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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

Fixing the exposure and adjusting the contrast with help from the Luma waveform monitor


When correcting an image, not only do we want to make sure our colors appear as we saw them with our own eyes, but we also need to ensure that the image is properly exposed, giving us as full of a range of bright to dark as possible. Cameras do not have nearly the dynamic range of light and color that the human eyeball does (yet), and so we must work to push our darker and brighter areas of an image to create contrast. This can be tough to do relying on a computer screen's portrayal of our media, but with the help of a video scope called the Luma waveform monitor, which helps measure the brightness and contract of an image, this process is made just a bit easier.

Getting ready

Find and highlight a clip in your timeline that you think is in need of some extra contrast or exposure adjustment. If you are unsure, read along to learn how to understand and read video scopes to spot clips in need of adjustments...