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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
Languages
Author (1):
Bruce G. Macbryde Bruce G. Macbryde
Profile icon Bruce G. Macbryde

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

What are projects?

The meaning of the word project in the context of Final Cut Pro (X) compared to the legacy Final Cut Pro 7 can be confusing, as the legacy meaning of the word is different from the Final Cut Pro (X) interpretation. There is a similar difference in the definition of the word project between other NLEs and Final Cut Pro, too. In Final Cut Pro, a project is contained within an event, which is contained within the library. The other NLEs have bins and sequences. Think of bins as events and sequences as projects in Final Cut Pro. The word bin is a carryover from the days of film, before digital, where the reels of film were stored in a bin.

The structure of the legacy version of Final Cut Pro also had project, rather than library, at the top of the hierarchy, with a sequence being more of a project in the current version of Final Cut Pro.

One of the other differences in Final Cut Pro is that the thumbnail representing the project can be seen in the event along with...

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