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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

Roles, part 2 — exporting selected Roles


Now that we've learned how to identify roles and create our own if necessary, let's learn how to pick and choose what roles will be used when we export a final version of your project.

Getting ready

We're going to carry on from the previous exercise. As your project will be very different, just make sure you've read the previous recipe and have defined your roles and subroles as necessary.

How to do it...

  1. 1. With your project open or selected in the Project browser, choose Share | Export Media (by pressing Command + E). The export dialog box appears:

  2. 2. Select the appropriate Video codec option from the drop-down menu, depending on what quality level you are aiming for (this is covered in depth in the Exporting an archive-quality version of your film recipe).

  3. 3. Click on the Export drop-down menu and select Roles as Multitrack QuickTime Movie. A new tab appears above the options simply called Roles:

  4. 4. Click on the Roles tab. A new assortment of options...