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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

Creating a text style template


Modifying text parameters in the Inspector is a relatively painless process, but it can be quite time-consuming if you modify 10 different stylistic parameters and then realize you need to create the same style over and over again for multiple title clips later in your project.

While you can duplicate title clips for reuse in a project and modify the duplicates, this can get a bit tedious. It's much more efficient to make one title clip look the way you want and then save those settings as a preset.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Add a Basic Title clip to your timeline. You can connect it to another clip or just place it in your primary storyline.

  2. 2. In the Basic Title's Inspector window, under the Text tab, type in Presets Save Time, one word on each line. Adjust the font and size so that it takes up most of the screen (we chose Snell Roundhand and a font size of 224). Adjust the tracking to around 50 percent. These parameters are known as your basic attributes.

    The white...