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Final Cut Pro X Cookbook

By : Jason Cox
Book Image

Final Cut Pro X Cookbook

By: Jason Cox

Overview of this book

As technology becomes more and more accessible and easier to use, we are expected to do more in less time than ever before. Video editors are now expected to be able not only to edit, but create motion graphics, fix sound issues, enhance image quality and color and more. Also, many workers in the PR and marketing world are finding they need to know how to get viral videos made from start to finish as quickly as possible. Final Cut Pro X was built as a one-stop shop with all the tools needed to produce a professional video from beginning to end.The "Final Cut Pro X Cookbook" contains recipes that will take you from the importing process and basic mechanics of editing up through many of FCPX's advanced tools needed by top-tier editors on a daily basis. Edit quickly and efficiently, fix image and sound problems with ease, and get your video out to your client or the world easily.No program gets you from application launch to the actual editing process faster than FCPX. After covering the basics, the book hits the ground running showing readers how to produce professional quality videos even if video editing isn't your day job.The recipes inside are packed with more than 300 images helping illustrate time-saving editing tools, problem-solving techniques and how to spice up your video with beautiful effects and titles. We also dive into audio editing, color correction and dabble in FCPX's sister programs Motion and Compressor!With more than 100 recipes, the Final Cut Pro X Cookbook is a great aid for the avid enthusiast up to the 40-hour-a-week professional. This book contains everything you need to make videos that captivate your audiences.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Final Cut Pro X Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Multicam part 2 — making the live cut


The stage is set! We've synced up our media and made the important decision as to whether or not we want to cut both video and audio or only audio. Now it's time to place our multicam clip into a project and make our real-time rough cut!

Getting ready

Just make sure you've read the prior recipe to create your multicam clip.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Select your multicam clip in your Event and add it to a project of your choosing. You can insert, overwrite, connect, or append a multicam clip just like any other clip. For simplicity, we will append our multicam clip into an empty project.

  2. 2. Skim through your clip. You are only seeing one angle right now, the one you had selected most recently in the Angle Viewer. Do not be alarmed if you see black frames at the beginning or end of your clip. Because your clips may vary in length, FCPX creates black frames as needed during the syncing process.

  3. 3. Move your playhead to the beginning of the multicam clip. If you do...