Anderson Final Cut Pro Efficient Editing

The ultimate guide to editing video with FCP 10.7.1 for faster, smarter workflows
2. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-83763-819-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 0 - No protection

E-Book, Englisch, 828 Seiten

Elevate your video editing skills with Final Cut Pro 11 using practical workflows, expert techniques, and the latest features to enhance your creative process and give your videos a stunning look.
The second edition of this comprehensive guide covers exciting new features in FCP, teaching you how to streamline your workflow with customizable workspaces, shortcuts, and advanced trimming tools. Explore impactful titles and a comprehensive suite of visual effects in Final Cut Pro for dynamic videos, discover Final Cut Pro's audio tools to create a great-sounding mix, and utilize the magnetic timeline, multicam editing, and enhanced color correction for every project.
Whether you're creating content for social media, YouTube, or Hollywood, Final Cut Pro Efficient Editing, Second Edition will help you take your video editing skills to the next level.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anderson, Iain

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Spezielle Techniken in der Fotografie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Betriebssysteme Mac OS, Mac OS X
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmproduktion, Filmtechnik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Professionelle Anwendung Digitales Video
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Professionelle Anwendung Digitale Animation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents - Quick start: An Introduction to FCP
- Before the Edit: Production Tips
- Bring It In: Importing Your Footage
- Sort It Out: Reviewing and Keywording
- Choose Your Favorites: Selecting, Rating, and Searching
- Build the Spine of the Story: Quick Assembly
- Cover It Up: Connections, Cutaways, and Storylines
- Neaten the edges: Trimming Techniques
- Consider Your Options: Multicam, Replacing, and Auditions
- Explore a Little: Compound Clips and Timeline Tricks
- Play with Light: Color Correction and Grading
- Refine and Smooth: Video Properties and Effects
- Blend and Warp: Video Transitions and Retiming
- Boost the Signal: Audio Sweetening
- A Few Words: Titles and Generators
- You're Done: Exporting Your Edit and Finishing Up
- Appendix A, 360° Video Workflows

Leseproben

1 Quick Start: An Introduction to FCP

A brief history of editing

Interface basics

Overview

In the central bar

In the Browser

In the Viewer pane

Other important windows and controls

Controlling the main window

The Touch Bar

An editing workflow overview

Terminology

Workflow

Part 1: Importing and Organizing

Part 2: Rough Cut to Fine Cut

Part 3: Finishing and Exporting

Hardware recommendations

A Mac

Active media storage

Backup storage

Displays

Audio

Media card reader

Miscellaneous USB gear

Anything else?

Summary

Review questions

Review answers

2 Before the Edit: Production Tips

Getting the settings right

Resolution

Portrait or landscape?

Frame rate

Shutter speed

Banding

White balance

Codecs

Containers

Review — getting all the settings right

Choosing a camera

An iPhone (or any other mobile phone)

A DSLR or mirrorless camera

A high-end camera

An action camera or drone

A 360° camera

A SPATIAL OR IMMERSIVE C A M E R A

Audio equipment

Other accessories

Review — choosing a camera and audio equipment

Shooting the right shots

A-roll

B-roll

Movement

Focus pulling

Different perspectives

Framing

Review — shooting the right shots

Working with multiple cameras and audio recorders

Conference presentations

Interviews

Physical movement

Weddings and live events

Review — working with multiple cameras and audio recorders

Managing everything on set

Review — managing everything on set

Summary

Review questions

Review answers

3 Bring It In: Importing Your Footage

Creating a Library (in the right place)

Creating and naming a Library

Deciding where to store media

Review — creating a Library (in the right place)

Understanding original, optimized, and proxy footage

Understanding optimized media (ProRes 422)

Understanding proxy media

Generating transcoded media

Viewing proxy media

Review — understanding original, optimized, and proxy footage

Importing media in different ways

The Import window

Importing via drag and drop

Managing storage space

Using camera archives

Reimporting media

Importing from iMovie or FCP for iPad

Review — importing media in different ways

Syncing media from multiple devices

Creating synchronized clips

Creating Multicam Clips

Checking and resyncing a multicam clip

Review — syncing media from multiple devices

Understanding and applying Roles

Review — understanding and applying Roles

Summary

Review questions

Review answers

Join us on Discord!

4 Sort It Out: Reviewing and Keywording

Reviewing your media

Skimming is awesome

Exploring the Viewer

A/V Output

Review — reviewing your media

Browser view options

List view

Filmstrip view

Review — Browser view options

Playback shortcuts

Basic shortcuts

Extended shortcuts

Review — playback shortcuts

Examining metadata

Metadata in List view

Metadata in the Inspector

Review — examining metadata

Understanding and applying Keywords

Applying Keywords to clips

Automatic tagging for people

Review — understanding and applying Keywords

Searching with Keywords

Review — searching with Keywords

Summary

Review questions

Review Answers

5 Choose Your Favorites: Selecting, Rating, and Searching

Selecting part of a clip

Review — selecting part of a clip

Rating as a Favorite

Showing only the Favorites

Review — rating as a Favorite

Rating as Rejected

Review — rating as Rejected

Storing additional information

Selective Keywords

Notes

Names

Markers

Review — storing additional information

Advanced searches

Review — advanced searches

Summary

Review questions

Review answers

6 Build the spine of the story: Quick Assembly

Creating a new Project

The perils of Automatic Settings

Custom Project settings

Non-standard resolutions

Moving between open Projects

Review — creating a new Project

Adding your media in a few different ways

Appending with a button or shortcut

Adding clips with drag and drop

Inserting with a button or shortcut

How to use Snapping

Revisiting the Skimmer and the Playhead

Adding temporary clips

Review — adding your media in a few different ways

Rearranging your clips

Moving clips in the Magnetic Timeline

Selecting multiple clips

Duplicating clips

Basic timeline shortcuts

Review — rearranging your clips

Basic trimming with the Magnetic Timeline

Do you have enough media?

Trimming with the mouse

Trimming with the keyboard

Trimming the top and tail of a clip

Extending edits

Review — basic trimming with the Magnetic Timeline

Blading and deleting

Deleting clips

Breaking up a clip

Selecting part of a clip

Review — blading and deleting

Duplicating Projects

Summary

Review questions

Review answers

7 Cover It Up: Connections, Cutaways, and Storylines

Understanding cutaways

Preparing for a cutaway

Review — understanding cutaways

Connecting clips

Connecting visual B-roll

Connecting sound effects

Connecting only audio or video

Understanding connections

Working with music

Trimming connected clips

Review — connecting clips

Grouping connected clips in Storylines

Review — grouping connected clips in Storylines

Controlling and overriding connections

Review — controlling and overriding connections

Three-point editing and more

Backtiming

Overwriting

Copy and paste

Review — three-point editing and more

Summary

Review questions

Review answers

8 Neaten the Edges: Trimming Techniques

Rolling an edit

Understanding a regular trim edit

Performing a Roll edit

Using keyboard shortcuts to Roll

Review — Rolling an edit

Slipping and Sliding clips

Using a Slip edit

Using a Slide edit

Review — Slipping and sliding clips

Softening audio with split edits (J- and L-cuts)

Expanding and collapsing audio

Overlapping audio edit points

Fading audio edits

Fading...

Über Autor(innen)

Anderson Iain:

Iain Anderson is an author, editor, director, videographer, programmer, animator, and educator based in Brisbane, Australia. An Apple Certified Trainer who helped to create the new Apple Certified Final Cut Pro exams and training curriculum, Iain regularly presents at conferences, is a Lead Trainer for macProVideo, and creates educational video content for CoreMelt and many other organizations.