Final Cut Pro X Training

The work spaces

• Customizing workspaces
  
• Accessing all panes and palettes

The Project Pane

• Importing media
  
• Video, video/audio, audio, stills images, layered Photoshop documents
  
• Acceptable file formats, missing codecs, using “.VOB” assets
  
• Displaying an organizing media
  
• Linked media, unlinked and offline assets
  
• Creating utility media (bars and tone. lead counter, black video, color matte, transparent video)

The Timeline/Sequence Pane

• Creating a new sequence (choosing the right video standard)
  
• Track headers (locking, targeting, resizing and displaying options)
  
• Time ruler (SMTPE time code vs. audio units)
  
• Keyboard shortcuts for efficient navigation
  
• Types of tracks
  
• Adding and deleting tracks

The “Canvas” Monitor

• Navigation and preview capabilities
  
• Editing capabilities (temporal and spatial)
  
• Ganging to Source and Reference Monitors

The “Viewer” Monitor

• Navigation and preview capabilities
  
• Editing capabilities for video and audio
  
• “J” and “L” cuts
  
• Three and four point edits

The Tool Bar

• Basic edits with the Selection and Blade tool
  
• Ripple edit tool
  
• Track selection tool
  
• Rolling edit tool
  
• Slip edit tool
  
• Slide edit tool
  
• Pen tool
  
• Zoom and Hand tools

The Effect Control Panel

• The “fixed effects” (intrinsic clip attributes)
  
• Adding and adjusting effects
  
• The importance of the stacking order
  
• Deleting, copying, pasting and duplicating effects
  
• The help of the “Canvas” Monitor

The Audio Mixer Part 1

• Track volume and panning
  
• Master volume, VU meters and clipped signals
  
• Solo, mute and record (playback and recording)

Creating Titles

• Professional text formatting (tracking, leading and kerning)
  
• Lower thirds
  
• Rolling and scrolling titles
  
• Using Boris 3D

The Capture Window

• Connecting and recognizing your camera/deck
  
• Logging tapes and clips
  
• Straight capture
  
• Batch capture
  
• Scene detect

Using “Compressor”

• Exporting your final movie (sequence vs. in & out)
  
• Saving and duplicating in the render queue
  
• File formats, compression methods and codecs for DVD, Blu-ray and web

Basic Preferences

• Importing stills
  
• Pre and post roll
  
• Default transition duration

Transitions

• Video and audio transitions
  
• Applying and editing transitions
  
• Default transitions and keyboard shortcuts
  
• Using transitions as effects

Markers

• Types of markers
  
• Adding, moving removing and na
• vigating markers
  
• Editing with markers to the beat of music
  
• Markers as notation tools

Popular Video and Audio Tricks

• Freeze frame (AKA frame hold)
  
• Reverse motion
  
• Speed-up/slow-down and pitch control
  
• Picture-in-picture
  
• Split screen
  
• Track mattes (video inside text and shapes)
  
• Green screen (AKA chroma key)
  
• Sepia tone