From the course: Final Cut Pro X Guru: Advanced Trimming

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Moving between and playing around edit points

Moving between and playing around edit points - Final Cut Pro Tutorial

From the course: Final Cut Pro X Guru: Advanced Trimming

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Moving between and playing around edit points

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- The most important thing when editing video is to make sure we make our edit decisions when playing back in real time. In this movie, we'll explore how Final Cut Pro X makes this process simple and how we can easily navigate and use keyboard shortcuts to play around edit points. So I wanna select my 2.2 keyword collection and double click the project to open it, and this play around edit in action. So I'm gonna move to my edit point between my first and second clip, and with the default settings, I wanna hit shift ? - This chicken is amazing mazing! - Oh, now. - [Instructor] So notice what happens. It played two second before the playhead then two seconds after. Then the playhead jumped back to the edit point. In this case, what I'm gonna do is actually move forward to the next edit point. So right here in my project, I'm actually gonna hit the ' key, and the ' key is gonna move to the next edit point. Just keep in mind that the ; actually will move back a previous edit point. You…

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