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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

Replacing a clip


There are a billion reasons why you might want or need to replace a clip—perhaps you need to swap out one logo for an updated one, maybe you need to pop in a different take or angle in a film, or maybe your montage is almost perfect if you just use a slightly different shot of a cute puppy. The reasons are endless. Final Cut Pro X gives you a few major ways to drop in replacement clips depending on the needs of your project.

Getting ready

Have a project ready to go where you want to replace one clip in your timeline with another from your Event Browser. In the following exercise, we're going to replace a relatively mundane shot from an arts and crafts fair (highlighted next) with a more exciting one:

How to do it...

  1. 1. In your Event Browser, select the range of the clip you want to use to replace the clip in the project. This is your source clip, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. 2. Drag the source clip you want to use down to your project and drop it directly on top of the...