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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
 To import a le from a memory card: Insert the memory card into the card slot on
your Mac or into a card reader that’s connected to your computer. Then choose
File > Import > Files (or press Command-I).
 To import a le located on your hard disk or a connected external storage device:
Choose File > Import > File and navigate to the le you want to import.
 To import from an archive: Choose File > Import from Camera, and in the window
that appears, choose a camera archive from the list on the left. Click Open Archive
and navigate to the les you want to import, and click the Import button.
2 In the window that appears, choose how you want to organize the imported media in
your Event Library:
 To add the imported media to an existing Event: Select “Add to existing Event,” and
choose it from the pop-up menu.
 To create a new Event: Select “Create new Event” and type a name (for example, “Chris
and Kim Wedding”) in the text eld. Use the “Save to” pop-up menu to choose the
disk where you want to store the Event.
To learn more about Events, see “Events and clips overview” on page 57.
3 Select any of the video and audio analysis options that you want to apply.
See “Video and still-image analysis options” on page 51 and “Audio analysis options” on
page 53 for complete lists of the video and audio analysis options.
Final Cut Pro will analyze the les in the background, after the import process
is complete.
4 Click Import.
The import may take a while, depending on the options you chose in step 3. You can
see the status of all the background processes currently running in the Background
Tasks window.
Analyze clips after import
1 If necessary, locate a clip in the Event Browser by Control-clicking it in the Timeline and
choosing “Reveal in Event Browser” from the shortcut menu.
2 Control-click one or more clips and choose “Analyze and Fix” from the shortcut menu.
3 In the window that appears, select any or all of the video analysis and audio analysis
options that you want to apply.
The transcoding process may take a while, depending on the analysis options you
chose. You can see the status of all the background processes currently running in the
Background Tasks window.
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