How to use auditions in Final Cut Pro X
Editing video involves a lot of trial and error. Which shot works better—the close-up or the wide? Which take? Should I make the shot look warmer or cooler? What kind of sound effect should I use? How about music? This title looks good, but it what if the animation were different?
Final Cut Pro X’s audition feature makes it fast, easy, and downright fun to try out different creative options for your edit. Here’s how the feature works.
Creating auditions in an event
If you aren’t familiar with Final Cut Pro X’s terminology, events are containers for organizing your media, and projects are timelines for editing that media. You create auditions in an event before editing them into a project, or you create them directly in a project.
In this screenshot, I’ve set the Event Browser to Filmstrip view (View > Event Browser > As Filmstrips) and I’ve set the duration slider at the bottom right of the Event Browser to All so that we see just one image for each clip.
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