From the course: Final Cut Pro X Guru: Keyboard Shortcuts

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Enabling and disabling clips

Enabling and disabling clips - Final Cut Pro Tutorial

From the course: Final Cut Pro X Guru: Keyboard Shortcuts

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Enabling and disabling clips

- The ability to turn on and off individual clips in our timeline can help us with our workflow. It can also allow us to make clips visible underneath connected clips so that we can see and manipulate them separately. So, I'm in my 5.11 keyword collection here with my project double-clicked and ready to go. I just want to show you how we can enable and disable a clip. So, to set this up, I'm actually going to make a copy of this clip here. It's the fifth one in your timeline. To do that, I'll option click it to make copy, I'll continue to hold down the option key and then place it over the fourth clip in the timeline. So, I'll release my mouse before releasing the option key to make sure I made that copy, and that it's as a connected clip over this fourth clip. Now, I'll just trim this back a bit, so I'm just going to take this clip and place my mouse over the out point, and drag this in, snapping it into place. And that snapping is available again because of our last lesson where we…

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