Final Cut Pro HD for Dummies 1st Edition by Helmut Kobler 0764577735 9780764577734

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ISBN 10: 0764577735

ISBN 13: 9780764577734

Author: Helmut Kobler

“Save it in the edit” is a common saying among film professionals. Editing makes the difference between boring vacation movies and exciting travelogues…between the whole dull news conference and the highlights on the evening news. Whether you’re a budding Spielberg, a proud parent who wants two-year-old Junior’s every feat documented for posterity, or a band that wants your music video to rock, Final Cut Pro HD For Dummies tells you what you need to know to edit regular digital or high definition video like a pro. It covers the basics of capturing, importing, and editing digital videos, with detailed how-to for: Organizing your media Navigating the audio and video Timeline tracks and selecting clips and frames on the Timelines Getting fancier with split, roll, ripple, slip, and slide edits Working with audio, including mixing, editing out scratches and pops, and using filters to create effects Using Soundtrack to compose a musical score, even if you don’t know the difference between horns and strings Apply transitions such as 3D simulation, dissolve, iris, stretch and squeeze, and more Adding text for captions, opening titles, and closing credits Color-correcting video Compositing, rendering, and outputting your final product to tape, CD, DVD, or the Web Three bonus chapters online go into more depth about rendering, customizing the interface, and managing media so you can refine your skills even further. Final Cut Pro HD For Dummies was written by Helmut Kobler, a Los Angeles-based filmmaker, owner of K2Films, and a frequent contributor to Macaddict Magazine. Having this book next to your editing equipment is the next best thing to having him sit next to you and guide you through the editing process.

Final Cut Pro HD for Dummies 1st Table of contents:

Part I: First Things First

Chapter 1: Introducing Final Cut Pro

Understanding the Purpose of Editing

Exploring the Capabilities of Final Cut Pro

Appreciating nondestructive editing

Final Cut Pro versus the competition

New in Final Cut Pro HD (and the earlier version 4)

Going with the Final Cut (Work) Flow

Taking a Grand Tour of the Interface

The Browser

The Viewer

The Timeline

The Tool palette

The Canvas

Chapter 2: Getting Started

Hardware Requirements

Selecting and Configuring a Mac

CPU speed

Memory (RAM)

Disk storage for DV video

Monitors and LCDs

Doing DV? You need a FireWire port

DV videocameras and playback decks

Other optional hardware

Getting Started

Connecting and preparing all your hardware

Launching Final Cut Pro

Choosing an initial setup

Working with Projects and Sequences

Saving and autosaving projects

Setting up the Autosave feature

Managing projects

Adjusting Your Project and Sequence Settings

Choosing a different Easy Setup

Choosing a different preset

Creating new presets

Chapter 3: All About HD (High Definition)

What Is HD?

Supersharp image quality

Wide-screen aspect ratio

The many flavors of HD

How Final Cut Works with HD

The way things were

Final Cut Pro HD makes HD easy

Creating DVCPRO HD Video

Affordable HD Cameras — the Good and the Bad News

Part II: Importing and Organizing Your Media

Chapter 4: Capturing Media from Tape

Connecting a DV Camera or Deck

Understanding Timecode

Capturing in the Log and Capture Window

Navigating through a DV tape

Describing and capturing video — the long way

Logging clips

Changing your logging bin

Capturing the video — the short way

Locating captured clips

Letting Final Cut Pro Find Scenes for You

Capturing over Timecode Breaks

Batch-Capturing Clips

Chapter 5: Importing Media That’s Already on Your Mac

Your Media Files Are Welcome Here

Some Media May Need Rendering

Importing Your Media into Final Cut Pro

Importing one or more files at a time

Importing a folder full of files (or other folders)

Importing files by dragging them from the Finder

Importing music tracks directly from a CD

Importing Photoshop files (layers and all)

Converting MP3 (and Other Kinds of Audio) with QuickTime Pro

Chapter 6: Organizing Your Media

Working in the Browser

Using bins

Viewing clips as icons or in lists

Figuring Out the Browser Icons

Using Browser Columns

Understanding the column headings

Sorting clips by column

Working with column headings

Changing names and settings in a column

Making Copies of Clips

Adding Transitions and Effects to the Favorites Bin

Finding Clips Fast

Searching by clip name

More-powerful searches

Dealing with Offline Media

Recapturing deleted clips

Reconnecting an offline clip

Part III: Editing Your Media

Chapter 7: Editing Basics

Understanding the Editing Process

Getting to know the Timeline

Playing back video: The Viewer and Canvas windows

Looking at timecode data in the Viewer and Canvas

Moving Clips to the Timeline

Inserting and overwriting

Choosing the right track on the Timeline

Using a shortcut to insert and overwrite

Setting a clip’s In and Out points in the Viewer

Recycling a clip by changing its In and Out points

Selecting Clips on the Timeline

Moving a Clip That’s Already on the Timeline

Overwriting a moved clip

Swapping a moved clip

Inserting or overwriting a copied clip

Speeding Editing with Snapping

Resizing Clips That Are Already on the Timeline

Resizing clips directly on the Timeline

Resizing clips in the Viewer window

Understanding the limitations of resizing clips

Cutting a Clip in Two

Deleting Clips from the Timeline

Using lift edits and ripple deletes

Deleting a range of frames on multiple tracks

Chapter 8: Getting to Know the Timeline

Investigating Timeline Tracks

Locking tracks so that they can’t be changed

Muting and soloing audio tracks

Hiding video tracks so that they don’t play

Setting up destination tracks on the Timeline

Adding and deleting tracks from the Timeline

Customizing Your View of the Timeline

Making Timeline tracks big and small

Customizing other Timeline settings

Navigating the Timeline

Moving the playhead anywhere on the Timeline

Moving the playhead linearly through the Timeline

Zooming In and Out of the Timeline

Chapter 9: Editing Wizardry

Going Beyond Insert and Overwrite Edits

Replace edits

The Match Frame feature

Fit-to-fill edits

Superimpose edits

Splitting Video and Audio Edits

Splitting edits from the Viewer

Splitting edits on the Timeline

Using Advanced Editing Tools

Resizing clips with roll and ripple edits

Slip-slidin’ clips

Using Markers to Highlight Important Moments

Setting markers

Renaming, deleting, and designating markers

Searching for markers

Playing a Clip Backward

Changing a Clip’s Speed

Setting a constant speed

Setting a variable speed

Stopping Action with a Freeze Frame

Nesting a Sequence into Another Sequence

Adding a Voice-Over to a Sequence

Part IV: Adding Pizzazz

Chapter 10: Audio Excellence

Some Audio Basics

Capturing and maintaining high-quality audio

Understanding stereo and mono audio

Rendering audio

Three Ways to Set Volume Levels

Changing the volume of audio clips in the Viewer

Adjusting the volume of clips on the Timeline

Mixing with the Audio Mixer

Panning an Audio Clip

Creating Audio Transitions

Working with Audio Filters

Applying an audio filter and changing its parameters

Changing filter parameters over time with keyframes

Disabling and deleting filters

Getting quick access to your favorite filters

Exploring Audio Filters

Equalization filters

Echoes and reverberations

Compression and expansion filters

Noise-reduction filters

Copying and Removing Audio Attributes

Chapter 11: Composing a Soundtrack

Getting Started

Installing and launching

A quick overview of the interface

Creating Your Soundtrack

Getting video into Soundtrack

Establishing your score’s master settings

Finding the right loops

Editing loops on the Timeline

Looking at your Timeline options

Changing volume, pan, and key

Other Features

Using markers for important moments

Applying effects

Making your own loops and one-shots

Exporting Your Score

Chapter 12: Creating Transitions

Exploring the Types of Transitions in Final Cut Pro

Applying Your First Transition

Looking at the Many Ways to Apply Transitions

Dragging transitions from the Browser to the edit point on the Timeline

Using the keyboard shortcut

Copying and pasting a transition

Editing Clips and Adding Transitions

Rendering Transitions

Rendering a single transition

Rendering all transitions in a range

Modifying Transitions

Changing the duration of a transition

Changing the alignment of a transition

Moving transitions

Replacing and removing transitions

Fading In and Out

Saving and Organizing Custom Transitions

Using the Transition Editor to Customize a Transition

Chapter 13: Adding Text to Your Videos

Formatting Text for Display on a TV

Selecting the right font size

Avoiding thick and thin fonts

Using textures and colors sparingly

Getting Started with a Text Generator

Creating Text with Final Cut Pro

Creating text and adding it to a video

Understanding the options on the Controls tab

Touring the text generators

Creating titles on colored backgrounds

Creating Titles with LiveType

Exporting a movie from Final Cut Pro to use with LiveType

Using LiveType to create a new title

Using Titles and Text Created Outside Final Cut Pro

Working with Photoshop and Final Cut Pro

Preparing Photoshop Text for Final Cut Pro

Part IV: Adding Pizzazz

Chapter 14: Special Effects with Filters and Color Correction

Shooting Video with Effects in Mind

Making a Colored Clip Black and White

Getting That Old, Grainy Video Look

Changing Colors

Using mattes

Using the RGB Balance tool

Working with Color-Correction Tools

Selecting and changing the color of an object

Copying color-correction settings to other clips

Fixing or Adjusting Exposures

Comparing Results with the Frame Viewer

Checking Out More Handy Filters

Blurring the Action

Saving and Applying Customized Filters

Chapter 15: Motion Effects

Manipulating Images in Wireframe Mode

Scaling, rotating, and moving images

Cropping or distorting an image

Working in Wireframe mode in the Viewer

Changing Images with the Motion Tab

Using Keyframes to Change Motion Settings over Time

Using keyframes to set clip opacity

Editing existing keyframes

Using keyframes to set other motion values

Editing motion keyframes

Creating a Multiple-Screen Effect

Chapter 16: Compositing

Choosing a Composite Mode

Applying a Composite Mode

Understanding Alpha Channels

Compositing with Mattes and Keys

Creating a simple matte

Compositing with keys

Tips for getting clean keys

Part V: Outputting Your Masterpiece

Chapter 17: Recording to Tape

Setting Up for Recording

Looking out for dropped frames!

Recording to DV tape with a camera or deck

Recording to VHS

Recording to Tape

Recording directly from the Timeline

Printing to video

Editing to tape

Editing Online versus Offline

Chapter 18: Exporting Your Movie to a Digital File

Working with QuickTime Video

Getting to Know Codecs

Looking at the Video Codecs

Looking at the Audio Codecs

Knowing Your Data Rates

Export Away!

Exporting a Batch of Movies

Easy Exporting with the Compressor Application

Exporting video from Final Cut Pro using Compressor

Batch-exporting sequences with Compressor

Part VI: The Part of Tens

Chapter 19: Ten Tips for Becoming a Better Editor

Try Out the Final Cut Pro Tutorials

Study (Don’t Just Watch) Movies and Commercials

Practice on Someone Else’s Real-World Footage

Go Online and Find a Community

Join a Final Cut Pro User Group

Upgrade Your Hardware

Upgrade Your Software

Curl Up with a Good Book

Chapter 20: Almost Ten Tips for Managing Big Projects

Keep Your Media Files Organized

Use Bins — Lotsa Bins!

Keep Your Clip Names Informative

Document Your Clips

Use the Find Feature

Stay Oriented with Markers

Break Scenes into Sequences and Nest ’em Together

Save on Hard Drive Space

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