Getting Started

Welcome to the official Apple Pro Training course for Final Cut Pro X.

This book is a comprehensive guide to editing with Final Cut Pro. It uses exciting real-world footage from the USA Network series Fairly Legal, behind-the-scenes digital effects filmmaking with Silverdraft’s Mobileviz, the award-winning documentary Delicious Peace Grows in a Ugandan Coffee Bean, exciting Zero to Hero racing footage from Pullin TV, and Matthew Modine’s short film, I Think I Thought, all to demonstrate both the features of the application and the practical techniques you’ll use daily in your editing projects.

For those who have edited on earlier versions of Final Cut Pro, or who edit on other NLE (nonlinear editing) platforms, you may ask yourselves: ...

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