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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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Bruce G. Macbryde Bruce G. Macbryde
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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

Weddings

Of all the videos that you are likely to edit, weddings have the most formality and offer the most lessons to learn. Wedding videos, unlike interviews, are edited in chronological order, much the same as for conferences and seminars. There is a set procedure for wedding videos that will save you from wondering where to start first. There are formal parts to the day – preparations, the ceremony, the photoshoot, and the reception, which has an entrance, cake cutting, speeches, and a first dance. I find it best to edit these separately and then combine them at the end.

Most of the time, there will be more than one camera to work with, so multicam syncing will be the next process after the media is organized into categories (see Chapter 8, Setting Up and Editing Multicam for more details). As you will see in the next section, you can organize your media into keyword collections before you start your first project (see Chapter 2, Organizing Media for more details).

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