Final Cut Pro X 10.6 Essential Training

Use Final Cut Pro X 10.4 to create professional-looking video projects. Learn essential video and audio editing techniques including color correction and media management.

Introduction

• All Roads Lead to Final Cut Pro X
• What you should know
• The Final Cut Pro X Ecosystem
• Relinking exercise files
• New features in Final Cut Pro 10.4.7
• New features in FCPX 10.4.9
• New features in Final Cut Pro 10.5
• Object tracker, part 1
• Object tracker, part 2

1. Getting to Know the Editing Environment

• The fundamentals of video editing
• An under-the-hood introduction: Understanding the Final Cut Pro (FCP) X file structure
• A tour of the FCP X interface: Basic clip viewing and organization
• A tour of the FCP X interface: Browser
• A tour of the interface: Organizing the browser
• A tour of the FCP X interface: Timeline
• A tour of the FCP X interface: Tools and effects
• Using Sidecar with Final Cut Pro X

2. Ingesting Assets

• Setting up libraries and events
• Organizing files: Keeping it clean on your OS
• Importing assets: Copying vs. leaving files in place
• Organizing files: Keeping it clean on your OS
• Importing assets: Fixing common problems
• Importing assets from a file-based camera

3. Organizing Assets

• Organizing footage with keywords
• Applying keywords to part of a clip
• Rating and filtering clips
• Performing searches
• Working with and creating Smart Collections
• Deeper organization in list view
• Organizing video and audio into rolls
• Importing assets from another Final Cut Pro X library
• Sending projects from iMovie to FCP X
• Working with the info inspector and metadata views

4. Basic Editing: Laying the Foundation

• Navigating and marking footage
• Creating a project and using the Append edit
• Using Edit > Insert
• Using connect edits and bringing in only video
• Overwriting clips and replacing edits
• Moving and trimming clips in the timeline
• Creating secondary storylines for connected clips
• Removing clips in the timeline
• Adjusting your project's audio levels
• Changing timeline appearance and navigation
• Using the timeline index

5. Refining the Edit Using the Trim Tools

• Trimming with the edit point in mind
• Marking clips
• Ripple and top and tail trimming
• Roll trim
• Slip and slide trimming
• Fine-tuned editing via the precision editor

6. Working with Speed and Transforming Clips

• Adjusting scale, position, and rotation
• Using different cropping methods
• Using Distort to create a split screen
• Creating a video fade-in and fade-out
• Making constant speed changes
• Using speed presets
• Creating speed ramping effects
• Working with stills and Ken Burns
• Interpreting slow motion shot in camera

7. Basic Audio Editing

• Audio post-production basics
• Looking at different audio types in FCP X
• Monitoring audio
• Adjusting levels in the browser
• Adjusting levels in the project
• Fading, keyframing, and ducking audio
• Fixing audio automatically
• Recording voice-overs and narration
• Syncing your audio and video
• Working with audio rolls for final mix

8. Multicam Editing and 360 Video

• Syncing a multicam clip
• Performing a multicam edit
• Refining a multicam edit
• Creating a 360 project
• Viewing 360 clips
• Working with stereoscopic media
• Effects for 360 clips

9. Working with Effects

• Adding and adjusting transitions
• Adding and adjusting video effects
• Adding and adjusting audio effects
• Keyframing video over time
• Copying and pasting effects and nesting clips
• Auditioning effects
• Creating effect presets

10. Working with Titles and Graphics

• Creating a title
• Adding a lower third
• Finding and replacing title text
• Working with generator effects
• Working with layered Photoshop files
• Working with titles for nonstandard formats

11. Basic Color Correction

• Analyzing and fixing shots for white balance
• Applying color looks
• Color matching clips automatically
• Following a proper color correction workflow
• An intro to the FCP X Color Inspector
• Performing a basic color grade
• Adding style to your shots
• Working with color masks
• Working with shape masks
• A word on HDR
• Working with ProRes RAW

12. Project and Media Management

• Customizing a workspace
• Customizing a keyboard
• Media management introduction
• Moving, copying, relinking, and deleting clips in a library
• Moving and copying clips between libraries
• Managing library storage locations
• Sending your library to another editor, consolidating media, and deleting generated content
• Copying and Sending a Library with no Media

13. Sharing and Exporting

• Exporting a still image
• Exporting a hi-res movie
• Exporting projects for YouTube
• Exporting part of a project
• Exporting a project to different destinations
• Exporting different title languages through video rolls
• Exporting audio rolls
• Exporting closed captions
• Exporting a selection of clips
• Exporting for vertical and square video
• Exporting an XML

14. Five Things to Know About Compressor

• Why use Compressor?
• Navigating the Compressor interface
• Creating FCP X bundles based on Compressor settings
• Creating a Compressor preset with timecode
• Working with droplets for export on the OS

15. Five Things to Know About Motion

• The FCP X motion connection
• Free motion content
• Exploring motion templates
• Bringing a motion generator to FCP X
• Exploring title behaviors

Conclusion

• Where do I go from here?