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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 49
 FireWire device: For most camcorders that record to tape, you use a FireWire cable
with a 6-pin connector on one end that plugs into your Mac (at the top in the
illustration below) and a 4-pin connector on the other end that plugs into your
camcorder (on the bottom in the illustration below).
Or you might have a FireWire 800 cable, with a dierent end that plugs into your
camcorder or computer.
 Thunderbolt device: Devices that use Thunderbolt I/O technology use a connector
that plugs into the mini display port on your Mac and looks like the connector
below.
If your device didn’t come with a cable and you’re not sure what kind of device you
have, you can check the logo near the cable ports on your device to see if it matches
the USB or FireWire logo, both shown above. Otherwise, check the documentation that
came with your device.
Note: Not all Mac computers include a FireWire port. Check your system conguration
to conrm that your Mac includes FireWire support before attempting to connect a
standard (DV) or HDV camcorder.
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.
Supportedmediaformats
You can import and work with the following video, audio, and still-image formats in
Final Cut Pro:
Video formats
Apple Animation codec Â
Apple Intermediate codec Â