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Final Cut Pro Efficient Editing

Final Cut Pro Efficient Editing

By : Iain Anderson
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Final Cut Pro Efficient Editing

Final Cut Pro Efficient Editing

4.8 (18)
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.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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PART 1: Importing and Organizing
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PART 2: Rough Cut to Fine Cut
13
PART 3: Finishing and Exporting

Basic trimming with the Magnetic Timeline

Trimming, at a basic level, usually involves moving the edges of a clip to see more or less of it. As with many other operations in FCP, trimming starts out very simple, but has powerful subtleties (slipping, sliding, and rolling — all to come later). For now, we’ll focus on several useful ways to make a clip longer or shorter, with the mouse and with the keyboard. But first, a little check — do you have enough media?

Do you have enough media?

Each clip on a timeline represents a link to all or part of an actual clip that was recorded. Put simply, the start and end of each clip can be adjusted to the left or right, making a clip longer or shorter. But that’s only true if there’s enough media to allow the edit to proceed. If you’ve added entire clips to your timeline, you might be using the very first or very last frame of a real clip, and each one is a hard limit past which you can’t extend...

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