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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
3 To use one or more photos or video clips in your project, drag the items from the
Photos Browser to an Event icon in the Event Library or a project in the Timeline.
You can also drag photos and video clips from iPhoto or Aperture directly to an Event
in the Event Library or a project in the Timeline, without using the Photos Browser.
Import from iTunes
You can import music and sound from your existing iTunes library into Final Cut Pro.
Import music and sound from iTunes
1 In Final Cut Pro, do one of the following:
Choose Window > Media Browser > Music and Sound. Â
Click the Music and Sound button in the toolbar. Â
2 In the Music and Sound Browser, choose iTunes from the pop-up menu at the top.
Tip: ∏ If the folder you’re looking for doesn’t appear, you can add it to the source list by
dragging it from the Finder or desktop to the Music and Sound Browser.
3 In the list that appears, nd the music or sound you want:
 To search for an item: Type text in the search eld. To lter your search, click the
Filter button and choose a lter.
 To preview an item: Double-click the item, or select the item and click the
Play button .
 To select more than one item: Command-click each item.
4 Drag the sound le or les to the Timeline.
Importfromdisks
Import from a hard disk
You can import media—video, audio, still images, and graphics les—from your
computer’s hard disk, a connected external storage device, a memory card inserted
in your computer’s card slot or a card reader, or a network attached volume. You can
import media using the Import Files window or by dragging les from the Finder.
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