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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
20
Part 4: Outside Final Cut Pro

Backing Up and Archiving Libraries

Similar to the saying, “The task isn’t considered finished until all the necessary paperwork is done,” once the editing process is concluded, there are established protocols for both backing up and archiving libraries, as well as preserving the original footage.

In this chapter, we will gain an understanding of the Consolidate media command, which gathers all the footage used in a library and consolidates it in a location of your choice so that no footage is lost when you open an archived library in the future.

Later in this chapter, we will see how media can show as missing after consolidation and how to recover missing files with the Relink Files command.

We will learn where Final Cut Pro automatically backs up libraries and how to manage backups. We will see how automatic backups are designed for project recovery while the edit is still in progress as opposed to archiving after the video is exported.

We will also...

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