Final Cut Pro X Weynand Certification Lesson 1

Lesson 1: Exploring the Interface Apple Pro Training Series 2nd Edition Final Cut Pro X Instructor: Sam Edsall

Using the DVD Files from the Book Insert the DVD from the book Open Finder and make a folder in Documents for the APTS FCP X.sparseimage file currently on the DVD Copy the APTS FCP X.sparseimage file from the DVD to the Documents folder on your Mac Do not try to run the files straight off the DVD Copy the book files from the DVD to your computer

Using the DVD Files from the Book Acts as an external drive APTS FCP X.sparseimage Double-click the file Drive appears on your desktop when started Turn on Eject or drag to trashcan when done Original file is not trashed; just ejecting the external drive Turn off

Apple Pro Certification Complete the course material from the book 1st half in BC 142, 2nd half in BC 361 Take the certification exam online More info on the DVD and in the text Become an Apple Certified Pro

How to Use These Lessons These boxes contain information about a certain topic Information boxes Action boxes: If you see a yellow border box, you will need to do something in Final Cut Pro. Follow every step to keep up in the lesson. Homework assignments are normally based on the lesson. The illustration area showing what the function or action looks like in Final Cut.

How to Use These Lessons Page 68 Create a new sequence Mark all the clips listed on the page Drop them onto the timeline in that order Export your sequence Export using QuickTime Conversion Format - iPod Save as (your name) Week 1.m4v Post in Homework folder on iTunes U Mark and Drop into a Sequence Each lesson has a homework assignment Assignments are posted on iTunes U as your name Sam Week 1.m4v Homework with each lesson Example of homework assignment for each lesson at the end of the slideshow.

Starting up Final Cut Pro From the Application folder Double-click a Library from the Movies >Final Cut Libraries folder Select the app from the Launchpad 3 ways

Load the Lesson Content Double-click on the APTS FCPX disk in your Documents folder to start up the external drive. The drive should appear on your desktop.

Starting up Final Cut Pro If it isnt there already, drag the Final Cut Pro icon to your dock. In the dock, click the Final Cut Pro icon and start up FCPX. -- the program will load and also load the content from the lessons drive

Workflow Import your media into Final Cut Pro Organize Your Media Create a Project & Add Clips Rearrange & Edit your Clips Add Effects & Transitions Share your Movie

Workflow Import your media into Final Cut Pro Transfer your media (video, audio, and still images) from your recording device to your computer or an external disk. You can import media from cameras, SD cards, and other applications such as iMovie.

Workflow Organize your media Reorganize your clips by creating Events and moving clips between Events. Rate clips as Favorite or Rejected. Makes it easier to focus on your best footage. Other useful organizing tools, such as Keyword Collections and Smart Collections.

Workflow Create a project and add clips to it Your project is the movie you create using clips from your Events Start creating your movie by adding clips to the Timeline.

Workflow Arrange and edit your clips The Rough cut - Rearrange and trim clips in the Timeline. Try out different clips using audition. Use connected clips and storylines to add cutaway shots, titles, background music, and sound effects to your project.

Workflow Add effects and transitions Add special effects from the media browsers. Give your movie titles and credits Add video or audio transitions. Adjust clip speed settings Keyframe video and audio effects, correct color, and composite motion graphics.

Workflow Share your movie Publish your movie right from Final Cut Pro to the web, or send it to iTunes, iPhone, iPad, iPod, or Apple TV. You can also burn a disc to give to others.

The Elements of Final Cut Pro Media that is captured from your camera to the hard drive Imported from internal or external drive Non-volatile Media Files Objects that reference to the media file Sort, trim, arrange on your timeline Video, audio, graphics Clips

The Elements of Final Cut Pro Series of clips arranged together Forms a storyline Timeline What you are working on Contains all the elements you use: QuickTime clips, music, sound effects, narration, graphics Project

Timeline Viewer Understanding the Final Cut Pro Interface Toolbar Library

Browser Window Inspector Understanding the Final Cut Pro Interface

The Library Libraries holding Events Event Project Event Clips

Organizes your source media files. Projects and the clips you use for your project are saved in an Event Library Holds your project, clips, and special folders to help organize your clips Smart collections and keyword collections Event The Event Library

Event Library Icons Click on the icon to reveal the Event Library if necessary Allows you to see all the events saved You can hide this column once you have selected the event you are using Show/Hide

Select an Event Select the Delicious Peace Event under LESSON 1 -- Selecting an Event displays the project and its clips to the right of the Library Close the Library by clicking on the open/close icon on the bottom.

Event Browser Screen clips Select which chip or portions of clips to use or not use for your project Set start and end points (in & out point) Favorite or reject Sort clips Event Browser

Content-Sensitive Pointer Final Cut Pro also has a context-sensitive pointer. As you move the pointer over the interface, it may change to allow you to perform a specific function The Pointer

Content-Sensitive Pointer Position the pointer over the border between the Event Browser and Viewer. When the pointer changes to the vertical resize pointer, drag right to increase the size of the Event Browser window.

Tooltip Placing your pointer over an icon will reveal what the tool does The letter following the description is the shortcut to use this function Tooltip

Try out the Tooltip Click on a clip in the Event Browser. Position the pointer over the green star icon at the left end of the toolbar. -- A tooltip explains that this tool marks a clip as one of your favorites. The keyboard shortcut to access this function is F.

Pop-up Menus Allows you to access more than one option Click on the pop-up menu to see the options available Pop-up Menus

Try out a Pop-up Menu In the toolbar, click the Tools pop-up menu. Move the pointer over the first tool in the Tool palette. -- Select tool A If its not already the active tool, click to select it.

Menus The Final Cut Pro menu bar organizes topics by categories such as View, Mark, Modify, Sha re, and so on. Within each menu, specific functions that share a similar purpose are grouped together. Menus

Menu Keyboard Shortcuts Many menu items can be chosen by pressing a keyboard shortcut Single letter or combination of letter and Shift, Control, Option or Command These keyboard shortcuts are often displayed next to the item in its menu. Menu Shortcuts

Menu Keyboard Shortcuts Choose Window > Media Browser. Move the pointer into the submenu and choose Effects. -- Notice that the keyboard shortcut for this option is Command-5

Menu Keyboard Shortcuts In the lower right of the Timeline, the Media Browser window displays Final Cut Pro effects. In the toolbar above the Browser, the Effects icon is highlighted in blue. 2 Things Happen

Control-Clicking Brings up a shortcut list of things that can be done to the selected item CTRL Click CTRL Click Right click Two-finger click with track pad on your laptop Three ways

Control-Clicking Click the close button (X) in the upper left corner to close the Effects Browser -- or click the highlighted media icon. Move the pointer into the Event Browser and Control- click (or right-click) any thumbnail image.

Viewing & Sorting Clips In the Final Cut Pro workflow, you import media files into Events, which are displayed in the Event Browser You can organize your clips by name, duration, or in the order the clips were shot

Viewing & Sorting Events Open the Library In the Library, select LESSON 1 Select the Delicious Peace Event,

Viewing & Sorting Events From the Action pop-up menu, choose Group Clips By > Duration -- Event Browser now groups the clips by duration.

Viewing & Sorting Events From the Action pop-up menu, choose Group Clips By > None Now try Sort by > Duration -- Clips are sorted by duration, but not grouped together.

Viewing & Sorting Events From the Action pop-up menu, choose Sort By > Name -- Clips are sorted by their name.

Viewing Clips in the Event Browser Often its more productive to quickly skim through clips to search for a particular person or action. Other times, you may want to play the clip in real time to get a sense of timing or content in a scene. To Skim or to Play?

Viewing Clips in the Event Browser Make sure the Delicious Peace Event is selected in the Library To see all the clips in this event, choose All Clips in the Browser Filter Pop-up menu.

Event Browser Duration Slider Adjusts how much of the clip is shown as a filmstrip The shorter the duration, the longer the filmstrip Can be set to All so each clip is only a thumbnail Duration Slider

Viewing Clips in the Event Browser Beneath the Event Browser in the lower-right corner, drag the Duration slider to 5s and notice how the clips look. Drag the slider all the way to the left to All so each clip is only a thumbnail.

Viewing Clips in the Event Browser Click the first clip, beans being hulled. To skim its content, move your pointer (now a Hand icon) from one side of the clip thumbnail to the other. -- notice that the skimmer (thin pink vertical line) travels with you as you skim through the thumbnail, and a large view of the clip appears in the Viewer.

Skimmer vs. Play head Pink line that travels along as you move your pointer Skimmer A white vertical line that appears when you click in a clip. Stays in place when you click, like placing a bookmark at a specific frame or action to which you may want to return. Play head

Skimmer vs. Play head In the beans being hulled clip, click a frame in which a bean is coming out of the chute in mid-flight. Now move the pointer to another frame to find a different flying bean, and then skim back to the play head.

Change the Duration Slider Drag the Duration slider until the duration reads 2s, representing two seconds. Now scroll up and down to see the new display of clip thumbnails. -- one thumbnail appears for every two seconds of media in each clip

Selecting & Playing a Clip Select the grind stone clip Press the Spacebar to play the clip then press it again to stop playing the clip. As you start and stop, watch the toolbar above the Timeline to see the numbers change in the Dashboard.

Playing a Clip L Play forward K Pause J Play backwards Play Shortcuts LL Shuttle forward JJ Shuttle backwards KL Slow motion forward KJ Slow motion backward Fast & Slow

Using J, K, L Press L to play the clip forward. Listen to find the point at which the woman says, It has a nice smell. Then press K to stop playback. Press the J key twice to shuttle backward to a point before the womans statement Press L to play through the clip again.

Clip Appearance Options If you prefer to see more clips in the Event Browser, you can reduce the size of the clip thumbnails. You can also choose whether or not to display an audio waveform on the clip. Clip Appearance Button

Clip Appearance Options Click the Clip Appearance button. From the Clip Appearance pop-up menu, deselect Show Waveforms. Then drag the Clip Height slider to the left to reduce the size of the thumbnails and display more clips in the Event Browser.

Event Browser Options To the right of the Action pop- up menu, click the List View button. In the Event Browser, click the Name column to sort the clips by name. Then scroll through the list and click the map of Africa clip. Skim through the filmstrip at the top of the window.

Clip Cues in the Viewer Lets you know when you are at the very beginning or end of a clip Seen in the Viewer Sprocket Holes Skim though the Map of Africa clip to see the overlays in the Viewer.

Building a Project Combine selected video and audio clips, or portions of clips, into a project that tells your story. You add music and sometimes narration, photos, titles, and anything else that brings your story to life. The Editing Process

Working in the Project Library Open the Delicious Peace project in the Timeline - -- Double-click its project icon -- Select it then press Return Video = blue tracks Audio = green tracks Track Colors

Viewing Projects in the Library You view projects as a list in the Project Library, but play and edit those projects in the Timeline. In the Timeline window, you can view and edit one project at a time. View a project in the Timeline using the same navigation techniques used to preview a clip in the Event Browser. Getting Around

Viewing Projects in the Library Play the project in the Timeline by pressing the Spacebar. As you play to the end of the project, the white play head moves through the clips. Pause the play head and try skimming though the project

Viewing Projects in the Library Home & End key Go to start, go to end of project Laptops = fn & fn JKL Backwards, pause, forwar ds JJ, LL = shuttle backwards, shuttle forwards KJ & KL = slow motion Getting Around

Viewing Projects in the Library & keys Move backward or forward one frame Shift & Shift keys Move backward or forward 10 frames at a time Up & Down arrow keys Previous & next edit point Getting Around

Viewing Projects in the Library Press fn to move the play head to the beginning of the project. Press the Down Arrow a few times until you see the brown close-up Uganda map in the Viewer.

Viewer Overlays An L-shaped symbol in the lower-left corner of the Viewer indicates that the play head is positioned on the first frame of the edited clip. L Overlay Press the once to move the play head to the last frame of the previous clip to see the end of clip overlay in the viewer.

Getting Around Try out some keyboard shortcuts to move around in your project: - Spacebar - J, K, L keys - combining J & K, K & L together - JJ & LL - up and down arrow keys - and arrow keys

Viewer Transport Controls Transform/Crop/Distort tool Previous edit Play/Pause Next edit Full Screen Getting Around

Getting Around Try out the Viewer controls to move around in your project. Try out the full screen playback. -- press Esc key when done

Zooming in & Out of your Project Zoom into an area for a closer look to see a clip name or view more thumbnails representing the clip. Shortcuts: Command = (+) zoom in Command zoom out Shift Z to see whole project A Better Look

Zooming in & Out of your Project Click the Timeline to make it the active window, and press Command = (equals) two times to zoom into the skimmer or play head location. To scroll forward through the project, use the scroll feature on your mouse or track pad. -- 2 fingers left and right

Zooming in & Out of your Project You can also zoom in and out by dragging the Zoom control in the lower right of the Timeline. A Better Look

Changing Clip Appearance Thumbnail size Clip height Show connected clips Show pop-up menu Clip Appearance When sweetening audio When you have several tracks Handy

Changing Clip Appearance Click on the Clip Appearance button and change the thumbnail size of your clips. Change the track height. Notice the change to the connected audio clips when you turn Show Connections on and off.

Saving, Duplicating, Hid ing, Closing FCP saves your project automatically in the background Saving You can duplicate a project to save a version of your work before you make more changes Select your project in the Project Library and File > Duplicate (Command D) Duplicating

Saving, Duplicating, Hid ing, Closing You can hide FCP to work on other things like any other Mac program FCP > Hide FCP or Command H Click on the icon in the dock to bring it back Hiding If you are finished working, quit the program by choosing Final Cut Pro > Quit Final Cut Pro, or by pressing Command-Q Closing

Shortcuts in Lesson 1 Clip selection becomes a favoriteF Choose the Select toolA Turn skimming on/offS Turn audio skimming on/offShift S Play/pause a clip in event browser or in the timeline Spacebar

Shortcuts in Lesson 1 Play backwards, pause, play forwardsJ K L Slomo backwards & slowmo forwardsJK & KL Move play head back 1 frame & move play head forward 1 frame K tap J & K tap L Play clip or project in reverseShift Spacebar Position play head to beginning or end of project Home/End or fn

Shortcuts in Lesson 1 Event Browser select previous or next clip Timeline go to previous or next edit Up & Down Arrow Move the play head backward or forward 1 frame Left & Right Arrow Move the play head backward or forward 10 frames Shift Left & Right Arrow Hide FCPCommand H Quit FCPCommand Q

Homework This Week No homework this week! Well, be sure to practice those shortcuts and learn what the buttons do in the Event Browser, Viewer and Timeline.

Lesson 1: Exploring the Interface Apple Pro Training Series 2nd Edition Final Cut Pro X Instructor: Sam Edsall

Final Cut Pro X Weynand Certification Lesson 1

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