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 easy fixes

In most cases, these fixes require only one or two mouse clicks. The rule of thumb is that the easy fixes are most likely to solve the problem.

Quitting Final Cut Pro and restarting the computer

It is surprising how many issues can be resolved by simply restarting the computer. My go-to choice is to quit Final Cut Pro, shut down, and then reboot the computer after a minute or so.

Deleting the render files

Things don’t come much simpler than this. Select the library in the Browser sidebar. From the File menu, select Delete Generated Library Files….

Figure 18.7 – Delete Generated Library Files…

You will be presented with a window with options. The one thing I need to reassure you of at this point is that you cannot lose any original media or any of your work in projects by following this process – it is completely safe. In fact, Final Cut Pro never, in any circumstances, deletes original media...