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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

Searching with Keywords

Time to reap the harvest: here, you will use the Keywords you've applied to find clips easily. You'll also discover how to take this further. But first: the simple, important, magic part.

As you've seen, when you apply a Keyword (such as gondolas) to a clip, you're also adding it to a matching Keyword Collection, gathering all the clips that share the same Keyword without actually moving those clips to a separate location.

You can see the clip in the Keyword Collection, but you can also see it in the Event where it was imported, and in the Keyword Collections for any other Keywords you've added to the same clips. There's no downside here; the clip is effectively in all these places at once. Magic!

Figure 4.38: The "gondolas" Keyword Collection has anything with a gondola, and many of these clips have other Keywords applied too

Figure 4.38: The "gondolas" Keyword Collection has anything with a gondola, and many of these clips have other Keywords applied too

Keyword Collections collect related clips just as well as...