Cafe Quick Tips are tutorials specifically designed to be easy to follow with simple, direct steps and illustrations for Final Cut Pro, Soundtrack Pro & more. Check back often to see the latest additions!

Burning Timecode is an important part of the process when collaborating with clients or other team members. It's essential for accurately referencing comments and changes within a project.

The Tool Palette is a massive, easy to reach collection of tools. This breakdown digs deep into the functionality & carefully lays it all out.

Have you ever found yourself needing to lock a bunch of tracks but keep one unlocked to work on? You can easily lock all video or audio tracks except for one.

By default, sequence settings provide you with one track of video and four tracks of audio. That may not work for all of your project needs, so here is how to change it.

Did you know you can drag Timecode from one field to another? This short Quick Tip shows you how easy it is to duplicate a Timecocde field.

Use Soundtrack Pro to reduce or remove that pesky background noise that muffles and distorts your audio and review Round-tripping in Final Cut Studio 2.

My ultimate list of Final Cut Pro 6 keyboard shortcuts. They are neatly organized into specific categories so you can find just what you need. No more hunting around for shortcuts.

Your keyboard can have shortcuts, so should your mouse! Button Bars allow you to use your mouse to click shortcuts you would have mapped to your keyboard.

A Shuffle Edit allows you to move (or swap) a clip from one point in your sequence to another without creating a gab or changing the duration.

Customize your keyboard by placing keyboard shortcuts on specific key combinations or by moving existing shortcuts to more desirable places.

Save a customized keyboard layout with all your shortcuts, create multiple keyboard layouts, switch between them and transfer them from one computer to another.

There is a function not mapped to the keyboard by default that allows you to zoom in to the location of your Playhead, regardless of what is selected or marked.

You have a photograph, or have created a still frame from video and would like to change the duration without a lot of hassle.

Duplicate a clip and move it horizontally in your sequence with the Option-Drag method.

Duplicate a clip and move it vertically in your sequence with the Option-Shift-Drag method.

Understand the caveats related to editing AVCHD & XDCAM footage in Final Cut Pro 6.

Learn about the importance of an extrernal media (or scratch) drive and how RAID relates to your editing and storage needs.