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Published inMar 2024
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Bruce G. Macbryde
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Bruce G. Macbryde, a Final Cut Pro trainer with 20+ years of experience, spanning from the original release in 1999 to the latest version. He served as a sales manager for Australian Authorized Apple distributors (1998-2004) and later as a training manager for Apple-developed software through 2009. He established Wedding Media Productions in 2004, a wedding video business in Sydney, Australia. Bruce is a YouTube creator for the VideoTutors channel, with 500+ video tutorials. He began teaching marketing at NSW TAFE in the early 1980s, specializing in technology and business software such as Microsoft Office, Adobe Pagemaker, and Photoshop during a 7-year stint in New Zealand.
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Cutting to a beat

Whether you are creating a music video or just want to match your cuts to a beat, there are several manual methods in Final Cut Pro. This is a useful procedure for slideshows or even short selections of similar or random video clips.

There are three different ways to mark beats, and these all involve you manually selecting the beats yourself. This is fine if you only want to create one or two projects; otherwise, I suggest that you look at software that will find the beat for you. See Chapter 17, Supporting Software Applications for Final Cut Pro for a review of BeatMark Pro (https://ulti.media/).

The first manual method is as follows:

  1. Create a new project.
  2. Select the music track in the browser and press the Q key. The music track will be added to the timeline as a connected clip, with a gray empty slug above.
Figure 9.38 – A music track with a gray slug above

Figure 9.38 – A music track with a gray slug above

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Published in: Mar 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781804614921

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Bruce G. Macbryde

Bruce G. Macbryde, a Final Cut Pro trainer with 20+ years of experience, spanning from the original release in 1999 to the latest version. He served as a sales manager for Australian Authorized Apple distributors (1998-2004) and later as a training manager for Apple-developed software through 2009. He established Wedding Media Productions in 2004, a wedding video business in Sydney, Australia. Bruce is a YouTube creator for the VideoTutors channel, with 500+ video tutorials. He began teaching marketing at NSW TAFE in the early 1980s, specializing in technology and business software such as Microsoft Office, Adobe Pagemaker, and Photoshop during a 7-year stint in New Zealand.
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