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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