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Final Cut Pro Efficient Editing

Final Cut Pro Efficient Editing - Second Edition

By : Iain Anderson
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Final Cut Pro Efficient Editing

Final Cut Pro Efficient Editing

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By: Iain Anderson
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Overview of this book

Elevate your video editing skills with Final Cut Pro 11 using practical workflows, expert techniques, and the latest features to enhance your creative process and give your videos a stunning look. The second edition of this comprehensive guide covers exciting new features in FCP, teaching you how to streamline your workflow with customizable workspaces, shortcuts, and advanced trimming tools. Explore impactful titles and a comprehensive suite of visual effects in Final Cut Pro for dynamic videos, discover Final Cut Pro's audio tools to create a great-sounding mix, and utilize the magnetic timeline, multicam editing, and enhanced color correction for every project. Whether you're creating content for social media, YouTube, or Hollywood, Final Cut Pro Efficient Editing, Second Edition will help you take your video editing skills to the next level.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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Who this book is for
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1 Quick Start: An Introduction to FCP
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1 Quick Start: An Introduction to FCP
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A brief history of editing
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Interface basics
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An editing workflow overview
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Workflow
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Hardware recommendations
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Summary
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Review questions
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2 Before the Edit: Production Tips
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2 Before the Edit: Production Tips
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Getting the settings right
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Choosing a camera
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Shooting the right shots
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Working with multiple cameras and audio recorders
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Managing everything on set
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Summary
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3 Bring It In: Importing Your Footage
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3 Bring It In: Importing Your Footage
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Creating a Library (in the right place)
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Understanding original, optimized, and proxy footage
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Importing media in different ways
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Syncing media from multiple devices
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Understanding and applying Roles
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Summary
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Join us on Discord!
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4 Sort It Out: Reviewing and Keywording
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4 Sort It Out: Reviewing and Keywording
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Reviewing your media
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Browser view options
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Playback shortcuts
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Examining metadata
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Understanding and applying Keywords
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Searching with Keywords
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Summary
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5 Choose Your Favorites: Selecting, Rating, and Searching
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5 Choose Your Favorites: Selecting, Rating, and Searching
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Selecting part of a clip
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Rating as a Favorite
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Rating as Rejected
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Storing additional information
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Advanced searches
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Summary
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6 Build the spine of the story: Quick Assembly
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6 Build the spine of the story: Quick Assembly
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Creating a new Project
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Adding your media in a few different ways
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Rearranging your clips
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Basic trimming with the Magnetic Timeline
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Blading and deleting
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Duplicating Projects
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Summary
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7 Cover It Up: Connections, Cutaways, and Storylines
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7 Cover It Up: Connections, Cutaways, and Storylines
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Understanding cutaways
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Connecting clips
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Grouping connected clips in Storylines
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Controlling and overriding connections
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Three-point editing and more
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Summary
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8 Neaten the Edges: Trimming Techniques
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8 Neaten the Edges: Trimming Techniques
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Rolling an edit
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Slipping and Sliding clips
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Softening audio with split edits (J- and L-cuts)
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Editing numerically and with the precision editor
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Summary
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9 Consider Your Options: Multicam, Replacing, and Auditions
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9 Consider Your Options: Multicam, Replacing, and Auditions
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Working with Multicam media
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Exchanging one clip with another
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Creating and using Auditions
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Summary
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10 Explore a Little: Compound Clips and Timeline Tricks
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10 Explore a Little: Compound Clips and Timeline Tricks
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Creating and using Compound Clips
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Low-level relinking
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More tricks with tools
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Adding and navigating with Markers
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Using the Timeline Index
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Summary
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11 Play with Light: Color Correction and Grading
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11 Play with Light: Color Correction and Grading
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Understanding the color workflow
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Correcting white balance, exposure, and saturation
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Adjusting Saturation with the Color Board
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Finessing contrast and more
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Selective corrections
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Advanced color techniques
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12 Refine and Smooth: Video Properties and Effects
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12 Refine and Smooth: Video Properties and Effects
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Adjusting video properties
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Animating with keyframes and tracking
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Applying and using video effects
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13 Blend and Warp: Video Transitions and Retiming
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13 Blend and Warp: Video Transitions and Retiming
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Applying and editing transitions
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Retiming basics
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Speed ramping and more
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14 Boost the Signal: Audio Sweetening
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14 Boost the Signal: Audio Sweetening
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Recording and editing a voiceover
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Adjusting volume levels
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Audio Enhancements
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Applying and using audio effects
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Using Roles with audio
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15 A Few Words: Titles and Generators
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15 A Few Words: Titles and Generators
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Adding and editing titles
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Advanced title techniques
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Adding and editing generators
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Captioning and subtitles
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Summary
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16 You’re Done: Exporting Your Edit and Finishing Up
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16 You’re Done: Exporting Your Edit and Finishing Up
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Preparing for sharing
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Exporting, uploading, and distributing your video
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Exporting for further production
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Archiving your work
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What’s next?
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Summary
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Final words
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Index
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Appendix A: 360° Video Workflows
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Appendix A: 360° Video Workflows
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Introduction
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Understanding 360° cameras
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Processing your footage
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Editing 360° footage in a 360° timeline
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Editing 360° footage in a regular timeline
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Summary
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Adjusting volume levels

A clip’s volume, or audio level, is one of its most obvious properties. You can hear it, and you can see it (in a few forms) in the Browser, Inspector, and Timeline. Audio levels have been discussed in passing throughout the book so far, so while this shouldn’t be unfamiliar, there’s definitely more to learn.

The unit used to describe audio volume is decibels, or dB, and it’s used in both absolute and relative ways. However loud a clip is recorded, on a timeline, it starts out at a neutral (not silent!) 0 dB. Adjustments made to that clip are relative, going from a louder +12 dB all the way down to the true silence of negative infinity (-∞):

Figure 14.9: Audio volume levels on a few clips

When you play back a timeline, it’s quite different. All sound playing at a particular moment is summed together, creating an absolute value, also measured in dB, and visible in the Audio Meters (⇧...

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