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154Final Cut Pro User Guide
Change the default duration of freeze-frame clips
Freeze-frame clips have the same default duration as still-image clips: 4 seconds. You can
change the default duration in the Editing pane
of Final Cut Pro preferences.
1. Choose Final Cut Pro > Preferences (or press Command-Comma), then click the Editing
button at the top of the window.
2. Adjust the Still Images value slider.
Add only a clip’s video or audio in Final Cut Pro
By default, whenever you add a clip from an event to the timeline, all of the video and audio
components of the event clip are included in the edit. However, you can also add just the
video or audio portion of an event clip to the timeline, even if the clip contains both video
and audio.
1. To set the editing mode in Final Cut Pro, do one of the following:
• Add just the video from your selection: Click the Edit pop-up menu in the top-left
corner of the timeline and choose Video Only (or press Shift-2).
• Add just the audio from your selection: Click the Edit pop-up menu and choose
Audio Only (or press Shift-3).
The edit buttons (to the left of the Edit pop-up menu) change their appearance to
indicate the mode you chose:
2. Add clips to the timeline as you normally would.
See Intro to adding clips in Final Cut Pro.
The video-only or audio-only clips appear in the timeline.
To return to the default editing mode (video and audio), click the Edit pop-up menu and
choose All (or press Shift-1).