Every week, Frame.io Insider asks one of our expert contributors to share a tip, tool, or technique that they use all the time and couldn’t live without. This week, Reuben Evans demonstrates how to backtime your three-point edit in Final Cut Pro
The three-point edit is one of the most fundamental editing techniques. It is achieved by placing an in and an out point on a clip in the browser. Then, an edit point is identified in the timeline with the skimmer. Finally, you can press one of W, D, Q shortcut keys to accomplish an insert, overwrite or connected clip edit.
How to backtime a three-point edit in FCPX
Sometimes you want to “backtime” the edit by ensuring that the “tail” portion of a selection in the browser lands on your timeline, instead of the “top” portion. To do this, set a range in your timeline and then set an out point on a clip in your browser.
Then press Shift-Q to do a three point edit that matches the outpoint of your selected clip in the browser with the out point of the range in your time.
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