FCP 300: Final Cut Pro X Advanced Editing

Organising Your Media

• Working with Metadata
• Source Media Metadata
• Auto-Analysis Metadata
• Adding Your Own Metadata
• Working with Metadata Views
• Creating a New Metadata View
• Modifying Existing Metadata Views
• Duplicating and Deleting Metadata Views
• Rating Clips
• Marking Favorites and Rejects
• Adding Keywords
• Organising Keywords
• Adding Markers
• Filtering Clips
• Creating Smart Collections
• Batch Renaming Clips
• Relinking Clips

Professional Editing Techniques

• Reviewing Editing Basics
• Modifying Edits
• Project Defined Editing
• Backtiming Edits
• Limiting Source Media
• Combining Complex Edits
• Overview of Storylines
• Using Secondary Storylines
• Applying Transitions to Connected Clips
• Breaking Apart Storylines
• Understanding Compound Clips
• Adding Titles to Connected Clips

Working with Auditions

• Creating Auditions in the Event Browser or Timeline
• Changing Picks
• Editing with an Audition
• Creating an Audition in the Timeline
• Modifying Auditions
• Reviewing Clips within an Audition
• Finalising Auditions
• Auditions and Effects
• Duplicating a Clip into an Audition
• Duplicating from Original
• Duplicating with Effects
• Apply an Effect to all Picks
• Adding Effects to Other Clips

Working with Audio

• Mastering Audio Levels
• Working with Audio Meters and Waveforms
• Adjusting Volume in the Timeline
• Adjusting Volume Across a Selected Area
• Animating Audio Levels
• Subframe Audio Adjustments
• Adjusting Volume in the Audio Inspector
• Resetting All Volume Adjustments
• Adjusting Volume from the Modify Menu or Keyboard
• Nudging Keyframes
• Audio Fades
• Crossfading between Clips
• Panning Audio
• Configuring Audio Channels
• Stereo Panning
• Animating Pan Effects
• Panning in the Timeline
• Surround Panning
• Preset Pan Methods
• Managing Audio Channels
• Enabling and Disabling Channels
• Breaking Apart Audio Clips

Working with Audio Effects

• Audio Equalisation
• Applying Enhancements Manually
• Adjusting Equalization
• Equalisation Filters
• Using Custom Controls
• Turning Off or Removing a Clip Effect
• Transferring Effects to other Clips
• Levels Effects
• Reverbs
• Spaces and Echo Effects
• Distortion Presets
• Pitch Shifting and Voice Effects
• Preserving Pitch When Retiming Clips
• Animating Audio Effects

Multicamera Editing

• Understanding Multicamera Editing
• Creating a Multicam Clip
• Viewing the Multicam Clip
• Editing With Multicam Clips
• Cutting Between Angles
• Channel Selection
• Switching Angles
• Trimming Multicam Clips
• Custom Multicam Clip Settings
• Modifying a Multicam Clip
• Changing Order
• Fixing Sync
• Adding/Deleting an Angle
• Adding Effects

Keying and Compositing

• Creating a Multilayered Show Opener
• Laying the Groundwork
• Using a Compound Clip from the Event Browser
• Timing Edits with Markers and Hold Segments
• Using Keying and Masking Effects
• Automatic Keying and Manual Sampling
• Using a Garbage Mask
• Advanced Keying Features
• Compositing Generators
• Compositing Graphics
• Layered Graphics
• Advanced Keying Features

Transformations, Effects and Titles

• Transforming Clips
• Working with Effects
• Browsing
• Previewing and Applying Effects
• Modifying and Combining Effects
• Creating Titles
• Modifying Titles
• Using Text Styles
• Custom Titles
• Using Roles with Titles

Creating Animation

• Animating Clip Position
• Keyframing in the Viewer
• Keyframing in the Inspector
• Keyframing in the Video Animation Editor
• Animating a Generator
• Creating a Travel Matte
• Animating with Transitions

colour Correction Basics

• Understanding colour Correction
• Using an Appropriate Display
• Using the Highest Quality Media
• Using Original or Optimised Media
• Manually Relinking Offline Clips
• Learning the colour Correction Interface
• Exploring the Interface
• Applying Automatic colour Adjustments
• Controlling iMovie Adjustments
• Using Video Scopes
• Adjusting Contrast Using the colour Board

Adjusting Colour and Saturation

• Using the colour Controls
• Manually Eliminating colour Casts
• Adjusting colour Temperature Creatively
• Using the Global colour Control
• Adjusting Saturation
• Changing Saturation with Contrast Adjustments
• Dissolving Between Two Grades

Colour Matching

• Understanding Shot Matching
• Matching Clips Automatically
• Performing Simple Clip Matching
• Matching Corrected Clips
• Matching Clips Manually
• Breaking Down a Scene
• Grading the First Clip
• Matching Other Clips to the Reference Clip
• Copying Grades
• Using Hidden Commands to Apply Corrections
• Matching Insert Clips
• Some Tips on Shot Matching
• Using Additional Corrections and Effects in a Scene
• Adding Corrections to Individual Shots
• Saving and Applying Correction Presets
• Adding Correction to an Entire Scene Using Compound Clips
• Adding Other Effects to a Grade
• Using Broadcast Safe

Creating Isolated Colour Adjustments

• Using colour Masks
• Working Inside and Outside of Masks
• Using Shapes to Target Frame Regions
• Using a Shape to Create a Vignette
• Combining Shapes
• Combining Shapes and Masks
• Masking Difficult-to-Isolate Skin Tones
• Masking Corrections to the Sky
• Animating Shapes

Advanced Sharing and Sending to Compressor

• Sending from Final Cut Pro X vs. Sending to Compressor
• Exporting Projects and Media for Finishing
• XML Round Trips
• Exporting Media Using Roles
• Sending to Compressor
• Understanding the Compressor User Interface
• Using Window Layouts
• The Compressor Workflow: Batches, Jobs and Settings
• Creating a batch
• Adding Jobs
• Applying Settings
• Destinations and Actions
• Using Automatic Settings vs. Auto Detect Settings
• Creating Custom Settings: Encoder, Frame, Filters, Geometry, Actions
• Creating and Using Droplets
• Advanced Compressor Topics