10 Quick FCP Tips You'll Wish You Knew Sooner

[@Brad_West]

How many of these were new to you? 🤔

[@chicodeme]

I actually can't believe I learned 8 new tips here. You get so use to learning maybe 1 tip and it's hard to hear the same tips over and over but these were unique and useful! You da best!

[@Brad_West]

8!! That’s awesome 😄🙌🏼 I’m so glad that so many where new to you 🤘🏼

[@IdeationEmporiumOfCreativity]

7- That is why I am anticipating that master's class on your website potentially being this year

[@Brad_West]

That’s awesome! I’m glad you found it helpful! Anything specific you would want to see in a masterclass? 😄

[@IdeationEmporiumOfCreativity]

@@Brad_West that might be paramount to asking a 7-year old what they want from the sweet shop-- I will say three here and drop you an email. 1. An indepth look at the tools/plug-ins you use, why you use them, and what conditions make you pick one over another. 2. The steps of creating a really eye-catching, 15 second, template for say sports with lots of movement and transitions. 3. A step-by-step walk through of a big project showing the steps you take along with the why.

[@plasticboi2]

The CHECKERBOARD changed my life! Now I set my project to fill the screen, and don’t worry about 114% because I scale out to the checkerboard. THANK YOU 🙏🏾

[@Brad_West]

You’re welcome! I’m so glad that tip was so helpful to you 😄🤙🏼

[@juys1234]

I was just here to say same about the checkerboard. Thank you for the great tips! Actually useful!

[@Brad_West]

@johna607 glad you found the tips helpful John 😄🤘🏼

[@pal2tech]

That compound clip color match tip is GOLD! 👍

[@Brad_West]

Glad you found it helpful! Thanks so much for watching Chris 😄🙏🏼

[@keskincandas]

Amazing tips! Expending multiple clips at the same time along with titles and referencing new parent clip for compound clips really made my day 🥃

[@Brad_West]

Thanks so much! Super cool that you learned something new. Cheers! 😄👊🏼

[@travel_paradise]

I always learn and forget 🙂Later on play video again and refer like a book (KZbin Library). Great Tips, Thank you Brad

[@Brad_West]

I'm glad you find my videos helpful! It's great that you're able to go back and reference them 😄🙏🏼

[@travisreed5965]

Holy Smokes - Every Single One Of These Tips Were Completely New To Me - Numbers 2-5 Blew My Little Pea Brain - And The Whole Saving Processes Totally Rocks - Cant Thank You Enough For Building This Tutorial For Us Happy 2024 To You & The Family , Cheers

[@Brad_West]

Appreciate the kind words Travis and I'm glad you learned some new tricks! 😄🙌🏼 All the best to you in 2024 as well 👊🏼

[@SPNCEmusic]

Some of these are NUTS. I never knew you could drag the color swatches. This is awesome!!

[@Brad_West]

Glad you found the tips helpful! That color swatch tip is so simple but so satisfying 😂

[@meiem]

Wow, I didn't know there's an Checkerboard option!!! Changing the background option right now. Thanks for the information Brad!

[@Brad_West]

No problem! Yeah that option can be really useful! 😄🙌🏼

[@geamasemedia3546]

By far one of the best FCCs videos I’ve seen!! I needed ALL this!! Great info!

[@Brad_West]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@svikramajit]

Tip no. 2 was my favourite. Thanks for it! And 6,7,8 were very useful as well.

[@Brad_West]

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching 😄🙌🏼

[@TheFinalCutBro]

Absolutely crushed this video dude!

[@Brad_West]

Appreciate you checking it out bro! I bet you knew them all already though 😄👊🏼

[@RafaelLudwig]

All bangers Brad! Nicely done! My favourite was Tip5 the color swatches!

[@Brad_West]

Thanks for watching @RafaelLudwig! 😄💪🏼 Yeah that color swatch tip is so simple but saves so much time 🙌🏼

[@Romafedorov]

Awesome tips Brad! The tip with the Range tool is going to save me so much time!

[@Brad_West]

So glad to hear the Roma! I use that one all the time 😄👌🏼

[@sam_tropez]

Love this Videos. Makes me just better in my perfomance. Mister Brad West, please we need more Videos like this!!!!!😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@Brad_West]

Thanks so much for the feedback! I’ll definitely be doing more of these kinds of videos 😄🤙🏼

[@SantiYounger]

Great video, I'll share this with a friend who literally just asked me for some quick tips for being faster at editing in Final. Thanks Brad!

[@Brad_West]

Glad you enjoyed it Santi! Appreciate you sharing it as well 😄🙏🏼

[@teamvigod]

Great tips. All useful. Commenting also to help the algo!

[@Brad_West]

Thanks for that! Glad the tips were useful to you 😄🙌🏼

[@dylanjohndickerson]

Brad, this was so great!! 🔥 Number 4 rocked my world.

[@Brad_West]

Appreciate you watching man! I actually discovered this one by accident. When I worked a lot in Pro Tools, you could hold down option to select and deselect all Mute buttons for example and it worked in various places in the software. I did it out of habit once in FCP and voila! It worked 😂🙌🏼

[@Serge1913]

Using titles as notes is genius!

[@Brad_West]

Thanks Serg! Yeah I started doing that when I would send clients rough cuts and made notes for things that still had to be done or things they had to send me. Now it's sometimes more for me and less for clients. Especially on massive projects 😄🙌🏼

[@RICH_Photography]

Brad this video is golden!!!! Absolutely awesome tips 🔥

[@Brad_West]

Appreciate it Rich! 😄🙏🏼 Thanks for watching 😄🤙🏼🇿🇦

[@_adamdunbar]

This is class, I’ve been working with FCPX for over a year and didn’t know a lot of this stuff. Your the GOAT Brad aha

[@Brad_West]

Haha glad that there were a lot of new things for you to learn in this one Adam! 😄🤘🏼

[@BurnCountymusic]

Good stuff man. Look at you creating all this value. Very helpful tips my guy.

[@Brad_West]

I appreciate that! Thanks so much!

[@GetBusyLiving]

Some awesome tips here mate, thank you! Great video, really well put together and perfect pace - thanks!

[@Brad_West]

Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching 😄🙏🏼

[@RutaseBRs]

You are life saver. Thank you so much!

[@Brad_West]

You're welcome!

[@kevinkillsit]

Wow, the title doesn't lie. These are all new for me and I wish I had known them sooner. 🤙

[@Brad_West]

So glad to hear that Kevin! That was the goal 😄🙌🏼

[@MattBlakPhoto]

Great video. Never knew the sound adjustment tip. Thanks.

[@Brad_West]

Thanks Matt! Super happy to hear there was something new for you in that video 😄👊🏼

[@AndyDramm]

Thanks Brad! Checkerboard WOOO WOOO

[@Brad_West]

You're welcome Andy!

[@roamingyak]

Short, sharp, clear and super useful, thanks!

[@Brad_West]

Glad you liked it! 😄💪🏼

[@rockincarbonara]

Man.. you´re absolutwely right: i wish i knew these Tips sooner! Thanls a lot! ❤

[@Brad_West]

Happy to hear that! Glad you enjoyed the tips!

[@LaMaaanta007]

These videos always help me a lot.

[@Brad_West]

I’ll be making more of these for sure 😄👊🏼

[@PakeSalmon]

So good Brad! I just watched like 6 of your videos. Thanks!

[@Brad_West]

Glad you like them! I appreciate that 😄🙏🏼

[@TonyVic]

Yooooo!!!!!! All of these tips were extremely helpful!!! Watching from my phone and catch wait to jump on the computer and start trying them all out. Thank you 🙏🏽

[@Brad_West]

Glad it helped! Appreciate you watching Tony! 😄🙏🏼

[@BrendanEvan]

Great tips! Will be taking notes on these later!

[@Brad_West]

Great! Thanks for watching Brendan!

[@ThisisDigitalden]

WOW Brad, this was a great list of tips, TBH i didn't know 5 of them, so MANY thanks as always ! fab of you to share your knowledge...

[@Brad_West]

Glad there were some new ones for you Dénes!

[@yasinvfx]

0:10 - İstanbul 🤩 Loves from Turkey 🇹🇷

[@Brad_West]

One day I will visit Turkey! 🇹🇷 🙌🏼😄

[@blinktwize]

Damn, man! So many things, that'll speed up my workflow! Thank you, Brad!!!

[@Brad_West]

You’re so welcome! Glad you learned something new 😄👊🏼

[@blinktwize]

@@Brad_West Defintiely!!! It solved a long term problem with the compound clips! You can’t imaging how happy I am - it’s the little things, I guess. 😂

[@Brad_West]

It's often the little things that are so exciting haha 🤣@@blinktwize

[@sowza1]

Mr. West! These are great! And the ones I knew were great reminders! I'm in post on 4x projects, definitely going to use some of these. Thank you

[@Brad_West]

Fantastic! I love hearing that some of these were new to you 🙌🏼 Good luck with getting all 4 projects done 😄🤘🏼

[@betterbenais]

Very, very helpful. Thanks a lot for that video 🙏

[@Brad_West]

Glad it was helpful! Appreciate you watching!

[@JoshyByNature]

Great information and quick and to the point. Thank you!

[@Brad_West]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching 👊🏼

[@roamingyak]

OHHHHHHH! Love the checkerboard one, Awesome, thanks again!

[@Brad_West]

You’re welcome! Thanks for watching! 😄🤙🏼

[@BetterDrumming]

Super helpful! Thank you for sharing these tips!

[@Brad_West]

You're so welcome! Glad it was helpful!

[@michaelanderberg]

Great tips, thank you! You’ve gained a sub.

[@Brad_West]

Awesome, thank you! Appreciate the support!

[@ThinkAboutItNow]

REALLY helpful tips Brad!

[@Brad_West]

Glad you think so! Thanks for watching 😄🙏🏼

[@ekphotography]

Hey brad, Thanks, Just yesterday I was wondering if it was possible to do tip #4 and low and behold you put out a video today mentioning this...On almost every project I need that, I was always clicking on the scale and transform and timing that I did not want to change and usually just want to take off the color grade and apply it to other clips, you just saved me a lot of time... Thanks!!!!

[@Brad_West]

You're so welcome! Sometimes it's these tiny time-savers that are the most satisfying tips to learn. I'll take any bit of time saving during an edit 😄👊🏼

[@ekphotography]

@@Brad_West Absolutely, I never knew that option was available... Thanks!!!

[@Brad_West]

@@ekphotography 😄🤘🏼

[@johnclay7644]

good tips informative video

[@Brad_West]

Glad you think so John! Thanks for watching 😄🙏🏼

[@jayylls]

The studio looks soooo good!!!

[@Brad_West]

Thanks man!! It’s a work-in-progress right now. Should be completely finished by the end of the month 😄🤞🏼

[@ibizaamigos]

Great tips. Do you happen to know a keyboard shortcut to just click on a clip then hit the keyboard shortcut and it will make it fill instead of fit?

[@Brad_West]

I wish there was a shortcut, that would be so useful, but unfortunately there isn't one right now.

[@samvarma]

Thank you for this. Extremely useful!

[@Brad_West]

Glad you found it helpful Sam!

[@reydelaserna568]

very helpful tips, thank you so much!

[@Brad_West]

You're welcome! Glad you found it helpful 😄👊🏼

[@BADBRYZ]

All were new. THANKS!!! Is there anyway to add/edit ZOOM percentages?

[@Brad_West]

You're welcome! Glad you liked the tips. When you say zoom percentages, do you mean slowly zooming into a clip over time?

[@BADBRYZ]

@@Brad_West Sorry, what I mean is in the viewport... upper right... 12.5%, 25%, 50%, 100%, 150%, 200%, 400%, 600% How can I view it as say 77% without changing the size of my viewport? If that's possible.

[@Brad_West]

Ah I see what you're saying! Unfortunately there is no option to do that as far as I'm aware@@BADBRYZ 😬

[@Fifciuu]

Great tips, gonna apply them right now!

[@Brad_West]

Happy to hear it! Thanks for watching!

[@bmxbanditdude]

Amazing! I only knew one of these. Cheers 🤙 (hello from Melbourne, Australia)

[@Brad_West]

Awesome! Thanks for watching all the way from Melbourne! 😄👊🏼

[@scottw6960]

Fantastic tips! Thank you

[@Brad_West]

You're so welcome! Glad it was helpful 😄🤙🏼

[@NicoleFerre]

Absolutely WOW! So helpful!

[@Brad_West]

Glad you think so!

[@lewis99170]

I've only been using FCP for about a month but I can honestly say I knew 0/10 of these tips. Thank you so much for sharing!

[@Brad_West]

I’m so glad there was so much for you to learn in this video! Anything specific you’re struggling with being new to FCP? 😄

[@lewis99170]

Appreciate you asking! One problem I'm having is using a "fly in/slide in" effect on small images. These images slide in from an invisible point on the screen rather than the edge of the video canvas. I know this clipping has something to do with the image boundary box not being large enough, but nothing I do seems to fix it. Not even making them compound clips helps. Is there a workaround for this?@@Brad_West

[@benyantovisuals]

This has been super helpful!

[@Brad_West]

So glad to hear that! Thanks for watching 😄🙏🏼

[@Richard_Broom_Photography]

Great tips. Thank you.

[@Brad_West]

Glad it was helpful Richard! 🙌🏼

[@agencevisions40990]

😳 wooah ! thank's. Just what I always searching for. !

[@Brad_West]

You're welcome 😊🤙🏼

[@BVJ_NORIEGAH]

Lets go brother, from AFRICA!

[@Brad_West]

Let's goooooo! 😄💪🏼

[@jrennickemd]

Great video. Very helpful!

[@Brad_West]

Glad to hear it! Appreciate you watching 😄

[@JaroslavBengl]

Great tips! ✨Thanks a lot! 👍🏻

[@Brad_West]

You're so welcome!

[@AlperFS]

Hello Brad I have a question regarding Multiclip. I dont get any further. I film weddings with two cameras. One on the tripod and one on the gimbal. I always do start stop on the camera on the gimbal more often. So I have a lot of clips. Currently in Final Cut Pro I always put my tripod clips at the bottom and my gimbal clips manually at the top.Very time consuming. I've already watched some tutorials but unfortunately they don't work.

[@Brad_West]

Hey! if you have audio on both cameras, then Final Cut Pro will do a great job of syncing, both those cameras in a multicam clip. My advice would be to import all the clips from Cam A, select them all in the browser window and then head over to the inspector window where you can change the camera name for all of those clips to “Cam A” or “tripod” for example. Then import all the clips from Cam B and do the same, but this time label the camera name “Cam B” or “gimbal”. Then select all of the clips and create a new multicam clip and let Final Cut Pro sync them for you. This tutorial will help: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWWpYXicZtpqrbc

[@feederfun]

I wish I had known this sooner. Thank you ❤

[@Brad_West]

Haha 😂 I was waiting for someone to say it 🙌🏼

[@feederfun]

@@Brad_West mate , thanks for all your tips in FCP 👌

[@Brad_West]

My pleasure. Appreciate you watching and taking the time to comment 🙏🏼

[@coachpeterwilliam]

Solid tips, thanks!

[@Brad_West]

No problem! More to come.

[@maneesh6017]

WOW.....Amazing tips!

[@Brad_West]

Glad you think so!

[@dougmorato]

Pretty useful tips 👏👏👏

[@Brad_West]

Glad you think so!

[@RemoMartinelli]

grazie per questi interessanti tutorial

[@Brad_West]

You’re welcome 😄🙏🏼

[@mischugo]

Tip #7 is mine. Thanks a lot for all this. But whats your display? ;-)

[@Brad_West]

It's a HP 4K 31.5" monitor: amzn.to/3SggPHd

[@aim.1]

Great stuff! Thanks!

[@Brad_West]

Glad you liked it!

[@RomanMilovanov]

Thanks, Bro! 🎉

[@Brad_West]

You're welcome! 😄👊🏼

[@PetrosFarms]

Amazing thank you.

[@Brad_West]

Glad you liked it! 😄🤘🏼

[@jackhmchang]

too good! thank you!

[@Brad_West]

Glad you liked it! 😂🙏🏼

[@dan-3000i]

helpful Tips. THX. !!

[@Brad_West]

I'm glad you found the tips helpful!

[@in2ADV]

Great tips!

[@Brad_West]

Glad you like them!

[@throttlenerd]

Thanks man!!

[@Brad_West]

My pleasure! 🙌🏼

[@seungwookang4166]

Thank you Sir, This is useful

[@Brad_West]

You're welcome! Glad it was helpful 😄🙌🏼

[@OvertheTopShot]

whats a good way to color match titles that aren't in a motion template?

[@Brad_West]

You can either copy the color HEX code and paste it on all the other title templates if it’s only one color. Or if you select a color you can drag it to your favorites on the color selector and then those favorites will be available across all templates.

[@OvertheTopShot]

@@Brad_West thank you!

[@Brad_West]

@OvertheTopShot my pleasure!

[@fluffykeebz]

HOW DO YOU FIND THESE EVEN 😂 Such useful tips!!

[@Brad_West]

Haha! Probably because I spend way too much time in Final Cut Pro 😂

[@theseventh2609]

Thank you !

[@Brad_West]

You're welcome!

[@annebovelett]

Thanks!

[@Brad_West]

Wow, thank you so very much! I truly appreciate your support 😄🙏🏼

[@annebovelett]

@@Brad_West You're so welcome. Your tutorials are great. To the point, no fluff, I love it. I hope many people buy you beers / coffee on your channel, knowing how much time, care and effort it takes to create video tutorials.

[@MarkAhrens-HeritageFilms]

I thought I knew everything! Thx

[@Brad_West]

Glad you enjoyed it Mark! 😄🤙🏼

[@Tetzlaffism]

Hero! 🙏

[@Brad_West]

😄👊🏼

[@2424rocket]

Here’s the best final cut tip of them all… Stop using final cut and learn how to use Da Vinci resolve… Yes resolve is not your grandmother’s editing system… But once you learn it you will be thrilled.

[@Brad_West]

Haha, yeah I think loads of people would agree with you there. "not your grandmother's editing system" made me lol 🤣 Thanks for the comment!

[@MBommeli]

omg, so many things I didn't know

[@Brad_West]

I'm so glad there were some new tips for you to learn here 😄🙌🏼