Overview
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Use Final Cut Pro X 10.4 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
- All Roads Lead to Final Cut Pro X
- What you should know
- The Final Cut Pro X Ecosystem
- Relinking exercise files
- New features in Final Cut Pro 10.4.7
- New features in FCPX 10.4.9
- New features in Final Cut Pro 10.5
- Object tracker, part 1
- Object tracker, part 2
- The fundamentals of video editing
- An under-the-hood introduction: Understanding the Final Cut Pro (FCP) X file structure
- A tour of the FCP X interface: Basic clip viewing and organization
- A tour of the FCP X interface: Browser
- A tour of the interface: Organizing the browser
- A tour of the FCP X interface: Timeline
- A tour of the FCP X interface: Tools and effects
- Using Sidecar with Final Cut Pro X
- Setting up libraries and events
- Organizing files: Keeping it clean on your OS
- Importing assets: Copying vs. leaving files in place
- Organizing files: Keeping it clean on your OS
- Importing assets: Fixing common problems
- Importing assets from a file-based camera
- Organizing footage with keywords
- Applying keywords to part of a clip
- Rating and filtering clips
- Performing searches
- Working with and creating Smart Collections
- Deeper organization in list view
- Organizing video and audio into rolls
- Importing assets from another Final Cut Pro X library
- Sending projects from iMovie to FCP X
- Working with the info inspector and metadata views
- Navigating and marking footage
- Creating a project and using the Append edit
- Using Edit > Insert
- Using connect edits and bringing in only video
- Overwriting clips and replacing edits
- 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
- Marking clips
- 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 to create a split screen
- Creating a video fade-in and fade-out
- Making constant speed changes
- Using speed presets
- Creating speed ramping effects
- Working with stills and Ken Burns
- Interpreting slow motion shot in camera
- Audio post-production basics
- Looking at different audio types in FCP X
- Monitoring audio
- Adjusting levels in the browser
- Adjusting levels in the project
- Fading, keyframing, and ducking audio
- Fixing audio automatically
- Recording voice-overs and narration
- Syncing your audio and video
- Working with audio rolls for final mix
- Syncing a multicam clip
- Performing a multicam edit
- Refining a multicam edit
- Creating a 360 project
- Viewing 360 clips
- Working with stereoscopic media
- Effects for 360 clips
- Adding and adjusting transitions
- Adding and adjusting video effects
- Adding and adjusting audio effects
- Keyframing video over time
- Copying and pasting effects and nesting clips
- Auditioning effects
- Creating effect presets
- Creating a title
- Adding a lower third
- Finding and replacing title text
- Working with generator effects
- Working with layered Photoshop files
- Working with titles for nonstandard formats
- Analyzing and fixing shots for white balance
- Applying color looks
- Color matching clips automatically
- Following a proper color correction workflow
- An intro to the FCP X Color Inspector
- Performing a basic color grade
- Adding style to your shots
- Working with color masks
- Working with shape masks
- A word on HDR
- Working with ProRes RAW
- Customizing a workspace
- Customizing a keyboard
- Media management introduction
- Moving, copying, relinking, and deleting clips in a library
- Moving and copying clips between libraries
- Managing library storage locations
- Sending your library to another editor, consolidating media, and deleting generated content
- Copying and Sending a Library with no Media
- Exporting a still image
- Exporting a hi-res movie
- Exporting projects for YouTube
- Exporting part of a project
- Exporting a project to different destinations
- Exporting different title languages through video rolls
- Exporting audio rolls
- Exporting closed captions
- Exporting a selection of clips
- Exporting for vertical and square video
- Exporting an XML
- Why use Compressor?
- Navigating the Compressor interface
- Creating FCP X bundles based on Compressor settings
- Creating a Compressor preset with timecode
- Working with droplets for export on the OS
- The FCP X motion connection
- Free motion content
- Exploring motion templates
- Bringing a motion generator to FCP X
- Exploring title behaviors
- Where do I go from here?
