Intro to shortcuts and gestures in Final Cut Pro

Final Cut Pro provides several ways to increase your efficiency while you put together your project:

Standard keyboard shortcuts: Many common tasks, such as opening a specific window or adding a clip from the browser to the timeline, can be accomplished very quickly by pressing one or more keys. See Keyboard shortcuts in Final Cut Pro.
Multi-Touch gestures: If you have a Multi-Touch trackpad or mouse, you can take advantage of Multi-Touch gestures to quickly perform many tasks while creating your project. See Multi-Touch trackpad gestures in Final Cut Pro.
Touch Bar: If your MacBook Pro has a Touch Bar, you can use familiar gestures like swipe and tap to quickly perform tasks such as scrubbing the timeline, applying an audio fade, selecting tools, or editing text. The contents of the Touch Bar are dynamic—the controls change depending on your current selection within Final Cut Pro and other apps. Related buttons and sliders appear together in groups in the bar. See Touch Bar shortcuts in Final Cut Pro.
Custom keyboard shortcuts: You can add to the standard keyboard shortcuts by creating your own custom keyboard shortcuts for features that you use frequently, such as Color Board controls. Or if you’re more familiar with keyboard shortcuts from another app, you can use the Command Editor to substitute those keyboard shortcuts in place of the default set in Final Cut Pro. See View keyboard shortcuts in Final Cut Pro.

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