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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
Chapter 3 Importmedia 35
Import still-image clips and video clips from a digital still camera
1 Connect your camera to your computer using the cable that came with the camera,
and turn it on.
If your camera doesn’t appear in the Finder, remove the camera’s memory card and
insert it into the card slot on your Mac (if it has one) or into an external card reader.
2 In the Finder, locate the DCIM folder inside the camera folder, and then locate the still-
image or video les. The les may be in the DCIM folder, or in a folder one or two levels
down. Devices and le structures vary by model and manufacturer.
3 In Final Cut Pro, do one of the following:
Choose File > Import and follow the instructions in “ Â Import from a hard disk” on
page 40.
Drag the les from the Finder into an Event or Timeline in Final Cut Pro. The les will Â
be imported using the import settings you congured in Import preferences. See
“Import from a hard disk” on page 40.
After import, you may have separate audio les that you want to use to replace
the video’s audio track. To do this, you can automatically synchronize the video and
audio clips.
Import from tape-based devices
You can import media from a tape-based camcorder or tape-based device. To
determine which clips you want to import (rather than importing all of them), you can
view them using Final Cut Pro before you import them.
To check whether your camera is compatible with Final Cut Pro, go to the Final Cut Pro X
Supported Cameras webpage at http://help.apple.com/nalcutpro/cameras.
Import media from a tape-based camcorder or device
1 Connect the camcorder to your computer using the cable that came with it, and
congure your device for remote control over FireWire, if necessary.
Note: For best results when importing from a tape-based camcorder, it is
recommended that you import the video using the same camcorder that you used
to record it.
2 Turn on the camcorder and set it to VTR or VCR mode. (This mode may have a dierent
name on your camera. For more information, see the documentation that came with
your camcorder.)