Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 85)

This chapter covers the following:
• How You Can Use the Viewer (p. 85)
• Opening a Clip in the Viewer (p. 86)
• Learning About the Viewer (p. 87)
• Tabs in the Viewer (p. 90)
• Transport Controls in the Viewer (p. 92)
• Playhead Controls in the Viewer (p. 93)
• Marking Controls in the Viewer (p. 95)
• Zoom and View Pop-Up Menus in the Viewer (p. 96)
• Playhead Sync Pop-Up Menu (p. 99)
• Recent Clips and Generator Pop-Up Menus (p. 100)
The Viewer is used for viewing a clip’s media and preparing clips before editing them
into a sequence.
How You Can Use the Viewer
The Viewer is extremely versatile. You can use the Viewer to:
• Define In and Out edit points for clips before editing them into a sequence
• Adjust audio levels and panning in the Audio tab
• Open clips within sequences to adjust durations, In and Out points, and filter parameters
Note: Changes you make to a clip opened from a sequence are applied to the clip only
in that sequence. If you make changes to a clip opened from the Browser, the changes
appear only in the clip in the Browser.
• Add filters to clips and adjust filters applied to clips
• Adjust the motion parameters of clips to modify or animate such parameters as Scale,
Rotation, Cropping, and Opacity
• Adjust generator clip controls
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