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Table Of Contents
- Final Cut Studio Workflows
- Contents
- Introduction
- Developing a Post-Production Strategy
- Ingesting and Organizing Your Media
- Integration During Editorial Development
- Client Review
- Finishing
- What Is Finishing?
- Finishing Using Compressed Versus Uncompressed Media
- Format Conversion When Finishing Mixed-Format Sequences
- Reconforming Media to Online Quality
- Creating Final Broadcast Design Elements and Effects
- Color Correction
- Final Sound Editing, Design, and Mixing
- Mastering
- Output and Delivery
This chapter covers the following:
• What Is Ingest? (p. 27)
• Importing Information to Aid in Capturing (p. 29)
• Choosing the Best Ingest Strategy for Your Workflow (p. 30)
• Ingest Methods Based on Media Type (p. 32)
• Asset Management and Organization (p. 44)
This chapter covers the myriad ways in which you can ingest media into the
Final Cut Studio applications for editing, motion graphics work, and sound design.
Ingesting into Final Cut Pro is covered most extensively, as most audiovisual projects
begin in this application.
What Is Ingest?
Before you can work with media in Final Cut Studio, you need to get it onto your hard
disk and into Final Cut Pro. Ingest describes, in a very general sense, the process of
capturing, transferring, or otherwise importing different types of video, audio, or image
media into Final Cut Pro in order to use it in a program. Once in Final Cut Pro, media can
be easily moved into any of the other Final Cut Studio applications.
There are three primary ways of ingesting media into Final Cut Pro:
• Log and Capture window: You use the Log and Capture window to capture standard
definition (SD) and high definition (HD) media from a tape-based format, in real time.
• Log and Transfer window: You use the Log and Transfer window to capture tapeless
media in a wide variety of formats, including SD, HD, and even some 2K and 4K formats.
• Import Files or Import Folders: You use the Import Files and Import Folders commands
to import other kinds of QuickTime, audio, and image file formats, as well as compatible
Final Cut Studio project and data files.
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