From the course: Final Cut Pro Essential Training

Touring the interface and import - Final Cut Pro Tutorial

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Touring the interface and import

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- Okay, this chapter is all about getting up and running quickly with Final Cut Pro, and you'll want to have downloaded the exercise files which is in the first part of this course. And right now let's actually launch Final Cut. So this is going to be on your doc or in your Applications folder. If you want to make sure that final cut looks relatively similar to how mine looks, before you click on the icon on your doc, just hold down command and option, followed by clicking the app. What this will do is delete the preferences if you've ever used Final Cut before this class, and make sure that we are all on the same page. Now that Final Cut has been launched, let's just do a quick tour of the interface. On the left hand side, we have the Browser sidebar. This is where we're going to import our media. In the middle is our Viewer. This is where we can actually view our clips, whether it be in the browser or the timeline. To the right is the Inspector, showing us properties of clips and assets and Final cut. And down here is where we create a project, and then see a visual indication for the story that we're about to put together. Speaking of which, here is what we're going to assemble in this chapter. (music playing) - Well, the family is growing up here on the shores of this bay for a lot of generations now. It's the first thing I always looked at every morning, but that bay has been the one truly consistent thing, but yet it's always consistently there. Tide, wind, season. You look out at it and this it's never the same place, it's always ready to cure your spirit, and to look after your needs. Pretty, pretty special place. (music playing) - Now that that's covered, I would like you to navigate to wherever you've saved your files. I happen to have mine on the desktop. You can see here that I have these Exercise Files Training folder, and I'd like you to head into the Assets folder where there's a Quick Start folder. Inside of it there are several sub folders of the various clips that we're going to use. So first of all, let's actually drag and drop this into the blank library that's available to us in Final Cut. And we do that by selecting the Quick Start folder, and dragging it into this little star icon, the Event, where we see the plus icon, and once you do release the mouse. I want to close down the actual Quick Start window. And inside our library, we can see that we have an event, and this contains now several keyword collections which took over our folders. If you click on the Interview event, it's like hopping inside a folder on your finder where you can see any clips that are inside of it. Same thing is true if I click on Timelapse. And if you ever need to see all of the clips that exist inside of this event or library, simply click on it, and we can see there's 16 items in total. Before moving on, let's actually give our library a name, which we can do so by simply single clicking in the Untitled field and let's call this Trailer. I'll press return to close that out. And now it's time to move on to the next movie where we're going to create a new project to hold some of our interview clips.

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