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121Final Cut Pro User Guide
Create and manage projects
Create a new project in Final Cut Pro
To create a movie in Final Cut Pro, you first create a project, which provides a record of
your editing decisions and the media you use.
When you create a new Final Cut Pro project, you do the following:
• Name the project.
• Specify the event where the project is stored.
Often, you store projects in events that contain the media used to create the project.
When you drag media into the timeline from the Finder, or when you access media in the
Photos and Audio sidebar and drag it to the timeline, that media is automatically located
in the same event as the project.
Optionally, you can also set the starting timecode and define the video, audio, and render
properties for the project.
After creating your project, you add clips to it from an event in the library.
Note:
If you’re creating a project and you haven’t yet imported media into Final Cut Pro,
you should do so. See Intro to importing media in Final Cut Pro.
1. In the Libraries sidebar in Final Cut Pro, select the event in which you want to create the
project.
2. Choose File > New > Project (or press Command-N).
Tip: You can automatically create a project that has the video properties of a
specific clip, without having to enter the project settings manually. In the browser,
Control-click a clip and choose New Project, then enter a project name and click OK.
3. In the window that appears, type a name for the project in the Name field.
4. If you want to store the project in an event other than the selected event, click the In
Event pop-up menu and choose a different event.
5. If you want your project’s timecode to start at a value other than 00:00:00:00, type a
starting timecode value in the Starting Timecode field.
Note: If the automatic settings are shown, you can click OK to create a new project
at this point. You can add a clip to the new (empty) project timeline, and, if the clip
properties match a built-in preset, Final Cut Pro sets the project properties to match the
properties of the clip.