From Still to Motion: Editing DSLR Video with Final Cut Pro X

Chapter 7. Editing Essentials

At this point you should have created events for your project, imported and organized your media with keywords and into Smart Collections, and marked clips as favorites and rejected. Everything is now organized. You have created a place for everything and everything is in its place. It’s time to start editing your project. The first task you need to do is select your first shot (this will set all of the parameters for the sequence that’s created). There is no need to overthink. Remember that with nonlinear editing you can easily replace a shot or rearrange the order of your program with a simple drag and drop. Think ...