ABSTRACT
This chapter helps to get started correctly in using Final Cut Pro on a system and make sure one is up to speed with the edit functions of the application. Like the operating system OS X, which began as Mac OS X 10.0 and eventually moved through to 10.12, so Final Cut Pro X (pronounced ten) started out as version 10.0 and has now, after more than six years, moved on to version 10.3. Version 10.3 is designed to take advantage of the newest technologies included in macOS 10.12 Sierra. Like most high-end professional soft ware, FCP requires the best possible hardware you can afford, computer, monitor, and drives. In system preferences, one can switch off a few items that might interfere with the application's operations while it's running. The chapter lists the keyboard shortcuts and an index of the default keyboard shortcuts in the tables.
