Video description
The best-selling
Visual QuickStart Guideseries is now available
as online video!
Video QuickStartscombine the practical,
step-by-step approach of the
Visual QuickStart Gui
deseries with the immediacy of online learning
to offer an all-new approach to mastering a new application or
technology quickly. Each
Video Quick
St
artoffers more than an hour of short,
task-based videos and rich graphics to demonstrate key concepts.
Simply make your purchase online, log in, and within minutes you
will be learning at your desktop.
With Final Cut Pro Basic Editing: Video
QuickStart, you will be up and running in no time with
Apple’s leading video editing software! After a tour of the Final
Cut Pro interface and instruction on setting up your project, you
will quickly jump into tasks that include creating a sequence;
marking and logging clips; importing image and audio files;
scrubbing clips and jumping edits; timeline scaling, scrolling and
zooming; viewing transitions and effects; creating animated titles;
and more.
For more than 15 years, Peachpit Press has helped millions of
users—from designers to developers and more—get up to speed on all
sorts of computer programs. The new
Video Quick
Startsprovide a quick, convenient,
computer-based alternative to learning your favorite creative
applications.
Table of Contents
- Final Cut Pro Basic Editing
Introduction
00:02:50
- A Tour of the Interface
Main Interface Overview
00:05:29
Additional Windows and Tools
00:01:39
- Preferences and Settings
Easy Setup
00:00:52
A/V Settings
00:00:35
To Set General Preferences
00:01:40
- Anatomy of a Final Cut Pro Project
Project Files and Media Files
00:00:45
To Create a New Project
00:00:37
To Create a Sequence
00:00:46
To Create a Bin
00:00:55
- Capturing Video
Setting Scratch Disks Under System Settings
00:01:26
To Capture Without Device Control
00:01:49
To Set a Logging Bin
00:01:00
Marking and Logging Clips
00:02:03
Batch Capturing Offline Clips
00:02:34
- Importing Files into the Browser
To Import an Image File
00:01:35
To Import an Audio File
00:00:45
To Convert Audio to a 48kHz AIFF File Using iTunes
00:01:50
- Working with Clips in the Viewer
To Open a Clip in the Viewer
00:00:48
Playing Clips Using the Mouse or Keyboard
00:01:38
Setting and Changing In and Out Points
00:01:25
- Making an Edit
Insert and Overwrite Edits
00:03:42
To Target Tracks in the Timeline
00:00:48
- Timeline Navigation
To Turn Snapping On and Off
00:00:33
To Move Between Edits: Scrubbing Clips and Jumping Edits
00:01:16
Typing Timecode to Jump to an Exact Point in the Timeline
00:01:44
Timeline Scaling, Scrolling, and Zooming
00:02:27
Locking Tracks
00:00:30
- Selection Tools in the Timeline
Selecting a Clip or Transition to Move, Copy, or Paste
00:02:59
Selecting Multiple Edit Points, Clips, or Tracks
00:01:42
Linking Video and Audio, Correcting Out of Synch Clips
00:01:56
Other Tools: Rolling an Edit, Splitting a Clip
00:01:52
- Transitions
To View Transitions and Effects
00:01:14
To Add a Transition Effect to a Cut
00:01:14
- Working with Audio
Opening an Audio Clip in the Viewer
00:01:09
Turning on Waveforms and Changing Track Height
00:03:36
- Titles
To Add a Title Generator to a Sequence
00:02:48
To Create an Animated Title
00:01:38
- Finishing
Rendering
00:03:10
Printing Back to Tape
00:05:27
To Export a Clip or Sequence as a QuickTime Movie
00:01:37