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Published inMar 2024
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781804614921
Edition1st Edition
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Bruce G. Macbryde
Bruce G. Macbryde
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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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Exploring Settings/Preferences

Prior to macOS version 13 and Final Cut Pro 10.6.5, Settings were known as Preferences. They allow you to personalize the way that Final Cut Pro is set up. Settings can be accessed under the Final Cut Pro menu; it’s the second item, called either Settings or Preferences, depending on your version of Final Cut Pro and macOS.

There are five tabs. The first is General, where you can change the time display in the timeline. This is usually set at HH:MM:SS:FF – hours, minutes, seconds, and frames. This is the normal setting; the latter frames are dependent on the frame rate of the project in the timeline. The others are standard, as their words imply. You may need the second choice under the time display option will add subframes when working with audio, where there are many extra frames, known as subframes, of audio within a single frame of video.

The second tab is the Editing tab. You may wish to adjust the default duration of still images...

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Edit without Tears with Final Cut Pro
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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