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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Chapter 1: What’s new in Final Cut Pro?
- Chapter 2: Final Cut Pro basics
- Chapter 3: Import media
- Chapter 4: Analyze media
- Chapter 5: Organize your media
- Chapter 6: Play back and skim media
- Chapter 7: Create and manage projects
- Chapter 8: Edit your project
- Editing overview
- Select clips and ranges
- Add and remove clips
- Adding clips overview
- Drag clips to the Timeline
- Append clips to your project
- Insert clips in your project
- Connect clips to add cutaway shots, titles, and synchronized sound effects
- Overwrite parts of your project
- Replace a clip in your project with another clip
- Add and edit still images
- Add clips using video-only or audio-only mode
- Remove clips from your project
- Solo, disable, and enable clips
- Find a Timeline clip’s source clip
- Arrange clips in the Timeline
- Cut and trim clips
- View and navigate
- Add and remove markers
- Correct excessive shake and rolling shutter issues
- Chapter 9: Add and adjust audio
- Chapter 10: Add transitions, titles, effects, and generators
- Transitions, titles, effects, and generators overview
- Add and adjust transitions
- Transitions overview
- How transitions are created
- Set the default duration for transitions
- Add transitions to your project
- Delete transitions from your project
- Adjust transitions in the Timeline
- Adjust transitions in the Transition inspector and Viewer
- Adjust transitions with multiple images
- Create specialized versions of transitions in Motion
- Add and adjust titles
- Adjust built-in effects
- Add and adjust clip effects
- Add generators
- Use onscreen controls
- Use the Video Animation Editor
- Chapter 11: Advanced editing
- Group clips with compound clips
- Add storylines
- Fine-tune edits with the Precision Editor
- Create split edits
- Make three-point edits
- Try out clips using auditions
- Retime clips to create speed effects
- Edit with mixed-format media
- Use roles to manage clips
- Use XML to transfer projects and Events
- Edit with multicam clips
- Multicam editing overview
- Multicam editing workflow
- Import media for a multicam edit
- Assign camera names and multicam angles
- Create multicam clips in the Event Browser
- Cut and switch angles in the Angle Viewer
- Sync and adjust angles and clips in the Angle Editor
- Edit multicam clips in the Timeline and the Inspector
- Multicam editing tips and tricks
- Chapter 12: Keying and compositing
- Chapter 13: Color correction
- Chapter 14: Share your project
- Chapter 15: Manage media files
- Chapter 16: Preferences and metadata
- Chapter 17: Keyboard shortcuts and gestures
- Chapter 18: Glossary
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Preferencesandmetadataoverview
In Final Cut Pro, you can modify preference settings to specify how your source media
is imported into the application, how your clips play back, and how you edit your clips
in the Timeline.
You can also view and change the information associated with a clip, referred to as a
clip’s metadata. Metadata includes information about a clip’s source media les as well
as information you add to a clip, such as notes. For more information, see “Display and
change metadata” on page 502.
FinalCutPropreferences
Change preference settings
A preference modies how a particular Final Cut Pro feature behaves. Most preference
settings can be turned on or o at any time. The following sections describe
Final Cut Pro preferences in detail.
Open Final Cut Pro preferences
Choose Final Cut Pro > Preferences (or press Command-Comma), and click a pane’s m
button at the top of the window to open it.
Copy Final Cut Pro preferences between computers
You can copy Final Cut Pro preference settings to another Mac that has Final Cut Pro
installed so that the settings are the same on both computers.
1 Find the preference settings le in the following location:
/Users/username/Library/Preferences/com.apple.FinalCut.plist
2 Copy the preference settings le to the same location on another Mac.
If necessary, overwrite any existing version of the le at that location.
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Preferences and metadata