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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Smart Collections

In the context of the real-world town library analogy, Smart Collection categories don’t exist, as they are a digital process. Because Final Cut Pro is a digital application, it can sort items in a selection based on user-defined search attributes.

At the beginning of this chapter, you saw how to add to Favorites. You will have noticed that Favorites is within a folder called Smart Collections in the browser sidebar. There are five Smart Collections within that Smart Collections folder – All Video, Audio Only, Favorites, Projects, and Stills. These are set up by default and have the following functions:

All Video shows no audio and no stills (photos), only video clips (including project thumbnails)
Audio Only shows only audio
Favorites shows the clips you have favorited
Projects shows the project thumbnails only
Stills shows still images (photos) only