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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

Multicam part 1 — getting your media synced and prepped


Editing multi-camera shoots is rarely a pleasant experience. Interfaces for most editing software are cumbersome and far from straightforward to set up. Plus there's that whole syncing thing you have to deal with before you can even start editing! If you were lucky enough to work in a professional production environment where all the cameras had timecode synchronized, then you're multicamming life is easier. But for the rest of us, we need extra tools to help us out.

FCPX re-built how multicam projects are created, put together, and edited, and all for the better. In many cases now, editors no longer have to worry about marking exact sync points to line up clips. FCPX (using what we swear must be magic) analyzes the audio waveforms of each clip and syncs them automatically! And trust us when we say it works very well, even if one or more of your sources has pretty terrible audio. We tried!

Getting ready

There's a lot of prep work for...