From the course: Final Cut Pro X v10.1.x: Narrative Scene Editing
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Polishing - Final Cut Pro Tutorial
From the course: Final Cut Pro X v10.1.x: Narrative Scene Editing
Polishing
- I finished cutting in most of my B roll and I'm ready to start polishing the scene. So let's step into 05-04 Polishing and take a look at some of the things that I can do. The first thing I may want to do is tweak some of the edit points. I got close, but now I really want to refine my timing. So I'm gonna go ahead and listen and I think at around, if I recall at around 37, 38 seconds in I had a bad edit. Let me go ahead and watch this. - Before or after the hour. - Oh, I see. - Oh, I'm also supposed to tell you-- - Yeah, I should cut to him a little bit earlier and I could do a simple roll edit, but I wanna show you another very useful technique. I can go ahead and select the edit point. And by default, because this is still a MultiCam clip, I don't have to change it to a roll edit. It's always gonna be a roll edit. And then I position my playhead where I want the cut to be. So I could do this by playing it, by dragging it, and then simply press shift X as in x-ray and I do what's…
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