In & Out Points for Final Cut Pro 5

Series Summary

A working knowledge of Final Cut Pro is essential to any aspiring filmmaker. As the most widely used software program in video and film editing, Apple computer's Final Cut Pro can give a professional appearance to any film project from basic digital video to HD material. Because it's relatively affordable and easy to use, Final Cut Pro has become extremely popular with broadcast stations and independent filmmakers. It offers a wealth of effects and functions, like dissolve, iris, distortion, and ripple, rolling, slipping, sliding and other editing functions, as well as color correction filters and audio filters.

In this free Final Cut Pro tutorial you'll learn the basics of Final Cut Pro. This video series will focus on creating timelines with the software and offer tips on customizing your timeline. Expert video editor CJ South will show you step-by-step how to begin and navigate your timeline as well as how to zoom inside the timeline, and navigate gaps. You will learn about audio controls, source and destination controls, visibility and lock controls, and how to set and delet markers in a clip. Watch this free online tutorial with our others in this series and start working on your independent film today!

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is CJ South representing expertvillage.com, in this clip we’re going to talk about placing your in and out points in a timeline. Welcome to volume four in the series we’re going to talk mainly about the timeline, we’re going to set settings and preferences in the timeline as well I’m going to show you how to navigate through it. So let’s start with in and out points, the end and out points work the same as they did in the view except for they’re positioned differently and instead of selecting inside of a clip you’re now selecting through your entire sequence so you’ll be selecting multiple clips most of the time. So just in the sequence here in the timeline just put your play head anywhere you want to, just hit the I key, make an end point if you notice it came out on top now and then play it somewhere else and now put O for out key now you have an out point. Now you can click and drag the in and outs if you prefer just by clicking on them and then moving them, if you notice your play head follows it that way you can see where it is you’re going to drop it. Now let’s say you want to get rid of them which you will want to do eventually, just go up to mark and then go down to clear in and out or you can just hit option X. So now I want to tell you about a nice little tool, a nice little trick here that’s great for selecting single clips, it’s the X key okay you put your cursor over a clip, you hit the X key and what happens is an end and out point gets set to the beginning and the end of that specific clip, so it’s a really nice tool when you want to get specific on a clip."