You're reading from Edit without Tears with Final Cut Pro Elevate your video editing skills with professional workflows and techniques

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804614921

Length 708 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

FINAL CUT PRO

Concepts

Video Editing

Author (1):

Bruce G. Macbryde

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Table of Contents (27) Chapters

Preface

1. Prologue

2. Part 1:Planning FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 1: It’s All about the Media

4. Chapter 2: Organizing Media

5. Chapter 3: Planning the Video Story

6. Chapter 4: Pre-Editing a Rough Cut

7. Part 2:Editing

8. Chapter 5: Refining the Rough Cut

9. Chapter 6: Fixing and Enhancing the Audio

10. Chapter 7: Titles, Effects, and Generators

11. Chapter 8: Setting Up and Editing Multicam

12. Chapter 9: Project Workflows – Pace and Structure

13. Part 3:Using the Inspector

14. Chapter 10: The Inspector Controls

15. Chapter 11: Using Built-In Plug-Ins

16. Chapter 12: Using Third-Party Plug-Ins

17. Chapter 13: Using Keyframes to Animate Objects in Final Cut Pro

18. Chapter 14: Understanding the Principles of Color

19. Chapter 15: Using Color Scopes for Advanced Color Correction

20. Part 4: Outside Final Cut Pro

21. Chapter 16: Your Job Role – Collaboration

22. Chapter 17: Supporting Software Applications for Final Cut Pro

23. Chapter 18: Troubleshooting Final Cut Pro

24. Chapter 19: Backing Up and Archiving Libraries

25. Index

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The Users folder

Because Final Cut Pro is produced by Apple, the application files are deeply integrated into macOS, and many parts of the foundations of Final Cut Pro are spread throughout the Mac system.

I’m not suggesting that you need to know completely where everything is, but there are locations that you will need to access on a Mac to make full use of Final Cut Pro.

The Users folder is the most important location for you to know about. It’s where most of Final Cut Pro’s files are stored – or at least all the files that you need to know about!

Let me give you a little background on how macOS works. All the files that a computer needs are located on the boot disk, which is usually the internal disk – nowadays, that is a solid-state drive (SSD).

To find these files, make sure you are looking in the Finder window. When Finder is selected, the name will appear in the top-left position of the Mac taskbar.

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