If you have ever used composite modes in other programs such as After Effects or Photoshop, you know you can easily cycle through them to test each look by using shift plus or minus. However, in Final Cut you have to repeatedly right click and chose or go to a drop down menu. Luckily, each mode can be mapped to a key and an easy way to have them available to cycle through is using control + each num pad number. This way you can hold down control and just work your way up the number pad checking each look.

I’m also in the middle of cutting a low budget short film, but that will be a future post. I am hoping to use this blog as a way of sharing my work as well as documenting and sharing new techniques and tricks I learn at work. Especially work flow methods. I am sure I will also throw in some personal stuff and anything I find interesting online.