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Now I'd like to continue our look around with a quick discussion of manipulating the user interface and the way we'll do that is depending on the window that's active I'll get in the lower right hand corner the ability to make that window bigger and certainly you're going to do that. A lot of times when working with the viewer as you can see and I can just slide and move it out of the way or I can do it with a canvas or I can do it with a timeline. So there'll be appropriate situations where I really want to focus on the timeline to fine tune a cut or edit or maybe multiple tracks as you can see here and I want to make that timeline bigger or I really just want to focus on the organization of items that are in my browser or I want to see more information about the items that are on my browser. As you can see here there's lots of columns and information about a given clip or sequence that you might have in your browser. So all of these could be manipulated just using standard type of operating system interface types of navigational tips. So if you used the OSX operating system before you're probably not going to have any problem with the concept of opening windows, closing windows, minimizing windows, resuming windows using the three buttons that are in the upper corner of each of these windows. Also as you use the menus and I'll show you a lot of menu techniques for making your edits as we go through out this tutorial but also you probably wouldn't want to take note of many of these keyboard shortcuts and in fact if you have shopped around you may have already noticed that sometimes there you can get special keyboards or even keyboard overlays that have a lot of these keyboard shortcuts. As you get more comfortable editing with this tool you're going to keep your hands by the keyboard as much as possible, in fact not only will you not go to menus to do your manipulations of your projects but you'll probably not use the mouse that much either. When you're dealing with, I mentioned earlier the tools that are on the right hand side or the tool palette; I notice here that I can toggle between the different tools using just simple keyboard shortcuts like G for the selection tool and P for the pen tool. So if I do a P notice that this was selected and if I were to manipulate something in my sequence here you'd see the cursor actually change and we'll of course see that. Here is once again the razor blade tool or the blade tool, I can just do a B and then start to make precise cuts in my project. So, probably the first one you'll commit memory is the selection tool A and that will probably be the tool you use most often and then other ones you'll quickly commit to memory will be like the mark in and mark out just the I and the O in order to set an in point and an out point typically in something that you are getting ready to add to your sequence. Now what I'm looking for here is my viewer because that's again as you view something you can then set an in point and an out point with just that keyboard shortcut. In fact I'll do one right here, I'll set the play head there with a click of the mouse and I'll do an I and now I've just changed my in point. That's how quick you can make your edits and decisions with Final Cut Pro. Now the tip that I want to leave you off with here is the ability to change this back to square one very quickly so you don't need to worry about oh, did I close this, did I minimize this, where is the window that I'm looking for and so on and so on. All I have to do is remember the window menu and I can arrange and I can arrange things back up to the standard view by clicking this menu option right here. So go again to window, arrange and standard and of course notice that I've got a keyboard shortcut for that as well which I'll go ahead and deploy. Now what does that little pie or the up arrow mean right there? I think its called an Up Chevron to be quite technical about it, but what does that little up view mean? Well it means the control key U shortcut. So let me try that here, Control U and bingo I'm back to square one, I'm back up to a standard Final Cut Pro user interface. So that'll give you a lot of help and a lot of confidence when using this application, just being able to put things right where you want them, manipulate them, the view so that it best serves your particular task and then go back to square one with Control and U.