Table of Contents

Getting Started

Lesson 1 Projects and Interface

Launching Final Cut Pro

Exploring the FCP Interface

Working with Projects

Creating and Organizing Bins

Opening and Closing Bins

Viewing Source Clips

Viewing Sequences

Working with the Timeline

Working with Tools and Audio Meters

Controlling Timeline Tracks

Zooming and Positioning the Timeline

Using Keyboard Shortcuts

What You’ve Learned

Lesson 2 Translating Basic Editing Skills

Using Play Commands

Using Mark Commands

Patching Tracks in the Timeline

Performing Overwrite and Insert Edits

Snapping in the Timeline

Enabling View Overlays

Creating Subclips

Lifting and Extracting

Performing Split Edits and L-Cuts

Adding and Deleting Tracks

What You’ve Learned

Lesson 3 Customizing Your Project

Selecting an Editing Preset

Changing Audio/Video Settings

Selecting User Preferences

Choosing System Settings

Changing Sequence Settings

Viewing Item Properties

Dynamically Resizing the Interface

Changing Window Layouts

Saving Layouts

Customizing the Keyboard

Changing Command Buttons

Utilizing the Bin Text View

Working with Icon Views

Performing Storyboard Editing

What You’ve Learned

Lesson 4 Trimming Clips

Working with the Trim Edit Window

Performing Dual-Roller and Single-Roller Trimming

J-K-L Trimming

Dragging Edit Points

Trimming in the Timeline

Asymmetrical Trimming

Trimming in the Viewer

What You’ve Learned

Lesson 5 Logging and Capturing

Exploring the Log and Capture Window

Viewing and Marking the Source

Selecting Clip Settings

Selecting Capture Settings

Capture Preferences

Targeting a Bin

Logging Clips

Capture Options

Batch Capturing

Using Capture Cards

Acquiring Other Media

What You’ve Learned

Lesson 6 Advanced Editing

Selecting Clips in the Timeline

Performing Segment Mode Editing

Moving Clips in the Timeline

Performing Drag-and-Drop Editing

Copying and Pasting

Working with Gaps

Working with Master Clips

Finding Match Frames

Slipping and Sliding Clips

Replacing Edits

Adding Edits

Extending Edits

Placing Locators

Editing Markers

Ganging Clips

What You’ve Learned

Lesson 7 Multicam Editing

Organizing a Multiclip Editing Workflow

Creating Multiclips

Viewing and Modifying Multiclips

Editing with Multiclips

Collapsing Multiclips

What You’ve Learned

Lesson 8 Editing Sound

Viewing Audio Levels

Monitoring Audio Tracks

Editing and Viewing Audio Tracks

Changing Audio Levels in the Viewer

Changing Audio Levels in the Timeline

Working with Stereo and Mono Audio

Linking Clips

Using Sync Indicators

Keyframing Audio Levels

Working with the Audio Mixer

Merging Clips

Adding Voice-Over

What You’ve Learned

Lesson 9 Transitions and Effects

Exploring Effects

Adding and Modifying Transitions

Editing with Transitions

Using the Transition Editor

Changing and Copying Transitions

Applying Segment Effects

Modifying Filters

Creating Effect Templates

Copying and Pasting Attributes

Rendering Effects

Superimposing Clips

Keyframing Filter Parameters

Applying a Composite Mode

Travel Mattes

Lesson 10 Speed and Motion Effects

Applying a Constant Speed Change

Applying a Freeze-Frame Effect

Editing with Fit to Fill

Exploring the Motion Effects Tab

Applying Variable Speed Changes

Changing the Image View

Sizing and Positioning an Image

Rotating an Image

Cropping and Distorting an Image

Creating and Nesting Comps

Copying and Pasting Motion Attributes

Creating a Motion Path

Modifying a Motion Path

Creating Favorite Motion Effects

Lesson 11 Title Tool and Generators

Exploring Video Generators

Working with the Controls Tab

Creating Titles

Applying Effects to Generated Items

Creating Scrolling and Crawling Text

Applying Lower 3rds and Preprogrammed Text

Creating 3D Text with Boris Calligraphy

Using Slugs, Mattes, and Render Items

Applying Shapes

Saving Generators as Favorites

Using Master Templates

What You’ve Learned

Lesson 12 Importing and Exporting

Importing Files

Importing EDLs and Batch Lists

Importing Sequences from Avid

Reconnecting Media

Importing Graphics

Using the External Editor

Working with Alpha Channels

Sending Files to Other Applications

Exporting Clips, Sequences, and Stills

Batch Exporting Media

Exporting Files

Understanding Compressor and Cinema Tools

What You’ve Learned

Lesson 13 Project Management

Using the Find Command

Changing Clip Properties

Detecting Duplicate Frames

Render Management Tips

Managing Render Files

Working with the Media Manager

Copying and Moving a Project

Consolidating Media

Recompressing and Creating Offline Clips

Decomposing a Sequence

What You’ve Learned

Lesson 14 Finishing and Outputting

Detecting Audio Peaks

Modifying Audio Output Levels

Changing Audio Output Channels

Working with Video Scopes

Checking Video Levels

Correcting Video Levels

Correcting Image Color

Outputting to Tape

Making a Timecode Window Burn

Backing Up Projects

What You’ve Learned

Appendix Avid to Final Cut Pro Comparison Chart

Startup and Digitizing

Interface and Keyboard

Basic Editing

Moving and Trimming Edits

Audio

Transitions

Motion Effects

Compositing

Titles, Slates, and Keys

Backing Up and Output

Index