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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

Where Final Cut Pro libraries are stored

The storage structure that Final Cut Pro uses revolves around a library. To use an analogy, a town’s public library contains many books and magazines, DVDs, and other things. The town’s library categorizes everything into different sections – for instance, fiction, non-fiction, and sports. Final Cut Pro uses a similar method of categorization to store all of its contents. It uses terms such as events, keywords, and smart folders, which you can give appropriate names so that you have quick access to the contents when you are editing.

A library is a database of all the information required for an edit. It is known as a bundle, which gives you a hint as to its purpose. Libraries contain the media or links to any media stored outside the library. They also store all the metadata and render files, including the projects themselves.

While you are editing, Final Cut Pro libraries keep track of the process of your editing...

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