I'm starting to get the hang of Final Cut. It's fairly easy to get your hang of if you've edited before.

There are some very intuitive things I've come across. You know, you just "guess" at what will work and it does. One I just found... I clipped a segment of video. I wanted to drag it down a layer on the timeline, but I didn't want to change its positoin in time. Hmm... what if I hold SHIFT down when I drag? You know, it worked... it locked the clip in time and allowed me to drag and drop to another layer. Why is this important to you, AV Club reader? Simple. Because in Photoshop, if you hold SHIFT while dragging an object, it locks it to either the X or Y axis. The same thing for Power Point. STANDARDIZATION. And Apple's done a great job of it. Way to go, Mr. Jobs.

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AVed at 8/11/2005 11:49:00 AM | LINK |