Finishing a Short Video Using Markers in Final Cut Pro 5

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is CJ South representing expertvillage.com, in this clip we’re just going to finish up doing our music video and look at the final results. And then for this next shot we’ll put in this clip, it’s a bit of a long one so we’ll make it there, then we’ll stop it right there, then we’ll shuttle back to that marker, open a new clip, F10 drop it down, then shuttle back to it, put the new image. Actually this image is a long image and it’s a moving image so I think I’ll put on a shot that has a lot of space like this marker right here has some pretty good space that way it gives it time to do some moving. So for the other spot that I’m just going to grab a static, yeah this is a static drop that in there and you don’t always have to hit F10 you can drag and drop it and if you prefer it’s up to you, it just all depends. Okay so that went over my last clip so I’m just going to shorten that outpoint a bit there and then bring it in, alright and you shorten it up, okay now we need a semi long shot here so yeah let’s take this one, this one’s got a nice turn to it so let’s grab it and then turn, okay out and we’ll extend that back down, let me try that again here, bring that down here, I forgot to place it on the correct track that’s why that happen and I’m just going to go ahead and extend that clip and then we’ll just pop in one more here, we’ll take another shot of this and we’ll just drop it here, shorten it up, move it down. Alright and what that did essentially is we’re on the beats now, so everything is going to happen on these beats so let’s go back and watch we did, let me go ahead and make this canvas a bit larger for you and you’ll be able how all the cuts happen on a beat, just click the home key and hit the play button. Pretty nice huh, not too shabby especially just for a rough cut and then you can always go through and just modify these markers by click holding and you can drag right to the left of it, I say if you’re a couple of frames off just use your arrows to go left and right."