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| - Building a Rough Cut in Final Cut Pro X
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By
Diana Weynand
- Mar 13, 2013
- In this lesson you’ll build a rough cut using the source media you’ve imported. To begin, you will create a new project, and mark clips you’ve placed in Keyword Collections. Then, you’ll choose your Favorite clips and edit them into the project to create a primary storyline.
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| 2.
| - Final Cut Pro X Advanced Editing: Working with Sound
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By
Michael Wohl, Mark Spencer, Alexis Van Hurkman
- May 29, 2012
- Final Cut Pro X contains an impressive number of ways to improve your video’s sound. It has tools to set the audio levels to a uniform, accurate volume; multiple methods to create audio fades and four fade styles; intuitive controls for panning sound between speakers, in both stereo and surround sound environments; and much more. Learn how to work with sounds in Final Cut Pro X in this chapter from Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro X Advanced Editing.
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| 3.
| - Managing Media in Final Cut Pro X
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By
Larry Jordan
- Feb 22, 2012
- Unlike any other editing system, Final Cut Pro X is designed from the ground up to work with tapeless media, which is media recorded to cards and hard disks, not videotape. Managing this media is what this chapter is all about.
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| 4.
| - Editing DSLR Video with Final Cut Pro X: Organizing Your Media
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By
Richard Harrington, Robbie Carman, Abba Shapiro
- Feb 8, 2012
- Final Cut Pro X has several tools that let you sort, sift, filter, and find the perfect shot. You can use embedded metadata as well as attach powerful keywords to improve your ability to locate the perfect shot. In this chapter you'll learn the many ways to organize your media.
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| 5.
| - Final Cut Pro X: Visual QuickStart Guide: Marking Clips
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By
Lisa Brenneis, Michael Wohl
- Jan 19, 2012
- This chapter will cover different ways of identifying, selecting, and highlighting bits of clips in Final Cut Pro X.
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| 6.
| - Author Interview: Lisa Brenneis and Michael Wohl
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By
Lisa Brenneis, Michael Wohl
- Dec 7, 2011
- Hot on the heels of the release of their new book, Final Cut Pro X Visual QuickStart Guide, expert authors, filmmakers and teachers Lisa Brenneis and Michael Wohl sat down with us to discuss Final Cut Pro and a few more things besides!
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| 7.
| - Apple Pro Video Series: Final Cut Pro X: Import
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By
Steve Martin
- Oct 27, 2011
- Steve Martin discusses the three main paths for ingesting media into Final Cut Pro X: importing from a camera (file- and tape-based), importing files, and importing from iMovie.
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| 8.
| - Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro X: Building the Rough Cut
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By
Diana Weynand
- Oct 20, 2011
- In this lesson you’ll build a rough cut using the source media you’ve imported. To begin, you will create a new project, and mark clips you’ve placed in Keyword Collections. Then, you’ll choose your Favorite clips and edit them into the project to create a primary storyline.
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| 9.
| - Final Cut Pro for Avid Editors: Speed and Motion Effects
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By
Diana Weynand
- Mar 29, 2011
- By using a hybrid approach to building composites, you will learn how to scale, position, crop, distort an image’s perspective, and even set keyframes, all directly on the sequence clip in the Canvas.
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| 10.
| - Final Cut Pro for Avid Editors: Trimming Clips
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By
Diana Weynand
- Mar 9, 2011
- Diana Weynand covers the basic Avid approach to trimming and shows how to perform those same functions in Final Cut Pro.
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| 11.
| - Final Cut Pro Power Skills: Working in the Application
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By
Larry Jordan
- Nov 16, 2009
- Based on how well you understand the Final Cut Pro interface, it can determine whether we are happy or frustrated, productive or panicking. Larry Jordan offers dozens of Power Skills you can use to turn yourself into an interface master.
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| 12.
| - Q&A with Lisa Brenneis
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By
Lisa Brenneis, Damon Hampson
- Oct 6, 2009
- Peachpit marketing manager Damon Hampson interviews Lisa Brenneis, author of Final Cut Pro 7: Visual QuickPro Guide, about some of her favorite new features in Final Cut Pro 7, exciting new developments in the world of film/video production and editing, and why all-girl bands aren't for her.
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| 13.
| - Working with Projects, Sequences, and Clips in Final Cut Pro 7
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By
Lisa Brenneis
- Oct 6, 2009
- Lisa Brenneis gives an overview of Final Cut Pro's organizing frameworks—projects, sequences, and clips. You'll also learn how to manipulate that organizational framework so that your projects, sequences, and clips stay sound and organized.
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| 14.
| - Exporting Still Images from Final Cut Pro
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By
Larry Jordan
- Feb 18, 2009
- So how do you export a still frame from Final Cut? Tom Wolsky shows you how and also alerts you to a number of gotchas to avoid along the way.
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| 15.
| - News Flash: How to Log and Capture Footage from Videotape
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By
Joe Torelli
- Jul 14, 2008
- Most broadcast organizations aspire to tapeless acquisition, but the reality is that most are still using videotape in the field. This sample chapter focuses on techniques that accelerate the process of working with videotape in a nonlinear environment, specifically as it relates to fast-paced news and sports editing.
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| 16.
| - Preprocessing: How Real Movie Magic is Made
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By
Andy Beach
- May 5, 2008
- In this excerpt from Real World Video Compression, author Andy Beach shares industrial-strength preprocessing techniques that will make your video look professional no matter what device you're watching it on.
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| 17.
| - Beginner's Guide to Editing in the Final Cut Pro HD Timeline
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By
Diana Weynand
- Dec 15, 2006
- In this 60-minute Apple-certified lesson, you'll learn how to use the Timeline in Final Cut Pro. By the end of the hour, you'll have learned how to select and move clips in the Timeline, copy and paste clips, select multiple clips in the Timeline, work with the Snapping control and more.
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| 18.
| - Final Cut Pro for Avid Editors: Customizing Your Project
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By
Diana Weynand
- Nov 17, 2006
- This 45-minute lesson takes a look at where and how to adjust your settings in Final Cut Pro. You'll learn how to select an editing preset, change audio/video settings, select user preferences, and more. This chapter also covers bin organization and describes storyboard editing, which is performed largely by working within a bin.
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| 19.
| - Editing in the Timeline
- Jul 17, 2006
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| 20.
| - Editing Action in Final Cut Pro 5
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By
Michael Wohl
- May 19, 2006
- This chapter will teach you to edit action sequences in Final Cut Pro 5. Learning to cut action sequences is one of the most basic editing techniques that you'll need to learn to create your own movies. Action doesn't just mean fighting, so even if you don't intend an epic battle between the hero and the villain, you'll still want to read this chapter to find out how to edit these scenes.
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