From the course: Effective Storytelling with Final Cut Pro X v10.0.9
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Don't be puzzled over your first edit - Final Cut Pro Tutorial
From the course: Effective Storytelling with Final Cut Pro X v10.0.9
Don't be puzzled over your first edit
Have you ever tackled a jigsaw puzzle? What's the first thing you do? You dump the puzzle pieces onto a table and then turn them all up to see what they look like. Then you sort through the pieces based on color and shape. Eventually, you find a home for each piece. If you're still puzzled over how to start your story, you can use this same approach. In the Event Browser, we're looking at the clips in the Coffee Growing keyword collection. Notice that each clip has a portion of it that's been identified as a favorite. And from a previous movie, we talked about finding a particular action, and naming that a favorite. Once you've done that, you can filter to just show your Favorites. So now we're only looking at the heart and soul of each of these clips. Well, what we're going to do is use these as puzzle pieces and throw them all into a project in the Timeline. But first let's create that project. If you've been following along with the exercises in this course, you'll see our…
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