When you drop a Cross Dissolve transition onto a clip in Final Cut Pro it applies the transition to both video and audio. That’s great – typically that’s what you want – but sometimes you don’t want that. Contrary to what you might read online or what the dumb robots might tell you (because they… Read more
This is basically a short written set of instructions derived from Cody Wanner‘s YouTube video on the topic, refined a little for simplicity and updated for the newer GUI in more recent versions of Final Cut Pro. So feel free to view that video if you prefer that medium. I just find I need to… Read more
Apple does provide these instructions, although they were annoyingly hard to find (in no small part because the page title is only incidentally related to the task). In short: My projects are already covered by Time Machine and other backup mechanisms, and I tried to tolerate Final Cut Pros built-in backup system, but the damn… Read more
By default, Final Cut Pro prefers to “copy” all files on import. Indeed you’d think this is the only sensible option most of the time, since most of the time you’re importing from a memory card and you do need to make a local copy somewhere on your computer. However, Final Cut Pro has a… Read more