FREE Final Cut Pro Keyboard Shortcut Bible (PDF)
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The Final Cut Pro Shortcut Bible
Every default keyboard shortcut, in one clean, dark reference you can keep open on a second screen, print, or pin above your desk. Yours free.
What's inside
Great editing is about flow: staying in the cut and off the mouse. This booklet gathers Final Cut Pro's default keyboard shortcuts and groups them by what you're actually doing, with every combination set in real keyboard symbols so it maps straight to your keys. Learn a handful at a time and watch your edits speed up.
- 01 General & Application
- 02 Organizing & Markers
- 03 Playback & Navigation
- 04 Marking & Selecting
- 05 Editing
- 06 Trimming
- 07 Timeline & Storylines
- 08 Multicam
- 09 Retiming
- 10 Effects & Transitions
- 11 Color & Scopes
- 12 Audio
- 13 Titles & Generators
- 14 Share, Render & Windows
- 15 Tools
Set in real keyboard symbols
Every shortcut is shown exactly as it looks on your keyboard, so there's no guessing which modifier is which.
The details
Based on Final Cut Pro's default command set. If you've customised your own command set, your keys may differ, so check Final Cut Pro āŗ Commands.
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