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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

Creating additional storylines


When working in FCPX, that big black bar going across the middle of your timeline is called the p rimary storyline. Its name describes its function perfectly—it's where your primary story should be told. If you're making a documentary, talking heads and essential imagery should be placed here. However, secondary elements (b-roll, cutaways, picture-in-pictures, music, and so on), are usually going to be placed as connected clips above or below the primary story. If you haven't done so already, this would be a good time to read the Creating connected clips recipe in Chapter 3, Basic Editing Mechanics.

Connected clips are great to use and unbound by the rules of the Magnetic Timeline. But sometimes the very properties that make a connected clip what it is, can cause frustrations, especially if you do some heavy trimming. Binding connected clips into a new storyline can help mitigate these problems.

Getting ready

In the following example, we are going to work with...

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