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Final Cut Pro X Cookbook

You're reading from   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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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849692960
Length 452 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Final Cut Pro X Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Importing Your Media FREE CHAPTER 2. Customizing Your Workflow 3. Basic Editing Mechanics 4. Enhancing Your Editing 5. Sweetening and Fixing Your Sound 6. Practical Magic a.k.a Useful Effects 7. Titles, Transitions, and Generators 8. Get Your Movie to Move 9. Altering the Aesthetics of Your Image 10. Getting Your Project Out of FCPX Working with Motion and Compressor

Introduction


Not every visual element that makes up your movie is shot with a camera. Almost all produced videos have some added visual elements to them in the form of titles, transitions, and generators. Before FCPX, titling in previous versions was a real drag, with limited options and visual flair, often leading to users to head over to Motion or elsewhere to create anything animated and visually worthwhile. But with FCPX, Apple upped the game and integrated many of Motion's titling powers right into the program.

As for transitions, Apple started over, dumping almost all previous effects for a new generation of transitions. Sure; many of them are still tacky, but they look as though they were built for the 2010s, not the 1990s!

Lastly, generators are an often overlooked tool when you have the simple needs of generating a background for text, making shapes, displaying timecode, and more.

All of these tools should always be used in moderation, however. It's easy to get carried away when you...

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