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Final Cut Pro X: The Complete Guide to Final Cut Pro X

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Overview

Learn how to edit videos in Final Cut Pro X with this easy-to-follow course!

Start editing your own videos with Final Cut Pro X!

If you are looking for a course that teaches you the entire video editing process in Final Cut Pro, then this is the course for you!

Whether you're an aspiring filmmaker or YouTuber, a small business or marketer, or just someone who wants to make videos for their family and friends, Final Cut Pro X is a great application to use. And this course is perfect for absolute beginners or anyone who knows a little about FCPX, but wants an A-Z guide!

Edit videos the way you imagine them!

While taking this course, you will work on real-world projects. So by the end of the course, you will feel confident editing your own videos.

What will you learn?

  • Navigate the Final Cut Pro interface with ease
  • Start a new project and import your media
  • Edit your video with all kinds of tools and techniques
  • Add transitions and effects to improve your video's flow
  • Make your audio sound better and get rid of background noise
  • Add title cards like lower thirds and intros
  • Adjust the colors with grading and color correction
  • Stylize your video with effects, blending modes, speed adjustments
  • Edit green screen footage with chroma keying
  • 360 video editing in Final Cut Pro
  • Working with images in your projects
  • Editing your video for online, Apple devices, and Blu-rays
  • and so much more!

Why learn from us?

This course is a collaboration between Video School Online's Phil Ebiner & Greg Hung. We've come together to share our expertise in video editing with you. As professional video creators and video editors, we want to make sure you not only understand how to use Final Cut Pro X to edit your own videos, but we also want to make sure you understand how to use this application like a professional would.

We provide premium support! If you are ever stuck, just post a question to the course or send us a message, and we'll help you out!

Our Happiness Guarantee

We want you to be happy with your purchase. If you're not learning, or you're just not happy with the course, we have a 30-day 100% money back guarantee!

Start editing videos with Final Cut Pro X!

Enroll today, and we'll see you inside the course!

Cheers,

Phil & Greg

Syllabus

  • 1.1 Welcome to the Course
  • New features in FCPX 10
  • Project files
  • Overview of the Interface
  • Customizing the Interface
  • Working with Libraries
  • Importing media from the computer
  • Importing from a Camera, Camera Archive, & Movie
  • Organizing Your Files (keywords, collections, rating, filtering, etc
  • 2.7 Working with Events
  • 2.8 Monitor Background tasks
  • 2.9 ADVANCED: Working with 4k footage and frame rate
  • 3.1 Creating a Project
  • 3.2 Adding Clips to the Timeline - Insert, Overwrite & Connect Edits
  • 3.3 Ripple and Trim Edits
  • 3.4 Compound clips
  • 3.5 Blade Edits and Joining Clips
  • 3.6 Slip, Slide
  • 3.7 Three-point Edit Backtime Edits
  • Lifting and Overwriting Clips
  • Adding Video Transitions
  • Snapping and replacing clips
  • Demonstration - Working through a rough cut
  • Adding Audio Clips
  • Syncing Video & Audio
  • Editing Audio Levels
  • Disabling & Detaching Audio
  • Fading Audio
  • Making Audio Sound Better
  • Getting Rid of Background Noise (l30)
  • Removing background noise
  • Working with Music
  • Panning Audio
  • Doing voiceovers in Final Cut Pro
  • Adding a Title
  • Modifiying Text
  • Working with 3d titles
  • Adding Motion to Titles
  • Saving a Style Preset
  • How to Make Color Corrections in FCPX (40)
  • Color Wheels
  • Color Curves
  • Hue saturation
  • Fixing exposure
  • Fixing White Balance
  • Adjusting Saturation
  • Adjusting saturation in the color wheels
  • 6.8 Color Masks for targeted corrections
  • 6.8.1 Shape Masks for targeted corrections
  • 6.9 Applying & Modifying color presets
  • 3rd Party 6.9.1 Plugin, Luts, and workflow
  • 6.10 Blurring and Censoring
  • 6.11 Demo: Color correction Workflow with colorboard & curves
  • 6.12 Demo: Color correct Biron
  • 7.1 Blending modes and opacity
  • 7.2 Applying effects and generators
  • 7.1 retime and reverse clips
  • 7.4 slow motion and frame hold
  • 7.5 Chroma keying green screen
  • 7.6 Luma keyer
  • 7.7 multi-cam edit
  • 7.7 tips for filming a multi cam with 1 person
  • Intro to 360 and publishingb (L60)
  • 8.1 Importing 360 Media
  • 8.3 Adding title to 360
  • 8.2 Editing 360 Video
  • 8.4 Applying 360 Effects
  • 8.5 Exporting 1st 360 Video
  • ADVANCED 360 VIDEO PROJECT
  • 8.6 Publishing 360 Video to Youtube
  • 9.1 Adding Images to Your Project
  • 9.2 Cropping an Image
  • 9.3 Adding the Ken Burns Effect
  • 9.4 Creating screen capture & image sequence
  • 10.1 Publishing for Online Viewing
  • 10.2 Publishing to Apple Devices
  • 10.3 Publishing to Blu-ray / DVD
  • 10.4 Exporting Using Compressor
  • 11.1 Why and how to export to XML
  • 11.2 Creating a snapshot
  • 12.1 Changing User Preferences
  • 12.2 Using Keyboard Shortcuts & Customizing the Keyboard
  • 12.3 Creating an imovie project on mobile
  • 12.4 Importing iMovie projects into FCP x and editing it
  • 12.5 Demonstration: Vlog Putting it all together 4K footage with audio and titles
  • 12.6 Demo Cebu VLog color grading
  • 12.7 Demonstration: Client promotional video behind the scenes 4K and drone footage
  • 12.8 Client promo video color grading
  • Course Summary

Taught by

Greg Hung

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