Overview
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Get up and running with Final Cut Pro X 10.3. Explore the post-production process, including editing video and audio, applying color correction, and delivering the final project.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- What versions of FCP X does this course cover?
- What's new in Final Cut Pro X v10.3?
- What's new in Final Cut Pro X 10.4?
- What's new in Final Cut Pro X v. 10.4.1?
- An under-the-hood introduction: Understanding the FCP X file structure
- A tour of the FCP X interface: Basic clip viewing and organization
- A tour of the FCP X interface: Timeline and tools
- Setting up libraries and importing your assets
- Importing from file-based cameras and live cameras
- Organizing footage with keywords and folders
- Rating and filtering clips
- Performing searches and creating Smart Collections
- Importing iMovie projects (Mac and iOS)
- Playing, navigating, and marking footage
- Making the first edits: Using Insert and Append edits
- Changing shots: Using Overwrite and Replace edits
- Removing material to refine the story
- Adding B-roll: Connecting clips to the primary storyline
- Moving clips around in the timeline
- Editing with audio in mind
- Going deeper into timeline and interface navigation
- Trimming clips: Rippling and performing extend edits
- Manipulating transitions and creating split edits: Using the Roll tool
- Changing shot content and position: Performing Slip and Slide edits
- Understanding trimming limitations and working with the Precision Editor
- Understanding features and limitations of connected clips
- Working with secondary storylines
- Setting audio channel configuration
- Adjusting audio levels
- Keyframing audio
- Repairing audio problems automatically
- Recording voiceover audio
- Syncing your video to high-quality audio
- Nesting shots and working with compound clips
- Montage editing with Top and Tail Edits
- Auditioning clips to try multiple editing options
- Working with markers
- Using roles to define clip categories
- Customizing the keyboard
- Working with closed captions (v. 10.4.1)
- Syncing your multicam group clips
- Performing a multicam edit
- Refining the multicam edit
- Working with basic motion effects: Transform, Crop, and Distort
- Working with still images
- Adding and adjusting transition effects
- Adding and adjusting video effects
- Adding and adjusting audio effects
- Keyframing video and audio effects over time
- Copying and pasting effects and creating effect templates
- Creating titles
- Working with generator effects
- Creating freeze frames
- Using speed effects to retime clips
- Working with layered Photoshop files
- Understanding rendering options and preferences
- Analyzing shots for color problems
- Following a proper color correction workflow (v. 10.3)
- Color grading to add style (v. 10.3)
- Using color correction templates (v. 10.3)
- Using automatic color correction tools (v. 10.3 and 10.4)
- Working with color masks and shape masks (v. 10.3)
- Getting to know the color correction tools (v. 10.4)
- Following a proper color correction workflow (v. 10.4)
- Color grading to add style (v. 10.4)
- Color grading to add style (v. 10.4)
- Working with color masks and shape masks (v. 10.4)
- Basic library and event management
- Managing libraries, events, and clips
- Managing your projects and collaborating with others
- Managing generated content: Transcoded and render files
- Exporting a still image
- Export settings interface change in FCP X v. 10.4.1
- Exporting a hi-res QuickTime movie with chapter markers
- Exporting projects for the web, Apple devices, and DVD
- Exporting stems out of the timeline using roles (10.3/10.4)
- Exporting stems out of the timeline using roles (10.4.1 and beyond)
- Introduction to compression concepts
- Interface tour
- Basic Compressor workflows
- Useful effect add-ons
- Customizing templates and saving presets
- Creating droplets
- Finished promo: The Mission of Project RELO
- Next steps
