Final Cut Tips 001- Leveraging Time Code

Posted by will | Filed under Final Cut Tips, Tips

This will be the first of a series of short posts on ways to leverage Final Cut Pro in order to increase your productivity. This tips will probably not be earth shattering for you experts, but may show you a new trick for your bag. If you have a tip that you would like for me to share send me an email will

One of the things I do every Monday morning is cut 5-7 short clips from Sunday’s sermon. Which clips I cut usually comes from Nick sitting in our 9:15 service and writing down the actual time that they occur in the service. He gives me a list of the clips with the topic for each and a general time range i.e.:
“1. Definition of fasting .. when you fast not if … 9:50-9:53″

If I was just doing one clip then I can take my captured clip, open it in my viewer window and set my in point at the beginning of the service which would correspond with 9:15AM and then scroll forward 35 minutes to find the approximate start of the clip.

When you are doing multiple clips having to mentally do the math over and over takes an additional few seconds for each one. Rather than have to break your focus and creativity and do basic arithmetic for each clip:

Open the captured clip in the viewer window

  1. Open the captured clip in the viewer window
  2. Set in point to beginning of service
  3. Create a new sequence
  4. Drop the clip onto the timeline
  5. Click on the timeline, Cmd+0
  6. Click the timeline options tab and set the starting timecode to 9:15:00;00 and hit OK
  7. Now your timecode matches your real life time- no more recalculating

Permalink | March 27th, 2009

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