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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

Replacing bad audio with a cleaner recording


As more and more videographers today are experimenting with the quickly advancing world of DSLR video, they quickly learn one rule—the recorded audio on DSLRs sucks! A true professional would almost never use their camera's built-in microphone, but most DSLRs have especially bad audio. While some DSLRs have microphone inputs, they still don't often have the best recording capabilities or feature sets, so many professionals use external audio recorders for their audio needs.

There are many out there, but a couple I highly recommend looking into are the Zoom H1 and H4n models (http://www.zoom.co.jp/?lang=en). They both record pristine audio quality in the WAV and MP3 formats to SD cards that can be imported instantly into FCPX. The H4n model also allows you to plug in XLR microphones directly into it.

So, once you've imported your video with bad audio and your separate high-quality audio file, what do you do? You used to have to spend a ridiculous...