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Working with tabs and tabbed windows – Apple Final Cut Express 4 User Manual

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Part II

Learning About the Final Cut Express Interface

Working with Tabs and Tabbed Windows

The Viewer and Browser contain tabs that let you access different functions. The
Browser also contains tabs for open projects. Tabs in the Timeline and Canvas represent
open sequences.

To make a tab active:

m

Click the tab.

To close a tab, do one of the following:

m

Control-click the tab, then choose Close Tab from the shortcut menu

m

Click a tab to make it the frontmost tab, then press Control-W.

You can drag tabs out of their main, or parent, windows so they appear in a separate
window. This is useful when you are working on more than one sequence or project
at a time.

The Viewer contains
tabs that specify
functions within clips.

The Browser

contains tabs

for open projects

and effects.

The Canvas contains
a tab for each open
sequence.

Like the Canvas, the

Timeline contains a tab

for each open sequence.