Now we're going to get into the creative process and add music in our timeline. So everything you see here is your primary storyline, music or audio usually goes underneath the primary storyline. Over here in the browser, you should find an audio clip. It's a hip hop beat I made from GarageBand. I'm going to drag this clip into my timeline underneath the video clips. We still have all that unnecessary audio from the video clips.

So we'll go ahead and remove that when I hover my mouse over the line next to the audio, it points to triangles indicating you can adjust the volume up or down. We'll bring that all the way down. Let's remove the audio from the rest of the clips. We can watch the video without hearing that distracting ambient sound and listen to the music. The problem with this is that The music does not go with the beat. So I'm going to move the playhead back to the beginning and we're going to cut this every eight beats.

So I'm going to count these beats. All right, here we go 123456781 I stopped the playhead right when I go back to one and I'll trim the end of this clip. Now let's watch this video and let's do the same thing to the next clip 1-234-567-8123 456781. Now I want to trim the clip to that beat. So let's go ahead and review what we've got so far. Let's select the other clips and in the retiming drop down menu, select automatic speed to make them in slow motion.

We're going to go ahead and play the video and we're going to count this every eight beats 1-234-567-8123 4567 812-345-6781. Cool, so we're going to go ahead and trim it right about there. If you are unsure that you're able to cut to the exact beat you can do in the timeline. A keyboard shortcut is command Plus, I want it to cut right when that beat kicks in. This is when snapping is becoming inconvenient. So I'm going to do select snapping so it doesn't snap to the playhead.

So now I can move it frame by frame and I can cut it to that exact beat. So I'll turn snapping back on because I might need it later. Let's go ahead and play the video. The beginning of the next shot was a bit shaky, so I'll need to remove the beginning of the clip. The good thing with Final Cut Pro is that it uses a magnetic timeline. While I trim the beginning of this clip, it won't leave any empty space here and it moves the rest of the clip up.

As I'm trimming this clip, I'm not relying on snapping this to the playhead. I'm actually looking at the viewer above, you can see the last frame of the previous clip, but I'm more focused on the first frame of the horse statue. It looks like I stopped shaking the camera right about there. Now I want to zoom out of the timeline and review what I got so far. Here's another keyboard shortcut command minus to zoom out. Now let's check out what we have so far and count the beats 123456781 cut it right there.

I'm going to trim the end of that clip right to that B. I need to get a better look at those audio waves. So I'm going to press Command plus to zoom in and move the edge a couple frames right when the B starts. If you want to fit the entire timeline on your screen, you can press Shift z and I can get an overall look what I have so far. Let's move the playhead back to the beginning and press spacebar to play We just covered how you can edit with music, a brief overview of the primary storyline and a few keyboard shortcuts that I use when I navigate around the timeline. Now that's good enough so far and the next step, we'll go over some of the tools I use