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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

Changing keyframe timing in the timeline


You've completed your keyframing masterpiece, but perhaps the timing isn't quite right. Does the image spin a little too fast? Too slow? Maybe you don't want all the parameters to start and end exactly on the same frames. Or you want a particular animation to end on a beat in your soundtrack. You don't have to start your keyframing all over again. Keyframe retiming can be accomplished right in the timeline itself.

Getting ready

We're going to carry on with the animation we made in the last recipe, Moving clips in sync with compound clips.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Highlight the animated clip and choose Clip | Show Video Animation or hit Command + V. A large blue box appears above the clip. You may need to adjust your timeline height in order to see the entire thing. This window lets you see the location of keyframes for many properties of the clip including effects (if any have been applied), certain color corrections, transformations, crops, distorts, and...