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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

Going green (screen) addendum — using the mask effect to cut out unwanted parts of an image


We had a pretty easy time fixing our image in the previous two recipes. Our green screen, while poorly lit, covered the background entirely so we only had to tweak a couple of parameters to finesse the key.

However, you may run into a scenario where you have a green screen backdrop that isn't large enough to cover the entire background of your shot. We can mask out edges of our image to fix this. Another example is when a light, stand, or boom mic is in the shot.

Getting ready

We're going to use a different angle of the same fake news broadcast from the previous couple of recipes. Notice that on the right of the frame, we can see the background of the room.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Add the Keyer effect to your clip and tweak the parameters as necessary to key out the backdrop, while temporarily ignoring any obvious background element not covered by the green screen that is still in the shot.

  2. 2. Make sure your...