Undo & Command+S Features in Final Cut Pro 5

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is C.J. South representing expertvillage.com. In this clip I am going to explain the importance of 99 levels of undo and how to utilize command S when saving. Before we do more editing, I want to cover two very important topics; saving and undo. What is undo? You should be pretty familiar with it. Most programs have it but it is basically just a command which is up here under edit. It says undo and its counter part redo. That basically lets you undo a step you just did. So let's say I just made this clip larger and I'm like I like that. Instead of trying to resize it back to the exact spot I had it, I just hit Apple Z and it will undo what I just did. Now you can set up in your preferences what the different levels of undo are. The default is 10; the maximum is 99. I urge you to very strongly to put it to 99. You can lose so much time if you have to re-create stuff that could have just easily been undone. Now when would you want to use it. Let me see. Let's say for example a Ninja monkey hijacked your computer and goes crazy. Ninja monkey bananas all over your project with the cut tool. Like so, just cutting away like crazy. Not caring what he does. Okay, so he just f'd up your project because monkey ninjas do that. How do you get rid of that? Well, if you have undo set at the level 99, you can undo up to 99 or those cuts but if I am only a 10, I am screwed and I have to redo a lot of this work. I an go ahead and just Apple Z, Apple Z, Apple Z and just undo all this like crazy until I'm back to where I started. Later ninja monkey. I don't think so. Now saving is super important as well because saving if you are working on your project, let me tell you something editing programs tend to crash when you don't want them to. Believe me you can loose so much work if they crash and they haven't been saved. By using the Apple S command you can save without having to go to file and click and take up that time. You would just be working, working, Apple S. Do some more work, work, work, Apple S and just save it because I've gone 2 hours without saving and then it crashes. Just before you are going to save it. It crashes and you lose 2 hours worth of work. Believe me after doing it the first time, you will never do it again. So by getting used to hitting Apple S constantly, your brain will start doing it all the time. So then you will just be going along and you will hit Apple S without even knowing it and your stuff will be saved and set. "