Making Your First Video in Final Cut Pro X

Create your first video in Final Cut Pro X. Discover how to import and navigate through your footage, edit clips, add effects, and share your project with the world.

Introduction

• The ease of working with Final Cut Pro X (FCPX)
• What you should know before watching this course
• Working with the exercise files
• The foundations of video editing

1. Creating a Library and Importing and Organizing Footage

• Creating a library and event
• Bringing media into FCPX
• Importing footage through the Media Import window
• Adding keywords
• Making favorites
• Navigating through your footage

2. Marking Clips and Creating a Timeline

• Creating a FCPX project
• Adding clips to the timeline
• Changing clip order
• Trimming clips
• Adding and expanding audio
• Connecting clips

3. Adding Transitions, Effects, and Titles

• Adding a basic transition
• Adding a stylistic video effect
• Adding an audio effect
• Exploring generators
• Changing a clip's speed
• Adding a basic title
• Stabilizing a video clip
• Changing the color of a video clip

4. Reviewing and Exporting Your Project

• Checking your project before export
• Exporting a high-resolution video
• Exporting video for the web

Conclusion

• Where do I go next?