! am self learning (w/ aid from amazing folks like you) on many things like FCP and i am mostly retired, 50yo. i am ❤ all the into!
This is a treasure trove! Amazing tutorial. I'll be using it over the summer to prepare for my post-production course this fall. This video probably helped my GPA!
I love the amount of time you dedicate to the magnetic timeline feature. It’s such an unique and important feature of FCP. It certainly isn’t the most intuitive thing to learn, but once people get the touch of it, it makes me scratch my head to edit with DaVinci and Premier… I highly appreciate the weight and explanations you put into this starter video for FCP.
Thank you for all the hard work and content you put in for us. Your production is always top tier. Just wanted to take time and remind you how much we appreciate you, man! Also just how much PR thinks they're giving us the time but they aren't, PR just sucks...
Man. You've got some of the best tutorials on UA-cam. If I did them it would essentially be me saying "then you click this thingy right here... wait no this one..." for 20 mins.
Thanks Tyler, this is helpful for someone like me who is fumbling through learning how to video and edit content and not doing the greatest job of it but learning as I go.
Wow! I am SO impressed with this tutorial! You are precise with your words, efficient with your instruction and cover exactly what I need to know to get started. I really appreciate you adding the bit about where to store files, so that I don't have duplicates taking up space on my computer. This drove me insane with iMovie. Thanks again. I will definitely be watching more of your videos and am now subscribed to your channel.
Just downloaded Final Cut today on my new Mac Book Pro recently bought a go pro to start some vlogging and vids while fishing, golfing, etc…. Stoked to dive into the video editing side of things
I have looked at Davinci Resolve and Premiere and felt comically overwhelmed and opened final cut pro on ipad for the first time and just FIGURED it out which is why I think i'll pursue this as my editor even though I have a great and very powerful Windows computer and a mac laptop. Excited to learn more, thanks so much for this video!
First time user for Final Cut pro and you explain it so well, it's very easy to follow and you make it look easy XD Thanks for the cache deleting tip! That's definitely a laptop saver!
Thank you for this Tyler, agreed i always keep coming back to FCP made the switch to resolve a while back but since covid i have been appreciating FCP again as the workflow is just so much better for fast quick turnaround edits for social content. Learned some great tips on this video thank you.
Thank you so much Tyler for creating this amazingly informative content! This is tremendously helpful as I am just about to start using Final Cut Pro. You have gained a new fan!
Thank you for this tutorial. I'm a Premiere Pro editor through and through and nothing in Final Cut seems to make any sense to me but this made things a little clearer. I want to switch for the performance increase etc but I'm working so much slower on it I'm still losing time, just in different areas, haha
Wow that was such an awesome video! I struggle with learning shortcuts + this has been the first video that was of a good learning gradient for me. Love the way you explain things!
Great video, Even as a pro videographer i always find something new in these videos that i never even knew about that makes life so much easier. So Thank you for making this videos
I've been wringing every last drop of editing juice out of iMovie for years but am finally taking the FCP plunge. Thanks so much for this video, I am headed over to your Libraries vid next!
great overview. The issue about leaving files in place is that you can not delete the bad footage/clips you may get from an action camera. Then you would have to go through all the footage with a different program and you may delete something accidentally you need.
Do you mean rejecting specific parts of a clip or rejecting whole clips? Maybe I’m unclear about how final cut handles rejects but this isn’t usually a problem for me
@@stalman I mean rejecting whole clips. I use 2 GoPros for spearfishing. I may come back with 60 clips and I only need 20 or less, as in many nothing happens. If I allow FCPX to just reference them if I delete them, they will only disappear from the Library, but will still stay in the original folders and not be moved to the trash. So you end up keeping stuff you do not have any need. That is my main reason to allow FCPX to manage the files. But it makes it easier also to copy events to a separate drive. Deleting portions of an original clip is not possible. Actually, if you mark a portion of a clip as rejected but another one a favorite, if you then delete all rejected clips it will delete the whole clip (this is the downside of managed mode). It is not perfect. Having managed files by FCPX I can not have separate folders for separate cameras. I wish FCPX had similar features as Adobe Lightroom to show different cameras etc. Anyway, I am totally happy with FCPX, I like how it allows you to see which portions of a clip have been used on the timeline. Resolve and Premiere doesn't allow that. But deleted junk footage is a priority for me.
Gotcha, yeah that makes sense for what you’re doing. What I really want to see in FCP is batch exporting of every clip in the timeline with handles. I have lots of projects where I don’t need to keep all the originals but I do need to maintain flexibility in case of future edits. Better yet? Transcode all the favourited and timeline clips with handles OR transcode everything except rejects. Basically an archive feature
@@stalman I think LumaFusion for iPad has such a feature. I really like LumaFusion, but stopped using it because the iPad file system is so limited that all the speed is lost in the slow and cumbersome way to import footage. The feature is great. Too often with a GoPro, especially in the ocean is too easy to not press the shutter to stop filming. I may end with a 5-minute clip where only 20 seconds are what I intended to shoot. I could export a portion of the clip, then reimport it and delete the original. But If I had used any of it already in a project it would be shown as missing. To trim the "fat" from long clips in a single step would be a great feature (if the new shorter clip is not larger in size than the original due to different compression). Yes FCPX could delete the rejected or unused portions of a clip and reencode. But so far if you leave the files in their folders it does not delete even the full clips from the storage. You may have 3 takes of the same shot, you want to keep only one or 2, with "leave the files at the original location", those unwanted takes will stay on your drive, but never show in Final Cut's library after you delete them. It would be nice if in that case FCPX would put a red finder color label on the original fully l rejected files. SO you can delete them yourself in the finder pretty quickly.
This is a terrific overview Tyler. Love the bit on media management. As someone working in FCP 7 and super intimidated of the Magnetic Timeline I love how you approached this and would love to see a video which focuses on just that. It would help me make the transition (finally)!!
I've just moved from Lumafusion to FCP because of getting a MacBook Pro from an iPad Pro, and I was baffled when you said that other softwares don't have a magnetic timeline! I thought that was a standard thing after having it on Lumafusion too. Great video - thanks for uploading
I just bought a an iMac and along with it Final Cut. I always used to edit things on iMovie and this seems very similar to that except more technical. Thanks for all the tips, it was actually very helpful. I’m new to the channel and you just got a sub from me.
I honestly can't believe this is free to the public. Thank you, endlessly.
Thank you for taking the time out to do this Beginner Tutorial, as I am starting to move forward as a content creator. I hope you continue to dive deeper into Final Cut Pro!
Thank you for all the hard work and content you put in for us. Your production is always top tier. Just wanted to take time and remind you how much we appreciate you, man!
Thank YOU for taking the time to watch it! It’s always great to hear the videos help out
Thanks!
Whoa, hold the phone! This tutorial is an absolute game-changer! Seriously, where have you been all my editing life? I mean, I'm not gonna lie, I've had my fair share of struggles with FCP. But your clear and precise instruction is helping me to become an editing ninja! I can't thank you enough for sharing your expertise and showing me the ropes. It's like you're reading my mind, knowing exactly what I need to up my editing game. You're a wizard, my friend, and I'm forever grateful for your mad skills! Looking forward to watching all of your FCP tips!
YAAAAY!! Nice to see the shout out for Stocksy, Tyler! And was psyched to see one of my shots at 9:18 !!!
I was searching for this exact video yesterday and wasn't finding the right video and then bam! You literally read my mind thank you Tyler!! Always great content.
This is a phenomenal overview of this program. I use this with my students. I greatly appreciate that he discusses the importance of setting up folders before the project and establishing whether or not you trust Apple to handle your media files (or create endless massive backups that clog your computer). Super helpful and concise!
Nice tip for the transition: Fade to Color. To adjust the midpoint so it uses the entire transition to fade to black. Thanks!
As someone who is NOT a tech-savvy person and who is having to teach himself FCP after a quick initial lesson from an editor friend, I just want to let you know your content is wonderful. Your demeanor is not obnoxious or "youtuber"-ish and you don't clutter your videos with needless asides. Well done, all around. From one ginger to another. *fistbump*
I've been using FCP for a decade, and have gotten used to some time consuming habits rather than finding the best/better way. I knew I'd learn something useful by watching this and as it turns out I learned 2 things. Previously to trim I always used cmd+B then deleted the section I didn't want, now I'll use opt+[ or ] Same with the clip anchors, I never knew you could easily change the anchor, so I would cut the clip (cmd+b) to regenerate a new anchor then extend it back to the desired length.
Ripple trim is the number one thing I would want everyone to take away, it’s infinitely faster
THIS. Literally never used ripple trim once but i'm gonna try it. The way i remember the anchor shortcut is 'desperately hammer every combination of ALT CTRL CMD OPTN and click the clips until that little leg goddam moves' works every time 67% of the time 💪🏻
Another great tip for dealing with clip connections is to use the grave key ( ` ) to "override connections". Next time you want to move a clip that has clips connected to it, press and hold the grave key (to the left of the 1 key on US keyboards) and move your clip and the connected clips will stay in place. 🤘🏻🙌🏻
@@matthewTobrien I learned this just yesterday by watching your video which I was inspired to watch after watching this one. Thank you!!
@@KeithTharp Sweeeeeet. Another great shortcut for the arsenal. 🤘🏻 Thanks for watching!
That one graphic at 7:00 cleared up the relationships among Libraries, Events and Projects. I have been confused about those three for the longest time. Thank you for making it clear. Finally.
I've been editing in FCPX for years and apparently have been doing it all wrong for years! Thank you so much for making such an amazing and detailed video! I appreciate you showing us how you organize your clips and creating libraries for each project. This makes so much more sense!
Really appreciate you taking the time to make this video. Trying to get my bearings around this tool.
Excellent overview, Tyler! I especially love the emphasis on working *_with_* the Magnetic Timeline instead of against it - that it's what makes FCP really exceptional in comparison to the other NLEs. One pro tip! Changing the clip connection is a great way to move clips while leaving connecting clips alone - an even faster method is to press and hold the grave key ( ` ) - which is to the left of the number 1 key on US keyboards - and that enables the "override connections" function so you can move a clip that has other clips connected to it without those connected clips moving too. When you're done with the move the previously connected clips connect to whatever new clip takes the old clip's place. A HUGE timesaver and especially helpful to folks who are editing a lot of images to music and/or using sound effects. Love your FCP vids!
God, clip connections are so stupid. It’s Tonka Toy editing. Only apple could come up with an insane solution to problem no one had.
Your content is better than most of the youtubers. Straight forward and professional
Thank you sir, you make me happy when learning ❤ FCP is awesome too
You are an answered prayer! am self learning (w/ aid from amazing folks like you) on many things like FCP and i am mostly retired, 50yo. i am
❤ all the into!
Thanks, Tyler. I am a long-time animator using AE that has started filming and editing. This was a huge help!
Thank you Tyler for this amazing beginner tutorial. You made this easy to understand.
This is a treasure trove! Amazing tutorial. I'll be using it over the summer to prepare for my post-production course this fall. This video probably helped my GPA!
Thank you. This might be the overall best tutorial video I have ever seen!
I love the amount of time you dedicate to the magnetic timeline feature. It’s such an unique and important feature of FCP. It certainly isn’t the most intuitive thing to learn, but once people get the touch of it, it makes me scratch my head to edit with DaVinci and Premier… I highly appreciate the weight and explanations you put into this starter video for FCP.
Thank you for this tutorial! It is super helpful! Especially on cache and library management. Wish I'd knew it way earlier.
Thank You so much! Having migrated from Sony Vegas, this video is a life saver! That too it’s free, just feels too good to be true! God Bless.
Thank you for all the hard work and content you put in for us. Your production is always top tier. Just wanted to take time and remind you how much we appreciate you, man! Also just how much PR thinks they're giving us the time but they aren't, PR just sucks...
Man. You've got some of the best tutorials on UA-cam. If I did them it would essentially be me saying "then you click this thingy right here... wait no this one..." for 20 mins.
Thanks for helping all of us newbies!! 😂
I can't even begin to say how helpful this video is, thanks so much!
Such useful info! Thanks!
Thank you for your really hard work
You make it simple for us
Thanks again
Thanks Tyler, this is helpful for someone like me who is fumbling through learning how to video and edit content and not doing the greatest job of it but learning as I go.
Making the switch from Premiere to FCP and this series has for sure helped!
This is excellent. Thanks for putting this together.
Excellent video thank you
Love your channel thanks for all of your hard work Tyler!
Amazing video! I'm a beginner starting out from a different software and this was super helpful.
Thank you so much! I’ve used iMovie for years and finally have FCP and this is the best video so far
Just the video I was looking for. Thank you Tyler!
Thank you Tyler, it's a super useful video for a beginner! Learned so much!
Thanks for the video Tyler! I’ve been a FCP user for years and still learned some nifty shortcuts.
Wow! I am SO impressed with this tutorial! You are precise with your words, efficient with your instruction and cover exactly what I need to know to get started. I really appreciate you adding the bit about where to store files, so that I don't have duplicates taking up space on my computer. This drove me insane with iMovie. Thanks again. I will definitely be watching more of your videos and am now subscribed to your channel.
Wow 🤯🔥 !! This was so awesome 🤩.. Thanks for the playlist.
Thanks Tyler, I’m a year in to FCP and still find new things all the time, especially with your videos. 🙌🏻🇬🇧
first video in on your playlist lets go!
Just downloaded Final Cut today on my new Mac Book Pro recently bought a go pro to start some vlogging and vids while fishing, golfing, etc…. Stoked to dive into the video editing side of things
I have looked at Davinci Resolve and Premiere and felt comically overwhelmed and opened final cut pro on ipad for the first time and just FIGURED it out which is why I think i'll pursue this as my editor even though I have a great and very powerful Windows computer and a mac laptop. Excited to learn more, thanks so much for this video!
What a great video, thank you Tyler, top tier production and tips for this getting started video.
LOVE YOUR CONTENT BRO!!!!!
I always wondered what FCP looked like. Thank you so much for the video!
First time user for Final Cut pro and you explain it so well, it's very easy to follow and you make it look easy XD
Thanks for the cache deleting tip! That's definitely a laptop saver!
Thank you for this Tyler, agreed i always keep coming back to FCP made the switch to resolve a while back but since covid i have been appreciating FCP again as the workflow is just so much better for fast quick turnaround edits for social content. Learned some great tips on this video thank you.
Thanks Bro! It was a really great tutorial. Learned a lot.
Really great beginner video. Appreciate you taking the time to make these videos for us that are learning...
Very Useful thank you so much Tyler... Can you tell me the screen recorder that you use which shows all key strokes while screen recording ?
Great Tutorial, been using PR and now thought of switching! Thanks for the effort for the video!
Agree with you about the magnetic timeline %100. Is the best feature
great tutorial! I just started using Final Cut Pro today. This really helped me to get started.
amazing pacing for a beginner tutorial as well...thanks
Thank you so much Tyler for creating this amazingly informative content! This is tremendously helpful as I am just about to start using Final Cut Pro. You have gained a new fan!
Great video
Thank you for this tutorial. I'm a Premiere Pro editor through and through and nothing in Final Cut seems to make any sense to me but this made things a little clearer. I want to switch for the performance increase etc but I'm working so much slower on it I'm still losing time, just in different areas, haha
Wow that was such an awesome video! I struggle with learning shortcuts + this has been the first video that was of a good learning gradient for me. Love the way you explain things!
I really loved this tutorial many thanks from Sweden 😍🙏
Great video and excellent content Tyler! You're a workflow wizard! Thanks for making the playlist. I will definitely keep sharing your content.
Excellent informative "how to". Thank you God Bless
Great video, Even as a pro videographer i always find something new in these videos that i never even knew about that makes life so much easier. So Thank you for making this videos
Great video for a rookie like myself, its much appreciated!!
Please tell me how you do the “crop in/crop out” effect. I love it and I’d love to know how to do it.
I'd love a video like this about photo editing in Lightroom! Great tutorial, clean and simple.
Upgrading from iMovie. Thanks for the quick introduction!
Great video, it was really helpful. Thanks
I wish I saw this 10 years ago.
Excellent!
I've been wringing every last drop of editing juice out of iMovie for years but am finally taking the FCP plunge. Thanks so much for this video, I am headed over to your Libraries vid next!
great overview. The issue about leaving files in place is that you can not delete the bad footage/clips you may get from an action camera. Then you would have to go through all the footage with a different program and you may delete something accidentally you need.
Do you mean rejecting specific parts of a clip or rejecting whole clips? Maybe I’m unclear about how final cut handles rejects but this isn’t usually a problem for me
@@stalman I mean rejecting whole clips. I use 2 GoPros for spearfishing. I may come back with 60 clips and I only need 20 or less, as in many nothing happens. If I allow FCPX to just reference them if I delete them, they will only disappear from the Library, but will still stay in the original folders and not be moved to the trash. So you end up keeping stuff you do not have any need. That is my main reason to allow FCPX to manage the files. But it makes it easier also to copy events to a separate drive. Deleting portions of an original clip is not possible. Actually, if you mark a portion of a clip as rejected but another one a favorite, if you then delete all rejected clips it will delete the whole clip (this is the downside of managed mode). It is not perfect. Having managed files by FCPX I can not have separate folders for separate cameras. I wish FCPX had similar features as Adobe Lightroom to show different cameras etc. Anyway, I am totally happy with FCPX, I like how it allows you to see which portions of a clip have been used on the timeline. Resolve and Premiere doesn't allow that. But deleted junk footage is a priority for me.
Gotcha, yeah that makes sense for what you’re doing. What I really want to see in FCP is batch exporting of every clip in the timeline with handles. I have lots of projects where I don’t need to keep all the originals but I do need to maintain flexibility in case of future edits.
Better yet? Transcode all the favourited and timeline clips with handles OR transcode everything except rejects. Basically an archive feature
@@stalman I think LumaFusion for iPad has such a feature. I really like LumaFusion, but stopped using it because the iPad file system is so limited that all the speed is lost in the slow and cumbersome way to import footage. The feature is great. Too often with a GoPro, especially in the ocean is too easy to not press the shutter to stop filming. I may end with a 5-minute clip where only 20 seconds are what I intended to shoot. I could export a portion of the clip, then reimport it and delete the original. But If I had used any of it already in a project it would be shown as missing. To trim the "fat" from long clips in a single step would be a great feature (if the new shorter clip is not larger in size than the original due to different compression). Yes FCPX could delete the rejected or unused portions of a clip and reencode. But so far if you leave the files in their folders it does not delete even the full clips from the storage. You may have 3 takes of the same shot, you want to keep only one or 2, with "leave the files at the original location", those unwanted takes will stay on your drive, but never show in Final Cut's library after you delete them. It would be nice if in that case FCPX would put a red finder color label on the original fully l rejected files. SO you can delete them yourself in the finder pretty quickly.
Amazing tutorial! Great tips and easy to follow.
Thankyou so much for this Tutorial. 🙏
Love how you implemented the sponsor, so seamless. Great video too!
Thanks! And I really do love what the do
Gotta love that thumbnail!
Best teacher ✌️
Love the New Library tip!
Amazing review. ❤️❤️❤️
Great tutorial! Thank you!
Thank you! Im new to FCP so your video is helping me a lot.
Thanks for doing that for us I think this was a really really useful video for all of us budding video editors
Love your channel ! Thanks from France 😉
This is a terrific overview Tyler. Love the bit on media management. As someone working in FCP 7 and super intimidated of the Magnetic Timeline I love how you approached this and would love to see a video which focuses on just that. It would help me make the transition (finally)!!
Wow you’ve been holding out a while! It takes some learning but it’s very worth it
Your youtube thumbnail is pretty awesome!
Awesome info! Very informative. Thank you!!
I've just moved from Lumafusion to FCP because of getting a MacBook Pro from an iPad Pro, and I was baffled when you said that other softwares don't have a magnetic timeline! I thought that was a standard thing after having it on Lumafusion too. Great video - thanks for uploading
Amazing video as always! Thank you!
Great video Tyler!
Fantastic Video - Subscribed!
I just got an iMac to finally take advantage of having FCP (from when I worked for Apple some years back). Thank you for this!
Yeah fuck it...gonna switch back over to Premiere for this one..I tried lol Thanks! 😂😂😂
just the video I needed. Thank you Tyler!
Great job! Keep up the awesome tips.
Love this tutorial. Definitely a big help for a complete beginner like me!
I just bought a an iMac and along with it Final Cut. I always used to edit things on iMovie and this seems very similar to that except more technical. Thanks for all the tips, it was actually very helpful. I’m new to the channel and you just got a sub from me.
Thank you so much! Awesome Video.