Final Cut Pro X Cookbook

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Final Cut Pro X Cookbook

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Chapter 1. Importing Your Media

Introduction

Importing from a tapeless video camera

Importing MTS M2TS and M2T files

Importing DSLR video

Importing music from iTunes and GarageBand

Importing still images

Importing data from a tape-based camera

Importing and working with layered Photoshop files

Importing iMovie projects

Importing Final Cut Pro 7 projects

Working with your already organized media

Relinking media files

Chapter 2. Customizing Your Workflow

Introduction

Getting acquainted with the Final Cut Pro X interface

Customizing the keyboard

Adding keywords to your clips

Marking clips as favorites and rejected

Creating a Smart Collection

Working with a second computer monitor

Working with a broadcast safe monitor

Customizing the Event Library and Event Browser

Batch changing clip names and other metadata

Editing efficiently with optimized and proxy clips

Chapter 3. Basic Editing Mechanics

Introduction

Appending inserting and overwriting clips to a storyline

Working with (and without) the Magnetic Timeline

Creating connected clips

Replacing a clip

Splicing clips with the Blade tool

Using the Trim tool part 1 — trimming and rippling

Using the Trim tool part 2 — rolling

Using the Trim tool part 3 — slipping and sliding

Creating and working with gap clips

Chapter 4. Enhancing Your Editing

Introduction

Making a three-point edit

Creating additional storylines

Trimming audio and video separately with a split edit (also known as making a J or L cut)

Grouping clips together as a compound clip

Adding markers and to do items

Auditioning multiple shots or takes

Editing in beat to the music

Using the Precision Editor

Multicam part 1 — getting your media synced and prepped

Multicam part 2 — making the live cut

Multicam part 3 — fine-tuning your multicam edit

Chapter 5. Sweetening and Fixing Your Sound

Introduction

Reading and understanding the audio meters

Lowering your music during speakers

Lowering a loud unexpected background sound with manual keyframes

Replacing bad audio with a cleaner recording

Sound effects part 1 — browsing connecting and panning

Sound effects part 2 — animating with keyframes

Sound effects part 3 — working in a surround sound space

Removing unwanted audio channels

Unlinking audio from video

Using FCPX's auto audio enhancements

Recording a voiceover

Chapter 6. Practical Magic a.k.a Useful Effects

Introduction

Adding an effect and changing its parameters

Animating parameters of an effect over time with keyframes

Adding a watermark or logo to your video

Downloading and installing more effects

Blurring out a face or logo

Disguising a voice

Copying and pasting effects onto multiple clips

Going green (screen) part 1 — the basics

Going green (screen) part 2 — improving your key

Going green (screen) addendum — using the mask effect to cut out unwanted parts of an image

Chapter 7. Titles Transitions and Generators

Introduction

Adding transitions to clips

Adjusting the transition's parameters in the Viewer Inspector and timeline

Creating counters and countdowns

Adding a timecode overlay

Inserting a placeholder clip

Creating a text style template

Creating a credit sequence

Creating a video-in-text effect

Creating a custom animated title

Creating and reusing show intro