Final Cut Pro Efficient Editing - Second Edition

4 Sort It Out: Reviewing and Keywording

“Editing with FCP is just more fun. It takes away the technicality and is way faster. The directors I work with love that it lets us stay in the creative flow. Once you embrace the magnetic timeline there is no going back.... at least for me. Directors also love that every delivery of any line from any take is just one click away, thanks to line-by-line keywording powered by CommandPost.”

— Knut Hake, a Berlin-based feature film editor known for Netflix’s Blood Red Sky, Blood & Gold, and Sixty Minutes.

Now that you have a Library full of footage, it’s time to make sense of it. Spending time organizing your footage now means that you’ll be able to make better choices later, and the larger a project is, ...