From the course: Final Cut Pro X v10.1.x: Narrative Scene Editing
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Evaluating shots and performances - Final Cut Pro Tutorial
From the course: Final Cut Pro X v10.1.x: Narrative Scene Editing
Evaluating shots and performances
- Once you've inputted all of your media, the next step is to evaluate the shots and the performances of your actors. There's several ways to do this, and I like to do this as efficiently as possible. Now of course you could simply skim through each of the scenes and step down and go through them one at a time just to get a feel for all of these takes, but one thing I like to do is be able to just very quickly look at them all at once. Now, I could stretch this out and make it a little bit longer or switch to the film strip view, but I actually find the film strip view gets very cluttered and it's really hard to see what's going on. So I like to keep it in the list view, and this is what I do. I select all of the clips, command A, and I simply bring them down to my timeline, and I can do that by hitting the e key. So now all of my footage for this one scene is in my timeline. I'm going to hit shift + z so you can see the entire timeline at once. So there's all my footage, and I can…
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