In this module, we're going to focus on basic editing mechanics to build and polish a rough cut. But before we begin editing, we need first to build a project file to drop our clips into. In this tutorial, we're going to learn about opening an existing library and how to create a project with both automatic, and manual project settings. In Final Cut, you may still have your MyFirstCPXLibrary open. For the remainder of the course, we'll be using a different library with different media and project files. To access the library, press Cmd + O to display the open library window. Final cut shows recently access libraries but if you don't see what you're looking for, simply click the locate button and navigate to the library you want to open. Navigate to the folder that contains the course media. Select FC PXLQ training projects and open it. A second library opens in the browser, since this library already contains projects, final cut will open one of them. To hide it for now, click the show or hide timeline toggle button. We no longer need the MyFirstFCPX library, so I'll right click it and choose Close library, a new library was made up of two events, media and projects. There are many ways to organize the final cut library, and this organization works well for tutorial purposes. We're going to edit a promotional video about a storytelling organization in Washington DC. If I click the disclosure triangle next to media, we'll see that there's a folder for story District Promo. And if I click on that disclosure triangle we'll see that the media is broken down into various keyword collections. Click on SD interviews, I'm currently looking at the list view, but I'd like to see the film strip view. I'll click the toggle between film, strip and list view modes. Now it's time for us to create a project to drop these clips into. If we click on the disclosure triangle, we see that the projects event has been broken down into keyword collections by module, we'll come back to those later. To create a project, click the File menu and select New > Project. Let's call this 201 Test Project. You can save the project in any event in your library. However, it makes sense to create a dedicated event for a projects, and simply call it Projects. I'll select the Projects event, the project will use automatic settings, unless we change them. For video, the properties of the project will be set based upon the first clip dragged into the timeline, this is important. This means you want to drag a clip into your timeline that represents most of your video content. If you have 100 clips and 95 of them are one frame rate and resolution and 5 of them are a different frame rate and resolution, you'll probably want to match most of your clips. If all your videos came from the same camera source, this isn't going to be an issue. You can click Use Custom Settings and set the resolution and frame rate in advance. You can also set the render codec and the audio channel setup that you want. However, this is beyond our current scope, I'll click Use Automatic Settings and OK. An empty timeline now appears, and we see 201 test project In the center toolbar. If I click the projects even and open a display of the projects, I can see the 201 test project. You can create keywords for projects, just like you can for clips. You may not need to do this if you only have one or two projects in the library which is common. However for this lesson we're going to create keywords. Click back to the list view for a moment and notice that the other projects are tagged. If I click the disclosure triangle for 202, we see that it has the key word Module 2 assigned. Let's drag project 201- Test Project on top of the Module 2 keyword collection. Click the Module 2 key word collection and you'll see the list of projects will be using for the reminder of this module. In this tutorial we created a project by opening an existing library that we'll use for the reminder of the course. We reviewed both automatic and manual project settings. Next, we're going to begin adding clips to our timeline.
