Skimming in Final Cut Pro
Everyone’s making a lot of noise about iMovie’s new Skimming feature. What people seem to be forgetting, or never knew, is that Final Cut Pro has skimming as well for clips in it’s bin. The issue is that it’s hidden, isn’t set up to use right away and it’s not as fluid as in iMovie ‘08.
01) Goto your bin and 2nd click in there and select to view items as large icons (or medium, or small, up to you).
02) Put the cursor over a clip’s icon.
03) Hold down SHIFT + CONTROL and watch as the cursor turns into a hand with two opposing arrows.
04) Drag the mouse around to “skim” through the clip.
When did we stop calling this scrubbing, btw? Oh, and you can also use this to set the poster frame of a clip’s icon in the bin.