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Final Cut Pro Class Online August 16, 2023 Advanced
Final Cut Pro Training Class: Advanced
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Online Training
$795.00
This two-day advanced Final Cut Pro course helps you to become a more proficient user of FCP X. You'll learn how to work more efficiently, use advanced editing techniques, and work with color and audio controls.
Final Cut Pro Training Course: Advanced - Course Topics
Lesson 1: Organizing your media and media management in Final Cut Pro
- Working with Metadata: Using metadata that is part of imported (source) content
- Using auto-analysis and adding metadata
- Using metadata views and creating new metadata views
- Working with and editing existing metadata views
- Using and organizing Keywords
- Applying markers
- Using filters to locate clips
- Creating Smart Collections
- Batch renaming
- Relinking clips
- Using Libraries: closing and duplicating Final Cut Pro libraries; sharing and moving libraries; moving clips between libraries
- Using Projects: working with project snapshots and backups
- Managing disk space and removal of render files
- Managing proxy media
- Adjusting storage locations
- Using optimized media.
Lesson 2: Advanced Final Cut Pro Editing Techniques
- Understanding an editing strategy for Final Cut projects
- Changing edits
- Combining edits
- Understanding storylines and secondary storylines
- Using trim to playhead
- Using trim to selection
- Working with compound clips
- Applying titles to connected clips
- Back timing edits
Lesson 3: Understanding Audio Editing in Final Cut Pro
- Audio levels and mastering
- Using audio meters
- Understanding waveforms
- Applying timeline volume adjustments
- Adjusting volume in specific areas
- Using volume adjustments within the Audio Inspector
- Adjusting Volume from the Modify Menu or Keyboard
- Applying fades and crossfades
- Using audio channels
- Panning, stereo and surround pans, pan effects, and using panning in the timeline
- Using pan presets
- Working with Audio channels
- Synchronizing audio and video
- Resetting all volume edits
Lesson 4: Applying Audio Effects using Final Cut Pro
- Equalizing audio in Final Cut Pro
- Equalization Filters
- Disabling clip effects
- Sharing effects between clips
- Leveling effects
- Creating reverb, space, time, and echo
- Using distortion presets
- Manipulating voice and pitch using effects
- Maintaining voice pitch with retiming
Lesson 5: Multi-Camera (Multicam) Editing in FCP X
- Multicamera editing essentials
- Creating multicam clips
- Viewing and editing multicam clips
- Cutting between camera angles
- Using channel selection
- Trimming when working with multicam clips
- Changing clip sequences
- Adjusting synchronization between clips
- Adding or removing clips
Lesson 6: Keying, Masking, and Compositing in FCP X
- Working with keying and masking effects
- Automatic keying
- Using manual sampling
- Applying a garbage mask
- Advanced keying capabilities
- Understanding and applying blend modes
- Compositing graphics
- Importing Photoshop Images and working with Photoshop layers
Lesson 7: Using Color Correction, Color Grading, and Color Timing in Final Cut Pro X
- Understanding color correction, grading, and timing
- Understanding color correction capabilities
- Working with video scopes
- Using the color board
- Using color controls
- Removing color casts
- Applying color controls globally
- Modifying contrast
- Adjusting saturation
- Working with color masks
- Targeting corrections to specific regions
- Creating color vignettes
- Using shapes and masks together
- Masking skin tones to make color adjustments
- Masking specific regions such as grass, sky, and water to apply restricted color edits
Lesson 8: Creating animation using keyframing using FCP X
- Using keyframes
- Keyframing in the Viewer and the Inspector
- Adjusting keyframe position
- Creating travel mattes
- Creating and applying custom text
- Animating split screens
Lesson 9: Advanced Export and Sharing from Final Cut Pro X
- Exporting projects and media from Final Cut Pro
- Using Final Cut Pro with Apple Compressor: sharing files with Compressor
- Understanding Apple Compressor batches, jobs and Settings
- Destinations and actions
- Understanding automatic settings and custom settings
- Working with encoder and frame settings
- Creating droplets