Book description
In this highly visual, color book Rick Young covers all the essential areas: the interface, set-up and capture, editing, rendering, effects, audio and output, as well as a unique, invaluable introduction to the power LiveType and Soundtrack add to Final Cut in this upgrade.With this book you can start cutting immediately, whatever you edit, whatever the format. This is an ideal introduction whether you are a professional moving over to Final Cut Pro from another package or system, a new user, or a real-world film maker who wants to get the best results from Final Cut Pro, fast!
Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- The Focal Easy Guide Series
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Dedication
- Getting Started
- The Interface
- Capture
- Organizing your Footage
-
Editing
- Insert and Overwrite Editing
- Getting Started with Editing
- Distinguishing between Insert/Overwrite
- Three Point Editing
- Other Editing Options
- Modifying ‘In’ and ‘Out’ Points
- Directing the Flow of Audio/Video
- Locking Tracks
- Adding and Deleting Tracks
- Essential Editing Tools
- Undo/Redo
- Linked/Unlinked Selection
- Moving Edits in the Timeline
- Selecting Multiple Items in the Timeline
- Cut, Copy, Paste
- Snapping and Skipping between Shots
- The Razorblade Tool
- The Magnifier Tool
- Bringing Clips Back into Sync
- Creating New Sequences
- Subclips
- Freeze Frame
- Match Frame Editing
- Slow/Fast Motion
- Split Edits
- Drag and Drop Editing
- Extending/Reducing Clips by Dragging
- Rendering
- Media Management
-
Effects
- The Concept of Media Limit (Handles)
- Applying Transitions
- Changing Transition Durations
- Applying Filters
- Compositing
- Methods of Creating Multiple Tracks
- The Motion Tab
- Using the Motion Tab
- Image + Wireframe
- Titlesafe
- Working with Multi-Layers
- Keyframing Images
- Multi-Layered Dissolves
- Keyframing Filters
- Time Remapping
- Copy and Pasting Attributes
- Titling
- Audio
- Output
- LiveType
- Soundtrack
- Epilog
- Index
Product information
- Title: Focal Easy Guide to Final Cut Pro 4
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2012
- Publisher(s): Focal Press
- ISBN: 9781136070372
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