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Final Cut Pro X Cookbook

By : Jason Cox
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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 3 — fine-tuning your multicam edit


You've done it! You've done real-time multicam editing! But, chances are, you didn't do it right! That's not an insult, but the truth is, it's almost impossible to perfect the timing of your cuts the first time through simply by clicking on your angles in the Angle Viewer. Do you have to do the edit all over again? Absolutely not. FCPX has easy tools that let us fix the timing of our cuts and swap angles entirely.

Getting ready

Make sure you've read the last two recipes to understand how to set up a multicam clip and edit it into a project.

How to do it...

  1. 1. The most common desire when tweaking a multicam edit is to change the timing of some of your edits. You say to yourself "Oops, I wish I had cut from Angle A to Angle C a little sooner." It happens all the time! This can be accomplished very easily with the Roll tool.

    Move your Selection tool cursor on top of the edit point where you wanted to change the timing. Once you place your cursor right...