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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

Making a three-point edit


Covering interview subjects with b-roll is one of the most elementary aspects of editing video. It's simply a fact that staring at a talking head nonstop for an entire documentary is about 400 percent more likely to make your audience fall asleep! If you've read the Creating connected clips recipe in the previous chapter already, you know how we can easily select a piece of b-roll to accomplish this task. But if we really want to be precise with our timing, we will employ an extra technique called a three-point edit. Perhaps an interview subject says one particular sentence about their topic of expertise during a longer spiel, and we want to cover exactly that one sentence, beginning to end, with b-roll. The three-point edit makes this easy.

Getting ready

Our simple timeline consists of one talking head clip.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Listen to your talking head interview shot and find a sentence where the speaker verbally illustrates an idea that you may have a perfect piece...