Overview
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A comprehensive method for developing compelling storylines in Final Cut Pro X 10.1.x.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Exploring different types of storytellers
- Identifying story elements
- Finding the essence of the story
- Organizing footage into folders
- Creating a disk image as a contained workspace
- Importing folders and stills as keyword collections
- Adding keywords to make clips accessible
- Using favorite tags to call clips into action
- Making notes to capture observations
- Performing a complex search
- Prepping clips for editing
- Finding the meat of the clips
- Don't be puzzled over your first edit
- Creating project versions and developing story diversity
- Putting story threads in order
- Sculpting the story within the timeline
- Trimming distractions from a story
- Compounding thoughts into one primary story project
- Evaluating the project for story content and pacing
- Fine-tuning the edits in a project
- Refining the primary sound bed
- Organizing separate story segments into independent storylines
- Storyboarding a narrative script using placeholders
- Recording a narration track to explore script ideas
- Changing pitch in a temporary narration track to identify different characters
- Adding sound effects to create depth
- Embellishing the story with cutaways to B-roll footage
- Finessing cutaways to enhance the story
- Editing and arranging a still-image storyline
- Applying the Ken Burns effect to still images
- Applying effects to enhance story elements
- Altering your story's "look" using the Color Board
- Retiming to lengthen or shorten music and clips
- Adding freeze frames to end or start sections
- Video finishing touches
- Audio finishing touches
- Goodbye
