![]() ![]() ![]() In the right side of the window, click on the Favorites menu item to open it. In the keyboard layout window that opens, click on the lock button in the lower left corner of the window. Go to the Tools menu > Keyboard Layout > Customize. Next we'll change the key commands to something friendlier. You can use these commands, but they're not easy to remember (Control/Shift/2, Control/Shift/W, etc). The first four effects in the Favorites bin use these default key commands. Notice in the Effects menu, under Favorites, is our four effects, and next to them are keyboard shortcuts. This is important for the keyboard shortcuts, as we'll see next. This not only re-orders these effects, but also assures that if you save other favorites, they won't take the "spot" we want each of our four main filters to have, which is the top four listed in this bin. To re-order the effects, click into the name of the effect and add a 1, 2, 3 or 4 before the name (I'm also going to remove the word "copy" that was added to each effect's name). We're going to assign keyboard shortcuts to these effects based on the specific order they're listed, so we'll want to start with an order that makes sense to ourselves. The effects in the Favorites bin are listed alphabetically. ![]() This action makes a copy of the effects in the Favorites bin. Drag the effects into the Favorites bin.ĭrag the effects filters from their respective bins to the top of the Effects tab and drop them into the bin labeled Favorites. Twirl down the arrows next to the bins to find the specific filters you're looking for.Ģ. This first step is probably easiest accomplished from the Effects tab in the Browser window. Instead, let's look at using Favorites to help us out:ġ. This is a cool feature but if you go back and forth between choosing a few different filters, as would be common with color correction, then this option isn't always helpful. On the other hand, you may have noticed that if you apply an effects filter, that the next time you go to the Effects menu, the last filter applied is listed at the top of the Effects menu, and can easily be chosen from there. ![]() Over the course of applying these effects several hundred times in a sequence, this can get annoyingly repetitive and eventually eats up enough time that its not very efficient. The only problem with this approach is that each time you choose a filter you have to dig down through all the sub-menus as seen above. To apply an effects filter to a clip, one way is to choose it from the Effects menu. We'll look at saving four filters and four transitions, but as I just mentioned, you can save up to nine of each. We'll use the example of color correction filters but you can replace this with any filters you use. With the use of Final Cut's "Favorites" and a couple quick steps you can map effects to shortcut keys and can save yourself a lot of time when you need to apply a few constantly used filters (up to nine) and transitions (also nine). Although there is a lot of key mapping that is possible in Final Cut, a staggeringly great amount, currently you can't map individual effects. When I teach Final Cut classes I often get asked if effects filters can be mapped to keyboard shortcuts for a quick way to apply the effect. Mapping Effects To Key Commands In Final Cut ![]()
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