Overview
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Learn how to upgrade to Final Cut Pro X and migrate your projects and workflows from Final Cut Pro 7 over to the new toolset.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- FCP X is a different landscape
- What is a library and where is the browser?
- Learn to love the Inspector
- An editor's opinion: Getting the interface to work for you
- The difference between linking and adding to a library
- Original, optimized, and proxy footage
- What the rest of the ingest switches do
- An editor's opinion: Getting the most out of the ingest
- Where are my sequences? Where are my bins?
- How keywords are different and more powerful than bins
- Where are my subclips?
- Adjusting metadata for clips with the Inspector
- Adding a LUT and what to do if you need more than FCP X has built in
- What happened to the viewer and how to best play clips?
- How to sync dual audio such as DSLR footage
- What is a role and why should you care?
- An editor's opinion: When to use thumbnails vs. lists
- How everyday editing works
- Three-point and backtime editing
- Nuances of replacing clips
- Using Audition means multiple clips in the same place
- Adding dissolves especially on connected clips/secondary storylines
- Working snapshots vs. versioning duplicates
- The timeline index: Your secret weapon
- An editor's thoughts on FCP X editing
- Cutting down clips quickly with trim start/end (Tops and Tails)
- Using the Blade tool
- How to create split edits and other pro trimming
- Slipping, sliding, and nudging clips on the timeline
- An editor's thoughts on trimming
- Adjusting audio source levels
- Adjusting head and tail fades
- Keyframing and using the Range tool for smart ducking
- Using lanes: How they give some level of "tracks"
- Noise reduction, hum removal, and other audio effects
- Working with mono and stereo tracks
- An editor's thoughts on audio
- Retiming clips, including optical flow
- No more Motion tab: Resizing and cropping clips
- Adding and saving effects
- Compound clips
- Adding titles
- How Motion is meant to work with FCP X
- An editor's thoughts on effects
- Exporting: Using the Share menu and how to send to Compressor
- Moving media between projects
- Deleting render files
- Some best practices for a shared environment
- Next steps
