Final Cut Pro Interface

Final Cut Pro Interface

Organize media in the Event Library and Event Browser

All your imported media is available in the Event Library. (An Event is like a folder that contains clips.)

When you select an Event in the Event Library, its clips appear in the Event Browser on the right.

You can reorganize your media however you like at any time, and you can use the Event Library and the Event Browser to manage, rate, sort, and add keywords to your imported media. 

Play back clips and projects in the Viewer

The Viewer is where you play back your video, including clips and projects with up to 4K resolution. You can play back Events, projects, or individual clips in full-screen view or on a second display. 

You can also use onscreen controls, superimposed over the video in the Viewer, to adjust settings for a wide array of effects and transitions.

Edit your project in the Magnetic Timeline

The bottom portion of the Final Cut Pro window contains the Timeline, where you create your movie by adding and arranging clips and making all your edits. The Timeline in Final Cut Pro “magnetically” adjusts clips to fit around clips that you drag into place. If you drag clips out of place, the surrounding clips close up to fill the space.

A Final Cut Pro project holds all of the information for your final movie, including your editing decisions and links to all the source clips and Events.