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Final Cut Pro Efficient Editing

By : Iain Anderson
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Final Cut Pro Efficient Editing

By: Iain Anderson

Overview of this book

Final Cut Pro (also known as FCP, previously Final Cut Pro X) is Apple’s efficient and accessible video editing software for everyone, offering powerful features that experienced editors and novices will find useful. FCP is the quickest way to transform your raw clips into a finished piece, so if speed is important, make this a key tool in your editing arsenal. Final Cut Pro Efficient Editing is a comprehensive best practice guide for all editors. You’ll not only learn how to use the features but also find out which ones are the most important and when you should use them. With the help of practical examples, the book will show you how typical footage can be assembled, trimmed, colored, and finessed to produce a finished edit, exploring a variety of techniques. As you progress through the book, you’ll follow a standard editing workflow to get the feel of working on real-world projects and answer self-assessment questions to make sure that you’re on track. By the end of this Final Cut Pro book, you’ll be well versed with the key features of this app and have all the tools you need to create impressive edits.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Importing and Organizing
7
Section 2: Rough Cut to Fine Cut
13
Section 3: Finishing and Exporting

Rating as Rejected

So far, there are two levels of "good" — the Favorite parts and the rest. But how about the "bad" parts? If you'd like to approach your rating process from the other end, you'll want to get into Rejecting, and that's what you'll learn here.

Marking part of a clip as Rejected is the opposite of marking part of a clip as a Favorite: you're saying that the selection is bad or unusable. The workflow is very similar, too:

  1. With the keyboard or mouse, mark In and Out points on a clip.
  2. Press the delete key (not forward delete) to mark that selection as Rejected:
Figure 5.12: The camera was shaky at the start of this clip, so I Rejected that section

Figure 5.12: The camera was shaky at the start of this clip, so I Rejected that section

If your current Browser view is showing All Clips, then you'll see a red line appear on that part of the clip. A range cannot be both a Favorite and Rejected at the same time: it's one or the other, or not rated...