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Visually storyboarding in the browser – Apple Final Cut Express 4 User Manual

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Part VI

Rough Editing

Visually Storyboarding in the Browser

If you display your clips in icon view in the Browser, you see a thumbnail of each clip,
which provides a quick visual way to arrange the icons of your clips into a storyboard
for your sequence. If you then drag all of the arranged clips to the Canvas or Timeline,
the clips are laid out in your sequence according to their position in the Browser. You
can then adjust, or fine-tune, the content of each clip in the Timeline.

For example, a group that’s arranged like this:

Goes into your sequence like this:

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