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Final Cut Pro X Cookbook

By : Jason Cox
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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

Adding a watermark or logo to your video


Often in the promo video world, a client will ask to have their logo embedded in their video through the duration of the video. This is a relatively easy task, you may think, until they e-mail a JPEG image of their logo. When you plop it into your timeline, you are presented with this annoying white background that is very distracting. Even if you make the image semi-transparent, you still get this ugly rectangular halo around the logo. With this help of the Luma Keyer effect, we can easily get rid of this solid color background.

Getting ready

Simply import any JPEG image/logo into FCPX.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Connect your logo to the first clip in the timeline where you want the watermark to appear. This is often right at the beginning of the video, but not always. Don't worry about the clip's length just yet.

    Here's what the clips look like in our timeline:

    And here's what the result looks like in our Viewer:

    As we can see, the image currently is overlayed...