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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

Unlinking audio from video


In FCPX, when you edit a video clip in a project, the clip's video and audio appear as one unit in your timeline. This can be a bit disconcerting at first for long-time digital video editors, who are used to seeing video and audio as separate entities in the track-based timeline used in FCP7. Video and audio are not tied together permanently, however, and can be separated and manipulated individually in the timeline.

Getting ready

In a documentary project, you may have a talking head clip where you decide you only want to use the spoken words, rather than see the speaker's face, and then use that spoken portion as voiceover for some b-roll. Instead of removing the clip, go back to your Event Browser, find the clip again, and re-edit the audio portion into your timeline. It's much faster to unlink the audio in the timeline and drag it wherever you want.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Right-click on the clip in your timeline that you want to detach the audio from and select Detach...