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Role-based forward and back clip selection

Role-based forward and back clip selection - Final Cut Pro Tutorial

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Role-based forward and back clip selection

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- Roles are a great way to isolate different types of video and audio in the Final Cut timeline. In Final Cut Pro 10.4, there are some shortcuts to move forward and back between clips in a selected role. Let's see how this is done. To start off with our new features list, we're going to start off a little bit small, but in my mind, something that makes a really big impact, especially when it comes to making really quick selections in your timeline, and that refers to role-based clip selections. So, roles got added a while ago in Final Cut Pro, and everything inside of Final Cut automatically gets a role assigned to it. To see these roles, you can head to your timeline index by clicking on the index button, and you can see I'm here in the roles tab. Now, all the titles in my current timeline, I'm just going to actually press shift + Z, to fit everything to the space, is assigned a role, so I've got a role here titles, that was the default role for any titles that are in your project, a…

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