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Event Browser The Event Browser displays the clips for the item selected in the Event
Library. You select clips or portions of clips in the Event Browser to work with them.
You can sort clips in the Event Browser by creation date, as well as by date imported,
reel, scene, clip duration, and le type. You can also view your clips as lmstrips or in
a list.
Event Library The Event Library holds and organizes the Events that contain your
imported media (video, audio, and still images). When you select an Event in the Event
Library, the media it contains appears as clips in the Event Browser. The Event Library
is also the home for Final Cut Pro Keyword Collections and Smart Collections, which
provide a powerful way to organize your media using keywords and persistent
search lters.
exposure The amount of light in video or lm images. Exposure aects the overall
brightness of the image as well as its perceived contrast.
fade A common type of transition in both video and audio. For video, a fade-out
begins with a shot at full intensity and reduces until it is gone. A fade-in begins with
a shot at no intensity and increases to full intensity. These are the common “fade to
black” and “fade up (from black)” transitions. Audio fade-ins begin with silence and
increase to full volume, and fade-outs begin at full volume and decrease to silence.
lmstrip Your video clips appear as lmstrips in the Timeline (where you build
projects) and in the Event Browser (where your source media is displayed). A single
video lmstrip might represent several seconds of video encompassing hundreds
of video frames (individual images). Audio-only clips appear as audio waveforms,
showing the change in the audio volume over time.
FireWire The trademarked Apple name for the IEEE 1394 standard. A fast and versatile
interface used to connect DV camcorders to computers. FireWire is well suited to
applications that move large amounts of data, and it can also be used to connect hard
disks, scanners, and other kinds of computer peripherals.
Foley eects Foley eects are custom sound eects that are heavily synchronized to
picture, such as footsteps on dierent surfaces, clothes rustling, ght sounds, and the
handling of various noisy objects. Final Cut Pro includes a number of built-in Foley and
other sound eects that you can insert as connected audio clips.
frame A single still image. Film and video are made up of a series of these images.
Although a lm frame is a single photographic image, an interlaced video frame
contains two elds. See also interlaced video, non-interlaced video.
frame blending Duplicating frames to create slow motion can result in a strobing,
jittery eect. To minimize this, you can turn on Frame Blending in the Retime pop-
up menu in the toolbar. Frame blending creates new in-between frames, each a
composite of two neighboring frames.
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