Final Cut Pro X Cookbook

Table of Contents

• Preface

• 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

• Chapter 8: Get Your Movie to Move
• Introduction
• Making freeze frames and speed changes
• Creating speed ramps
• Showing an instant replay
• Using the Transform tool
• Cropping or trimming a clip
• Panning and zooming over a photo or clip with the Ken Burns effect
• Creating a video wall
• Making your image move by keyframing in the Viewer
• Moving clips in sync with compound clips
• Changing keyframe timing in the timeline
• Customizing motion paths with Bezier handles and modifying interpolation

• Chapter 9: Altering the Aesthetics of Your Image
• Introduction
• Stabilizing a shaky shot
• Automatically balancing color and/or match color to another shot
• Manually color balancing with the Color Board
• Picking a color look or creating your own
• Fixing the exposure and adjusting the contrast with help from the Luma waveform monitor
• Adding secondary color corrections, part 1 – shape masks
• Adding secondary color corrections, part 2 – color masks
• Adding secondary color corrections, part 3 – combining color and shape masks
• Keeping only one color in your image
• Spotlighting an object or text

• Chapter 10: Getting Your Project Out of FCPX
• Introduction
• Exporting an archive-quality version of your film
• Exporting for Apple devices and computers
• Sharing your video on YouTube and other video sharing sites
• Burning a Blu-ray or DVD
• Roles, part 1 – labeling clips with Roles
• Roles, part 2 – exporting selected Roles
• Sharing large files over the web with Dropbox
• Sharing your project with other applications using XML
• Duplicating or moving projects from one drive to another
• Archiving a project for possible future editing
• Conclusion

• Appendix: Working with Motion and Compressor
• Introduction
• Getting acquainted with the Motion interface
• Enhancing title templates with Motion
• Creating a custom Lower Third
• Publishing a template to FCPX
• Publishing parameters to a template
• Getting acquainted with the Compressor interface
• Adding chapter markers in Compressor
• Burning a Blu-ray or DVD with chapter markers
• Creating your own Compression preset
• Creating a droplet based on a preset

• Index