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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Chapter 1: What’s new in Final Cut Pro?
- Chapter 2: Final Cut Pro basics
- Chapter 3: Import media
- Chapter 4: Analyze media
- Chapter 5: Organize your media
- Chapter 6: Play back and skim media
- Chapter 7: Create and manage projects
- Chapter 8: Edit your project
- Editing overview
- Select clips and ranges
- Add and remove clips
- Adding clips overview
- Drag clips to the Timeline
- Append clips to your project
- Insert clips in your project
- Connect clips to add cutaway shots, titles, and synchronized sound effects
- Overwrite parts of your project
- Replace a clip in your project with another clip
- Add and edit still images
- Add clips using video-only or audio-only mode
- Remove clips from your project
- Solo, disable, and enable clips
- Find a Timeline clip’s source clip
- Arrange clips in the Timeline
- Cut and trim clips
- View and navigate
- Add and remove markers
- Correct excessive shake and rolling shutter issues
- Chapter 9: Add and adjust audio
- Chapter 10: Add transitions, titles, effects, and generators
- Transitions, titles, effects, and generators overview
- Add and adjust transitions
- Transitions overview
- How transitions are created
- Set the default duration for transitions
- Add transitions to your project
- Delete transitions from your project
- Adjust transitions in the Timeline
- Adjust transitions in the Transition inspector and Viewer
- Adjust transitions with multiple images
- Create specialized versions of transitions in Motion
- Add and adjust titles
- Adjust built-in effects
- Add and adjust clip effects
- Add generators
- Use onscreen controls
- Use the Video Animation Editor
- Chapter 11: Advanced editing
- Group clips with compound clips
- Add storylines
- Fine-tune edits with the Precision Editor
- Create split edits
- Make three-point edits
- Try out clips using auditions
- Retime clips to create speed effects
- Edit with mixed-format media
- Use roles to manage clips
- Use XML to transfer projects and Events
- Edit with multicam clips
- Multicam editing overview
- Multicam editing workflow
- Import media for a multicam edit
- Assign camera names and multicam angles
- Create multicam clips in the Event Browser
- Cut and switch angles in the Angle Viewer
- Sync and adjust angles and clips in the Angle Editor
- Edit multicam clips in the Timeline and the Inspector
- Multicam editing tips and tricks
- Chapter 12: Keying and compositing
- Chapter 13: Color correction
- Chapter 14: Share your project
- Chapter 15: Manage media files
- Chapter 16: Preferences and metadata
- Chapter 17: Keyboard shortcuts and gestures
- Chapter 18: Glossary
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What is Final Cut Pro?
Final Cut Pro X is a revolutionary application for creating, editing, and producing the
highest-quality video. Final Cut Pro combines high-performance digital editing and
native support for virtually any video format with easy-to-use and time-saving features
that let you focus on storytelling.
In Final Cut Pro, you can:
Edit everything from uncompressed standard-denition video to HDV, DVCPRO HD, Â
and uncompressed high-denition video—as well as le-based formats such as
AVC-Intra, AVCHD, and XDCAM HD.
Play back and skim resolution-independent media up to 4K resolution. You can also Â
play your video full screen or on a second display.
Assemble clips with ease using the Magnetic Timeline, which uidly adjusts clips Â
around the clip you’re dragging to eliminate gaps, collisions, and sync problems.
Edit quickly with the complete set of professional editing and trimming tools. Â
Fine-tune edits with the inline Precision Editor.
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Final Cut Pro basics