Beth Cataldo, January 24, 2006

The Final Cut Pro Toolbar

 

Selection Tools

Selection: Selects individual items.

Edit Selection: Selects just the edit points inside your selection.

Group Selection: Selects whole clips or groups of whole clips.

Range Selection: Selects the area inside the selection marquee you draw. Select partial clips with this tool.

 

Select Track Forward: Selects all of the contents of the track after the selection point

Select Track Backward: Selects all of the contents of the tack before the selection point.

Track Selection: Selects the entire contents of a single track.

Select all tracks forward: Selects the contents of all tracks after the selection point.

Select All Tracks Backward: Selects the contents of all tracks before the selection point.

 

EDIT TOOLS

Roll: Roll Edit points

Ripple: Ripples edit points.

Slip: Slips a clip's In and Out points

Slide: Slides a clip in a sequence.

Razor Blade: Cuts a single clip into two sections

Razor Blade all: Cut clips on all tracks at the selection point into two sections.

 

VIEW TOOLS

Zoom In

Zoom Out

Hand: Moves the Timeline or image view from side to side.

Video Scrub Hand: Scrubs the thumbnail image displayed on Timeline Clips.

 

IMAGE MODIFIERS

Crop: Crops the edges of an image in the Viewer or Canvas

Distort: Distorts a selection by click-dragging corner points.

 

KEYFRAME TOOLS

Pen: Adds a keyframe

Pen Delete: Deletes a keyframe

Pen Smooth: Smooths a curve by adding Bezier handles to the selected keyframe.

 

Further reading: Final Cut Pro 5 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickPro Guide