#Freeze frame fcpx shortcut pro#

This is FAR easier than creating new freeze frames, as you’ll learn below. Then, and this is VERY cool, drag the small window icon left or right to change the selected Hold frame. NOTE: If you are using a marker to indicate the frame, as I am, you may need to remove or navigate around the marker to successfully double-click the green “thumb.” To change the frame being held, double-click the “thumb” in the green bar just before the start of the red bar. To adjust the duration of a Hold frame, grab the “thumb” on the right side of the red bar and drag. The disadvantage to this technique is that you can’t move the freeze frame somewhere else in the Timeline. It is easy to add a speed-ramp to gradually increase the speed of the Hold frame.It is easy to change which frame is being held.It is easy to adjust the length of the Hold frame.The Hold frame is part of the main clip.The clip is not broken with cuts before and after the freeze frame.It has a default duration of two seconds. This creates an in-line Hold frame – indicated by the red bar above the clip – starting at the position of the playhead. Retime menu in the Toolbar and select Hold (illustrated here).Select the clip containing the frame you want to freeze, then choose either: I’m using it here so that I can find the same frame again.

NOTE: The marker is completely unnecessary to this process. (To keep from driving all of us nuts, I will use the terms “Hold,” “Freeze,” and “Still” interchangeably unless I’m referring to a specific menu option.) To create a Hold frame, put your playhead (or skimmer) on the frame in the Timeline that you want to hold. NOTE: To illustrate this process, I’m using footage shot by Jim Walker and Lobsters Gone Wild Productions. In fact, there are three ways we can create freeze frames in the application today:Įach has its uses and here’s how they work.

#Freeze frame fcpx shortcut pro#

Since that time, Apple has added new features to Final Cut Pro X that make creating freeze frames faster and more flexible. The last time I wrote about creating freeze frames (also called “still frames”) was about two years ago.