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Final Cut Pro X Cookbook
Final Cut Pro X Cookbook

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 1. Importing Your Media

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • Importing from a tapeless video camera

  • Importing MTS, M2TS, and M2T files

  • Importing DSLR video

  • Importing music from iTunes and GarageBand

  • Importing still images

  • Importing from a tape-based camera

  • Importing and working with layered Photoshop files

  • Importing iMovie projects

  • Importing Final Cut Pro 7 projects

  • Working with your already organized media

  • Relinking media files

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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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Table of Contents

10 Chapters
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
Get Your Movie to Move Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Altering the Aesthetics of Your Image Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Getting Your Project Out of FCPX Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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Busy Filmmaker Feb 14, 2013
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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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mortoni Jan 28, 2013
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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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Vanessa Durand Jan 31, 2013
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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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