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899Final Cut Pro User Guide
shortcut menu A menu you access by holding down the Control key and clicking an item
on the screen, or by pressing the right mouse button. Sometimes called a contextual menu.
shot A segment of continuously recorded video. A shot is the smallest unit of a program.
sidebar The sidebar appears to the left of the browser and contains three panes for
selecting different types of media: the Libraries sidebar, the Photos and Audio sidebar,
and the Titles and Generators sidebar. When you select an item in a sidebar pane (such
as an event containing clips, or a category of sound effects or 3D titles), its contents are
displayed in the browser. You can show or hide any of the sidebars.
skimmer A red vertical line that appears as you move the pointer over clips in the browser
and timeline to preview them. You use the skimmer to skim, or freely move over clips
to play them back at the position and speed of the pointer. You can skim clips without
affecting the playhead position. If you have snapping turned on, the skimmer turns orange
when it snaps to a position. See also playhead, snapping.
slate A shot at the beginning of a scene that identifies the scene with basic production
information such as the take, date, and scene number. A clapper provides an audiovisual
cue for syncing when video and audio are recorded separately.
slide edit An edit in which an entire clip is moved, along with the edit points on its left
and right. The duration of the clip being moved stays the same, but the clips to the left
and right of it change in length to accommodate the new position of the clip. The overall
duration of the project and of these three clips remains the same.
slip edit An edit in which the location of both the start and end points of a project clip are
changed at the same time, without changing the position or duration of the clip. This is
referred to as slipping, because you slip the clip’s start and end points inside the available
footage. The portion of the clip seen in the project changes, but its position in the timeline
stays the same.
Smart Collection When you search for clips in an event using the Filter window, you
can save your results by creating a new Smart Collection that gathers clips matching the
search criteria. Whenever a new clip that matches the Smart Collection’s search criteria is
brought into the event, the new clip is automatically added to the Smart Collection. Clips
that appear in Smart Collections are not duplicates. Smart Collections filter clips in an
event to help you focus on the clips you need to use for a specific task. See also event.
snapping
When snapping is turned on in Final Cut Pro, items you move in the timeline
(including the playhead, the skimmer, and selected clips) appear to jump, or “snap,”
directly to certain points in the timeline. This can help you quickly line up edits with
other items in the project. Snapping affects the functions of many of the editing tools in
Final Cut Pro, including the Select tool, the Trim tool, the Position tool, the Range Selection
tool, and the Blade tool. You can disable snapping when frame-by-frame precision editing
is required.
sound effects Specific audio material, such as the sound of a door closing or a dog
barking, from effects libraries or from clips you recorded. Sound effects can be used to
replace sounds in the location audio of a program, or to add sound that wasn’t originally
recorded. Over 1300 royalty-free sound effects are included with Final Cut Pro as a
separate download.