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Final Cut Pro X for Final Cut Pro 7 Editors

Final Cut Pro X oers a completely new trackless editing paradigm designed for speed

and exibility. Editors familiar with Final Cut Pro 7 should spend some time becoming

familiar with the new editing tools and functionality.

Final Cut Pro 7 Final Cut Pro X

Tracks Storylines and connected clips

Nested sequences Compound clips

Linked clips Video and audio are combined into a single unit

Merged clips Synchronized clips

Multiclips Multicam clips

Tracks and Secondary Storylines

• Final Cut Pro X is based on a new Timeline structure that doesn’t include xed audio

and video tracks like those in Final Cut Pro 7. The benet of the trackless Timeline is

that you can work quickly to build multiple lanes of content, without having to worry

about creating tracks, assigning destination tracks, and moving clips between tracks.

Editing is not restricted or interrupted by clip collisions, because clips automatically

move out of the way to make room for your edits.

• The primary storyline includes the main clips in your project. For example, the primary

storyline in a documentary might include on-camera interviews.

• Secondary storylines allow you to build groups of complementary material connected

to the primary storyline. In the documentary example, you might create a secondary

storyline for B-roll, cutaways, or additional audio.

Complex Projects and Compound Clips

• For complex projects, Final Cut Pro 7 lets you build a large stack of tracks for various

elements. You can build similarly complex projects in Final Cut Pro X and manage

them using compound clips, which are like nested sequences in Final Cut Pro 7

but much more powerful. It’s easy to select a range of clips, collapse them into a

compound clip, and then move the compound clip or add eects to it just as you

would with any other clip. When you make a compound clip in the Timeline, a parent

version is automatically created in the Browser—creating a reusable collection of clips

just like a nested sequence in Final Cut Pro 7.

• Unlike nested sequences in Final Cut Pro 7, compound clips in Final Cut Pro X display

audio waveforms, and you can break them apart.

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