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Have Final Cut Pro analyze your video and nondestructively x common problems Â
such as camera shake, excess hum, or loudness. You can also have Final Cut Pro
detect the presence of people or the shot type, and automatically apply keywords
such as One Person or Wide Shot.
Organize your media using Keyword Collections, which automatically group clips Â
based on keywords, and Smart Collections, which automatically group clips based
on criteria you specify.
Try out clips in your project using auditions—sets of alternate takes, eects, or text Â
treatments—and then choose the best clip for the edit.
Create compound clips to group any combination of clips, and nest clips within Â
other clips.
Use connected clips and storylines to add cutaway shots, superimposed titles, and Â
sound eects to your project. Connected clips and storylines always stay in sync.
Add special eects to video, audio, and photos, and adjust them using keyframes Â
and onscreen controls. You can also change clip speed to create fast-motion or
slow-motion eects.
Automatically balance and match color, or use the color correction tools to precisely Â
control the look of any clip in your project.
Publish your project directly to websites such as YouTube and Facebook, or send Â
your project to iTunes for syncing with Apple devices such as iPhone, iPad, and
Apple TV.
FinalCutProworkowoverview
To give you an idea of the possibilities, the overall process for putting together a movie
with Final Cut Pro is described below. You don’t have to do every step, and you might
do others that aren’t listed. The workow isn’t necessarily linear. You could, for example,
go all the way through editing and adding eects, and then import more new media
for your project.
Import your media into Final Cut Pro
To use Final Cut Pro, you need to transfer your media (video, audio, and still images)
from your recording device to your computer or an external disk. You can import
media from many kinds of cameras and other devices, or from other applications such
as iMovie.
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