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I'd like to take a moment here and pass along a quick little tip that will save you a lot of time in adjusting the Final Cut Pro interface and you can save your Final Cut layouts, your window layouts to best suit a task that you have that you are working on. So let's say for example that my task that I have right now is that I'm marking clips, I'm marking in and out points for use in my final sequence. So really I'm just focusing on the clips that are in the browser and I'm marking these points and so obviously the viewer window is going to become the most prominent window in this particular task. So I've made this viewer window a lot bigger then the standard which I can get to remember by Control and U. But let's say I want to come back and use this, I'd go away for the weekend or I shut the program down or whatever and I want to come back and next time I work on the task of marking clips, I want to use this layout and I don't want to have to drag stuff around and rearrange the columns here and make this bigger and so on. Well all I have to do is go to the window menu and use arrange and then use one of these custom layouts. Now you can even create your own custom layouts by clicking on this button right here, save window layout and of course I've already saved one here which it will create a shortcut menu or a shortcuts item for you on the keyboard. So this would be Control. Shift and 6 to get to this custom window layout that I've already saved. But if I click save here it will save it so just give it a name and you can come back to it later one anytime you want to. Now you may notice here that if I try to use one of these custom layouts that I don't get the ability to use those right now, well that's because I haven't saved one, well how do I save one? All I have to remember here is holding down the option key, sp let's do this again. Hold down the option key, click on window, arrange and now you set you're custom layout which you can then get to with Shift and U. So let's do that, let's go back to a standard layout and just Control U very quickly and now let's navigate back to that custom layout with Shift key and there indeed is the viewer exactly as I resized it and exactly as I saved it with that command. So again Option as I use the menu item to set one of my custom layouts, again Option, Window and then set one of my custom layouts.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Apple Final Cut Pro 6 |
| Author: | Brian Culp |
| SKU: | 33865 |
| ISBN: | 1-934743-62-3 |
| Release Date: | 2008-03-31 |
| Duration: | 8 hrs / 103 lessons |
| Captions: | For Online University members only |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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