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

Some video formats are more suitable for different purposes than others. Some are better as camera clips, and others are better for editing or delivery (export). This section will delve into various file formats and their respective strengths for different applications. Let’s get started:

  • The following are the formats best suitable as camera files. The most common file formats for entry-level cameras are AVCHD and MP4. However, different brands and more advanced cameras will have proprietary formats:
    • Sony camera formats are AVCHD, MP4, DV, XAVC S, XAVC S HD, HDV, MPEG2, MPEG4, and ProRes RAW
    • RED cameras use R3D and REDCODE RAW
    • ARRI cameras use formats with the .ari, .mxf, and .arriraw extensions
    • Canon cameras use MP4 (H.264), MP4 (HEVC), HEVC, XF-AVC (.mxf), RAW – Cinema RAW (.crm), and .mov
    • Panasonic cameras use the following:
      • HC: AVCHD, MP4, MP4, iFrame, and .mov
      • HDC: AVCHD and 50p H.264
      • HM: MPEG4 and Apple iFrame
      • SDR: SD...

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