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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

Creating a video-in-text effect


Sometimes placing text on top of an image can get a little too straightforward and boring. However, using colors for fonts is not the only way to go! Using blend modes in FCPX, we can make FCPX carve out an image based upon the title clip stacked along with the clip.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Move your playhead to the beginning of the clip where you want to create your video-in-text effect and connect a title effect of your choice to the clip with the shortcut Q. We've inserted Basic Title.

  2. 2. Trim the length of the title clip to match your clip length, as follows:

  3. 3. Customize the title to look exactly the way you want using the Inspector window.

    You will likely want to make your text rather bold and/or large to make sure your audience will be able to discern the image within the text (which we'll do in a couple of steps). Don't worry about the color of the font. We will choose the Impact font at a font size of 426:

  4. 4. Make sure the title clip is still highlighted and...