Summary

This chapter introduced you to the practical aspects of editing in Final Cut Pro. You learned about the tools to tidy up the rough cut and finesse your edit to the point where it now only needs the color correction and audio to be handled and the special effects added. Specifically, we saw how to remove, replace, and add clips to and from the rough cut. You were introduced to the audition feature, which lets you store selections of different clips in the timeline for a later decision. You saw how to use the to-do marker to remind yourself where these actions had taken place so you could restore what was removed if you needed to. You also learned about the edit controls associated with ripple, roll, slip, and slide edits.

One of the most important aspects of the fine edit is the decisions made about pacing throughout the whole video, as well as the relationships that clips have with each other, particularly how they transition to the following clip. Finally, you understood...