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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

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By: Bruce G. Macbryde
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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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Preface
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
To get the most out of this book
Conventions used
Get in touch
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Prologue
Prologue
Who this book is for
What this book covers
Free Chapter
2
Part 1:Planning
Part 1:Planning
3
Chapter 1: It’s All about the Media
Chapter 1: It’s All about the Media
Technical requirements
The Users folder
The definition of a video file
Where Final Cut Pro libraries are stored
The library concept
The plug-in folders
Video formats
Which video format is best for which purpose?
Audio formats
Second monitors
Types of disks
Summary
4
Chapter 2: Organizing Media
Chapter 2: Organizing Media
Understanding libraries and events
When and why to log clips
Favorites
Understanding Keyword Collections
Smart Collections
What are folders?
Templates
Using the Search functionality
Colored lines on browser clips
Removing media from categories
Browser filters
Sorting the browser
The Open Clip view
Shortcuts for media actions
Exploring clip and library information
Exploring Settings/Preferences
Summary
5
Chapter 3: Planning the Video Story
Chapter 3: Planning the Video Story
A story is a journey
What you should remember when planning a story
Planning for different types of videos
Summary
6
Chapter 4: Pre-Editing a Rough Cut
Chapter 4: Pre-Editing a Rough Cut
The steps from importing to rough cut
Ingesting the media
Logging
What are projects?
Adding clips to the project
The timeline
The initial assembly
The rough cut
Summary
7
Part 2:Editing
Part 2:Editing
8
Chapter 5: Refining the Rough Cut
Chapter 5: Refining the Rough Cut
Understanding the remove, replace, and add actions
Understanding the timeline view tools
What is pacing?
What is the Total Running Time (TRT)/picture lock?
Summary
9
Chapter 6: Fixing and Enhancing the Audio
Chapter 6: Fixing and Enhancing the Audio
Understanding audio in the browser
Audio in the timeline
Fixing audio vocal problems
Suggestions for correcting audio
Using XML files
Exporting with audio-only roles
Audio tips and tricks
Summary
10
Chapter 7: Titles, Effects, and Generators
Chapter 7: Titles, Effects, and Generators
What are titles?
Adding text to a title
What are generators?
What are effects?
What are transitions?
What are Plug-ins?
Summary
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Chapter 8: Setting Up and Editing Multicam
Chapter 8: Setting Up and Editing Multicam
What is multicam?
Suggestions for filming to suit multicam editing
Settings before multicam editing
Actions in the multicam angle timeline
Editing the multicam project
Summary
12
Chapter 9: Project Workflows – Pace and Structure
Chapter 9: Project Workflows – Pace and Structure
Interviews
Audio in sync
Conferences and seminars
Weddings
Full-length movies and documentaries
Social media videos
Family holiday movies
Cutting to a beat
General techniques
Summary
13
Part 3:Using the Inspector
Part 3:Using the Inspector
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Chapter 10: The Inspector Controls
Chapter 10: The Inspector Controls
The four main tabs of the inspector
The Video inspector
The Color inspector
The Audio inspector
The Information inspector
The Titles inspector
The Text inspector
The Generator inspector
The Transition inspector
Summary
15
Chapter 11: Using Built-In Plug-Ins
Chapter 11: Using Built-In Plug-Ins
An explanation of plug-in terminology
Plug-ins – general knowledge
Built-in plug-ins
Creating custom plug-ins from built-in plug-ins
Summary
16
Chapter 12: Using Third-Party Plug-Ins
Chapter 12: Using Third-Party Plug-Ins
Free plug-ins
Purchasable plug-ins
Workflow extensions
LUTs
Uninstalling plug-ins
Summary
17
Chapter 13: Using Keyframes to Animate Objects in Final Cut Pro
Chapter 13: Using Keyframes to Animate Objects in Final Cut Pro
What is a keyframe?
Audio keyframing
Keyframing in the inspector
Keyframing in the viewer
Viewer keyframe controls
Keyframing video animation
Ken Burns on steroids
Summary
18
Chapter 14: Understanding the Principles of Color
Chapter 14: Understanding the Principles of Color
Color theory
Color wheels in Final Cut Pro
Color harmony
Monitoring color accuracy
Color correction and grading
Summary
19
Chapter 15: Using Color Scopes for Advanced Color Correction
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Chapter 15: Using Color Scopes for Advanced Color Correction
Displaying the scopes
Scopes workflow in Final Cut Pro
Color curves
Hue and saturation curves
Color and shape masks
Summary
20
Part 4: Outside Final Cut Pro
Part 4: Outside Final Cut Pro
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Chapter 16: Your Job Role – Collaboration
Chapter 16: Your Job Role – Collaboration
Understanding the job roles in video production
Exploring the industries that require video editors
Should you be a freelancer?
Collaboration between remote video editors
Summary
22
Chapter 17: Supporting Software Applications for Final Cut Pro
Chapter 17: Supporting Software Applications for Final Cut Pro
Apple applications that support Final Cut Pro
Non-Apple applications that support Final Cut Pro
Summary
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Chapter 18: Troubleshooting Final Cut Pro
Chapter 18: Troubleshooting Final Cut Pro
Updating macOS and Final Cut Pro
Fixing problems
The easy fixes
The harder fixes
Relinking missing media
Final Cut Pro quitting unexpectedly
Summary
24
Chapter 19: Backing Up and Archiving Libraries
Chapter 19: Backing Up and Archiving Libraries
Working with Final Cut Pro backups
Preparing to archive a library
Archiving the library
Indexing archives
Maintaining archive devices
Summary
25
Index
Index
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Color curves

While you should always try to capture the best image you can with the camera, color curves give you the ability to produce almost as good an image as should have been captured by the camera and fulfill the director’s promise to be able to “fix it in post.”

Color curves were not initially offered with Final Cut Pro; they only became available in late 2017 with version 10.4. They are now a well-used alternative to the color board and the color wheel. Color curves should definitely be part of your color correction arsenal.

The following section looks at the different curves in detail.

Luma curve

All color curves are displayed as graphs; the horizontal axis is at the bottom and the vertical axis is on the left side. I’m going to start by showing the Luma curve, which represents black and white and grayscale, from 0 (black) to 255 (white), with the bottom-left corner being black and the top-right corner being white. There is a 45-degree...

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