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Edit without Tears with Final Cut Pro

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Product type Book
Published in Mar 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804614921
Pages 708 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Bruce G. Macbryde 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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Table of Contents (27) Chapters

Preface 1. Prologue 2. Part 1:Planning
3. Chapter 1: It’s All about the Media 4. Chapter 2: Organizing Media 5. Chapter 3: Planning the Video Story 6. Chapter 4: Pre-Editing a Rough Cut 7. Part 2:Editing
8. Chapter 5: Refining the Rough Cut 9. Chapter 6: Fixing and Enhancing the Audio 10. Chapter 7: Titles, Effects, and Generators 11. Chapter 8: Setting Up and Editing Multicam 12. Chapter 9: Project Workflows – Pace and Structure 13. Part 3:Using the Inspector
14. Chapter 10: The Inspector Controls 15. Chapter 11: Using Built-In Plug-Ins 16. Chapter 12: Using Third-Party Plug-Ins 17. Chapter 13: Using Keyframes to Animate Objects in Final Cut Pro 18. Chapter 14: Understanding the Principles of Color 19. Chapter 15: Using Color Scopes for Advanced Color Correction 20. Part 4: Outside Final Cut Pro
21. Chapter 16: Your Job Role – Collaboration 22. Chapter 17: Supporting Software Applications for Final Cut Pro 23. Chapter 18: Troubleshooting Final Cut Pro 24. Chapter 19: Backing Up and Archiving Libraries 25. Index 26. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding the timeline view tools

The height and duration of the timeline can be changed from the right-hand side of the center menu bar, by pressing the filmstrip icon. The top slider lets you zoom in and out of the timeline to see more or less detail. The six icons below this slider give you different configurations of video views compared to audio. The second, lower slider bar changes the height of the timeline.

Figure 5.7 – Timeline view tools

Figure 5.7 – Timeline view tools

The Command + + and Command + - shortcuts are very useful to zoom in and out of the timeline in incremental steps. Shift + Z will show a fit-in-window view, so everything in the timeline fits in one window. The Home key and End key on extended keyboards jump to the beginning and end of the timeline.

Figure 5.8 – Home and End keys

Figure 5.8 – Home and End keys

The secret to a seamless edit is to have the action at the end of one clip flow into the following clip. A classic example of a transition...

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Profile icon 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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