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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 18 Glossary 541
frame rate The number of images photographed per second for a video clip.
frame size See resolution.
frequency The number of times a sound or signal vibrates each second, measured in
cycles per second, or hertz (Hz). Audio recordings are made up of a vast collection of
waveforms, using many dierent frequencies of sound. Each frequency in a recording
is associated with an audio pitch. For example, the note generated by each key of a
piano has a specic frequency.
Front Row Front Row, a program that comes with Mac OS X, is a way to navigate
through your iTunes, iLife, and Final Cut Pro media using an Apple remote control or
the Remote app. You can also open Front Row by pressing Command-Escape.
gain The amount an audio or video signal is boosted. In video, this increases the white
level; in audio, this increases the volume.
gamma A curve that describes the intensity of an image. Gamma is a nonlinear
function often confused with brightness or contrast. Gamma adjustment is often
used to compensate for dierences between Mac and Windows video graphics cards
and displays.
gap clip A blank clip (containing blank video and silent audio) that you can adjust to
any duration. (The lm industry term for this is slug.) Gap clip color is determined by
the current background color in Final Cut Pro. You can adjust the background color
using the Player Background pop-up menu in the Playback pane of the Final Cut Pro
Preferences window.
generators Clips that are synthesized by Final Cut Pro. Generators can be used as
dierent kinds of backgrounds, titles, and elements for visual design.
Generators Browser A media browser in Final Cut Pro that provides access to all video
generators included with Final Cut Pro.
Hand tool The editing tool that allows you to scroll in the Timeline. You can select the
Hand tool by pressing the H key.
H.264 H.264/MPEG-4 Part 10 or AVC (Advanced Video Coding) is a video compression
standard in widespread use for recording, distribution, and Internet streaming of high-
denition video.
HDCAM A high-denition (HD) digital videotape recorder format that records an 8-bit,
7.1:1 DCT-compressed component video signal with 3:1:1 color sampling. Recorded
using 1/2-inch tape. Supports four tracks of audio.