From the course: Effective Storytelling with Final Cut Pro X v10.0.9

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Organizing separate story segments into independent storylines

Organizing separate story segments into independent storylines - Final Cut Pro Tutorial

From the course: Effective Storytelling with Final Cut Pro X v10.0.9

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Organizing separate story segments into independent storylines

So far the techniques we've been seeing in this course could be generally applied in any editing application. But in this movie you'll see an editing technique specific to Final Cut Pro X. With this technique you can organize your separate story segments, such as coffee making, importing, and so on, into independent storylines that would give you lots of flexibility as you edit and finesse your story. In the Delicious Peace projects we've edited narration clips, as well as sound from interview clips to provide an audio track for the story. If one audio clip connects nicely to a video clip that's never going to move, then you're in good shape. But if you find yourself doing a lot of finessing with both the video and audio clips, you might end up frustrated by the connecting process. By creating additional storylines in a project and working with the Magical Gap Clip, you can create all the flexibility you need. In the Project Library let's open the Storylines project. You might…

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