Moving & Closing Tabs in Final Cut Pro 5

Series Summary

Final Cut Pro is a great editing program for any aspiring filmmaker. It is extremely popular with broadcast stations and independent filmmakers because it’s fairly easy to use and capable of producing high-quality film, digital video and HD products. While a good working knowledge of Final Cut Pro is an essential skill for any video editor or filmmaker, you don’t have to shell out additional dollars for an instructional course. Expert Village is proud to offer this free online course to help you get familiar with the software, or just sharpen your proficiency with the program.

In this free tutorial you'll learn the basics of Final Cut Pro. This video series will focus on using the browser and viewer. Expert video editor CJ South will show you step-by-step how to customize the keyboard shortcuts, move and close tabs, navigate through the browser windows, and use the pop-up menus. Watch this free online tutorial with our others in this series and start working on your independent film today!

Video Transcript

"This is C.J. representing expertvillage.com. In this clip, I am going to show you how to close and move tabs within the Final Cut Pro windows. Welcome to Volume 3. Now if you've gone through Volumes 1 and 2 and you haven't taken a break yet, stop. Take a break. Assimilate the knowledge that's been shared with you here. If you don't, you'll forget it by the end of these training videos. Do a project, do anything, make a music video, cut some family footage together. Just utilize the tools that you've already learned. Now with that said, let's move on. Let's talk about closing and moving tabs. Everyone has tabs. Your time line, your browser, your viewer; they all have tabs out there. Let's start off with the time line. Why don't you go ahead and open up a couple of sequences. You can hit Apple N and make new ones and then they come down here in your time line as tabs. Now let's say you want to close a couple. All you have to do is just right click the tab and click close. It's as simple as that. Another cool feature now is you can actually move these tabs. Just click and hold it and drag a tab off of the window and release it. I just made a totally new window with just that sequence in it now. Just that tab. Now when you are working with sequences in a time line, what you can actually do is now that you are viewing two sequences at once, you can actually click and drag video or audio from one sequence right to the next and it just copies it over. You can just click and drag the tab right back into it or you can just close it. Same with all the other windows. Any tab you can just click, drag and make it's own window; all of them as much as you want and then you can just put them all back. "