- Editing Action in Final Cut Pro 5
- 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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- Editing and Recording Software Instruments in GarageBand
- Aug 11, 2006
- In this lesson, you are going to learn editing and recording techniques for building music with Software Instrument regions. You’ll also learn how to change the tempo, record your own beats, and split, join, and change instruments for Software Instrument tracks in the Timeline.
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- Editing DSLR Video with Final Cut Pro X: Organizing Your Media
- 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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- Editing in the Timeline
- Jul 17, 2006
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- Editing with Blade Speed in Final Cut Pro X 10.1
- Mar 26, 2014
- The variable speed change applies at least two different playback rates within a single clip. This effect requires dividing the clip into segments, one for each speed rate. Brendan Boykin shows you how in this excerpt from Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro X 10.1: Professional Post-Production.
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- Exporting Still Images from Final Cut Pro
- 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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- Extending Your iPod for the Mac
- Feb 18, 2005
- Matthew David tells you how you can add more content to your iPod when you are running Mac, how you can extend the content on your iPod with third-party tools, and why you should really be using a Mac for your iPod.
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- Final Cut Pro 4 Organization and Basic Editing
- Dec 23, 2003
- Digital editing pioneer Jerry Hoffman shows how to get your elements in order and start editing with Final Cut Pro 4.
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- Final Cut Pro for Avid Editors: Customizing Your Project
- 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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- Final Cut Pro for Avid Editors: Speed and Motion Effects
- 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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- Final Cut Pro for Avid Editors: Trimming Clips
- 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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- Final Cut Pro Power Skills: Working in the Application
- 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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- Final Cut Pro Power Tip: Applying Transitions to Multiple Clips in One Track
- Apr 14, 2006
- Larry Jordan knows the trick for applying transitions to multiple Final Cut Pro clips simultaneously. Amazingly, he's willing to share the secret!
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- Final Cut Pro Power Tip: Changing the Default Transition
- Mar 10, 2006
- There’s nothing wrong with the default video transition in Final Cut Pro, except that it’s too long. Boring! Larry Jordan shows you how to change the default into your favorite transition and make it accessible with a keyboard shortcut.
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- Final Cut Pro Power Tip: Creating a Compressor Droplet
- Mar 17, 2006
- Apple's Compressor application makes compressing video files easy, but Larry Jordan knows a way to hurry up that process. Create a "droplet" with your favorite formatting, and you can compress a file with drag-and-drop speed.
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- Final Cut Pro Power Tip: Creating a Glow Behind Text
- Mar 24, 2006
- The outline text generator in Final Cut Pro has to be the ugliest thing since the invention of ducklings. But Larry Jordan explains how to turn it into a swan of beauty with just a little tinkering.
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- Final Cut Pro Power Tip: Keeping Files Under Control with Render Manager
- Apr 7, 2006
- Render files eat disk space surprisingly quickly. But with your Final Cut Pro files and folders set up according to Larry Jordan's advice, you can use the Render Manager to recover that lost space in a trice. (Maybe even half a trice!)
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- Final Cut Pro Power Tip: Setting a Position Keyframe in LiveType
- Apr 21, 2006
- The beauty of LiveType is that you can create dazzling text animation without a single keyframe. Larry Jordan shows the control that's possible when you start adding keyframes.
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- Final Cut Pro Transitions and Effects
- May 16, 2003
- Final Cut Pro has numerous transitions and effects. Diana Weynand explores their creation in this article.
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- Final Cut Pro X Advanced Editing: Working with Sound
- 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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