APPLE FINAL CUT PRO X ADVANCED

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This class is designed for those who already have a working knowledge of Final Cut Pro X and who want to increase their skills by learning advanced features and efficient workflows.

PREREQUISITES

Students should have the following pre-requisite knowledge prior to attending the course: A comprehensive basic knowledge of Final Cut Pro X

OUTLINE

Day 1:

• Organizing Your Media

• Working with Metadata

• Source Media Metadata

• Auto-Analysis Metadata

• Adding Your Own Metadata

• Working with Metadata Views

• Creating a New Metadata View

• Modifying Existing Metadata Views

• Rating Clips

• Marking Favorites and Rejects

• Adding Keywords

• Organizing Keywords

• Adding Markers

• Filtering Clips

• Creating Smart Collections

• Relinking Clips

• Professional Editing Techniques

• Reviewing Editing Basics

• Modifying Edits

• Edit Short Cuts

• Project Defined Editing

• Backtiming Edits

• Limiting Source Media

• Combining Complex Edits

• Overview of Storylines

• Using Secondary Storylines

• Applying Transitions to Connected Clips

• Breaking Apart Storylines

• Understanding Compound Clips

• Adding Titles to Connected Clips

• Working with Auditions

• Creating Auditions in the Event Browser or Timeline,

• Changing Picks

• Editing with an Audition

• Creating an Audition in the Timeline

• Modifying Auditions

• Reviewing Clips within an Audition

• Finalizing Auditions

• Auditions and Effects

• Duplicating a Clip into an Audition

• Duplicating from Original

• Duplicating with Effects

• Apply an Effect to all Picks

• Adding Effects to Other Clips

• Working with Audio

• Mastering Audio Levels

• Working with Audio Meters and Waveforms

• Adjusting Volume in the Timeline

• Adjusting Volume Across a Selected Area

• Animating Audio Levels

• Subframe Audio Adjustments

• Adjusting Volume in the Audio Inspector

• Resetting All Volume Adjustments

• Adjusting Volume from the Modify Menu or Keyboard

• Nudging Keyframes, Audio Fades

• Crossfading between Clips

• Panning Audio

• Configuring Audio Channels

• Stereo Panning

• Animating Pan Effects

• Panning in the Timeline

• Managing Audio Channels

• Enabling and Disabling Channels

• Breaking Apart Audio Clips

• Working with Audio Effects Audio Equalization

• Applying Enhancements Manually

• Adjusting Equalization

• Equalization Filters

• Using Custom Controls

• Turning Off or Removing a Clip Effect

• Transferring Effects to other Clips

• Levels Effects, Reverb

• Spaces and Echo Effects

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Day 2:

• Multicamera Editing

• Understanding Multicamera Editing

• Creating a Multicam Clip

• Viewing the Multicam Clip

• Editing With Multicam Clips

• Cutting Between Angles

• Channel Selection

• Switching Angles

• Trimming Multicam Clips

• Custom Multicam Clip Settings

• Modifying a Multicam Clip

• Changing Order

• Fixing Sync

• Adding/Deleting an Angle

• Adding Effects

• Keying and Compositing

• Creating a Multilayered Show Opener

• Laying the Groundwork

• Using a Compound Clip from the Event Browser

• Timing Edits with Markers and Hold Segments

• Using Keying and Masking Effects,

• Automatic Keying and Manual Sampling

• Using a Garbage Mask

• Advanced Keying Features

• Compositing Generators

• Compositing Graphics, Layered Graphics

• Advanced Keying Features

• Transformations

• Effects and Titles Transforming Clips

• Working with Effects

• Browsing

• Previewing

• Applying Effects

• Modifying and Combining Effects

• Creating Titles

• Modifying Titles

• Using Text Styles

• Custom Titles

• Using Roles with Titles

• Creating Animation Animating Clip Position

• Keyframing in the Viewer

• Keyframing in the Inspector

• Keyframing in the Video Animation Editor

• Animating a Generator

• Creating a Travel Matte

• Animating with Transitions

• Color Correction Basics

• Understanding Color Correction

• Relinking Offline Clips

• Learning the Color Correction Interface

• Exploring the Interface

• Applying Automatic Color Adjustments

• Using Video Scopes

• Adjusting Contrast Using the Color Board

• Adjusting Color and Saturation Using the Color Controls

• Manually Eliminating Color Casts

• Adjusting Color Temperature Creatively

• Using the Global Color Control

• Adjusting Saturation

• Changing Saturation with Contrast Adjustments

• Dissolving Between Two Grades

• Color Matching

• Understanding Shot Matching

• Matching Clips Automatically

• Performing Simple Clip Matching

• Matching Corrected Clips

• Grading the First Clip

• Matching Other Clips to the Reference Clip

• Copying Grades

• Matching Insert Clips

• Some Tips on Shot Matching

• Adding Other Effects to a Grade

• Using Broadcast Safe Creating Isolated Color Adjustments

• Using Color Masks

• Working Inside and Outside of Masks

• Using Shapes to Target Frame Regions

• Using a Shape to Create a Vignette

• Combining Shapes, Combining Shapes and Masks

• Masking Difficult-to-Isolate Skin Tones

• Masking Corrections to the Sky,

• Animating Shapes

• Advanced Sharing and Sending to Compressor

• Exporting Media Using Roles