This series of tips are the very very basics for starting out with Final Cut Pro.  Once you understand a few important fundamental rules then can start learning and creating.  The first tip is project naming, I can’t stress enough how essential it is to get your project name right, it should be clear and in a location that’s easy to find.

Before you start work on a new project it’s important that you name your project.
1. When you open Final Cut Pro automatically comes up with an untitled project.

2.  Go to FILE and click SAVE PROJECT AS…….

3. Save your project.

NOTES ON PROJECT NAMING PRINCIPALS

- Always save your project in a dedicated project folder on a drive separate from your media drives

- Always name your project in a simple and straightforward manner without the use of symbols and with clear version numbers.  As an example a dailies project for “The Example Project” days one to twenty would be TEP_Dailies_D1to20. And the Editorial version would be TEP_Editv1

- Backup your working project on a daily basis.