Create, edit, and produce professional-grade videos with practical tips, step-by-step guides, and illustrations
Key Features
Enhance project structure, manage media, and use the inspector effectively for consistent pacing
Take your video projects to the next level by mastering features such as keyframe animation and advanced color correction
Foster collaboration and troubleshoot common issues for a smooth editing process
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Book DescriptionEdit Without Tears with Final Cut Pro is your essential guide to overcoming challenges in video editing using Final Cut Pro, simplifying complex procedures and workflows and providing a structured approach for efficient and impressive video editing. This book will change how you approach editing, guiding you to create professional-grade videos with ease and confidence.
Throughout the book, you'll enhance your efficiency and speed, while also learning unique workflows for common tasks. The comprehensive coverage spans planning video narratives, crafting preliminary edits and refining them, improving audio quality, setting up and editing multicam sequences, leveraging the inspector's controls, and working with both built-in and third-party plugins. You'll then advance to animating objects using keyframes, utilizing color scopes for advanced color correction, and troubleshooting common issues confidently.
By the end of this Final Cut Pro book, you'll have developed an efficient editing style, unlocking the full power of this video editing software for your creative endeavors.What you will learn
Organize Final Cut Pro files efficiently in designated locations
Set yourself up for success by planning your edits
Fine-tune the editing pace to achieve the desired flow and timing
Utilize the inspector for color and audio adjustments
Initiate various projects, including the Countdown project
Enhance effects and animations through plugins
Collaborate effectively with multiple users and leverage multicam
Ensure all necessary requirements are met after completing the edit
Who this book is forIf you're an intermediate-level Final Cut Pro editor, creative professional, freelancer, YouTuber, part of a production team, or anyone creating high-quality content on macOS using Final Cut Pro, this book is for you. A basic understanding of video editing principles and familiarity with media formats and macOS file storage is needed to get started with this book.
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Höhe: 235 mm
Breite: 191 mm
Dicke: 38 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-80461-492-1 (9781804614921)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Bruce G. Macbryde, a Final Cut Pro trainer with 20+ years of experience, spanning from the original release in 1999 to the latest version. He served as a sales manager for Australian Authorized Apple distributors (1998-2004) and later as a training manager for Apple-developed software through 2009. He established Wedding Media Productions in 2004, a wedding video business in Sydney, Australia. Bruce is a YouTube creator for the VideoTutors channel, with 500+ video tutorials. He began teaching marketing at NSW TAFE in the early 1980s, specializing in technology and business software such as Microsoft Office, Adobe Pagemaker, and Photoshop during a 7-year stint in New Zealand.
Table of Contents
It's All About the Media
Organizing Media
Planning the Video Story
Pre-Editing a Rough Cut
Refining the Rough Cut
Fixing and Enhancing the Audio
Titles, Effects and, Generators
Setting Up and Editing Multicam
Project Workflows - Pace and Structure
The Inspector Controls
Using Built-In Plug-Ins
Using Third-Party Plugins
Using Keyframes to Animate Objects in Final Cut Pro
Understanding the Principles of Color
Using Color Scopes for Advanced Color Correction
Your Job Role - Collaboration
Supporting Software Applications for Final Cut Pro
Troubleshooting Final Cut Pro
Backing Up and Archiving Libraries
