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 Video inspector

As you can see in Figure 10.1, the Video inspector is divided into multiple sections. In this subsection, we will go over these sections and understand their uses.

Section 1 – Effects

At the top is the Effects heading, which displays any effects that have been added to the timeline clip from the Effects browser. I have applied the 50s TV effect in the following figure:

Figure 10.6 – The 50s TV effect

While most of the effects will be color-based, be prepared for non -standard options to appear, such as the Neat Video Reduce Noise effect that has additionally been installed via a plug-in. In the following figure, you can see that Neat Video opens its own control panel:

Figure 10.7 – The Neat Video Reduce Noise panel

If you look back at Figure 10.1, you will see that Color Wheels, Compositing, and Blend Mode are also under the Effects heading. Blend Mode is used to merge the contents...