Final Cut Pro X User Guide
- Welcome
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- What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.4.9
- What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.4.7
- What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.4.6
- What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.4.4
- What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.4.1
- What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.4
- What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.3
- What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.2
- What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.1.2
- What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.1
- What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.0.6
- What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.0.3
- What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.0.1
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- Intro to effects
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- Intro to transitions
- How transitions are created
- Add transitions
- Set the default transition
- Delete transitions
- Adjust transitions in the timeline
- Adjust transitions in the inspector and viewer
- Merge jump cuts with the Flow transition
- Adjust transitions with multiple images
- Modify transitions in Motion
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- Add storylines
- Use the precision editor
- Conform frame sizes and rates
- Use XML to transfer projects
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- Intro to media management
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- View a clip’s information
- Override a clip’s metadata
- Locate source media files
- Relink clips to media files
- Consolidate projects and libraries
- Back up projects and libraries
- Create optimized and proxy files
- Create a proxy-only project
- Manage render files
- View background tasks
- Convert incompatible media
- Create camera archives
- Glossary
- Copyright
Open and close projects in Final Cut Pro
Open a project
In the Libraries sidebar in Final Cut Pro, select the event containing the project you want to open.
Locate the project you want to open and double-click it.
Note: You may have to scroll up to the top of the event to see the project.
The project appears in the timeline.
Close a project
In Final Cut Pro, do one of the following:
Choose File > Close [project].
Click the down arrow at the top of the timeline, then choose Close [project].
Close all projects in the timeline history
During the course of an editing session, you might open multiple projects and switch between them using the arrow buttons at the top of the timeline. Or you might navigate compound clip levels using the arrow buttons. You can close all projects in the timeline history other than the currently visible one.
In Final Cut Pro, do one of the following:
Choose File > Close Other Timelines.
Click the down arrow at the top of the timeline, then choose Close Other Timelines.