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Final Cut Pro Efficient Editing - Second Edition

By : Iain Anderson
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Final Cut Pro Efficient Editing - Second Edition

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By: Iain Anderson

Overview of this book

Elevate your video editing skills with Final Cut Pro 10.7.1, the ultimate tool for efficient and professional editing, offering powerful new features to enhance your workflow and give your videos a stunning look. The second edition of this comprehensive guide covers exciting new features in FCP, teaching you how to streamline your workflow with customizable workspaces, shortcuts, and advanced trimming tools. Explore best-in-class titles and a comprehensive suite of visual effects in Final Cut Pro for dynamic videos, create a great-sounding mix with Final Cut Pro's audio tools, and utilize the magnetic timeline, multicam editing, and advanced color correction for every project. Whether you're creating content for social media, YouTube, or Hollywood, Final Cut Pro Efficient Editing, Second Edition is your ultimate guide to professional video editing. Get your copy today and take your video editing skills to the next level.

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Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Preface
Preface
Who this book is for
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PART 1: Importing and Organizing
PART 1: Importing and Organizing
Free Chapter
2
1 Quick Start: An Introduction to FCP
1 Quick Start: An Introduction to FCP
A brief history of editing
Interface basics
An editing workflow overview
Workflow
Hardware recommendations
Summary
Review questions
Review answers
3
2 Before the Edit: Production Tips
2 Before the Edit: Production Tips
Getting the settings right
Choosing a camera
Shooting the right shots
Working with multiple cameras and audio recorders
Managing everything on set
Summary
Review questions
Review answers
4
3 Bring It In: Importing Your Footage
3 Bring It In: Importing Your Footage
Creating a Library (in the right place)
Understanding original, optimized, and proxy footage
Importing media in different ways
Syncing media from multiple devices
Understanding and applying Roles
Summary
Review questions
Review answers
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4 Sort It Out: Reviewing and Keywording
4 Sort It Out: Reviewing and Keywording
Reviewing your media
Browser view options
Playback shortcuts
Examining metadata
Understanding and applying Keywords
Searching with Keywords
Summary
Review questions
Review Answers
6
5 Choose Your Favorites: Selecting, Rating, and Searching
5 Choose Your Favorites: Selecting, Rating, and Searching
Selecting part of a clip
Rating as a Favorite
Rating as Rejected
Storing additional information
Advanced searches
Summary
Review questions
Review answers
7
PART 2: Rough Cut to Fine Cut
PART 2: Rough Cut to Fine Cut
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6 Build the spine of the story: Quick Assembly
6 Build the spine of the story: Quick Assembly
Creating a new Project
Adding your media in a few different ways
Rearranging your clips
Basic trimming with the Magnetic Timeline
Blading and deleting
Duplicating Projects
Summary
Review questions
Review answers
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7 Cover It Up: Connections, Cutaways, and Storylines
7 Cover It Up: Connections, Cutaways, and Storylines
Understanding cutaways
Connecting clips
Grouping connected clips in Storylines
Controlling and overriding connections
Three-point editing and more
Summary
Review questions
Review answers
10
8 Neaten the Edges: Trimming Techniques
8 Neaten the Edges: Trimming Techniques
Rolling an edit
Slipping and Sliding clips
Softening audio with split edits (J- and L-cuts)
Editing numerically and with the precision editor
Summary
Review questions
Review answers
11
9 Consider Your Options: Multicam, Replacing, and Auditions
9 Consider Your Options: Multicam, Replacing, and Auditions
Working with Multicam media
Exchanging one clip with another
Creating and using Auditions
Summary
Review questions
Review answers
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10 Explore a Little: Compound Clips and Timeline Tricks
10 Explore a Little: Compound Clips and Timeline Tricks
Creating and using Compound Clips
Low-level relinking
More tricks with tools
Adding and navigating with Markers
Using the Timeline Index
Summary
Review questions
Review answers
13
PART 3: Finishing and Exporting
PART 3: Finishing and Exporting
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11 Play with Light: Color Correction and Grading
11 Play with Light: Color Correction and Grading
Understanding the color workflow
Correcting white balance, exposure, and saturation
Adjusting Saturation with the Color Board
Finessing contrast and more
Selective corrections
Advanced color techniques
Summary
Review questions
Review answers
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12 Refine and Smooth: Video Properties and Effects
12 Refine and Smooth: Video Properties and Effects
Adjusting video properties
Animating with keyframes and tracking
Applying and using video effects
Summary
Review questions
Review answers
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13 Blend and Warp: Video Transitions and Retiming
13 Blend and Warp: Video Transitions and Retiming
Applying and editing transitions
Retiming basics
Speed ramping and more
Summary
Review questions
Review answers
17
14 Boost the Signal: Audio Sweetening
14 Boost the Signal: Audio Sweetening
Recording and editing a voiceover
Adjusting volume levels
Audio Enhancements
Applying and using audio effects
Using Roles with audio
Summary
Review questions
Review answers
18
15 A Few Words: Titles and Generators
15 A Few Words: Titles and Generators
Adding and editing titles
Advanced title techniques
Adding and editing generators
Captioning and subtitles
Summary
Review questions
Review answers
19
16 You’re Done: Exporting Your Edit and Finishing Up
16 You’re Done: Exporting Your Edit and Finishing Up
Preparing for sharing
Exporting, uploading, and distributing your video
Exporting for further production
Archiving your work
What’s next?
Summary
Final words
Review questions
Review answers
20
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101 UX Principles - Second Edition
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21
Index
Index
Download a free PDF copy of this book
Appendix A: 360° Video Workflows
Appendix A: 360° Video Workflows
Introduction
Understanding 360° cameras
Processing your footage
Editing 360° footage in a 360° timeline
Editing 360° footage in a regular timeline
Summary
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Review answers

  1. ⌥ (Option) for more control.
  2. The connected clip darkens the lower clip.
  3. Position Y.
  4. Ken Burns.
  5. Video Animation.
  6. Gaussian.
  7. In the Viewer, if the effect has on-screen controls, and in the Inspector.
  8. Green Screen Keyer.
  9. Save an Effects Preset.
  10. The Pixellate effect, used with Object Tracking.

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