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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 37
7 Click Import.
Final Cut Pro begins importing immediately from the current location on the tape. It
will continue to import (and save the resulting media le to the Event you specied)
until one of the following occurs:
It reaches the end of the tape. Â
The hard disk you are importing to is full. Â
You stop the import session by clicking Stop Import or Close (to close the Camera Â
Import window).
The video plays as it’s being imported. It takes as long to import the video as it takes
to watch it at normal speed.
8 When the section of video you want to import has been imported, click Stop Import.
Then use the import controls to set your video to a point where you want to begin
importing again, and repeat steps 5 through 7. If you selected any options in step 6,
Final Cut Pro transcodes and optimizes the les after the import process is complete.
You can view the progress of the background tasks in the Background Tasks window.
9 When you’re done importing, click Close to close the Camera Import window.
You can also create an archive from your tape-based device, recording everything on
the tape from beginning to end and saving the captured clips as an archive. For more
information, see “Create and manage camera archives” on page 488.
If your device isn’t recognized
If you’ve connected your camcorder to your computer but the Camera Import window
doesn’t open, or Final Cut Pro can’t control your device, there are several things you
can do to try to establish the connection.
Check your equipment and system
1 Make sure that you’re using the correct equipment conguration:
Your camcorder or camera must be compatible with Final Cut Pro. For a list of Â
compatible devices, go to the Final Cut Pro X Supported Cameras webpage at
http://help.apple.com/nalcutpro/cameras.
Your device must be connected properly to your computer. Â
Your camcorder must be set to the correct output mode. On some camcorders, this Â
is called VTR or VCR mode, but not all camcorders use the same terminology, so
check the documentation that came with your device. On some camcorders you
must set the output to DV mode or HDV mode, depending on whether the content
is standard (DV) or high denition (HDV).
If you’re connecting a tape-based camcorder to your computer, you should be using Â
a FireWire cable (also called IEEE 1394, or i.LINK), not a USB cable.
See “About memory cards and cables” on page 48 for more information.