From the course: Final Cut Pro X Guru: Keyboard Shortcuts

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Toolbar shortcuts

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Toolbar shortcuts

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- Your toolbar helps you work on the timeline. This can be a view function, such as zooming in to perform precise tasks, or an editing function, where you cut and and even trim multiple clips simultaneously. Let's take a look at how we can activate each tool after we learn a bit about each. So, your toolbar, we're right now in our 5.9 keyword collection, and we've double-clicked our projects, it's located right here. We're currently on the default Selection tool, and as I hover over it, you can see that "a" is the shortcut in order to select it. You'll be doing a lot with the Selection tool. As you can see, I can select a clip and I can reposition it in my timeline with that tool, as well as trim back on a clip. This will perform ripple trims into your timeline. Just to give you an idea, I might click on this clip, and trim a couple frames back on the out point. In this case, I'm doing 1 second and 7 frames on the out point of that clip. If I release my mouse, you can see that that…

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