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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.
| - Author Talk: Richard Harrington and Robbie Carman on Making Video with Apple Final Cut Studio and Adobe Creative Suite
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By
Nancy Aldrich-Ruenzel, Robbie Carman, Richard Harrington
- Nov 26, 2012
- Richard Harrington and Robbie Carman are both Apple Certified Trainers and have extensive backgrounds in video production. They talk with publisher Nancy Aldrich-Ruenzel about their book Video Made on a Mac: Production and Postproduction Using Apple Final Cut Studio and Adobe Creative Suite, explain who it is written for, and reveal why the Mac is their platform of choice for professional endeavors.
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| 3.
| - 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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| 4.
| - 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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| 5.
| - 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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| 6.
| - 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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| 7.
| - 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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| 8.
| - 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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| 9.
| - 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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| 10.
| - iMovie Beyond the Basics
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By
Jeff Carlson
- Jun 21, 2011
- iMovie includes many tools for dealing with special situations, as well as for improving what you've already shot. Jeff Carlson shows you how to use them.
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| 11.
| - 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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| 12.
| - 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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| 13.
| - Connecting Your TV to the Internet: Peachpit's Guide to Set-Top Boxes
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By
Ryan Faas
- Nov 29, 2010
- Apple TV? Google TV? Roku? Ryan Faas examines the top options that should be on your list of possibilities for streaming audio and video to your home TV, pointing out the pros and cons of each system.
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| 14.
| - Use iMovie to Share Videos on YouTube, MobileMe Gallery, and iPhone
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By
John Tollett
- Feb 1, 2010
- John Tollett shows how to use iMovie to share your videos with your pals worldwide.
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| 15.
| - Use iMovie's "Snap to Beats" Feature to Make a Music Video
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By
John Tollett
- Jan 11, 2010
- Your Mac's iMovie application provides a fast, easy (and free) way to create music videos out of footage you already have on hand. John Tollett shows how it's done.
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| 16.
| - 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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| 17.
| - 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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| 18.
| - 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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| 19.
| - Online Addendum to iDVD -- Part of iMovie ’09 & iDVD for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide
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By
Jeff Carlson
- Jul 29, 2009
- This addendum to Jeff Carlson's book, iMovie ’09 & iDVD for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide, covers iDvD in detail.
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| 20.
| - Five Cool and Useful Techniques for iMovie '09 and iDVD
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By
Jeff Carlson
- Jul 6, 2009
- It would be easy to overlook some video-editing and DVD-creation features in iMovie '09 and iDVD, as they aren't immediately apparent to a new (or even longtime) user. But these tips from Jeff Carlson are immediately useful, and loads of fun.
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