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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

Using the Trim tool, part 1 — trimming and rippling


A rough cut should be exactly that—rough around the edges. Don't spend all your time trying to perfectly select clip ranges before you pop them into your timeline. Just get it close so that you can get a general idea of your film down in the timeline and then begin the fine-tuning process with the Trim tool.

The Trim tool is actually four tools in one—Ripple, Roll, Slip, and Slide. In the next three recipes, we'll tackle how to use each and show how they can help to perfect your rough cuts into a tightly edited final cut.

The first tool, Ripple, is used to alter the start or end point of a clip in your timeline. For example, perhaps you have an interview clip where the speaker finishes his/her sentence, but you accidentally kept the clip going too long and the speaker blinks or looks at the camera awkwardly (as so many untrained interview subjects tend to do). You need to cut out a few frames at the very end of that clip. Or perhaps you have...