Subtitles of the Movie

Now we've opened up a project and we've saved that project and we've imported some files so that we can work with items in the project so that we can build a sequence and a finished product out of that project and what I want to point out here in this module are the different things you'll see in your browser. You'll deal with essentially four items in your browser window here which I've gone ahead and made a little bigger, you will either deal with, here's two of them right here. You'll either deal with a sequence which can easily be renamed if you want to, just give it a click and then maybe a second click and rename it, so we'll just call this sequence one or VTC 1, you know you can use ONE, notice that within a project called VTC 1 you can name a sequence VTC 1, that's ok, by default these things are alphabetized because of this little button up here, but all of these column headings can be rearranged or reorganized so that they're sorted by the duration for example or any of the other information that you have along these column headings. What this sequence has just moved below is what's known as a bin and I brought this up earlier that a bin in your browser is just a place to keep stuff. So it's a folder and that folder can consist of lots of different subfolders, that's why I kind of conceptually think of the browser itself as the bin but the browser can contain other projects with their own bin certainly. So within a project we can create multiple bins within a bin we can create multiple sub bins, now how do we do all this stuff, we go to the file menu new and then we can create a new sequence or a new bin. You can also do a control click and do a new bin or a new sequence. Now also remember your undo key, if for example I select a sequence and now I've got a hundred, a thousand edits int his sequence and I accidentally hit the delete key, oh my gosh what happened, everything just away, all my hard work is gone, well again you can do Command Z and there is the sequence and I open it back up with just a simple double click like that. So don't worry too much about moving stuff around, renaming stuff, I can't even continue to go back and name this thing sequence one again just by doing the undo. Now where is that undo by the way? Well just so you know its under the edit menu but its also governed by something you may want to tweak a little bit and suddenly you'll be back in user preferences and indeed we're right back in user preferences again. In this general tab we have 15 levels of undo, can this be changed? It can absolutely be changed and I've just done so right there, so you may want to modify the defaults there, you may want a little more comfort level being able to do your undos, we'll put a little bit of tax on system performance but not a whole lot. So I always bump that up to around 20 or 30 levels of undo just so that it's easy again to make changes to my work and then back out those changes. So that's exactly what I've done here so we know about a sequence which is a collection of your finished clips, your finished edits is going to appear in your sequence, the bin is a unit of organization within Final Cut just below that I see one of the other icons, actually there's three other types of icons you'll see, that is an audio clip and if I give it a double click it will appear in the viewer but it will appear as just a bunch of squiggly lines, a sound wave there and I'll be able to play it and preview it in the viewer, I can make in and out points on this clip of audio material and then add it to my sequence. Again we'll get to all this stuff later on, just setting the table here in these first few modules. You'll also see clips themselves, again these are just pointers where I can then and this is actually a clip of the finished product, but I can set, here's where I'll set my in and out points and then add them to the sequence by dragging them into the canvas or dragging them right into the timeline itself. So those are the four elements that you'll work with, you'll work with either audio, clips, video clips, sequences or bins. If you see something like this you can also deal with and import into your finish sequences, you can import pictures as well. So one of the elements that was in that folder that I imported was a JPG, actually a couple of JPGS and they'll look a little bit different but you can just see that little visual indictor tells you that it's not a video clip its just a picture clip and again I can easily look at what it is by giving it a double click just like that.