Video Editing in Final Cut Pro X: Learn the Basics in 1 Hour
Learn editing with Final Cut Pro X in the shortest time. Perfect for the beginning editor or new content creator.
If you are interested in attending the new Final Cut Pro video editing workshop for free, type ‘yes’ in the comments below.
Video Editing in Final Cut Pro X: Learn the Basics in 1 HourCourse Description
Final Cut Pro X is a video editing software by Apple that runs on a MacOS system. In this 1-day, hands-on course, you’ll become familiar with using the application to perform video editing from start to finish. You’ll practice with actual media files to create your first complete polished video using the foundation editing techniques and Final Cut Pro’s essential features.
Who Should Attend
This class is for people who want to create video content using Final Cut Pro X and prefer interactive hands-on training. While other courses are intended for the Professional Video Editor, this course is designed for someone in the marketing and training industry.
- Business Owners, Marketing Professionals, Trainers, Public Speakers
- Small Businesses, Multinational Corporates, Government Agencies, Education Institutes
- Digital Marketers, Social Media Managers, Multi-Media Journalists, Communication Directors, Community Managers
Course Objectives
In this hands-on video editing workshop, you will discover:
- The essential features of Final Cut Pro X
- The 7-step video editing process and techniques
- How to enhance video with color correction and effects
- How to repair and improve audio with filters and keyframes
- The science of telling attention-grabbing visual stories
Favorite topics among participants are green screen keying, animating clips, and exporting best YouTube quality.
Requirements
- Bring your own MacBook installed with Final Cut Pro X.
- Must have a minimum understanding of the Mac operating system, at least, the concept of copy/paste, files/folders and save/delete functions.
Course Outline
Here’s an idea of what your Workshop Day will be like:
- Creating a Library – How to get started with a new video editing work and organize files based on best practice.
- Importing Media – How to bring your video footage into Final Cut Pro and understand the media browser structure.
- Exploring the Workspace – Get to know the five main work areas that you will need to access all the time.
- Creating a Project – How to create a project so that you can start assembling and editing your video clips.
- Assembling Clips – How to place video clips into a sequence and understand how the clips interact in the timeline.
- Playing the Timeline – How to play back your sequence of clips and navigate the across the editing timeline.
- Adjusting the Timeline – How to expand and minimize the editing timeline to make accurate edit decision.
- Trimming Clips – How to find and remove parts of a video clip at the beginning and the end that you do not want.
- Splitting Clips – How to use a digital razor blade to slice off one or more parts of a video clip that you want.
- Adding Music – How to import and add a music file into the timeline sequence without affecting the existing audio.
- Adjusting Audio – How to trim the music, make it louder and softer across the video, and fade out to silence.
- Adding Text – How to add a title, create lower-third name tags, make subtitle captions, and animating texts.
- Adding Transitions – How to add transition effects between 2 clips and learn what it means in telling a story.
- Adding Effects – How to change the look of a video and make it slow down, fast forward and go reverse.
- Overlaying Media – How to super-impose a clip over another clip to create a watermark or picture-in-picture effect.
- Exporting Final Video – How to put everything together into one single video in the right format for sharing.
- Beyond Basics – Green Screen Effect, Voice-over Recording, Color Enhancement, Audio Improvement, Sourcing for music, and the art of editing to tell a story.
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If you are interested in attending the new Final Cut Pro video editing workshop for free, type ‘yes’ in the comments below.
Top FCPX Questions
How to add text in Final Cut Pro?
- Select Titles and Generators sidebar
- Choose a Title category or browse all
- Drag the desired title into the timeline
- Edit the text and position in the viewer
- Edit further in the Text Inspector panel
How to export in Final Cut Pro?
- Select Share
- Select file type
- Select Settings
- Change settings
- Click Next
- Input file name and location
- Click Save
How to add transitions in Final Cut Pro?
- Select Transition browser
- Select a category
- Drag a transition into the timeline between two clips
Why Is Final Cut Pro Taking up So Much Storage? Final Cut Pro renders files in high-quality so that we can play back our edits smoothly direct from the timeline. It creates multiple HUGE high-quality files of our footage in the background. It is a good thing, so as to also maintain a high-quality final edited video, BUT not a good thing for a laptop with only 256GB… https://videolane.com/why-is-final-cut-pro-taking-up-so-much-storage/
Update v10.6 – October 2021
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Final Cut Pro X has been shunned by the professional community because it leaves the professionalism that was Final Cut Pro 7 and seems to be targeted at beginners.