Who this book is for

This book is aimed at intermediate-level Final Cut Pro editors familiar with Final Cut Pro and looking to speed up their workflows while gaining more knowledge to produce higher-quality videos more efficiently.

Numbered among creative professionals, freelance video editors, YouTube content creators, graphic designers, and especially production houses, you will be looking to produce output for professional-level publications, dramas, documentaries, product commercials, and promo videos, as well as for vlogs for social media. You need to have a macOS operating system to use Final Cut Pro, and an understanding that editing is removing material, just leaving that which is necessary to tell the story.

You need to be familiar with the basic concepts of video editing, particularly having an understanding of the principle that editing is removing unwanted material rather than just adding bells and whistles. You should also have an understanding of media formats and...