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Final Cut Pro X Cookbook: Edit with style and ease using the latest editing technologies in Final Cut Pro X! with this book and ebook.

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Final Cut Pro X Cookbook

Chapter 2. Customizing Your Workflow

In this chapter, we will cover the following:

  • Getting acquainted with the Final Cut Pro X interface

  • Customizing the keyboard

  • Creating a camera archive

  • Adding keywords to your clips

  • Marking clips as favorites and rejected

  • Creating a Smart Collection

  • Working with a second computer monitor

  • Working with a broadcast safe monitor

  • Customizing the Event Library and Event Browser

  • Batch changing clip names and other metadata

  • Editing efficiently with optimized and proxy clips

Introduction


As video editors, we need to be flexible. Changing deadlines, various video file formats, backseat editors (a.k.a. directors and producers); they all make us have to constantly adapt our workflow. In turn, we need flexibility in our editing software. Luckily, Final Cut Pro X (FCPX) has plenty of tools to adjust to our needs and different working environments.

For Final Cut Pro 7 users, FCPX's one-window interface seems restrictive at first compared to FCP7's multiwindowed layout. This is misleading, however, as almost all the different areas of the interface can be hidden or resized easily based on our needs. Keyboard shortcuts have also changed, but we can alter those as well. And thanks to the 10.0.3 update that arrived in early 2012, we have much more flexibility in connecting to additional broadcast-quality hardware.

In addition, FCPX vastly exceeds FCP7's media management capabilities. Cross-referencing media is a piece of cake, thanks to the introduction of keywords and...

Getting acquainted with the Final Cut Pro X interface


Before we truly get underway with learning the ins and outs of FCPX, we've got to learn to walk before we can run. FCPX is a very deep program with a huge palette of tools and features, and every user should have a basic idea of what's what and what's where before trying to edit their masterpiece. This recipe is not so much an exercise, as it is an overview that will walk you through the most commonly used pieces of the interface.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Open up Final Cut Pro X. There are several parts to the FCPX interface, which are shown in the following screenshot. Your interface may not show every part in our screenshot, but as we'll see, you can easily show and hide many of the components according to your needs.

  2. 2. Go through the following list to know more about the sections marked in the preceding screenshot:

    • Section 1: This is the Event Library section . All media you import into FCPX will be contained in an event inside the Event...

Customizing the keyboard


Final Cut Pro X's keyboard shortcuts are greatly revamped and remapped from Final Cut Pro 7. Or, if you're coming from a different editing suite, keyboard shortcuts are going to be very different anyway. Luckily, FCPX has an easy-to-use keyboard shortcut editor.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Click on Final Cut Pro in the menu bar and select Commands | Customize, or hit Command + Option + K on the keyboard.

  2. 2. The Command Editor window pops up. To learn what each key is capable of in FCPX, click on it and look below the digital keyboard in the Key Detail box. Every possible command with every possible modifier key is listed! Additionally, the command list at the bottom provides you with a list of every possible command in FCPX and which, if any, keyboard shortcut has been applied to it.

  3. 3. FCPX doesn't let you modify the default layout, so we must create our own copy first. Click on Default in the upper-left corner of the window and choose Duplicate... Enter in a name for your...

Adding keywords to your clips


New to FCPX is a handy keyword system that allows for great cross-referencing and makes clips easy to find, even if you've got hundreds of them or more! Perhaps you are organizing footage you shot at a fair. You have a clip that is a crowd shot, but also features a performance artist. In FCP7, you would have to pick one bin or a folder for a clip to reside. Now, you can apply the keywords crowd and artist to a clip and make it show up in each keyword collection (more information on that in a moment).

How to do it...

  1. 1. Select your event in the Event Library section. You can select either filmstrip view or list view for this process, but usually the more visual filmstrip view works better as you can see many clips at once.

  2. 2. Click on the Keyword Editor button (key icon) in the menu bar, or press Command + K. This brings up the floating Keyword Editor window. Click on the disclosure triangle next to Keyword Shortcuts, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. 3...

Marking clips as favorites and rejected


In addition to keywording, you can mark clips simply as a Favorite or Rejected in order to further organize and reference your footage. The process for marking a clip or part of a clip is very similar to keywording. iMovie users will be very familiar with this process, as the feature was pulled straight from FCPX's little sibling.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Select a range of a clip that contains the portion of the clip you will likely use in your project. You can select the entire clip if you desire, but using the Favorite feature is most useful when selecting just a range within a clip.

  2. 2. Click on the green star on the left of the menu bar, or hit F on the keyboard:

  3. 3. A green line appears over the selected range of the clip, indicating it is now a Favorite. Repeat this process with as many clips as you like.

  4. 4. Once you have marked your clips as Favorites, click on the Filter pop-up menu in the upper-left corner of Event Browser. Select Favorites from the drop...

Creating a Smart Collection


Keywords, favorites, rejected clips, oh my! But wait, there's more—Smart Collections. This tool will satiate even the most organized editors out there. Perhaps you want to simply be able to click on one button and see all clips with the keywords exterior , interview , and actor simultaneously applied. Or perhaps you want to be able to see all clips marked as Favorites with the interior keyword applied. It gets much deeper than that, but let's take it easy at first and decide that we want to find the clips marked as Favorites with a particular set of keywords applied to them.

How to do it...

  1. 1. With the Event Library or Event Browser window active, choose Edit | Find... or hit Command + F. The Filter window will appear. This window allows us to create a list of rules or search criteria to find the clips we want and view them together in a Smart Collection.

  2. 2. The first default option is to filter by Text. You can simply type in the empty field to narrow down your...

Working with a second computer monitor


As the world continues its inevitable shift away from desktop computers to more portable options such as laptops and tablets, one repercussion is sometimes having to work with smaller monitors or displays. For many tasks, such as checking e-mail or browsing the Web, this isn't much of an issue. But for video editors, trying to edit or color correct high-definition material on a 15-inch MacBook Pro is far from ideal! Luckily, not only we can plug our laptops into larger displays, but Final Cut Pro X can use entire second screen to display your Viewer window on a full screen, which also frees up space to expand other windows such as Event Browser, Inspector, and more.

Getting ready

First off, you've got to have a second display! The most common displays use VGA, DVI, and Mini DisplayPort and HDMI for their connections, although hooking up via HDMI to HDTVs is possible as well with an adapter. You very well may need an adapter depending on your combination...

Working with a broadcast safe monitor


Regular computer displays and HDTVs aren't usually the most trustworthy devices when it comes to getting an accurate idea of the color of your image and how it will appear once broadcast out to the world. Industry pros and production houses almost always have broadcast monitors, which are hyper-accurate displays with numerous configurations and settings to make sure you're seeing the most accurate color possible. FCPX can connect to these monitors if the stars align and if you've got the right equipment to hand.

Getting ready

For this to work, you need three major pieces—a Thunderbolt-enabled Mac, a broadcast monitor, and a compatible third-party interface to act as the middle man between your Mac and the monitor. Black Magic Design (www.blackmagic-design.com) and AJA (www.aja.com) are two of the biggest manufacturers of such products. You will then need to install the appropriate drivers from the manufacturers as well.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Connect the video...

Customizing the Event Library and Event Browser


When people got a first look at FCPX when it arrived on the market, many quickly lamented that it looked too much like Apple's consumer-oriented counterpart, iMovie. Beyond FCPX's powerful feature set, its interface is also much more customizable than how it appears at first glance. The Event Library and Event Browser windows are a great example of this, giving users many different ways to view and organize their content.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Choose any one of your events in the Event Library section (your list of events on the far left of the screen), ideally one with a range of different media types. Then click on the Show clips in filmstrip view button below the library list if it is not already selected. Your clips appear as virtual filmstrips that you can skim over with your mouse. We will return to the alternate option, Show clips in list view, later.

  2. 2. Click on the Action pop-up menu (the cog wheel icon) underneath the Event Library section...

Batch changing clip names and other metadata


We've all been there—you import 287 clips from your camera and the filenames show up as something cumbersome DSC_0042, or perhaps 2011-06-15 05:45:40 or ZOOM004. For our sanity, we need to label them better, and of course, it can help us speed up our workflow when skimming through hundreds or even thousands of clips.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Highlight the group of clips you want to rename. Usually, they will be together, but this is not a requirement. You can select items that are not next to each other by selecting one, then holding down the Command key and clicking on any other clips you want to select, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. 2. Click on the blue Inspector button on the far-right side of the menu bar, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. 3. Click on the Info tab at the top of the Inspector window, as shown in the following screenshot:

  4. 4. Click on the Action pop-up menu that appears right above the Inspector button. Scroll to Apply Custom...

Editing efficiently with optimized and proxy clips


It seems that there are almost as many video codecs and containers as there are actual spoken languages in the world—H.264, MPEG-2, AVCHD, and so on. Some are made for editing and some for delivery. Final Cut Pro works with some like a knife through butter, and with others like hammering through steel. Worse yet, sometimes as an editor you are handed a project that deals with multiple formats at once. While the multilingual Final Cut can handle such a task and mix formats in one project, it's far more efficient if it only has to focus on one, easy-to-understand language at a time. In turn, Apple has made it very simple to streamline this cumbersome issue and create edit-efficient versions of our media upon import (or after).

How to do it...

  1. 1. You have two possible routes here to start. If you are importing files directly from your hard drive, open the Import window by going to File | Import | Files... (Command + Shift + I). If you are importing...

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Key benefits

  • Edit slick, professional videos of all kinds ñ music videos, promos, documentaries, even feature films
  • Add hundreds of built-in animated titles, transitions, and effects without complicated keyframing
  • Learn tons of time-saving workflows to tricky, yet common editing scenarios
  • Fix common (and uncommon) sound and image issues with a click or two of the mouse
  • A guide with a great range of tools for editors of every skill level

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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.

Who is this book for?

If you've been toying around with iMovie and want more power or you've taken FCPX for a whirl and simply can't find the fastest, most efficient workflow, this book will help! Veteran editors will find just as much useful info as FCPX is radically different than its predecessor, Final Cut Pro 7.

What you will learn

  • Import media from tons of different sources
  • Organize your media the way you want with keywording and Favorites
  • Learn about tons of editing tools to save you time during the editing process
  • Add professional, non-cheesy animated titles and transitions to enhance your videos look
  • Edit videos in beat to your soundtrack
  • Make your images whiz around the screen with easier-than-ever keyframing
  • Isolate, fix, or remove certain colors with advanced color correction tools
  • Export to DVD, Blu-Ray, YouTube, Apple devices and more without leaving the program!
  • Edit multicamera projects together with an all-new multicam tool
  • Remove backgrounds with the brand new easy-to-use Keyer
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Importing Your Media Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Customizing Your Workflow Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Basic Editing Mechanics Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Enhancing Your Editing Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Sweetening and Fixing Your Sound Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Practical Magic a.k.a Useful Effects Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Titles, Transitions, and Generators Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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I've not used a NLE system other than PremierePro. Everything I knew about PP and everything so far that I've learned about FCP X has been through either trial and error or looking at a tutorial or guidebook like this.Unlike a lot of books that assume you already know everything there is to know about the program and then tell you how to do it anyway, this book assumes nothing. The index and the table of contents along with chapter names actually help guide you to exactly what it is you're looking for.Perfect for a self-taught novice to amateur or beyond.
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Karl Buehrens Jan 31, 2013
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Wow - Jason Cox has outdone himself on this Final Cut Pro X book! Over 400 pages of helpful instructions, wonderful full-color screen illustrations, and step-by-step breakdowns of very complex processes. Final Cut Pro X is hard to learn, but Jason makes it easy with simple to follow recipes.New user? No worries, Final Cut Pro X concepts are introduced at the beginning of each section. Upgrading from a previous version? Jason carefully provides comparisons between earlier software, primarily Final Cut Pro 7. And, the fact that Jason wrote this book in a cookbook style means that you can either start from the beginning or you can jump right into the section that you want to learn more about. Information is easy to find and put to immediate use.I particularly enjoyed the approach Jason takes in laying out each process; he sets the stage with a section he calls "Getting Ready", where he explains the pre-steps needed. He then walks you through each step of the process. Finally, he completes each section with a great follow-up, discussing related items and uses for each function. Jason even lists many helpful outside resources he's collected over the years.This is a must read for Final Cut Pro enthusiasts. Even seasoned users will get a boost from some of the valuable workarounds in this book.
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Alberta Mar 10, 2017
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This is just the book I have been looking for. Having trained on and used FCP 7 for several years I was finding the transition to X challenging. This book has made all the difference. I can move forward confidently knowing that if I have a problem I will be able to solve it using the book. Easy to understand and use. Only slight issue is that the pictures are very dark but I wouldn't even consider it a drawback.
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Likes:1. The Chapter overviews are very helpful.2. Offers many levels of learning for everyone from the new user, through people who are switching from other editing software, all the way up to the professional video editor.3. Has some great workarounds for what initially appeared to be 'issues', which turned out to be just different ways of working.4. Does everything honestly and thoroughly in depth with a 'helping hand' mentality.5. Understands and pushes the positive aspects of the software....sure, there are missing features in FCPX at present but this book makes the best of what it has to offer.The FCPX Cookbook is full of sensible, easy to follow tips and ways of working that make the movie making process smooth, quick and manageable.Starting with the essential 'importation' of media, the book runs through a myriad of file-types that can be imported.Multi layer PSD files can be brought in as separate layers and stacked as a compound clip.Within the clip the layers can be manipulated and edited at will, a great step for various animated text, image and background projects.As well as explaining how to import the files, the book goes that bit further and offers you advice and practical tips as to how this feature can be used creatively instead of just leaving you to get on with it like the FCPX help menu.One important section of the first chapter explains how to import projects that have been created in FCP7, this a definite bonus that Apple never cover.Using 7toX for Final Cut software, the book helps you through the process, a vital set of instructions to get around one of Apples' greatest omissions from FCPX.Chapter 2 is entitled 'Customising your workflow'. We all work in different ways and have different preferences so it's nice that this book acknowledges this and helps you set up your ergonomic ideal.From the first time, leisure user to the full time, professional editor, FCPX is shown to be a versatile and comprehensive tool.All aspects of the software are explored and the tone of the book is informative without being too 'techy' or dumbed down.I would heartily recommend this book for anyone who either plans to use or is currently using FCPX, it is a great reference book too and should always be kept to hand.Now that FCPX is, at last, stable and feeling more and more 'up for the job' with each update, here is a book that explains all the ins and outs, leaving you to edit, create, backup and innovate.
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In Final Cut Pro X, Apple redefined the editing process in such a way that editors who start working with it need to keep their mind open. Sometimes this can lead to real frustration. And that's when this COOKBOOK comes in.This COOKBOOK is meant for editors who had previous experience with editing software that's available in the market. The author uses an easy to understand "recipe" format to describe every useful aspect of the editing process, from ingest to export. Each proposed recipe's steps are straightforward so the reader get's to the point and achieves his editing goals. It's "Food for thought", sort of. And as such it is a welcome addition in every editor's library of books he should own.Martin DurandFreelance offline/online video editor
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Add one extra business day for deliveries to Northern Ireland and Scottish Highlands and islands

EU:

Premium: Trackable delivery to most EU destinations within 4-9 business days.

Australia:

Economy: Can deliver to P. O. Boxes and private residences.
Trackable service with delivery to addresses in Australia only.
Delivery time ranges from 7-9 business days for VIC and 8-10 business days for Interstate metro
Delivery time is up to 15 business days for remote areas of WA, NT & QLD.

Premium: Delivery to addresses in Australia only
Trackable delivery to most P. O. Boxes and private residences in Australia within 4-5 days based on the distance to a destination following dispatch.

India:

Premium: Delivery to most Indian addresses within 5-6 business days

Rest of the World:

Premium: Countries in the American continent: Trackable delivery to most countries within 4-7 business days

Asia:

Premium: Delivery to most Asian addresses within 5-9 business days

Disclaimer:
All orders received before 5 PM U.K time would start printing from the next business day. So the estimated delivery times start from the next day as well. Orders received after 5 PM U.K time (in our internal systems) on a business day or anytime on the weekend will begin printing the second to next business day. For example, an order placed at 11 AM today will begin printing tomorrow, whereas an order placed at 9 PM tonight will begin printing the day after tomorrow.


Unfortunately, due to several restrictions, we are unable to ship to the following countries:

  1. Afghanistan
  2. American Samoa
  3. Belarus
  4. Brunei Darussalam
  5. Central African Republic
  6. The Democratic Republic of Congo
  7. Eritrea
  8. Guinea-bissau
  9. Iran
  10. Lebanon
  11. Libiya Arab Jamahriya
  12. Somalia
  13. Sudan
  14. Russian Federation
  15. Syrian Arab Republic
  16. Ukraine
  17. Venezuela