From the course: Final Cut Pro X v10.0.9: Narrative Scene Editing
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Setting preferences for narrative editing - Final Cut Pro Tutorial
From the course: Final Cut Pro X v10.0.9: Narrative Scene Editing
Setting preferences for narrative editing
Now, there are a few preferences that I want to set, and I want to make sure that your preferences match mine, so if you've been working with Final Cut X, you may have modified some elements. So let's just go up to the Preferences, you'll find that under Final Cut Pro, click on Preferences, and there will be four sets that we'll look at. It's important that you have Show detailed trimming turned on because this will be very helpful when we discuss Ripple, Roll, Slip, and Slide Edits. I'd also want to make sure you have Show reference waveforms turned on. Now another change that I always make when I am cutting a narrative film is I change my Transitions from 1 second to a half a second, I feel that a full second is too long. So I'm just going to go ahead and type in .5, and we'll be in good shape. Let's step into the Playback section, and there are a couple of things that are really important in this case. I want you to turn off Background render because this will slow down the…
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