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Working with placeholders

Working with placeholders - Final Cut Pro Tutorial

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Working with placeholders

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- [Instructor] So this movie is all about placeholders, and what we're going to do is add one to our timeline. So let me paint you a scenario. The scenario is that you're working on a project, and you're waiting for an asset. This asset for our example happens to be four seconds long, and we know some information about it. We know that it's a shot of the aerialist, very similar to some of the shots that you see here, and it's just being treated with some motion graphics. So it involves one person on a sunny day. And it's going to be the third clip in our timeline, again, four seconds long. So in your Chapter 1.9 project, which is going to be in your Chapter 1 folder under the Projects, Events. I'm just going to move my playhead in between the second and third clip in the timeline. And one way that we can add a placeholder is to go to the Edit menu, and you'll see that there's an option to insert a generator placeholder. And the placeholder is then applied to the project. So the…

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