Final Cut Pro HD | H•O•T Hands-On Training [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

1.

Open Exercise 08Lesson 2 and load Seq Snowboard final into the Timeline. You'll be working principally in the Browser for this exercise.

2.

You already know how to do most of this:

Select an edit point.

Apply a Stretch > Cross Stretch transition (or any transition that you like).

Double-click the transition to load it into the Viewer.

3.

Change your settings to match mine. (Not that mine are all that great, but, hey, it shows that you can create a customized favorite transition.)

4.

See the small hand in the upper-right corner? It's called the drag handle. Grab it.

5.

Drag the drag handle to the Browser > Effects tab and drop it on the Favorites folder. (OK, maybe I should have told you to locate this folder before you dragged the transition. Let go of the transition, click the Effects tab, locate the Favorites folder, and drag the transition into the folder again. Sorry.)

6.

Twirl down the Favorites folder and see the Cross Stretch transition inside.

7.

Go to the Effects menu. Choose Favorites, and see? There's your latest Favorite transition with a keyboard shortcut already assigned. This, too, is stored in your Preferences folder.

8.

To apply a Favorite transition, either select your edit point, then choose Effects > Video Transitions Favorites > [pick your transition], or drag it from the Favorites folder in the Browser Effects tab.

Wow! Eight steps. Very cool. You don't need to save your work; Favorites are saved automatically, also in the Preferences files.

NOTE | Preferences

Here's a quick heads-up on all this Preferences stuff. You can learn more about this in the Appendix, but the short answer is that one of the maintenance procedures you'll do fairly frequently with Final Cut is trash your Preferences files. (No, I won't tell you why now; otherwise, you won't read the Appendix.)

This means that anything that is stored only in Preferences files will be lost or reset when those files are trashed.

For this reason, I tend not to use Favorites (there are three: Transitions, Motions, and Effects), nor spend a lot of time obsessing over setting my default transition.

However, I expect the Preferences files to get a lot more stable over time, and these techniques are too good to ignore.

So, use them, but keep in mind that you'll need to redo your favorites every time you trash your Preferences.