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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

Sound effects, part 2 — animating with keyframes


Now that we've learned how to add sound effects to our projects and pan them to different speakers, let's take a look at how we can animate our audio with keyframes. The term animating sound might seem a bit odd at first, but it actually fits perfectly. Animation involves movement and we are going to make our sound effect move from one channel to another.

Getting ready

It's a good idea to have completed the prior recipe before jumping onto this one. For our next examples, we're going to pick up from right where we left off in the last recipe. To make sure you're caught up, double-check that the sound effect is highlighted in the timeline, the Inspector window is open, and the Pan Mode option has been set to Stereo Left/Right.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Zoom in on your timeline (Command + =) until the sound effect takes up most of the width of your screen. This will allow us to be very accurate with placing our keyframes.

  2. 2. Place your playhead right at...