A large portion of what you learn about Final Cut will come from experience- sitting in front of the program and actually editing. And in doing that, it can be easy to miss the simple things. Jeff from SuiteTake has this great list of “The Top-Ten Things I Wish I Knew About Final Cut Pro…Ten Years Ago.”

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Cutting to the beat is important in music-driven edits. CaptMench shares his technique for doing this quickly, using matte colors, a couple shortcuts and replace edit. You’ll definitely speed up with this technique.

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Shortcuts speed up work speed incredibly in Final Cut Pro. Learning a new one every day will make you a much faster editor, but it’s pretty difficult to keep them all straight. It’s handy to keep a list of the shortcuts close by, so you’ll always be able to find what you need. This list is put out by Noble Desktop. While it is for FCP 5, not much has changed for shortcuts in FCP 6. If anyone can find one for FCP 6, let me know.

Download the shortcut list here.

Alex Gollner has a quick tip on how to speed up navigating through multiple tabs.

Read the tip here.

There are some things in Final Cut that you can live without – until you learn about them. Things like the ripple and roll tools. Alex Gollner has a quick video tutorial that will make using these tools even faster.

Watch the video tutorial here.

From Creative Cow-

It doesn’t make you a better FCP editor, but no matter what kind of work you do, speed still matters. Cow author Dustin Lau shares some tips and tricks to accelerate your work in Final Cut Pro that even the old dogs haven’t used before.

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Sure, you can do most anything in Final Cut with a mouse, but there may be a better way with shortcuts. I’m a bit of a shortcut nerd, and like to challenge myself by picking up a new shortcut every project. But the default shortcuts sometimes just don’t cut it.

In this tutorial, Larry Jordan not only shows how to change most shortcuts within Final Cut, he also takes it a step further to show how to change ANY shortcut in ANY program.

Read the tutorial here.