Edit Without Tears with Final Cut Pro Elevate Your Video Editing Skills with Professional Workflows and Techniques
Edit Without Tears with Final Cut Pro is your essential guide to overcoming challenges in video editing using Final Cut Pro, simplifying complex procedures and workflows and providing a structured approach for efficient and impressive video editing. This book will change how you approach editing, gu...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Penguin Group US
[2024]
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| Edición: | First edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009807525606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Prologue
- Part 1: Planning
- Chapter 1: It's All about the Media
- Technical requirements
- The Users folder
- The definition of a video file
- Aspect ratio
- Bit rate
- Bit depth
- Resolution
- Where Final Cut Pro libraries are stored
- Why use an external disk for libraries?
- Camera footage
- Photos/stills
- Music
- The library concept
- The plug-in folders
- Video formats
- LOG video
- The HDR format
- RAW video
- Interlaced video
- ProRes
- H.264/H.265
- Which video format is best for which purpose?
- Audio formats
- Second monitors
- Having different windows on each display
- Types of disks
- How much storage is enough?
- Summary
- Chapter 2: Organizing Media
- Understanding libraries and events
- When and why to log clips
- Favorites
- The rating as a favorite method
- The adding to favorites method
- How to use Favorites
- Understanding Keyword Collections
- Creating Keyword Collections
- Adding shortcuts to Keyword Collections
- Smart Collections
- What is a Smart Collection?
- Adding a Smart Collection
- What are folders?
- Templates
- Creating templates
- Using the Search functionality
- Filtering method 1
- Colored lines on browser clips
- Analyzing for people
- Markers
- Removing media from categories
- Browser filters
- The filters
- Sorting the browser
- The Open Clip view
- Using the Open Clip function
- Shortcuts for media actions
- Transcoding media
- Exploring clip and library information
- A method of exploring clip information
- Exploring Settings/Preferences
- Summary
- Chapter 3: Planning the Video Story
- A story is a journey
- What are the types of stories?
- Why classify stories?
- What are the types of plots?
- What you should remember when planning a story.
- Knowing your target audience
- Planning the edit with the target audience in mind
- Creating storyboards
- Planning for different types of videos
- Documentary videos
- Interviews
- Wedding videos
- Social media videos
- Instructional videos
- Summary
- Chapter 4: Pre-Editing a Rough Cut
- The steps from importing to rough cut
- Steps in video post-production
- Who does what?
- The browser or the timeline
- Initial assembly or rough cut
- Ingesting the media
- Setting up media folders in the Finder
- Importing media directly
- Logging
- Categorizing the clips
- Grading the clips
- What are projects?
- Adding clips to the project
- Connected clips
- Three-point edits
- The timeline
- The skimmer and playhead
- Timecode
- The timeline index
- Roles
- The initial assembly
- Assembling audio- or image-focused videos
- Don't over-edit!
- The rough cut
- Adding scratch music
- Placeholders
- Alternatives to placeholders
- Duplicating projects
- Summary
- Part 2: Editing
- Chapter 5: Refining the Rough Cut
- Understanding the remove, replace, and add actions
- Using the to-do marker
- Using the audition feature to replace clips
- Understanding the timeline view tools
- Ripple edits
- Roll edits
- Slip edits
- Slide edits
- What is pacing?
- Consider these conventions
- Tools that aid pacing
- What is the Total Running Time (TRT)/picture lock?
- Summary
- Chapter 6: Fixing and Enhancing the Audio
- Understanding audio in the browser
- Reading the audio meters
- Audio in the timeline
- Sub-frame audio fine-tuning
- Audio filters
- Expanded audio
- Fixing audio vocal problems
- Ambient background noise
- Voices with variable volume levels
- Wind noise
- Echoes
- Distorted voices
- Ums and ahs, coughs, and sniffs
- Suggestions for correcting audio
- Settings for the audio meters.
- Simple methods to increase low volume
- Loop playback
- Removing room noise
- Removing high and low frequencies
- Sweetening male and female voices
- Reducing the music
- Using XML files
- Exporting with audio-only roles
- Audio tips and tricks
- Summary
- Chapter 7: Titles, Effects, and Generators
- What are titles?
- Animated titles
- Adding text to a title
- What are generators?
- Backgrounds
- Elements
- Solids and textures
- What are effects?
- Effects categories
- What are transitions?
- Two categories of transition
- What are Plug-ins?
- Problems with Plug-ins
- Summary
- Chapter 8: Setting Up and Editing Multicam
- What is multicam?
- What events use multiple cameras?
- How multiple cameras are synchronized
- Suggestions for filming to suit multicam editing
- Audio
- The two-minute rule
- Color balance
- Settings before multicam editing
- Importing and categorizing media
- Creating a new multicam clip
- Manual multicam synchronization
- Multicam angle timeline adjustments
- Fixing audio and video mismatches
- Adjusting the angle viewer
- Actions in the multicam angle timeline
- Audio synchronization
- Global adjustments
- Audio levels
- Color matching
- Editing the multicam project
- Setting up angles
- Switching angles
- Correcting the angle
- Stabilization
- Multicam audio
- Simulating a multicam shoot from one camera's footage
- Summary
- Chapter 9: Project Workflows - Pace and Structure
- Interviews
- Pre-editing
- Cutting
- Restoring removed clips
- Hiding jump cuts
- Removing fillers
- Audio in sync
- Conferences and seminars
- One long event
- Short, independent videos
- Weddings
- Organizing media
- Synchronizing cameras
- Full-length movies and documentaries
- Pacing
- Continuity editing
- Parallel editing (cross-cutting)
- J and L cuts
- Social media videos.
- Family holiday movies
- Cutting to a beat
- General techniques
- Cutting angles with a green screen
- Adding adjustment layers
- Storing callouts
- Storing titles and corporate intros
- Using workspaces
- Collapsing clips into connected storylines
- Summary
- Part 3: Using the Inspector
- Chapter 10: The Inspector Controls
- The four main tabs of the inspector
- The Video inspector
- Section 1 - Effects
- Section 2 - Transform
- Sections 3 and 4 - Crop and Distort
- Sections 5 and 6 - Stabilization and Rolling Shutter
- Section 7 - Spatial Conform
- The Color inspector
- Color Board
- Color Wheels
- The Audio inspector
- Audio Enhancements
- Audio Analysis
- Pan
- Effects
- Audio Configuration
- Save Audio Effects Preset
- The Information inspector
- Project information
- Library information
- Export information
- The Titles inspector
- The Text inspector
- Text division
- Position division
- The Face checkbox
- The Generator inspector
- The Transition inspector
- Summary
- Chapter 11: Using Built-In Plug-Ins
- An explanation of plug-in terminology
- Plug-ins - general knowledge
- Built-in plug-ins
- Using built-in titles
- Using built-in generators
- Using built-in effects
- Using built-in transitions
- Creating custom plug-ins from built-in plug-ins
- Summary
- Chapter 12: Using Third-Party Plug-Ins
- Free plug-ins
- Andy's plug-ins
- BretFX Power Tools Lite
- Purchasable plug-ins
- Lock &
- Load Stabilize
- PaintX
- Keyper
- Neat Video noise reduction
- Titles plug-ins
- Audio correction plug-ins
- Eric Lenz
- Captionator
- Workflow extensions
- LUTs
- Uninstalling plug-ins
- Manually uninstalling plug-ins
- Summary
- Chapter 13: Using Keyframes to Animate Objects in Final Cut Pro
- What is a keyframe?
- Audio keyframing
- Keyframing in the inspector.
- Keyframe conventions
- Keyframing in the viewer
- Adding new keyframes
- Selecting linear or smooth curves
- Viewer keyframe controls
- Keyframing video animation
- Ken Burns on steroids
- Summary
- Chapter 14: Understanding the Principles of Color
- Color theory
- Color classification
- Color values
- The color wheel
- Color wheels in Final Cut Pro
- Color Board
- Color wheels
- Highlights wheel
- Color harmony
- Common color schemes
- Color schemes for non-designers
- Online color calculators
- Monitoring color accuracy
- Color-accurate monitors
- Monitor calibration
- Color correction and grading
- Adjusting temperature, tint, and hue
- Subtractive model of color mixing (CMYK model)
- Using HSL tuning for color grading
- Automatic color correction controls in Final Cut Pro
- Summary
- Chapter 15: Using Color Scopes for Advanced Color Correction
- Displaying the scopes
- Waveformmonitor
- Vectorscope
- Histogram
- The Video Scope menu
- Scopes workflow in Final Cut Pro
- Step 1 - exposure correction
- Step 2 - saturation control
- Step 3 - color balance
- Color curves
- Luma curve
- All color curves - RGB
- The eyedropper
- Hue and saturation curves
- HUE vs HUE
- HUE vs SAT
- HUE vs LUMA
- LUMA vs SAT
- SAT vs SAT
- ORANGE vs SAT
- Color and shape masks
- Summary
- Part 4: Outside Final Cut Pro
- Chapter 16: Your Job Role - Collaboration
- Understanding the job roles in video production
- The production team
- The postproduction editing team
- Exploring the industries that require video editors
- Corporate
- Social media
- Movies and TV
- Documentary
- Commercials
- Trailers
- Should you be a freelancer?
- How much work from a client
- Type of work
- The schedule
- Balancing time
- Intensity of work
- Financial reward
- The risk/comfort factor.
- Collaboration between remote video editors.
