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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

Moving clips in sync with compound clips


Let's say you've created a video wall much like we did in the Creating a video wall recipe. Now, we want to add some animation to it, to give it a bit more oomph. What if you were asked to create an animation where this four-clip grid started off infinitesimally small, then grew in size (and in sync) from the left corner to eventually fill the frame? Oh, and we want to make it spin once for good measure! Your eyes might start rolling into the back of your head trying to figure out how you're going to keyframe all four clips in synchronous motion. We wouldn't blame you! But once again, we'll use the fine art of compound clips to make this task just as easy as keyframing one single clip.

Getting ready

This trick involving compound clips can be used in a variety of circumstances, but to illustrate it in this exercise, we've simply stacked four clips on top of one another and created a grid by resizing and repositioning the clips. We did this task in...