Duration: 3 Days
In this three-day, hands-on course, you will learn hard-to-find advanced editing and finishing techniques. Learn how to create polished transitions, fix screen direction errors, edit multi-camera projects, work with nested sequences, create fantastic effects, use filters creatively, and composite like a pro. You will also learn advanced workflows for managing media and working with film.
What You Will Learn
- Compound Clips and auditions
- Organize projects with advanced Metadata techniques
- Target specific areas to color correct with shape and color masks
- Fine-tune clips in the timeline with the Precision Editor
- Compressor
- Create custom effects and transitions
- Finishing and final output
Audience
Students with a working knowledge of Final Cut Pro X and want to increase their skills by learning advanced features and efficient workflows
Prerequistes
- Basic knowledge of the Macintosh OS
- Understanding of basic computer navigation
- Knowledge of Final Cut Pro 7 and basic editing terminology is required
- Ideally, completion of An Introduction to Final Cut Pro 7 (FCP 101)
Course Outline
Day 1
1. Organizing Your Media
- Source Media Metadata
- Auto-Analysis Metadata
- Adding Your Own Metadata
- Metadata Views,
- Rating Clips
- Marking Favorites and Rejects
- Adding and Organizing Keywords
- Adding Markers
- Filtering Clips
- Creating Smart Collections
- Batch Renaming Clips
- Re-Linking Clips
2. Professional Editing Techniques
- Reviewing Editing Basics
- Modifying Edits
- Project Defined Editing
- Backtiming Edits
- Limiting Source Media
- Combining Complex Edits
- Storylines
- Applying Transitions to Connected Clips
- Breaking Apart Storylines
- Compound Clips
3. 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
- Adding Effects to Other Clips
4. Working with Audio
- Mastering Audio Levels
- Working with Audio Meters and Waveforms
- Adjusting Volume
- Animating Audio Levels
- Subframe Audio Adjustments
- Nudging Keyframes
- Audio Fades
- Crossfading between Clips
- Panning Audio
- Configuring Audio Channels
- Managing Audio Channels
- Enabling and Disabling Channels
- Breaking Apart Audio Clips
5. Working with Audio Effects
- Audio Equalization
- Applying Enhancements Manually
- Using Custom Controls
- Turning Off or Removing a Clip Effect
- Transferring Effects to other Clips
- Levels Effects and Reverbs
- Spaces and Echo Effects
- Distortion Presets
- Pitch Shifting and Voice Effects
- Preserving Pitch When Retiming Clips
- Animating Audio Effects
Day 2
6. Multicamera Editing
- Creating, Viewing, and Editing a Multicam Clip
- Cutting and Switching Between Angles
- Channel Selection
- Trimming Multicam Clips,
- Custom Multicam Clip Settings
- Modifying a Multicam Clip
- Changing Order
- Fixing Sync
- Adding/Deleting an Angle
- Adding Effects
7. 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
- Compositing Generators and Graphics
- Layered Graphics
8. Keying Features
- Transformations, Effects, and Titles Transforming Clips
- Browsing, Previewing, and Applying Effects
- Modifying and Combining Effects
- Creating and Modifying Titles
- Using Text Styles
- Custom Titles and Using Roles with Titles
9. Creating Animation
- Animating Clip Position,
- Keyframing in the Viewer, Inspector, and Video Animation Editor,
- Animating a Generator
- Creating a Travel Matte
- Animating with Transitions
Day 3
10. Color Correction Basics
- Appropriate Display
- Highest Quality Media
- Original or Optimized Media
- Manually Re-Linking Offline Clips
- Learning the Color Correction Interface
- Exploring the Interface
- Applying Automatic Color Adjustments
- Controlling iMovie Adjustments
- Using Video Scopes
- Adjusting Contrast Using the Color Board
11. 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
12. Color Matching
- Shot Matching
- Matching Clips Automatically and Performing Simple Clip Matching
- Matching Corrected Clips and Matching Clips Manually,
- Breaking Down a Scene
- Grading the First Clip
- Matching Other Clips to the Reference Clip
- Copying Grades
- Using Hidden Commands to Apply Corrections
- Matching Insert Clips
- Some Tips on Shot Matching
- Using Additional Corrections and Effects in a Scene
- Adding Corrections to Individual Shots
- Saving and Applying Correction Presets
- Adding Correction to an Entire Scene Using Compound Clips
- Adding Other Effects to a Grade
- Using Broadcast Safe
13. 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
14. Advanced Sharing and Sending to Compressor
- Sending from Final Cut Pro X vs. Sending to Compressor
- Exporting Projects and Media for Finishing
- XML Round Trips
- Exporting Media Using Roles
- Sending to Compressor
- Compressor User Interface
- Using Window Layouts
- Batches, Jobs, and Settings
- Creating a batch
- Adding Jobs
- Applying Settings
- Destinations, and Actions
- Using Automatic Settings vs. Auto Detect Settings
- Encoder, Frame, Filters, Geometry, and Actions,
- Creating and Using Droplets
- Exporting Project Data
Course Labs
