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Now we have a good understanding of the Final Cut Pro user interface, so it's time now to start building our sequence, start to put our project together. So what do we need to start our project? Well we need some footage, how are we going to get that footage, how are we going to start to put stuff into the browser? Well for this project we can either do a file and log and capture and if we chose this we would then connect our Final Cut Pro would look once again for our external device that it asks for at start up time and it will try to import or through this log and capture window we can import footage from our camera and then start to edit it with Final Cut Pro. Now we don't even need that, we can have someone else do all the steps for us and that's in fact what's happened here. Over the course of the weekend, a little while ago I had some friends and colleagues in town, they went out and did a 48 hour film competition, there's probably one in your neighborhood and we went out and shot this thing called The Hard Way and its just this goofy little movie that we had to incorporate movies lines or at least one movie line and so we made the whole thing practically out of movie lines. So again it's just this kind of goofy little short film that we slapped together in 48 hours and we all had a laugh so that's what I'm going to use rather then connecting to an external device. I'll show you how to do that later don't get me wrong because that's a vital part of this process, but for now I don't even have to have footage on a camera. I can use someone else's footage to get up and running with this application. Now there's a couple different ways I can do this. I can go to the file menu and then import any particular files or an entire folder's worth of files or I can do what's known as a Control Click or Right Click if you've got a two button mouse but if I hold down the Control key on the keyboard and just click in the browser window with my project tab selected here of untitled project. I do a control click, I'll import and I'll import an entire folder. So now I go out to my finder window like this and I've got on the simple drive a folder called hard way, so I'll choose this entire folder, it will bring in some files, if it doesn't recognize some files, that's ok, if we've got some files that Final Cut Pro doesn't work with, that's entirely possible if I'm bringing in an entire folder. But again, no big deal if we can't recognize them, then Final Cut Pro just doesn't use them. So now I've got in the browser, I'll expand this out so we can focus on it, I've got a folder, and this is actually known as a bin, But I've got a folder worth of stuff, captured files that I can then mark and put into my finished sequence and that's of course what we'll do throughout the course of this entire tutorial. Now I mentioned before that Final Cut Pro is a non-destructive editor. So what does that mean? Well it means that even though I see a bunch of stuff here, that stuff really doesn't exist, these are just pointers to the actual items themselves. So what I mean by that is, can I select this and hit the delete key? Whoa, what happened to my project, what happened to my files? No big deal. All I have to do is do a command Z and boom the bin pops right back up, um, or if I delete it, file import folder, and again notice that that folder itself didn't go anywhere. It's still lives on the hard drive or in this case my external drive and I can still go grab it anytime I want to by importing it using the steps that I've shown you here. So choose, it's going to import them again. Fine we'll make that go away and now once again I have the raw material necessary to start building my project.