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Final Cut Pro X Cookbook

Final Cut Pro X Cookbook

By : Jason Cox
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Final Cut Pro X Cookbook

Final Cut Pro X Cookbook

3.9 (8)
By: Jason Cox

Overview of this book

As technology becomes more and more accessible and easier to use, we are expected to do more in less time than ever before. Video editors are now expected to be able not only to edit, but create motion graphics, fix sound issues, enhance image quality and color and more. Also, many workers in the PR and marketing world are finding they need to know how to get viral videos made from start to finish as quickly as possible. Final Cut Pro X was built as a one-stop shop with all the tools needed to produce a professional video from beginning to end.The "Final Cut Pro X Cookbook" contains recipes that will take you from the importing process and basic mechanics of editing up through many of FCPX's advanced tools needed by top-tier editors on a daily basis. Edit quickly and efficiently, fix image and sound problems with ease, and get your video out to your client or the world easily.No program gets you from application launch to the actual editing process faster than FCPX. After covering the basics, the book hits the ground running showing readers how to produce professional quality videos even if video editing isn't your day job.The recipes inside are packed with more than 300 images helping illustrate time-saving editing tools, problem-solving techniques and how to spice up your video with beautiful effects and titles. We also dive into audio editing, color correction and dabble in FCPX's sister programs Motion and Compressor!With more than 100 recipes, the Final Cut Pro X Cookbook is a great aid for the avid enthusiast up to the 40-hour-a-week professional. This book contains everything you need to make videos that captivate your audiences.
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Preface

Creating a video wall


Sometimes one image on the screen just isn't enough. Whether it's for a music video, multiple angle view, or a video where you just need to cram in more visual information in a short amount of time, it's easy to stack clips in FCPX and play them all back simultaneously on the screen wherever you want, at any size. In this exercise, we'll create a video wall with four, evenly spaced clips, as follows:

Getting ready

If you haven't read the Using the Transform tool recipe, now would be a good time to do so. Also, this exercise assumes you are using HD video that is 1920 x 1080. If not, some of the Position numbers we'll be manipulating will not work exactly. Read the There's More... section at the end of this recipe to figure out the math and numbers you'll need if you aren't using full HD video.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Find and edit four clips into your timeline on top of one another. That means you will likely append (E) or insert (W) the first clip to the primary storyline and...

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