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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

Adjusting the transition's parameters in the Viewer, Inspector, and timeline


It's easy to tack on a transition, but many of them have multiple parameters that can only be tweaked in certain places such as the Inspector, on-screen controls in the Viewer, or even in the timeline itself.

Getting ready

Simply create a timeline with two clips in it that you can add a transition to.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Open your Transitions browser and make sure All is highlighted in the categories box.

  2. 2. In the search box below, type in black hole, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. 3. Drag the black hole transition between the two clips in your timeline. If you get a message that says There is not enough extra media beyond clip edges to create the transition..., click on Create Transition, as shown in the following screenshot:

  4. 4. Play the area around the transition. This transition sucks in the first clip into a vortex and reveals the second clip underneath.

  5. 5. Click on the transition itself in the timeline...