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Chapter 2 Final Cut Pro basics 21
Edit your project in the Magnetic Timeline
The bottom portion of the Final Cut Pro window contains the Timeline, where you
create your movie by adding and arranging clips and making all your edits. The
Timeline in Final Cut Pro “magnetically” adjusts clips to t around clips that you drag
into place. If you drag clips out of place, the surrounding clips close up to ll the space.
A Final Cut Pro project holds all of the information for your nal movie, including your
editing decisions and links to all the source clips and Events. For more information
about editing your project, see “Adding clips overview” on page 108 and “Arrange clips
in the Timeline” on page 126.
Toolbar: Perform
common tasks by
clicking a button.
Connected clips: Add titles and
cutaway shots. In the Magnetic
Timeline, everything stays in sync.
Audio clips: Add music
and sound effects as
connected clips.
Primary storyline: Add and
arrange clips to construct
your movie.
Medialesandclips
After you’ve imported media into Final Cut Pro, clips representing the source media
les appear in the Event Browser. A large Event may hold many clips.
Media les are the raw materials you use to create your project. A media le is a video,
audio, still-image, or graphics le on your hard disk that contains footage transferred
from a camcorder or recording device or originally created on your computer. Media
les can contain multiple video and audio components. Because media les—
especially video les—tend to be quite large, projects that use a lot of footage require
one or more high-capacity hard disks.