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Edit without Tears with Final Cut Pro

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804614921
Length 708 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (27) Chapters Close

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 26. Other Books You May Enjoy

Adding text to a title

The first consideration that you need to be clear on is that font and text are different terms; they are not interchangeable. Text includes all the characteristics, such as the size, the color, and the font. The font, which is just a typeface, is only one component of text.

There are clear conventions about the use of text in video, and this is because text in a video is different from printed text, even though we tend to treat them the same. Video is low-resolution compared to text printed on a page. This means that text in video, even 4K video, is pixelated. Also, text on a printed page is there for you to read for as long as you need to decipher it. You can decide how long you need to look at the printed page for your brain to understand the words.

Video is not only lower-resolution and slightly pixelated but also plays for a fixed time, which you have no control over unless you skip back to read it again or pause the screen. This means you have to decipher...

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