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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
Play back video and audio clips
m To play a project or clip from the beginning: Select the project or clip and choose
View > Playback > Play from Beginning (or press Shift-Control-I).
m To play a section of a project, selected clips, or a frame range from the beginning: Select
the project, clips, or all or part of a clip, and choose View > Playback > Play Selection,
or press the Slash (/) key.
When you select a clip or a portion of a clip or project, the selected area is marked
with a yellow border.
Yellow border
m To play a project or clip from a specic point: In the Event Browser or the Timeline, click a
point in a project or within a clip where you want to begin (or move the playhead to
the point in the Timeline), and either press the Space bar or click the Play button in
the Viewer (or press L).
The clip or project begins
playing at the skimmer
or playhead position.
m To play around the playhead or skimmer: Choose View > Playback > Play Around, or
press Shift-Question Mark (?).
Skimmer
m To stop playback: Press the Space bar.
84 Chapter 6 Play back and skim media