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The Default Selection vs. the Position tool

The Default Selection vs. the Position tool - Final Cut Pro Tutorial

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The Default Selection vs. the Position tool

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- Final Cut Pro X's default selection tool is radically different than the default tool in Final Cut Pro 7. However, if you're looking to move clips in a way that is similar to Final Cut Pro 7, we can actually access the position tool. Let's see how both of these tools work and grab a strong understanding of each them. So I'm going to select my 2.3 keyword collection and double-click the project to open it. A handy key that I like to use sometimes to spread out the length of the project to the timeline is Shift + Z. It just fits the contents in there. Another handy tool sometimes, if I want to shorten the size of these clips, just to keep in mind that under here if you click on this little film badge, I can minimize the height of my clips just so I can see more inside of my timeline view at the time. I can also change how much audio waveforms I see on my clips if I need to have that. So the default selection tool versus the position tool, one thing when people moved over from Final…

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