6. Build the spine of the story: Quick Assembly

"The organizational tools, magnetic timeline, and third-party ecosystem have made Final Cut Pro X an integral part of my editing experience on everything from corporate video, to documentaries, to feature films."

— Not to be outdone by Alan, Patrick Southern is also an Emmy award-winning editor and a Workflow Architect at Frame.io

You've got your footage imported into a Library, you've added Keywords, you've made Favorites, and you're looking at the next step: starting to put the best bits together in a sequence. Here, you'll learn how to create a new Project in which you can start your edits, and all the technical settings you need to know. As well as adding clips with shortcuts, buttons, and drag and drop, you'll learn about basic timeline operations: rearranging, trimming, breaking up, and deleting. You'll also learn how to duplicate an entire timeline.

While the steps here...