Complete Guide To Final Cut Pro's Magnetic Timeline

A complete guide to the Magnetic Timeline! I pulled out all the stops and did my best to break down every tool found on the Magnetic Timeline within Final Cut Pro!
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Timecodes
0:00 Intro
1:15 Playback with J • K • L
2:10 Advancing By A Single Frame
2:57 Changing Connection Point Of Clips
3:42 Disabling Clip Connections With ~ Key
4:25 Enable/Disable Timeline
4:52 Using The Index
6:42 Using Roles
8:35 Undo (CMD Z) Redo (CMD SHIFT Z)
8:50 Methods For Adding Clips To Timeline
9:06 Connect Clip (Q)
9:32 Gap Clips (Option W)
9:49 Insert Clip (W)
10:15 Append Clip (E)
10:50 Overwrite Clip (D)
11:12 Applying ONLY Audio Or Video
12:19 Select Tool (A)
12:47 Trim Tool (T)
14:25 Position Tool (P)
15:19 Range Selection Tool (R)
16:45 Blade Tool (B)
17:55 Zoom Tool
18:22 Hand Tool
19:10 Jumping Between Projects Quickly
19:51 Duplicating, Project Settings & More
20:37 Retiming Tools
21:00 Hold Speed (Freeze Frame) (Shift H)
21:10 Blade Speed (Shift B)
22:00 Ripple Speed Checkbox
22:53 Automatic Speed
23:29 More Retime Items
23:55 Optical Flow (Video Quality)
26:15 Timecode
27:09 Audio Meters
28:27 Video & Audio Skimming (S, Shift S)
29:01 Solo Clip (Option S)
29:34 Clip Snapping (N)
30:04 Customizing The Timeiline
32:12 Effects
32:59 Transitions
34:10 Compound Clips (Option G)
35:27 Change Duration (Ctrl + D)
36:10 Detach Audio
37:00 Rename Clip
37:18 Disable/Enable Clip (V)
37:51 Expand Audio
38:29 Expand Audio Components
39:15 Video & Audio Animation Editors
40:49 Lift From Storyline / Overwrite To Primary Storyline
41:58 Reveal In Browser (Shift F)
42:12 Markers, To-Do Items, Chapters
44:16 Outro
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It’s a good thing I’m not a magician! Or I would never reveal my tricks to anyone!

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Commenting for that algorithm! I’ve been editing for four years and I still learned stuff. Thanks for making this!

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Best tutorial on the magnetic timeline (and FCPX) in general! Glad to see how you have grown your channel in the past year Dylan - well deserved!

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Best Channel about Final Cut Pro, I just started editing video as a hobby. I can't wait to learn how to edit videos as I am an Audio Engineer.

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Thank you so much! If you ever think of ways I should improve my audio for my tutorials, please let me know! Audio is one area I really struggle to find a good balance with, and would love to improve it. Looking forward to your comments on future videos!

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You make excelent content. I recently found your channel (and subscribed) and I’ve been watching a lot of your videos. I almost didn’t watch this one, because ”I know how the timeline works”. I’ve been using Final Cut Pro for few years, so I should know. I was wrong. From this 45 min video I learned more stuff than what I’ve learned from using the fcp for many years. Excelent video. Thanks!

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Excellent, thanks so much for this. Covers loads of things that speeds up editing. And done very efficiently so we get to absorb it quickly. I don’t think you mentioned this: if you hold down a “Tool” key (A, R, T, B etc) then it does the action of that key only while you are holding it. Great for quickly Blading, for example, without having to switch and then switch back. Works great on the Range selection when you’re amending audio levels too.

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[@RadarRoadWarriors]

This video is exactly what I was looking for and watched about 10 other videos before landing on it. I have a suggestion for you so more people can find it. I’m just learning Final Cut Pro and been using iMovie and the word “magnetic timeline” means nothing to me. If you put some wording in your title like, “every feature explained”, “button walk through”, step by step walk through of features”, “what each button does”, I feel you would get a lot more views from newbies trying to learn the software. ~ Erika

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This is like revelation to me

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[@mrdonsmith]

RE: 3:42 - I experimented to find a way to make the Tilde key 'hold' without keeping your pressure on that key and free up your left hand. I found it after much experimentation. At the time I found it, Mark Spencer featured my trick, which I had named my Rocking Horse Move (referencing the back-and-forth rocking of your hand) on MacBreak Studio Ep 335 at 5:30 found here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/imjUeJKffdh7rdU At the time, you would hold the Tilde Key, TAP the Command Key, then release the Tilde key. In the next OS update, the CMD key changed to the Option Key. Now, you can tap the CMD, or OPT, or Control Key as the second key. RE: 16:45 - Add the Shift key to CMD-B to blade EVERYTHING at the position of the playhead. RE: 12:47 - Trim Tool - with the Trim selecting the joint between two clips, OPT [ or ] or \ will cycle the selection to Left, Right, or Center. RE: 18:22 - Hand Tool - To scroll the timeline with a mouse, just hold the Shift key and roll the mouse wheel. To scroll using a trackpad, swipe left or right with three fingers (once that's set up in the trackpad prefs). RE: 19:10 - Great tip to get a list of Projects! I had forgotten about that one. For me, since I most often just need to go to the previous or next timeline, I use the fast CMD (Left or Right) Square Bracket. Fast! RE: 26:15 - With something selected, double-click on the Timecode display and you'll get the length of the selection. I often will change the length of a transition by selecting the the transition, double-clicking on the timecode, and enter the transition length I want. Sometimes, I command-select several transitions to change them all at once. RE: 7:09? - Wherever you showed changing the level of the audio in a selected clip: CTL- Plus or Minus changes the level 1db. Or, you can just drag the level up and down but add the OPT key and it 'gears down' the dragging to more finely adjust the audio level. RE: 36:10 - I sometimes need to re-attach the audio to a clip but can't un-do that much without destroying other work. So, I select the clip I want to replace, CMD-C to copy any effects I have on it, Shift-F to locate its start in the Library, Shift-R to Replace the clip in the Timeline with the length of the timeline clip taking precedence, OPT-CMD-V the new clip in the timeline to replace all effects I had copied from the prior timeline clip (except you still have to make any audio changes such as Stereo to Dual Mono and recreating which tracks are used). Use Opt-R to replace but use the length of the clip in the Library instead of Shift-R which uses the timeline length of the clip being replaced. RE: 37:51 - I just double click on the clip to expand its audio to adjust the length of the audio without changing the video. Or, I Option-double-click to expand the audio to its components. If you're interested, I ride a motorcycle and I shoot, as one of my cameras, 360º footage so I can choose where I want the shot to point later in the edit. Find that channel at TexasTwoLane.com

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That's what i"m looking for switching between premier pro to final cut pro.

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Wish I had watched this video the first day I got FCP. Would have saved me a load of hassle and stress. 😂

[@thegreygoat3709]

Great tutorials! Brand new here and would love to know how to put your logo in the right corner of the video ongoing and also how to do the little fade in to the left where you put subscribe, and others put things like Facebook handle etc

[@TheFinalCutBro]

For some reason KZbin held your comment as spam! Sorry I am just seeing this comment 😭 The logo in the right corner is actually a KZbin function! I believe it's in KZbin Studio under "Customization" on the left side, under "Branding." But to do this same thing for an actual video, you could just drop an image file onto your timeline, re-scale it using the video inspector, and move it to the bottom right corner. You can then go into the video settings on the right side, and change the opacity to something like 50%. For the handles, I created those animations using Motion! I have a bunch of tutorials on Motion, and the list keeps growing with new tutorials every Monday! Here's one of the tutorials that might show you how to create your own animations. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mmecf2yHqM6Xisk -- If you just swap out the graphics for something like a facebook icon and the text for a handle, you should have a really great animation on your hands that you can use over and over! Appreciate you watching 👊

[@mrwildsparrow]

❤

[@arthurgermano]

thanks for the video man! do you know if there’s any shortcut to send my clips of my timeline to the end of the main magnetic timeline? like… i like to edit and separate a clip to use later and that way i can just go to the end of the timeline and grab it back

[@Philonic]

Hey Dylan! I'm coming from LumaFusion on my iPad Pro to FCP on my new MacBook. Is there a way to show/hide or enable/disable horizontal rows of the timeline? For example, you have you A roll on the magnetic timeline and your B roll on the above line. Can you disable the B roll horizontal line so only the magnetic timeline A roll plays? I was playing with some MotionVFX plugins and trying a couple different ones. I wanted to keep them all on the same spot on the timeline above my clip, but only see one at a time so I could choose which one I liked better without having to redo them. Thanks!

[@finalcutwil]

👍

[@v.netsivka]

Help pls! How can I delete free 1 frame space between videos on timeline?

[@nazwasakila6962]

navigating timeline with mouse keyboard?

[@niko-sivov]

Guys, I can't find the way how to delete everything in a video that is to the LEFT from a red line (a cursor position mark after a single click). "Option + Arrow" doesn't work(( Please, help.

[@jingsun0509]

I bought my MacPro in japan, and my keyboard is a Japanese keyboard, I couldn't cut the connection between clips by holding the tilde key(so is the grove accent key), anyone has the same problem as me?

[@TheFinalCutBro]

Huh! I haven't heard of this problem before. My main thought would be for you to change the key in your shortcuts preferences! You'll want to search for the "Override Connections" command, and then set that to whatever you prefer. Hope that helps!

[@yasinvfx]

Hi. I can't found "~ Key"

[@TheFinalCutBro]

Hey there, It’s on the top left hand side of the keyboard under the escape key! Hope that helps! Thanks for watching!

[@Panther-]

Honestly I do not see the Point of the magnetic timeline, its more of an hinderance to me honestly.when I make a music vid,I just place the audio of the music in the magnetic timeline..still learnt a few things such as using the Tilda key and knowing how to disable the videos attached to each other, but I honestly dont see the use of the magnetic timeline just yet anyways

[@mrdonsmith]

EHX-cellent! I will send this to everyone who said to me 'Premiere is just as fast as Final Cut!'. Yeah. Then, why can I edit two to three times faster in Final Cut than you can edit in Premiere? It's because any person who says that didn't understand the Magnetic Timeline. They just clicked around, found that you cannot edit faster in FCP when you try to use it as a track-based editor, and gave up to declare to all that Premiere is better than iMovie Pro. It's that 'iMovie Pro' slur they use when they are unaware of how ignorant they sound to people who 'get' the Magnetic Timeline. Now, to throw in a few of my own tricks using the Magnetic Timeline in a separate comment.

[@wza360]

after minute 10 I subscribed to your Patreon - cup just overfilled for free, interested what you will give extra on Patreon.

[@TheFinalCutBro]

What a legend!! Thank you! Stoked to get to know you better in discord. 👊