Apple Final Cut Pro 7 User Manual download pdf (Page 95)

Marking Controls in the Viewer

Marking controls let you set In and Out points, add markers and keyframes, and navigate

to matching frames in master or affiliate clips. (This is called performing a match frame.)

There are keyboard shortcuts for each control.

Mark Out

Add Motion Keyframe

Show Match Frame

Add Marker

Mark In

Mark Clip

• Show Match Frame (F): When you click this button, Final Cut Pro searches the current

sequence for the same frame shown in the Viewer. Specifically, Final Cut Pro looks for

any sequence clips that are affiliated with the clip in the Viewer. If the frame shown in

the Viewer is used in the current sequence, the Canvas/Timeline playhead is positioned

to that frame. The result is that you see the same frame in both the Viewer and the

Canvas, but the clip you see in the Canvas is actually an affiliate of the clip in the Viewer.

This is useful if you want to see where you have already used a particular frame in your

sequence.

Each time you click the Show Match Frame button, Final Cut Pro navigates to the next

occurrence of that frame in the sequence. To make sure you find the first occurrence

of the frame, you can move the Canvas/Timeline playhead to the start of the sequence.

For a more comprehensive discussion of the Match Frame controls, see “Matching

Frames and Playhead Synchronization.”

• Mark Clip (X): Click to set In and Out points at the boundaries of the clip.

• Add Motion Keyframe (Control-K): Click to add a keyframe to the current clip at the

position of the playhead for clip parameters such as Scale, Rotate, Crop, Distort, and

so on. By default, this button sets keyframes for all clip motion parameters at once. To

add keyframes for individual parameters, Control-click this button and choose a

parameter from the shortcut menu. For more information, see “Adjusting Parameters

for Keyframed Effects.”

• Add Marker (M): Click to add a marker at the current playhead position. While editing,

you can use markers to make notes about important points in your sequence, such as

areas to change, potential edit points, or sync points. For more information, see “Using

Markers.”

Important: If a clip is selected in the Timeline, and the playhead touches that clip, a

marker is added to the sequence clip, not the sequence.

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