Price: $48.99
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How can this book help me learn the most recent version of Final Cut Pro, release10.6?
This book is up to date with the latest major release of FCP 10.6 (formerly FCP X), and shows you how to use all its latest features. Learn how to use object tracking with titles, effects and color corrections, how to transfer your edits from landscape to portrait aspect ratios, and how to share jobs with other editors using the latest proxy workflows. Captions are also explored, letting you make your work accessible to the widest possible audience. Here, you’ll learn all about these new features, as well as all the foundational elements of the app.
With Final Cut Pro Efficient Editing, you’ll:
Understand how to shoot, import, manage and organise your video files for easy searchingAssemble your footage into a rough cut and then finesse it to a finer cut with the power of the Magnetic TimelineApply color correction, video and audio effects, transitions, titles, captions and more, before exporting
Final Cut Pro Efficient Editing
Written by an Apple Certified Trainer for new or experienced video editors
Want to learn how to drive the world’s smartest video editing app in the most efficient way possible? This book is for you.
At nearly 800 pages long and with key images in colour, this book is comprehensive yet still easily accessible. Inside, you’ll find tips for everyone from YouTubers wanting to grow their audience through to professionals wanting to improve their workflows.
Explore complex workflows and hidden techniques
Learning a complex app takes time, and video editing apps are no different. If you rely on stumbling through and searching when you get stuck, then you’ll miss out on the best ways to work with Final Cut Pro. This book is specifically structured to follow you as you work through a typical project, explaining the right feature at just the right time.
Along the way, you’ll discover tips on everything from hidden color correction shortcuts to clever ways to replace one shot with another, so all editors will find something to help them work more efficiently and effectively. And because it’s a book, it’s always exactly where you left it, at exactly your speed.
Table of Contents Quick Start: An Introduction to FCP X Before the Edit: Production Tips Bring It In: Importing your Footage Sort It Out: Reviewing and Keywording Choose your Favorites: Selecting, Rating, and Searching Build the Spine of the Story: Quick Assembly Cover It Up: Connections, Cutaways and Storylines …and more
Chapters 1–2: Overview and Production Tips
Get a clear overview of the Final Cut Pro app and workflow, then learn how to capture (or ask for!) exactly the right footage to help you create a great edit.
Chapters 3–5: Importing, Reviewing, Keywording and Rating
Discover how to import and manage your media, then add keywords, create ranges and rate clips as favorites, which will make it easy to find the right shots when you need them.
Chapters 6–8: Assembly and Trimming
Discover how to quickly assemble a rough cut and then finesse your edit to a fine cut with the Magnetic Timeline. You’ll master connected clips, storylines, and much more.
Chapters 9–10: Complex Editing Techniques
Dive into multicam, auditions, roles, compound clips and many other advanced techniques which you’ll need for more complex projects.
Chapter 11: Color Correction and Grading
Learn how to make your shots look better, how to make them look like they belong together, and then how to make them look amazing, with the color board, color wheels, curves, tracking and masking.
Chapters 12–13: Video Effects, Transitions and Retiming
Use special effects to hide problems or grab attention – enhance how your work looks, control time for slow or fast motion, then blend clips together seamlessly.
Chapter 14: Audio Sweetening and Editing
Because a good edit never has a bad soundtrack, make your edit sound as good as it can with proper mixing, use of roles, and with common audio effects.
Chapters 15–16: Titles, Captions, and Exporting
Add titles where you need them, captions for accessibility, and translate your work to other aspect ratios before finally sharing with the world and archiving.
Publisher : Packt Publishing (October 30, 2020)
Language : English
Paperback : 796 pages
ISBN-10 : 1839213248
ISBN-13 : 978-1839213243
Item Weight : 2.96 pounds
Dimensions : 7.5 x 1.87 x 9.25 inches
Price: $48.99
