Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 428)

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The Fundamentals
of Adding Clips to a Sequence
Once your clips are captured and organized to your
satisfaction in the Browser, you can begin moving your
content into a sequence.
This chapter covers the following:
 Creating a Rough Edit (p. 93)
 Overview of Ways to Add Clips to a Sequence (p. 96)
 Preparing a Sequence Order in the Browser (p. 98)
Creating a Rough Edit
During the rough editing phase of your project, the overarching structure of your
movie begins to take shape. A rough edit is like an outline of your finished movie, and
many details remain to be worked out. At this point, you arrange, copy, delete, and
work with large groups of clips at once. You may even be missing footage still, but you
can use placeholder clips, such as slug or text, to note areas that need work.
Basic Steps Involved in a Rough Edit
Basic rough assembly and editing involve the following steps:
Step 1: Add clips to the sequence
Final Cut Pro allows you to add clips to your sequence in several ways. The simplest
method is to select clips in the Browser or Viewer and drag them to the Timeline. You
can also add clips to a sequence in a more precise way, setting In and Out points in
both your source clip and destination sequence, and then dragging the clip to the
Canvas. This is called three-point editing.
Step 2: Arrange content
This is where you assemble the clips in the Timeline into the order you want by
selecting, moving, copying, cutting, pasting, and deleting.