Let's look at another Final Cut Pro X tool in this video. In this one I want to
show you the Position tool. Which is this little icon under the Tools menu, and
your normal tool is the Arrow tool or the Select tool. Which looks like that,
but if you click and hold on the Tools menu, you can go and select the Position
tool. The Position tool is very helpful for, at least I find so, for people that
are used to editing either with Avid or maybe Adobe Premiere, and they're not
used to the magnetic timeline. That could be something that is a little annoying
to get used to. Here's what I mean. When you are using the Select tool, and
let's say we select this second clip of everyone jumping around, I can click and
drag this over here. And you'll notice the clips move around automatically
because of the magnetic timeline and it lets you really easily rearrange clips
and position things. However, this is not a normal behavior if you're coming from
another NLE like Adobe Premiere or Avid
Media Composer, one of those. So, I'm going to use Command - here to shrink down the
timeline kind of zoom out a little bit. I'm gonna switch to my Position tool and
let me show you what happens with the Position tool. If I click and drag this
clip. You'll notice we're not seeing any of the magnetic timeline behavior. If I
drag it all the way over here and let go. What it's done, is left a gap clip where
the clip used to be and created another gap clip here to put this one over here.
So, when you're rearranging clips, if you want to just put them in a specific spot
and you don't want all the other clips to move around, use the Position tool and
you can then leave gaps when you move a clip say above the timeline outside of
the primary storyline. And that's what the position tool is really for. It's
your way of being able to move things around and put it in exactly the right
spot for where you want to put it not where the magnetic timeline wants to put
it. Now again, for me, this is something I rarely do because I usually
like to trust the magnetic timeline, and I understand
how the magnetic timeline works. So I usually don't want all of these little
gap clips all over the place. So again usually I would recommend using the
Select tool. Which again you can use the shortcut A on the keyboard to get to it.
That way, when you move things, and we can go in here and move things around to get
rid of all those gap clips. We can just move clips and we can see it's going
exactly lined up next to the other clip and I can just delete all these gap
clips to get back to more of a standard project where all the clips are together.
So, if you do it this way using the Select tool you're going to avoid a lot
of those little one frame maybe flash frame gap clips that you see. But there
definitely times where using that Position tool is helpful so you can move
clips around. I've shown this with the other tools but when you're
switching between any of these tools, use the shortcuts on the right side get used
to them. If you use the Position tool all the time, you should be using the letter
P on the keyboard to switch to that tool. And what I mean by that is I've just
pressed the letter P. I now have the Position tool active, and I can go and
move this clip, and then if I want to switch back to the other tool, I can
press the A key on the keyboard, and now my Select tool or Arrow tool is now
active. However, the Position tool you might stay active on that a while but if
you know you're just trying to move one clip and then you're gonna be done. Hold
the P key down after you push on it, make your drag, and then let go of it, and
you'll notice it automatically switches back to the previous tool you had
selected. In this case the Arrow tool. So again, hold P do your positioning, let go
of P, and you'll switch back to the previous tool. So that's the Position
tool inside a Final Cut Pro X. Did you find that helpful? If you did, give this
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like and what I should spend more focus on. Otherwise, if there's something I
didn't cover that you want to see leave a comment below let me know and then you
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to me and I'll help explain it. Otherwise I have a wonderful rest of your day.
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