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Edit without Tears with Final Cut Pro

By : Bruce G. Macbryde
Book Image

Edit without Tears with Final Cut Pro

By: Bruce G. Macbryde

Overview of this book

Edit Without Tears with Final Cut Pro is your essential guide to overcoming challenges in video editing using Final Cut Pro, simplifying complex procedures and workflows and providing a structured approach for efficient and impressive video editing. This book will change how you approach editing, guiding you to create professional-grade videos with ease and confidence. Throughout the book, you'll enhance your efficiency and speed, while also learning unique workflows for common tasks. The comprehensive coverage spans planning video narratives, crafting preliminary edits and refining them, improving audio quality, setting up and editing multicam sequences, leveraging the inspector's controls, and working with both built-in and third-party plugins. You’ll then advance to animating objects using keyframes, utilizing color scopes for advanced color correction, and troubleshooting common issues confidently. By the end of this Final Cut Pro book, you’ll have developed an efficient editing style, unlocking the full power of this video editing software for your creative endeavors.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
Free Chapter
2
Part 1:Planning
7
Part 2:Editing
13
Part 3:Using the Inspector
20
Part 4: Outside Final Cut Pro

Prologue

Film and video editing may be your chosen profession, but more importantly, you could find that it is your passion, and you will be cognizant of this when you can’t stay away from the editing suite. Even to the point that you are tempted to miss family gatherings and festive events.

If the above sounds like you, then welcome to the club – this book is truly for you.

No matter what Non-Linear Editing (NLE) software you use, you will be a die-hard convert to film and video editing. This book is about Final Cut Pro and since you are a professional, you need to be familiar with different NLE software, as work can come from various sources and different editing houses will demand that you are familiar with their preferred NLE software.

So, no matter whether you are an out-and-out Final Cut Pro-only user or work with other NLE software such as Avid, Resolve, or Premiere, you need to know how to edit in Final Cut Pro without tears.