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Edit without Tears with Final Cut Pro

Edit without Tears with Final Cut Pro

By : Bruce G. Macbryde
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Edit without Tears with Final Cut Pro

Edit without Tears with Final Cut Pro

4.2 (5)
By: Bruce G. Macbryde

Overview of this book

Edit Without Tears with Final Cut Pro is your essential guide to overcoming challenges in video editing using Final Cut Pro, simplifying complex procedures and workflows and providing a structured approach for efficient and impressive video editing. This book will change how you approach editing, guiding you to create professional-grade videos with ease and confidence. Throughout the book, you'll enhance your efficiency and speed, while also learning unique workflows for common tasks. The comprehensive coverage spans planning video narratives, crafting preliminary edits and refining them, improving audio quality, setting up and editing multicam sequences, leveraging the inspector's controls, and working with both built-in and third-party plugins. You’ll then advance to animating objects using keyframes, utilizing color scopes for advanced color correction, and troubleshooting common issues confidently. By the end of this Final Cut Pro book, you’ll have developed an efficient editing style, unlocking the full power of this video editing software for your creative endeavors.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
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Part 1:Planning
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Part 2:Editing
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Part 3:Using the Inspector
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Part 4: Outside Final Cut Pro

Ken Burns on steroids

The Ken Burns effect is a simple way of animating a zoom-in effect when you want to smoothly move from a wide view of a scene to a close-up or vice versa.

You will be familiar with the use of the Ken Burns effect and how the green outline represents the starting point of the change in size and the red outline shows the ending size:

Figure 13.24: Ken Burns green to red

Figure 13.24: Ken Burns green to red

The Ken Burns effect is certainly a quick alternative to keyframing a change of angle. However, you need to be careful that the original image has a high enough resolution, avoiding the zoomed-in portion pixelating. If you have filmed in 4k and have the clip in a 1080p timeline, you will be able to zoom in 2x (or 100%) of the screen size.

You can achieve this by starting the project at 1080p and dragging in the 4k clip. Final Cut Pro will fit the 4k clip into the 1080p timeline. Figure 13.25 shows a 1080p project on the left and a 4k clip added to the 1080p timeline...

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