Final Cut Pro X

At the end of the course the participant will be able to

• Create Corporate films
• Video Editing for Broadcast media
• Create Lisping Audio with Video
• Add background music to the videos
• Add special effects, motion animation and transitions to the videos

• Preparing to Install Final Cut Pro
• Installing QuickTime Components
• Installing Final Cut Pro
• Hardware Setup and Configuration
• Connecting Video Devices to Your Computer
• Controlling Video Devices With Your Computer
• About Apple FireWire
• Apple FireWire Basic
• System Configurations
• Ultra Wide SCSI Hard Disk Drive and PCI Card Specifications Optimizing Performance
• Troubleshooting

• The Final Cut Pro Workspace
• Setting Up Your Environment
• Editing in Final Cut Pro
• Creating Your Own Project
• Adding the Base Track for Your Sequence
• Finishing the Rough Edit
• Advanced Editing Techniques
• Match-Frame Editing
• Applying and Editing a Dissolve Transition
• Audio Editing
• Compositing and Special Effects
• Opening and Saving a New Project
• Previewing the Introduction’s Titles
• Building the Background
• Putting Dancers on the Background
• Adding Circles Around the Dancers
• Adding Titles for the Introduction
• Copying a Title’s Attributes to Other Titles
• Adding the Titles to the Introductory Sequence
• Rendering the Sequence
• Finishing a Project
• Printing to Video
• Exporting a Sequence for Multimedia or the Web
• Moving Forward With a New Project

• The Working Environment
• The Viewer
• The Canvas
• The Timeline
• The Browser
• The Tool Palette
• Other Windows You Will Use
•  Log and Capture
• Edit to Tape
• Preferences
• Sequence Settings
• Project Properties
• Item Properties
• Trim Edit
• Using Menus, Shortcuts, and Controls
• Shortcut Menus
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Tabbed Windows
• Customizing the Screen Layout
• Undoing Changes
• Working With Timecode
• Navigating by Entering New Timecodes
• Moving to a New Time by Adding or Subtracting Frames
• Moving to a New Time by Entering Numbers That Are Converted
• Separators for Timecode Entry and Logging
• Timecode Keyboard Shortcuts
• Editing in Final Cut Pro
• Editing With the Tool Palette Tools
• Background Information and Concepts

• Setting General Preferences
• Setting Device Control Preferences
• Specifying Capture Preferences
• Using Sequence Presets
• Creating, Editing, and Deleting Presets
• Setting Scratch Disk Preferences

• Log and Capture Window
• Changing Device Control, Capture, or Scratch Disk Preferences
• Calibrating the Timecode Signal You Are Capturing
• Calibrating Capture Settings With Bars and Tone From Tape
• Capturing Video Without Device Control
• Choosing a Logging Bin for Offline and Captured Clips
• Capturing Video With Device Control
• Troubleshooting Your Video Deck
• Logging Offline Clips
• Batch Capturing Clips
• Changing Duplicate Clip Names and Filenames
• Importing a Batch List
• Changing a Clip’s Source Timecode
• Importing Media
• Importing Still Images and Audio Files
• Importing Layered Photoshop Files
• Importing Audio Files From Audio CDs

• Creating, Opening, Closing, and Saving Projects
• Autosaving Projects
• Customizing the Browser Display
• Selecting Items in the Browser
• Sorting Items in the Browser
• Organizing Projects With the Browser
• About the Browser Columns
• Using Bins to Organize Clips
• Modifying Clip Properties in the Browser
• Renaming Clips, Sequences, and Bins
• Searching for Items in the Browser
• Changing the Properties of a Project

• Using Clips in Sequences
• Using the Viewer
• The Video Tab
• The Audio Tab
• The Filters Tab
• The Motion Tab
• Opening Clips in the Viewer
• Playing Clips and Locating Specific Frames
• Marking In and Out Points
• Creating Subclips
• Adding and Editing Markers
• Renaming Markers and Attaching Comments
• Moving and Extending the Duration of Markers
• Using Markers as Subclips
• Viewing Clips
• Opening Clips From the View Menu
• Changing Magnification in the Viewer or Canvas
• Viewing Title and Action Safe Boundaries
• Viewing Overlays
• Viewing With Different Backgrounds
• Working With Audio
• Understanding Audio Formats
• Compressed Audio Formats
• Turning Off Audio Scrubbing
• Using the Viewer to Display Audio Waveforms
• Changing Your Computer’s Audio Level
• Adjusting Audio Levels and Pan or Spread for a Clip
• Synchronizing Audio and Video
• Getting Information About the Properties of Clips

• About Sequences
• Working With the Timeline and Canvas
• About Three-Point Editing
• About Audio in Sequences
• Mixing Audio in Real Time
• How Tracks Are Composited to Create the Final Sequence
• About Presets and Sequence Settings
• Creating a New Sequence
• Changing the Settings for an Existing Sequence
• Creating Sequences Using Edit Decision Lists
• Viewing a Sequence
• Copying Sequences
• Setting Up an Edit
• Specifying the Target Tracks for Editing
• Positioning the Playhead at a Specific Edit Point
• Marking Edit Points
• Performing Edits in the Canvas
• The Canvas Edit Overlay
• Editing in the Timeline
• The Canvas Two-Up Display
• Marking Split Edits
• Setting the Edit Points to the Current Selection
• Locating a Match Frame

• The Timeline Window
• Elements in the Timeline Window
• Colors of Items in the Timeline Window
• Customizing the Timeline Track Display
• Timeline Scaling and Scrolling
• Scaling the Timeline Display
• Positioning the Playhead in a Sequence
• Working With Tracks in the Timeline
• Selecting Track Contents in the Timeline
• Working With Markers in the Timeline and Canvas
• Selecting Items in the Timeline
• Selecting Clips
• Linked Selection
• Selecting Items Between the In and Out Points
• Moving Clips Into the Timeline
• Moving Clips Within the Timeline
• Snapping in the Timeline
• Deleting Clips
• Copying and Pasting Clips and Clip Attributes
• Modifying Clips in a Sequence
• Making Individual Clips Visible or Invisible
• Using Offline Clips
• Changing the Playback Speed of a Clip
• Working With Keyframes in the Timeline
• Displaying Keyframes in the Timeline
• Modifying Keyframes in the Timeline
• Adding and Adjusting the Values of Overlay Keyframes
• Searching for Items in the Timeline
• Finding and Closing Gaps
• Making Still Frames From Clips in the Canvas
• Correcting Clips That Are Out of Sync

• About Rendering
• Rendering Versus Real-Time Playback
• How Sequences Are Rendered
• Setting a Sequence’s Render Qualities
• Editing Render Quality Levels
• Video Rendering
• Audio Rendering
• Using Nested Sequences
• Using Nested Sequences to Render Transitions
• Rendering Indicators
• How to Avoid Rendering
• Rendering
• Specifying Storage Locations for Render Files
• Using Cache Manager to Manage Rendered Files
• Automatically Rendering Before Playing

• Printing to Video
• Editing to Tape
• Edit to Tape Operations
• The Difference Between Insert and Assemble Editing
• Choosing Which Tracks to Record
• Setting Up for Editing to Tape
• Performing an Edit to Tape
• Setting Mastering Options
• Edit to Tape Device Settings
• Preparing a Videotape With Black and Code
• Working With Edit Decision Lists
• Exporting an EDL
• Setting EDL Export Options
• Importing an Edit Decision List
• Working With Batch Lists
• Exporting a Batch List
• Exporting FXScripts as Text
• Exporting Sequences and Clips
• Exporting Sequences and Clips in a Batch Operation
• Batch Export Columns
• Naming Options Dialog Box

• Placing Sequences Within Other Sequences
• Nesting Clips
• Using the Sequence Trimmer
• Relinking Offline Files
• Moving a Project and Its Media
• Managing Projects With Multiple Users

• What Is Scripting?
• How Does FXBuilder Work?
• Opening FXBuilder
• Opening and Applying Scripts
• The FXBuilder Tabs
• Running a Script in FXBuilder
• Applying a Script in the Timeline
• Rendering
• Modifying Scripts
• How Is a Script Structured?
• Exporting Scripts
• Exporting Scripts as Text Files
• Preventing Scripts From Being Modified or Viewed
• Making a Favorite Effect From a Script
• Installing Scripts
• Building Scripts
• About the FXScript Commands
• Statements