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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

Archiving a project for possible future editing


George Lucas supposedly once said, "A movie is never finished, only abandoned." Of course, legend has it Leonardo Da Vinci once said, "Art is never finished, only abandoned." So apparently quotes are never finished, only modified and reused. But the point is this: you truly may never feel as though your film is 100 percent complete. Or, if you do, your client may not feel that way. So even after you've exported a final cut of your film in ProRes and H.264, you might want to consider keeping around all your hard work just in case one day you have the urge or need to tweak one last transition.

The annoying part is that your finished event and project seem to stay visible in FCPX forever and ever, even if you aren't going to touch them ever again. To make matters worse, a build-up of events and projects can actually slow down FCPX's boot time! So let's hide the elements that are not needed now from FCPX's wandering eyes.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Quit Final...