From the course: Migrating from Final Cut Pro 7 to Final Cut Pro X
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What is a role and why should you care? - Final Cut Pro Tutorial
From the course: Migrating from Final Cut Pro 7 to Final Cut Pro X
What is a role and why should you care?
- [Instructor] We have the ability to look at these thumbnails in Final Cut or we can see it as a list with some metadata. I want to show you how I think of both. Something unique to Final Cut 10 is called roles. Roles are the idea that a clip like this interview clip, these two items here entirely, well they're dialog elements. I'm going to go up here and choose Modify, and I can assign an audio role, it's already pre-assigned dialogue, and video roles, this has already beem assigned video. We can edit these roles and add other roles for footage and where this becomes really powerful is when we deal with audio. I'm going to hit cancel here. So I could, for example, go to all my machine items. Let's hide my inspector. Let's pull this way over, pull this way over. I'm going to select all the elements here under Machines, and I'm going to go up to Modify, and I'd like to assign them a different audio role. I'd like Final Cut to think of them as Effects. When I drag these to a timeline…
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Where are my sequences? Where are my bins?3m 29s
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How keywords are different and more powerful than bins10m 58s
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Where are my subclips?2m 21s
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Adjusting metadata for clips with the Inspector3m 45s
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Adding a LUT and what to do if you need more than FCP X has built in1m 10s
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What happened to the viewer and how to best play clips?3m 31s
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How to sync dual audio such as DSLR footage1m 49s
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What is a role and why should you care?2m 47s
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An editor's opinion: When to use thumbnails vs. lists1m 38s
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