Lesson 3. Customizing Your Project

Goals Select editing presets   Change audio/video settings   Select user preferences   Select sequence settings   View item properties   Change and save window layouts   Dynamically resize the interface   Customize the keyboard and button bars   Customize bin views   Perform storyboard editing

Now that you’ve tackled some Final Cut Pro editing basics, let’s take a look at where and how you adjust your settings. While Avid attaches settings to Projects, Users, and Site (systems), FCP settings control Sequence Settings, User Preferences, and System Settings. The User Preferences and System Settings categories are similar in nature. But one of the primary differences between Avid and Final Cut Pro is that where Avid attaches certain media settings to individual projects, FCP attaches those settings to each individual sequence. This allows FCP to work with various sequences with different settings within the same project. Let’s say you have a project that was shot on high definition, but you have edited sequences using DVCAM, Digibeta, and HD. In FCP, all these sequences, with their different settings, can be contained in one project.