Overview
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Use Final Cut Pro to create professional-looking video projects. Learn essential video and audio editing techniques including color correction and media management.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Final Cut Pro
- What you should know
- Touring the interface and import
- Creating a project
- Adding additional edits to the timeline
- Removing unwanted dialogue: Part one
- Removing unwanted dialogue: Part two
- Adding B-roll clips at markers
- Adding more cutaways with markers
- Adding final shots
- Stabilizing clips and matching color
- Adding titles
- Exporting a project
- The fundamentals of video editing
- Under the hood: Understanding the FCP X file structure
- Looking deeper at the FCP interface
- Using and customizing workspaces
- Customizing a keyboard
- New features in 10.6.2
- Creating libraries and events
- Organizing files: Keeping it clean on your OS
- Importing assets: Copying vs. leaving files in place
- Importing assets: Transcoding footage
- Importing assets: Fixing common problems
- Importing assets from a file-based camera
- Sending projects from iMovie iOS to FCP
- Organizing footage with keywords
- Applying keywords to part of a clip
- Using keyboard shortcuts to apply keywords
- Rating and filtering clips
- Performing searches
- Working with and creating Smart Collections
- Deeper organization with list view and custom columns
- Organizing video and audio into roles
- Working with the Info inspector and metadata views
- Navigating and marking footage
- Creating a project and using the append edit
- Using the insert edit
- Using the connect edit
- Using the overwrite and replace edit
- Moving and trimming clips in the timeline
- Creating secondary storylines for connected clips
- Removing clips in the timeline
- Adjusting your project's audio levels
- Changing timeline appearance and navigation
- Using the timeline index
- Trimming with the edit point in mind
- Markers
- Ripple and top and tail trimming
- Roll trim
- Slip and slide trimming
- Fine tuned editing via the precision editor
- Adjusting scale, position, and rotation
- Using different cropping methods
- Using Distort
- Creating a video fade in and fade out
- Making constant speed changes
- Working with slow motion shot in camera
- Using speed presets
- Creating speed ramping effects
- Working with stills and Ken Burns
- Audio post-production basics
- Looking at different audio types in FCP
- Monitoring audio
- Adjusting levels in the browser and project
- Fading, cross fading, and ducking audio
- Fixing audio automatically
- Recording voice-over and narration
- Syncing audio and video
- Working with audio roles and lanes for final mix
- Audio isolation
- Syncing a multicam clip
- Performing a multicam edit
- Refining a multicam edit
- Viewing 360° clips
- Creating a 360° project and cloning out a tripod
- Adding and adjusting transitions
- Adding and adjusting video effects
- Adding and adjusting audio effects
- Animating video effects
- Copying and pasting effects and nesting clips
- Auditioning effects
- Creating effect presets
- Using masks and the object tracker with effects
- Creating a title
- Adding a lower third
- Finding and replacing title text
- Working with generator effects
- Working with a layered Photoshop file
- Titles for social media
- Using the object tracker with 3D titles
- Analyzing and fixing shots for white balance
- Applying color looks
- Color matching clips automatically
- Following a proper color correction workflow
- An intro to FCP Color inspector
- Performing a basic color grade
- Adding style to your shots
- Working with color and shape masks
- Working with HDR iPhone footage
- Media management introduction
- Deleting generated media files
- Relinking and deleting clips in a library
- Moving and copying clips between libraries
- Managing library storage locations
- Sending your library to another editor
- Referencing a backup library
- Exporting a still image
- Exporting a hi-res movie
- Exporting part of your project to YouTube
- Exporting a project to different destinations
- Exporting different title languages through video roles
- Exporting audio roles
- Exporting closed captions
- Exporting a selection of clips
- Using Compressor in Final Cut Pro
- Creating a Compressor preset with a watermark
- Free Motion content
- Bringing a Motion generator to FCP
- Exploring title behaviors
- Where do you go from here?
