In this exercise, you'll learn how to customize Final Cut Pro. The best tools, I've discovered, disappear as you learn how to use them. Thus, with practice, you stop worrying about how to hold the hammer, and instead concentrate on hitting the nail. You pay attention to your driving, not to how the spark plugs work.This is also true for Final Cut Pro. As you get familiar with how it works, you'll pay less attention to the software and more to bringing the ideas in your mind out into your project. One of the ways Final Cut makes this possible is through some truly extensive customization. This exercise explains how it works.
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Start by opening Chapter 02 Lesson, if it isn't already open.If you already have it open, chooseFile > Revert(and clickOKto agree to lose all changes) to reopen the project to the condition it was in the last time it was saved.
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Click the Browser to make it active.
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Change the size of the window (or any active window) by grabbing the resize tab in the lower-right corner of any window and dragging the window to whatever size you want.
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However, it's more efficient, and a lot more fun, to put your cursor on the black dividing line between any two (or three) windows (notice the shape of your cursor) and drag them all as a group.
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Best of all, once you have a window layout you like, store it by holding down the Option key and choosing Window > Arrange > Set Custom Layout 1 (or Set Custom Layout 2). These layouts are stored in your Preferences files. It's easy to change them by creating a new layout, then using this same procedure to save the new layout in place of the old.This brings me to my third favorite keyboard shortcut:Ctrl+U. This shortcut automatically resets all your windows to a default layoutsomething I find very useful because I constantly rearrange windows when I'm editing.Even better, when you save a window layout using this Option key method, you can toggle between the default layout and your new custom layout by pressingCtrl+UandShift+U.
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To save a window layout permanently to disk, arrange the windows to your liking, then choose Window > Arrange > Save Window Layout.
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In the dialog box that appears, give your layout a name and save it. By using the default location, Final Cut will display the first five of your saved layout files in the Window > Arrange menu.Auto-Aspect Layoutmeans that if you move that layout to a different monitor, using a different screen resolution, the layout will automatically scale to fit the new monitor size.
NOTE | Customizing to Memory vs. Saving to Disk
Final Cut will remember all the customization settings in effect when you quit the program. So that when you restart the program, everything opens up just as you left it.Very cool.However, Final Cut does this by storing your layouts in its Preference files. And, as you'll read in the Appendix, sometimes you need to delete the Preference files in order to solve an instability problem with Final Cut. In that case, all your carefully constructed customization settings will be lost.To prevent this, get in the habit of saving important customization settings to disk. (This exercise will show you how.) That way, when you need to delete Preference files, (and notice I said "when," not "if") restoring customization settings is as easy as choosing Window > Arrange > Restore Window Layout.
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You've already learned how to customize the Browser by dragging columns to different locations. Try it now. Grab the divider between Browser column headings and slide it from left to right to change the width of a column.
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Two default column layouts are built into the Browser: Standard Columns and Logging Columns. Toggle between them by Ctrl+clicking any column header, except Name, and choosing the one you want to use. Watch how the number, order, and layout of the columns in the Browser change.
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You can also hide columns you don't want, or show columns you do, by Ctrl+clicking any column heading, except Name, and choosing either Hide Column or the name of the column you want to show.
NOTE | A Fast Way to Move Columns
A trick to quickly move a column is to hide it where it is, then Ctrl+click the column header where you want it to move to. Your new column will appear to the left of the column you Ctrl+clicked.
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Again, Final Cut will remember your columns just the way you left them. However, to make your layouts permanent, save them by Ctrl+clicking any column header, except, you know, the Name column, and choose Save Custom Layout.
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To recall a saved layout, Ctrl+click any header and choose Restore Column Layout. Notice that saved layouts automatically appear in this contextual pop-up menu.
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Remember, a while back, when you applied a label to a clip, I mentioned that you can customize the text for the label? To do so, choose Final Cut Pro > User Preferences.
In the Labels window, you can't change the ugly colors. But you can change the label text to anything you want, by simply selecting the text in the field you want to change and typing in your new label text. Click OK to save your changes.
NOTE | There Are FOUR Ways to Apply Labels to a Clip (Whew!)
Method 1Select a clip. Choose Modify > Label and select the label you want to apply to a clip. This is the only method that works on clips in both the Browser and the Timeline.Method 2Ctrl+click a clip in the Browser. Select the label from the shortcut menu.Method 3Ctrl+click in the Label column in the Browser on the line for the clip you want to change.Method 4Chapter 3, "Gather Your Media."
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