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1 7 A First Look at Final Cut Pro Welcome to Final Cut Pro. If you’re new to the Final Cut Pro video editing workflow, this guide is for you. Here you’ll create a sample video project and learn by doing. Each chapter of this book presents major features and guides you in trying things out. Feel free...

8 Chapter 1 A First Look at Final Cut Pro Opening Final Cut Pro You’ll start by opening Final Cut Pro and creating a sample project. To open Final Cut Pro: Double-click the Final Cut Pro icon in your Applications folder. 1 If you see the Choose Settings dialog, click OK to accept the default setting...

Chapter 1 A First Look at Final Cut Pro 9 Click Continue. 3 When Final Cut Pro opens, your screen will look similar to this: Browser Viewer Canvas Timeline On the left you see the Browser, where you create projects and organize bins that hold your clips. Now you’re ready to explore a simple video ed...

10 Chapter 1 A First Look at Final Cut Pro Explore the Browser Jump In: First, you’ll import some clips into your project, and then you’ll explore some important parts of the Final Cut Pro interface. If you have video files of your own on your computer, feel free to import several and work with them...

Chapter 1 A First Look at Final Cut Pro 11 To import your own video files that are already on your computer: Choose File > Import > Files. 1 Navigate to the folder holding your video files. 2 Select the files you want to import into Final Cut Pro. You can Shift-click or Command-click 3 files t...

12 Chapter 1 A First Look at Final Cut Pro Try This Feel free to try out any of the following to see what happens. Change the Browser display: Choose View > Browser Items > as Large Icons to display the clips as icons. m Choose View > Browser Items > as Small Icons to display the clips a...

Chapter 1 A First Look at Final Cut Pro 13 Create a new sequence: Choose File > New > Sequence. 1 A new sequence icon appears in the project. A sequence represents clips in the Timeline. A sequence might hold a scene, a portion of your movie, or the entire movie. Select the sequences and name ...

14 Chapter 1 A First Look at Final Cut Pro Explore the Viewer Jump In: You use the Viewer to view and edit individual clips, set In and Out points, set markers, and more. Try This Place a clip in the Viewer: Drag Sample Clip 1 into the Viewer. m Change the display of a clip in the Viewer: Choose Fit...

Chapter 1 A First Look at Final Cut Pro 15 Play a clip in the Viewer: Click the Play button to start and stop playing the video clip. Then press the Space bar m to start and stop playing the video clip. Play button Scrubber bar Press J to play the clip backward. Press K to stop playback. Press L to ...

16 Chapter 1 A First Look at Final Cut Pro Navigate to specific locations in a clip: Click in the white scrubber bar to reposition the playhead. The scrubber bar represents m the length of the clip.Press the Home key or the End key to move the playhead to the beginning or end of m the clip. Drag the...

Chapter 1 A First Look at Final Cut Pro 17 Set and work with In and Out points: Position the playhead near the beginning of the clip and choose Mark > Mark In to set m an In point. Position the playhead near the end of the clip and choose Mark > Mark Out to set an Out point. Click the Play In ...

18 Chapter 1 A First Look at Final Cut Pro Navigate between edit points: Click the Go to Next Edit button or the Go to Previous Edit button to move the m playhead to the next or previous edit point. Go to Previous Edit button Go to Next Edit button Press the Up Arrow and Down Arrow keys to move betw...

Chapter 1 A First Look at Final Cut Pro 19 Explore the Canvas Jump In: The Canvas is where you play back the movie that you’ve created in the Timeline. Sequence tab Transport controls Scrubber bar

20 Chapter 1 A First Look at Final Cut Pro Try This Use the Canvas to place a clip in the Timeline: Drag the clip from the Viewer (just drag the image) into the Canvas until the colored m Edit Overlay appears. Drag the clip to the Insert section of the overlay. The clip is inserted in the Timeline. ...

Chapter 1 A First Look at Final Cut Pro 21 Change the display of the Canvas: Choose several different zoom levels from the Zoom pop-up menu. Last, choose the m 50% zoom level from the Zoom pop-up menu. Zoom pop-up menu Play and navigate within the clip in your sequence: Click the Canvas window to ma...

22 Chapter 1 A First Look at Final Cut Pro Press the Space bar to start and stop playback. m Click in the white scrubber bar in the Canvas to reposition the playhead. The scrubber m bar represents the sequence in the Timeline.Press the Home key or the End key to move the playhead to the beginning or...

Chapter 1 A First Look at Final Cut Pro 23 Reposition the playhead in the Canvas (if your mouse has a trackball): Position the pointer over the Canvas and roll the trackball left or right to reposition the m playhead in the Canvas and Timeline. Change the display of the Canvas: Choose Show Overlays ...

24 Chapter 1 A First Look at Final Cut Pro Explore the Timeline Jump In: The Timeline holds your sequences, which contain the arrangement of video and audio clips, and other items such as titles and transitions, in the order you want them in your movie. Ruler Zoom slider Thumb tab Sequence tab Video...

Chapter 1 A First Look at Final Cut Pro 25 Drag the thumb tabs at the ends of the Zoom slider to change the displayed length of m the Timeline’s clips. Scroll through the Timeline by dragging the Zoom slider left or right. Press Command–Equal Sign (=) and Command-Hyphen (-) to zoom in to and out of ...

Chapter 1 A First Look at Final Cut Pro 27 Change the Timeline track size: Change the size of tracks by clicking the Track Height control. m Track Height control Add more clips to the Timeline using the Canvas window: To add another clip to your sequence in the Timeline, first press End to position ...

28 Chapter 1 A First Look at Final Cut Pro Work with the Main Windows Jump In: Final Cut Pro provides some easy methods for working with its main windows. Try This Change the active window: Press Command-1 to activate the Viewer. m Press Command-2 to activate the Canvas. m Press Command-3 to activat...

Chapter 1 A First Look at Final Cut Pro 29 Learning About Projects, Sequences, Clips, and Media Files To begin creating a movie, you create a project in the Browser. To create a new project, choose File > New Project. You can have multiple projects open at once, each represented by a tab in the B...

30 Chapter 1 A First Look at Final Cut Pro Understanding the Relationship Between Clips and Media Files An important first stage in creating a project is transferring your video to your computer. Final Cut Pro provides a variety of ways to get media into your computer. The method you use depends on ...

Chapter 1 A First Look at Final Cut Pro 31 If you transfer a Final Cut Pro project file to another computer for editing, you must also transfer all the media files to the other system as well. It’s important to maintain the connection between your media files on disk and the clips in your project. I...

32 Chapter 1 A First Look at Final Cut Pro Viewer: Â A window in Final Cut Pro in which you can work with a clip to set In and Out points, play back the clip, and make many other types of changes such as applying filters and adjusting motion parameters. Basically, you make changes to a clip using th...

2 33 Bringing Media into Your System Final Cut Pro provides a variety of methods for bringing your video and other media into your Final Cut Pro system for editing. Bringing media into your system is called ingesting . In this chapter, you’ll experiment with bringing some of your own video footage i...

34 Chapter 2 Bringing Media into Your System Explore Tape-Based Video Capture Jump In: You use the Log and Capture window to preview and capture the footage on your tape. You can play the footage on tape from your camera or deck using the transport controls. To capture a clip, you mark the beginning...

Chapter 2 Bringing Media into Your System 35 Create a new project to hold your video: Choose File > New Project. For now the name of the project is “Untitled,” and a new m project tab appears in the Browser. Later, when you save the project, you can give it any name you like. Choose an Easy Setup...

36 Chapter 2 Bringing Media into Your System Try This Select a logging bin: Choose File > New > Bin to create a new bin to hold clips. Rename the bin, if you wish. m Select the bin and choose File > Set Logging Bin. Open the Log and Capture window: Choose File > Log and Capture. m Previe...

Chapter 2 Bringing Media into Your System 37 Set rough In and Out points for a clip that you want to capture: Use the transport controls to go to the beginning of a section of tape that you want to m capture. Click the Mark In button to set an In point to roughly mark the beginning of the clip. Play...

38 Chapter 2 Bringing Media into Your System Capture a single clip: After setting In and Out points and entering logging information, click the Capture m Clip button. Capture Clip button Final Cut Pro rewinds the tape and captures the footage as a media file on your hard disk. The new clip appears i...

Chapter 2 Bringing Media into Your System 39 Batch capture multiple clips at once: Capture offline clips by clicking the Capture Batch button. When the Batch Capture m dialog appears, choose All Items in Logging Bin from the Capture pop-up menu, then click OK. When the Insert Reel dialog appears, cl...

40 Chapter 2 Bringing Media into Your System Explore File-Based Video Transfer Jump In: You use the Log and Transfer window to preview file-based media mounted on your computer or another device. You can preview the footage using the transport controls. To transfer a clip into your Final Cut Pro pro...

Chapter 2 Bringing Media into Your System 41 Getting Ready Create a new project to hold your video: Choose File > New Project. For now the name of the project is “Untitled,” and a new m project tab appears in the Browser. Later, when you save the project, you can give it any name you like. Choose...

Chapter 2 Bringing Media into Your System 43 Try This Select a logging bin: Choose File > New > Bin to create a new bin to hold clips. Rename the bin, if you wish. m Select the bin and choose File > Set Logging Bin. Open the Log and Transfer window: Choose File > Log and Transfer. m Moun...

44 Chapter 2 Bringing Media into Your System Locate files on mounted volumes: In the Browse area, click a file to select it for logging and transferring. m Click a column heading in the Browse area to sort the files by that column category, in m ascending or descending order. Enter a filename in the...

Chapter 2 Bringing Media into Your System 45 Set rough In and Out points for a clip: Use the transport controls to go to the beginning of a section of a media that you want m to transfer. Click the Mark In button to set an In point to roughly mark the beginning of the clip. Play the video forward un...

46 Chapter 2 Bringing Media into Your System Enter scene, shot/take, and angle information in the Scene, Shot/Take, and Angle fields m if you wish. Enter a note about the clip contents in the Log Note field, if you wish. If the clip is one m worthy of inclusion in your movie, select the Good checkbo...

Chapter 2 Bringing Media into Your System 47 Log additional clips without immediately transferring them: Select a clip in the Log and Transfer window’s Browse area, then set In and Out points 1 and enter the logging information for the clip. Click the Increment button beside a logging field to incre...

48 Chapter 2 Bringing Media into Your System Import Still Images and Other Media Jump In: You can import still images and graphics files into your projects and place them in your sequence in the Timeline. You can also import audio files such as CD tracks, voice recordings, or sound effects and place...

Chapter 2 Bringing Media into Your System 49 Try This Import still images into a project: Choose File > Import > Files. Select the still-image files you want to import and click m Choose. The still images appear as clips in the Browser. Experiment with dragging a still-image clip into the View...

50 Chapter 2 Bringing Media into Your System Import audio files into a project: Choose File > Import > Files. Select the audio files you want to import and click Choose. m The audio files appear as clips represented by a speaker icon in the Browser. To place an audio clip in the Timeline, drag...

Chapter 2 Bringing Media into Your System 51 Learning About Ingesting Media and Setting Up Projects When you capture or transfer footage from a camcorder, the media files are stored on your scratch disk, a disk location that you tell Final Cut Pro to use. You can configure Final Cut Pro to store dif...

52 Chapter 2 Bringing Media into Your System Choosing an Easy Setup that matches the majority of your video footage helps you avoid having to render most of your footage. You can’t always avoid rendering clips; for example, when you superimpose a title above another clip, Final Cut Pro must render t...

Chapter 2 Bringing Media into Your System 53 Key Concepts Logging: Â Logging footage allows you to record information about a clip that will help you identify it later. Using the Log and Capture window or the Log and Transfer window, you can record information about the clip, including a reel name, ...

54 Chapter 2 Bringing Media into Your System Capture Now: Â The Capture Now process begins the automatic capture of your tape-based footage at any point on a tape and continues capturing until the end of the tape or until you stop the capture by pressing the Esc (Escape) key. The captured footage is...

3 55 Preparing Clips in the Viewer The Viewer provides efficient ways to review and edit individual clips in your projects. In this chapter, you’ll explore more of the features of the Viewer. Get to Know the Viewer Jump In: You work with individual clips in the Viewer. The Viewer provides powerful w...

56 Chapter 3 Preparing Clips in the Viewer Getting Ready In the Browser, click the tab of the project that holds your sample clips. Drag a clip from 1 the Browser into the Viewer. Viewer title bar View pop-up menu Current Timecode field Resize control Mark In and Mark Out buttons Zoom pop-up menu Se...

Chapter 3 Preparing Clips in the Viewer 57 Try This Reposition the Viewer: Drag the Viewer title bar to move the Viewer to a new screen location. m Change the size of the Viewer: Drag the resize control in the lower-right corner of the Viewer to change the Viewer size. m Open multiple clips in separ...

58 Chapter 3 Preparing Clips in the Viewer Show the timecode overlays: Choose Show Timecode Overlays from the View pop-up menu. Change the In and Out m points to see how the timecode overlays change. Turn off the display of overlays: Choose Show Overlays from the View pop-up menu again to turn off t...

Chapter 3 Preparing Clips in the Viewer 59 Set the playhead at an exact frame in a clip by entering a timecode value: In the Current Timecode field, enter a timecode value that matches a point in your m clip. Enter a timecode value in the format 00:00:00:00 (hours: minutes: seconds: frames). You can...

60 Chapter 3 Preparing Clips in the Viewer Add markers to indicate specific times in a clip: In the Viewer, place the playhead where you want to add a marker and click the Add m Marker button. Set several markers to mark specific times in a clip. Add Marker button Navigate between markers: Press Shi...

Chapter 3 Preparing Clips in the Viewer 61 Change Clips in the Viewer Jump In: After opening a clip in the Viewer, you can reposition the clip on the screen and enlarge it, shrink it, or rotate it to display it at a different angle. To make such changes, you display the clip in a wireframe view. Get...

62 Chapter 3 Preparing Clips in the Viewer Reposition the clip on the screen: Position the pointer on the image in the Viewer and drag left or right to reposition the m image. Play the clip to see the effect of repositioning it. Scale the display of the clip up or down on the screen: Drag a corner o...

Chapter 3 Preparing Clips in the Viewer 63 Try This Create a title clip in the Viewer: Choose Text > Text from the Generator pop-up menu. m Generator pop-up menu Sample text appears in the Viewer. You can now change the text using the titling controls. Get to know the titling controls: Click the ...

64 Chapter 3 Preparing Clips in the Viewer Choose a text color by double-clicking the Font Color color picker. Select a color from m the color wheel and then click OK. Click the Video tab to see the sample text onscreen. Font Color color picker Enter “03:00” in the Timecode Duration field at the top...

Chapter 3 Preparing Clips in the Viewer 65 Reposition a title on the screen: Double-click the title clip in the Timeline to open it in the Viewer. 1 In the Viewer, drag the title text to a different position. Experiment with repositioning 2 the text on the screen. You can also experiment with changi...

66 Chapter 3 Preparing Clips in the Viewer Superimpose a title over another clip: Drag the title clip at the beginning of the movie above Sample Clip 1 in the Timeline. 1 Position the playhead over the gap at the beginning of the movie and choose 2 Sequence > Close Gap.Press Option-R to render th...

Chapter 3 Preparing Clips in the Viewer 67 Arrange a title and clip to appear side by side: Place the playhead in the title clip in the Timeline. 1 In the Timeline, double-click Sample Clip 1, the background clip, to open it in the Viewer. 2 Drag the corner of Sample Clip 1 to reduce the clip size s...

68 Chapter 3 Preparing Clips in the Viewer Change Clips over Time Jump In: The changes that you’ve made to clips and titles can also be made to happen over time as the movie plays. For example, a clip might move across the screen, or a title might appear and then disappear. Final Cut Pro allows you ...

Chapter 3 Preparing Clips in the Viewer 69 Click the Add Motion Keyframe button. In this case, the keyframe marks where the clips 2 will begin to change size. Add Motion Keyframe button Note that the wireframe and handles of the clip in the Viewer turn green to identify the new keyframe.

70 Chapter 3 Preparing Clips in the Viewer Move the playhead ahead in the Viewer to the frame where you want the change 3 to end. In this case, place the playhead at the approximate position you see in the illustration below. This will be the frame at which the clip is completely resized. Move the p...

Chapter 3 Preparing Clips in the Viewer 71 Navigate between keyframes in the Viewer: With the Viewer active, press Shift-K and Option-K to move the playhead from one m keyframe to another. You can use these keyboard shortcuts to quickly find and move between keyframes. Move a clip over time: In the ...

72 Chapter 3 Preparing Clips in the Viewer Press Control-K to set another keyframe. Drag the title clip off the screen background. 5 Drag the title clip off the screen. Press the Up Arrow key to move the playhead to the beginning of the clip, and then 6 play the clip to see the text move over time. ...

Chapter 3 Preparing Clips in the Viewer 73 Rotate a clip over time: With the title clip still open in the Viewer and the Viewer active, press Shift-K or Option-K 1 as necessary to move the playhead to the last keyframe, where the text stops moving.Position the Selection tool pointer near a corner of...

74 Chapter 3 Preparing Clips in the Viewer Change a clip’s opacity over time: With the title clip still open in the Viewer, click the Motion tab to display the motion 1 controls. Drag the corner of the Viewer to expand it, as shown below. The options you see are all parameters that you can set to ch...

Chapter 3 Preparing Clips in the Viewer 75 Click the Motion tab again. Beside each parameter appears a keyframe graph area that 3 represents the duration of the clip. You can add keyframes to this keyframe graph area to change specific parameter settings over time. With the Viewer active, press Home...

Chapter 3 Preparing Clips in the Viewer 77 Learning About Motion Parameters You’ve had a brief introduction to some of the changes you can make using the Viewer, but many more are possible using the Motion tab. By adjusting a clip’s motion settings, you can change its geometry to move, shrink, enlar...

Chapter 3 Preparing Clips in the Viewer 79 Key Concepts Image mode: Â A Viewer display mode that shows the video content of a clip as it plays back. You can change the display to show the clip at reduced or expanded sizes as you work with the clip. Image+Wireframe mode: Â A Viewer display mode that ...

4 81 Working with the Canvas and Timeline You use the Canvas and Timeline to build your project’s sequences, adding, removing, rearranging, and trimming clips as you like. Next, you’ll use the Canvas to learn its basic video editing functions, and then you’ll explore working with clips in a sequence...

82 Chapter 4 Working with the Canvas and Timeline During this section, feel free to place your clips in the Timeline repeatedly to build a longer sequence to experiment with, or place Sample Clip 1, Sample Clip 2, Sample Clip 3, and Audio Clip 1 in the Timeline as shown in the following illustration...

Chapter 4 Working with the Canvas and Timeline 83 Try This Change the window layout for a larger view of the Canvas: Choose Window > Arrange > Two Up. m Timeline Canvas Display a sequence in Image+Wireframe mode in the Canvas: Choose Image+Wireframe from the View pop-up menu in the Canvas. The...

84 Chapter 4 Working with the Canvas and Timeline Update the Viewer to show the current frame in the Canvas: Play the sequence, and notice that the frame displayed in the Viewer is different from m the one displayed in the Canvas. Click the Show Match Frame button in the Canvas. The Viewer changes t...

Chapter 4 Working with the Canvas and Timeline 85 Set markers in the Timeline to mark specific points in a sequence: Click the Add Marker button in the Canvas to set a marker in the Timeline at the 1 current position of the playhead. Add Marker button Reposition the playhead in the Canvas, and this ...

86 Chapter 4 Working with the Canvas and Timeline Work with Tracks in the Timeline Jump In: As you work with clips in your sequence, you can select clips in specific tracks, lock tracks so clips can’t be changed, turn the tracks on or off so that they play or don’t play as you review your sequence, ...

Chapter 4 Working with the Canvas and Timeline 87 Lock a track to keep it from changing: Click the Lock Track control for a track to prevent changes to that track. You can lock m a track anytime that you want to make sure the timing and positioning of items on a track won’t change while making edits...

88 Chapter 4 Working with the Canvas and Timeline Place only the video portion of a clip in a sequence: Click the a1 and a2 Source controls for the audio tracks to disconnect them from their 1 Destination controls. This disconnects the audio tracks as destination tracks and prevents the audio portio...

Chapter 4 Working with the Canvas and Timeline 89 Place only the audio portion of a clip in a sequence: Click the a1 and a2 Source controls for the audio tracks again to reconnect them to their 1 Destination controls. This allows the audio portion of a clip to be placed in the sequence.Click the v1 ...

90 Chapter 4 Working with the Canvas and Timeline Add new tracks to a sequence: Choose Sequence > Insert Tracks. 1 Type “1” in the Insert N Video Tracks field to add a new video track, type “2” in the Insert 2 N Audio Tracks field to add two audio tracks, then click OK. Scroll in the Timeline to ...

Chapter 4 Working with the Canvas and Timeline 91 Set a video destination track before placing clips in a sequence: Drag the v1 Source control to the V2 Destination control to specify that the V2 track 1 should be the destination track. Click the Source control to connect it to the V2 Destination co...

92 Chapter 4 Working with the Canvas and Timeline Set audio destination tracks before placing clips in a sequence: Drag the a1 and a2 Source controls to the A3 and A4 audio Destination controls. 1 Drag the a1 and a2 Source controls to the A3 and A4 Destination controls. Drag a clip from the Viewer t...

Chapter 4 Working with the Canvas and Timeline 93 Edit Clips into a Sequence in the Timeline Jump In: After building a sequence, you may need to make changes, such as replacing one clip with another, adding cutaways, and adding music or sound effects. In this section, you’ll try out some of the basi...

94 Chapter 4 Working with the Canvas and Timeline Mark a clip in the sequence and replace it: Move the playhead to a clip in the Timeline that you want to replace. 1 Choose Mark > Mark Clip. The sequence clip is marked with In and Out points on both 2 ends in the Timeline. Sequence In and Out poi...

Chapter 4 Working with the Canvas and Timeline 95 Place a clip so that it starts at a specific point in a sequence: Place the playhead on a frame in the sequence where you would like to add a clip. 1 (Anywhere will do.)Press I to set an In point for the sequence in the Timeline. 2 Sequence In point ...

96 Chapter 4 Working with the Canvas and Timeline Place a clip so that it ends at a specific point in a sequence: Place the playhead on a frame in the sequence where you would like the incoming clip 1 to end.Press O to set an Out point for the sequence in the Timeline. 2 Sequence Out point marking w...

Chapter 4 Working with the Canvas and Timeline 97 In the Viewer, set an In point in a clip. You only need to set an In point. (If there is an 5 Out point already set, choose Mark > Clear Out to remove the Out point. Final Cut Pro is then free to use as much of the clip as is available to fill the...

5 99 Basic Editing The heart of video editing involves arranging and trimming clips in a sequence. Final Cut Pro provides easy-to-use tools and editing procedures for efficient editing. Next, you’ll try out basic video editing methods and use simple tools to select and trim clips. Trim Clips Jump In...

100 Chapter 5 Basic Editing Getting Ready Press Control-U to choose the Standard window layout. 1 Choose File > New > Sequence to create a new sequence. Name the sequence 2 “Trimming” and press Return.In the Browser, double-click the Trimming sequence icon to open the sequence in 3 the Timelin...

Chapter 5 Basic Editing 101 Drag Sample Clip 1 into the Viewer and set In and Out points at the approximate 6 locations shown below. These In and Out points ensure that there are extra unused frames on each end of the clip. Set In and Out points approximately here. Drag Sample Clip 1 to the Insert s...

102 Chapter 5 Basic Editing Drag Sample Clip 2 to the Insert section of the Canvas Edit Overlay so that it is placed 9 in the Timeline after Sample Clip 1.Drag Sample Clip 3 into the Viewer and set In and Out points at the approximate 10 locations shown below. Set In and Out points approximately her...

Chapter 5 Basic Editing 103 Try This Drag with snapping on or off: Press A to select the Selection tool, if necessary. Drag Sample Clip 3 right and left m and notice that the clip automatically snaps to the end of Sample Clip 2 to facilitate dragging clips into the correct position. Press N to turn ...

104 Chapter 5 Basic Editing Position the pointer over Sample Clip 2 in the sequence. 3 Drag Sample Clip 2 left or right. Notice that the clip moves left or right without its 4 duration changing. After you slide the clip, the sequence adjusts, leaving no gaps. You can slide the clip left or right onl...

Chapter 5 Basic Editing 105 Change a clip’s In or Out point without leaving gaps: Select the Ripple tool in the Tool palette. 1 Ripple tool You use the Ripple tool to move the In point or Out point of a clip, shortening or lengthening that clip. A B C A B C Before edit After edit Position the pointe...

106 Chapter 5 Basic Editing Slip a clip’s content within the current sequence In and Out points: Select the Slip tool in the Tool palette. 1 Slip tool The Slip tool allows you to change the contents of a clip (the portion of the clip’s media that is shown) without changing the clip’s position or dur...

Chapter 5 Basic Editing 107 Make Simple Split Edits and Cutaways Jump In: You can create split edits in a clip to have the audio begin playing before the video or have the video appear before the clip’s audio starts. To create a split edit, you give a clip’s audio and video items different In points...

Chapter 5 Basic Editing 109 Try This Create a J-cut, in which the audio precedes the video: Click the Linked Selection button in the Timeline button bar to turn linked selection off. 1 You can now change the audio and video items of a clip separately. Linked Selection button Press R to select the Ro...

110 Chapter 5 Basic Editing Click the Play Around Current Frame button in the Canvas to see how the split edit works. 4 Play Around Current Frame button When you click the Play Around Current Frame button, playback begins just before the current playhead position and continues just past the playhead...

Chapter 5 Basic Editing 111 Experiment with setting up split edits. 5 Click the Linked Selection button to link the video and audio tracks again. 6 Add a short cutaway shot to a sequence: Position the playhead in Sample Clip 3 in the Timeline at the approximate position 1 shown below, and press I to...

112 Chapter 5 Basic Editing Double-click Sample Clip 2 in the Browser to open it in the Viewer. Position the 3 playhead at the approximate position shown below, and press I to set an In point. Set an In point here. Click the a1 and a2 audio Source controls to disconnect them from their Destination 4...

Chapter 5 Basic Editing 113 Learning About the Trim Edit Window Once you’ve finalized or nearly finalized a sequence, you can begin the polishing process of trimming clips using the Trim Edit window. To open the Trim Edit window, you choose Sequence > Trim Edit or double-click an edit point in a ...

Chapter 5 Basic Editing 115 Key Concepts Slip edit: Â Changes the portion of the clip’s media seen in the sequence, but the position and length of the clip remain the same in the sequence. Slide edit: Â Moves a clip left or right in the sequence without changing the duration of the clip. Roll edit: ...

6 117 Working with Audio Final Cut Pro provides easy methods for editing and changing the audio associated with your footage. In this chapter you’ll learn to adjust a clip’s audio and work with audio tracks in the Timeline. Audio tab Stereo waveforms Drag hand for moving the clip Level Keyframe butt...

118 Chapter 6 Working with Audio Work with a Clip’s Audio in the Viewer Jump In: You can adjust an individual clip’s audio in the Viewer. Final Cut Pro provides an Audio Mixer that allows you to easily adjust the audio level of your clip and the pan of stereo clip items to change the balance between...

Chapter 6 Working with Audio 119 You can also use the controls in the Viewer’s Audio tab to make changes to specific portions of a clip’s audio. Drag the Level slider to change the audio level. Audio level overlays Pan field Pan overlay Level field Getting Ready Choose File > New > Sequence to...

120 Chapter 6 Working with Audio Try This Set up for working with audio: Choose Window > Arrange > Audio Mixing to set up your windows in a convenient m arrangement for working with audio. Notice that the Audio Mixer appears in the Tool Bench window in the upper-right corner of this window lay...

Chapter 6 Working with Audio 121 Play an audio clip in the Viewer: With the Viewer active, play some of the clip and watch the progress of the playhead m through the audio. Audio tab Scrub audio forward or backward: Choose View > Audio Scrubbing to turn on audio scrubbing. 1 Drag the jog control ...

122 Chapter 6 Working with Audio Change a clip’s audio level using the Audio Mixer: Drag the A1 or A2 fader slider up or down in the Audio Mixer to change the clip’s audio m level. Play the clip to hear the differences as you change the audio level. Both faders work together because the stereo clip ...

Chapter 6 Working with Audio 123 Change a clip’s audio level using the Level slider in the Viewer: Drag the Level slider in the Viewer’s Audio tab left or right to change the audio level. m Level slider Pan slider Change a clip’s pan using the Viewer’s Pan slider: Drag the Pan slider in the Viewer l...

124 Chapter 6 Working with Audio Add markers during playback: Play the audio track. As the clip plays back, press the M key whenever you want to add m a marker. You can add markers on the fly this way to mark significant sounds or video frames. This method works in the Viewer, Canvas, and Timeline, ...

Chapter 6 Working with Audio 125 Change Audio Levels over Time Jump In: You can adjust a clip’s audio so that the audio level and pan change over time. To make audio level or pan changes during a clip, you set keyframes at specific frames where the audio should change. Next, you’ll use keyframes to ...

126 Chapter 6 Working with Audio Try This Increase a clip’s audio level over time using keyframes: With Audio Clip 1 open in the Audio tab of the Viewer, drag the fader sliders in the 1 Audio Mixer all the way to the bottom to set the audio level at the lowest level possible. Press Home to position ...

Chapter 6 Working with Audio 127 Click the Level Keyframe button to add an audio level keyframe to the clip at the 5 position of the playhead. Drag the Level slider in the Viewer’s Audio tab to 0 (zero) to increase the audio over time. 6 Drag the slider until the Level field displays 0 (zero). Press...

128 Chapter 6 Working with Audio Decrease the audio level over time using keyframes: Position the playhead where you want the audio level to begin to decrease, 1 somewhere near the end of the clip. Position the playhead here. Click the Level Keyframe button to add a keyframe to the clip at the posit...

Chapter 6 Working with Audio 129 Drag the Level slider to the left to decrease the audio level all the way. 5 Drag the Level slider to decrease the audio level. Play the clip to hear how the audio fades over time. 6 Experiment with dragging the keyframes and audio segments up and down to 7 familiari...

130 Chapter 6 Working with Audio Edit a sound using keyframes: Position the playhead at the beginning of a sound, such as a click or pop, that you want 1 to eliminate. For now, just pick the beginning of the second whistle in Audio Clip 1. Position the playhead at the beginning of the sound. Click t...

Chapter 6 Working with Audio 131 Press the Right Arrow key once to move the playhead forward one frame, then click 3 the Level Keyframe button to add a keyframe. Position the playhead at the end of the sound and click the Level Keyframe button to add a keyframe at that point. Place a keyframe at the...

132 Chapter 6 Working with Audio Position the pointer in the middle of the four keyframes that you just added, and drag 5 the audio level overlay (the pink line) down to decrease the audio level. You’ve now isolated a sound in the audio clip and decreased the sound’s audio level. Drag the audio leve...

Chapter 6 Working with Audio 133 Position the playhead where you want to make an audio level change, and drag a fader m slider in the Audio Mixer. Once again, moving the fader slider adds a new keyframe at the position of the playhead. Quickly navigate between keyframes: Click the left or right keyf...

134 Chapter 6 Working with Audio Work with Audio Tracks in the Timeline Jump In: Next you’ll add clips to a sequence in the Timeline and try out some of the Timeline audio track options and controls. Audio level overlay in pink

Chapter 6 Working with Audio 135 Getting Ready Click in the Timeline to make it active, then press Home. 1 With Audio Clip 1 open in the Viewer, drag the drag hand in the Viewer window down 2 to tracks A3 and A4 in the Timeline. When you release the mouse button, the audio clip items appear in track...

136 Chapter 6 Working with Audio Delete a clip’s audio: With the audio clip items selected, press Delete. You’ve now removed the clip’s audio, m leaving only the video. You could now add a voiceover, a different audio clip, or a music clip to the silent video footage. For now, restore the clip’s aud...

Chapter 6 Working with Audio 137 Display audio level overlays: Click the Clip Overlays control in the Timeline to display the audio level keyframes m applied to the clip. Clip Overlays control Trim an audio clip: Select the Razor Blade tool in the Tool palette. Position the tool over the audio clip ...

138 Chapter 6 Working with Audio Change audio over time by adjusting keyframes in the Timeline: Position the Selection tool over the audio level overlay in an audio track and drag to m change the audio level. Experiment with changing audio level keyframes in the Timeline. Drag the audio level overla...

Chapter 6 Working with Audio 139 Balance the overall audio level of a sequence in the Timeline: Position the Timeline playhead over the audio clip items. 1 Drag the slider of the Audio Mixer’s Master fader up or down to adjust the overall audio 2 output level of the entire sequence. You can use the ...

140 Chapter 6 Working with Audio Key Concepts Clip Overlays control: Â Displays audio level overlays on clips in the audio tracks of the Timeline. With the overlays displayed, you can work with audio level keyframes in the Timeline, changing audio levels for specific portions of a clip. Audio Mixer:...

7 141 Creating Voiceovers Final Cut Pro provides the Voice Over tool for recording voiceovers for documentaries, shorts, and any other kind of movie using narration. In this section, you’ll use the Voice Over tool to add a narrative track to your video. Add Voiceover Clips Jump In: The Voice Over to...

142 Chapter 7 Creating Voiceovers To use the Voice Over tool, you need a microphone built in or attached to your computer, and optionally you can use headphones to monitor your recording. If you don’t have a microphone, you can skip this section for now, or just read it over to familiarize yourself ...

Chapter 7 Creating Voiceovers 143 If you haven’t already, you can choose Window > Arrange > Audio Mixing to choose a 8 window layout convenient for using the Voice Over tool. Drag Sample Clip 1 and Sample Clip 2 into the Timeline, one after the other. 9 Try This Open the Voice Over tool: Choos...

144 Chapter 7 Creating Voiceovers Specify a clip name for the first voiceover clip: Type a name for your voiceover audio clip in the Name field. m Set an audio destination track for your voiceover clip: Drag the a2 audio Source control to the A3 Destination control to set track A3 as the m destinati...

Chapter 7 Creating Voiceovers 145 Turn off audio playback for the sample clip in the Timeline: Click the Track Visibility buttons for the A1 and A2 audio tracks of the Timeline to turn m off audio playback for these tracks. This prevents the clip’s audio from being picked up in the background as you...

146 Chapter 7 Creating Voiceovers Listen to the new voiceover clip: Click the Review button to hear the clip. Click the Review button again to stop playing m the clip. You can replay the clip repeatedly using the Review button. Review button Discard a new voiceover audio clip that isn’t acceptable: ...

Chapter 7 Creating Voiceovers 147 Specify headphone settings in the Voice Over tool (if you’re using headphones): Adjust the Volume slider to set your headphones to a comfortable listening level. m Record multiple voiceover clips, one after another: Position the playhead in the Timeline where you wa...

148 Chapter 7 Creating Voiceovers Record multiple takes of a voiceover clip: Position the playhead in the Timeline where you want recording to start. 1 Click the Record button and record a clip. 2 Click Record or press the Esc key to stop recording. 3 Click the Review button to listen to the clip. C...

Chapter 7 Creating Voiceovers 149 Delete takes that you don’t want: Click a take to select it in the Timeline, then press Delete. m Record a voiceover clip within a specific interval of your sequence: Position the playhead in the Timeline where you want recording to start, then press I to 1 set an I...

150 Chapter 7 Creating Voiceovers To record a second take, click the Record button again and record the second take. 6 Multiple takes appear stacked in the audio tracks, aligned with the In and Out points you set. Experiment with creating multiple takes of a recording within a set duration.To remove...

8 151 Adding Video Filters and Transitions You can add professional touches to your movie by applying filters to clips to create special looks or effects and adding transitions between your clips. Applying filters to a clip can allow you to change a clip’s overall appearance, such as blurring an ima...

152 Chapter 8 Adding Video Filters and Transitions Apply Filters to Clips Jump In: You can apply a filter to a clip in a sequence by double-clicking the clip to open it in the Viewer and then choosing the filter you want to use from the Effects menu. Options for configuring and changing the filter p...

Chapter 8 Adding Video Filters and Transitions 153 Getting Ready Choose Window > Arrange > Two Up. 1 Choose File > New > Sequence to create a new empty sequence in your project. 2 Name the sequence “Filters” and press Return. 3 In the Browser, double-click the Filters sequence to open it...

154 Chapter 8 Adding Video Filters and Transitions Adjust the Sepia filter for a clip: Drag the Amount slider to change the amount of sepia color applied to the clip. m If a red line appears in the Timeline over clips in your sequence, press Option-R Note: to render the clips for playback. Drag the ...

Chapter 8 Adding Video Filters and Transitions 155 Apply a Color Tint filter to a clip: Choose Effects > Video Filters > QuickTime > Color Tint. 1 Reset button “Tint type” pop-up menu Choose different tint styles from the “Tint type” pop-up menu to see their effect on 2 the clip. Choose Oth...

156 Chapter 8 Adding Video Filters and Transitions Change a filter over time using keyframes: With Black and White chosen in the “Tint type” pop-up menu for the Color Tint filter, click 1 in the Timeline and press Home to position the playhead at the beginning of the clip.Click the Keyframe button f...

Chapter 8 Adding Video Filters and Transitions 157 Make Simple Color Corrections Jump In: When you have color or exposure problems with a clip, you can apply a color correction filter to make basic corrections. (If you need to make sophisticated color grading corrections, you can use the Color appli...

158 Chapter 8 Adding Video Filters and Transitions Getting Ready Drag Sample Clip 2 into the Timeline and then double-click it to open it in the Viewer. m Try This Apply the Color Corrector 3-way filter to a clip in a sequence: Choose Effects > Video Filters > Color Correction > Color Corre...

Chapter 8 Adding Video Filters and Transitions 159 Add Transitions Between Clips Jump In: You can use video transitions to make visually effective changes between clips. Next, you’ll try adding transitions to the sample clips and get acquainted with the variety of transitions you can use. When you a...

160 Chapter 8 Adding Video Filters and Transitions Set In and Out points similar to the ones you see in the illustration. 5 Leave about 2 seconds of unused footage at the end of the clip. Final Cut Pro requires these unused frames, called a handle , to create a transition. Place an Out point here. P...

Chapter 8 Adding Video Filters and Transitions 161 Create handles at the beginning and end of the clip by setting an In point and an Out 8 point similar to the ones you see in the illustration. Leave about 2 seconds of unused footage at the beginning of the clip. Place an Out point here. Place an In...

162 Chapter 8 Adding Video Filters and Transitions Try This Add a clip with a transition to a sequence: Drag Sample Clip 2 from the Viewer to the Insert with Transition section of the Canvas 1 Edit Overlay. Drag Sample Clip 2 here. Final Cut Pro adds the clip to the sequence, placing a default cross...

Chapter 8 Adding Video Filters and Transitions 163 Delete a transition: Click the transition in the Timeline to select it. 1 Press Delete. 2 Add a transition to an edit point: Click the line between two clips in the Timeline to select the edit point. 1 With the edit point selected, choose Effects &g...

164 Chapter 8 Adding Video Filters and Transitions Get to know the available video transitions: Select the transition in the Timeline. 1 Try applying different transitions by doing any of the following: 2 Choose Effects > Video Transitions > 3D Simulation > Zoom. Â Choose Effects > Video...

Chapter 8 Adding Video Filters and Transitions 165 Learning About Transitions When you add a transition between clips, the length of your clips and the sequence length don’t change. The transition takes up time between the outgoing and incoming clips. It doesn’t lengthen them. The duration of the cl...

168 Chapter 8 Adding Video Filters and Transitions When you initially ingest your clips, you should include some extra footage around the scene or event that a clip shows. Final Cut Pro requires extra footage before an In point or after an Out point to create a transition. The extra frames on the en...

9 171 Outputting Your Finished Movie After you’ve completed editing your movie, you have numerous options for delivering your work. You can send your completed movie, a sequence, or even a single clip to another Final Cut Studio application for further work. For example, you can send your movie to C...

172 Chapter 9 Outputting Your Finished Movie Create a QuickTime Movie Jump In: You can export a sequence or clip as a self-contained QuickTime movie that can be viewed on many computers and in applications that are compatible with QuickTime. A self-contained QuickTime movie includes all files and me...

Chapter 9 Outputting Your Finished Movie 173 Export a Movie in a Specific File Format Jump In: If you need to convert your movie to a specific format, Final Cut Pro provides many format options. One of the simplest methods is to use the Share feature to export your movie in a format compatible for u...

174 Chapter 9 Outputting Your Finished Movie Try This Export your sequence for display on iPod: With your sequence open in the Timeline and the Timeline active, choose File > Share. 1 Output Type pop-up menu Choose Movies from the Destination Folder pop-up menu to set that folder as the 2 destina...

Chapter 9 Outputting Your Finished Movie 175 Export your sequence for display on YouTube: With your sequence open in the Timeline and the Timeline active, choose File > Share. 1 Leave the Movies folder set as the destination folder in the Destination Folder 2 pop-up menu.Choose YouTube as the out...

176 Chapter 9 Outputting Your Finished Movie Export a streaming sequence suitable for viewing on a website: Open a sequence in the Timeline that you’d like to export for viewing on a website. 1 Choose File > Export > Using QuickTime Conversion. 2 Type a filename for your movie in the Save As f...

10 177 Getting Answers Now that you’ve been introduced to Final Cut Pro, you probably have further questions about how to set up Final Cut Pro to match your editing style and use its features effectively. Use Final Cut Pro Help to find the answers you need. Explore Final Cut Pro Help Jump In: Final ...

178 Chapter 10 Getting Answers Learn about working with high definition video formats and specific types of media supported by Final Cut Pro: In Final Cut Pro, choose Help > Final Cut Pro Help, then click Final Cut Pro 7: Professional m Formats and Workflows. Browse topics that interest you. Sear...