The Final Cut Pro X - Youtube Course

1. Intro To The Course: Hi everyone, and welcome to my final Cut Pro class. Let's learn video editing. My name is Alicia up and photography and film-making has always been my passion. I've been doing it for past many years. And also recently I started teaching students all across the world about video and especially editing. Then I figured out I can only teach very limited amount of students posts. So why not create a course that can help as many people as possible? Which is why I made this. In this course, I'll be teaching everything about how you can take whatever you have short in your phone or camera into an editing software, Final Cut Pro, in this case, and make a meaningful video out of it if you had a budding YouTuber, we do creator. This course is perfect for you. I haven't included everything that you need to learn about video editing in a very simple and sequential way and in a very, very easy to understand language. What are you waiting for? Let's get started. 2. Final Cut Pro X - Overview: Okay, So welcome to the overview section of the Final Cut Pro. This is the screen that you are going to see when you open Final Cut Pro for the first time. Let's understand what the layout is and how Final Cut Pro is presented to you by default. On the left-hand side, you see something called Open Library will come to what is library in a bit. But let's understand the layout first. So this leftmost column would be the column in which you'll have all your libraries, project and everything organized. This section would be the one called media pool. This is the section where all of your media beat, video, audio, whatever is required for your project would be placed here. This section is called the preview player. Whatever media you have it here or you have on your timeline. What timeline is I'm coming to a bit. But whatever media is here, and you want to preview it, see what's inside, What's inside the clip. Which section do you want to take or which section do you want to leave? All those previews can be seen in this section. This is called the preview player. This one is called the inspector. Not as the name suggests, inspector will help you to inspect the properties of any media beat, audio, or video. Let's imagine if you have a video here and you want to inspect what are the properties like? What is the file size, what is the resolution of that file? What is the frame rate? All of these information would be present in here, which is called the inspector. Right? Now in the downwards section, which is covering almost the half of the screen of Final Cut Pro. This is the most important section and it is the timeline section. This is where the actual editing, everything that you will do in panic Cut Pro will take place. This is the most important section, which is why it is having almost the half space of the whole screen. And also, this is a horizontal layout. In editing, especially in video editing, all of the work that you do would be in a horizontal space. Because we have been trained usually to work in our computers in a vertical space, all of the website. So if we scroll all of the Instagram's, everything is scroll vertically. But in the terms of editing, things change and everything we do is horizontal. This is a shift of a perspective that you have to make before you go into editing. And you'll have to be comfortable about working in a horizontal way rather than a vertical way. This was the overview of Final Cut Pro default screen or the welcome page that you will see, which you should know. There are a lot of advanced things in here, which we'll cover in the later part of the course. But for now, this is the basic overview that you should know about the welcome screen. This is it for this section. I'll see you in the next one. 3. Setting Up Preferences: Now that you have understood the basic layout of Final Cut Pro and what you'll be getting when you first open the program. The next thing that you should do is to set up the preferences. Preferences means the initial settings that you should change in Final Cut Pro or any software for that matter, that you are set up correctly in the beginning, there are no errors or nothing that is wrong in your settings. Before we move to the projects which involve more time and more editing. In Final Cut Pro, the way to access the preferences menu is you go to the Final Cut Pro, name, hair. You press the mouse click and you go to the second option which is called preferences. One shortcut to do this on the Mac is just press Command and comma. This will give you this layout which is the preferences of finally approved. Right? Now, most of the things will be default and would be okay for you to start. But we'll go through everything just once so that you understand what everything means. There are 12345 tabs on this window of preferences starting with general. All these should not be touched in the starting because they are perfectly fine. The time display is hour, minutes, seconds. The dialogue warnings are, by default, are the units, are the audio plug-ins that you have installed in your system. If you have not, it's nothing to worry about. Color correction. Color board is fine, inspector units is axial stress also fine. Now we come to the editing. Editing also. These by default are great. You don't have to change anything. Timeline is showing detailed trimming feedback, position play head after IT operation will come to what playhead and position is in a bit. But for now, all this is perfect. Playback also is everything is normal and you don't have to touch anything. Everything is done for you by default. By Final Cut Pro. The change that you have to do is in this section called Import. And this is the most important thing that you have to change. Let's understand what this option is. This option is for files. Files are the source footage of your edit, like the the footage that you have short on your camera or the audio, anything that you will require for the project and put it on the timeline that comes under Files. Now there are two options. Copy to library storage location, and leave the files in place. Now, the first option is something that you do not want to choose. Because let's imagine you have a series of 50 video files that you want to edit. Now, all those 50 video files would be stored somewhere, either on your computer's hard drive or an external hard drive, or somewhere else where you are storing that and then you are using that files to edit in Final Cut Pro. Now if you have this option selected, just copy to library storage location. Every time you create a new project in Final Cut Pro, it will automatically copy those files from whatever location they are on right now and copy it inside the library of Final Cut Pro that it will do for every project. Now, what will happen is it will create two copies of the same files and we don't want that. So the option we should be selecting is leave files in place. What this would do is it would not touch the files wherever they are stored on and just work with those files as a reference and it would not copy any file again to any other location. This will save you a lot of headache and a lot of disk space. And this is the right option to choose. And we should choose this in the starting itself so that there are no complications later when we move on to projects. Last one is destinations. This is all perfect for now. When we go to the next advanced sections coming up in the course where we understand what other video codecs, what are the video formats? That's where this will come in handy. For now only this option is something that you have to change when you start the Final Cut Pro as a fresh copy. 4. Library, Events & Projects: Okay, so now that we have understood the basic overview, the layout of Final Cut Pro, and also we have set up the preferences correctly. It's time to understand about libraries, projects, and events in Final Cut Pro and the way that this software organizes your footage. Just like you can see here, is something that's written which says Open Library. Now there are three things which are very important to understand in foreign control. First is library, second is events, third is projects. So this is the hierarchy in which Final Cut Pro basically stores your project. So let's go to Apple and let's understand from the website what exactly Libraries, events, and projects are. So here is the Apple's website and that explanation. Yes. It's written. What are libraries in Final Cut Pro? You can imagine library as the code and the biggest system in which your events and clips and projects and everything else will be stored. Library is a top-level segment that is the fundamental root for every single project that you will make. So you can see library is denoted by four-stars under which they can be small, small events. Let's say you're doing a project of your travel vlog. Let's say you are going to but country and you are shooting a travel log for your YouTube channel. That country is going to be the library. Inside that country. Whatever places you have you are visiting or whatever events you are going to when shooting them. Those will come under the category of events. That's one category less than the library. And then inside the events you will have different, different projects, clips. Let's say you are shooting a five-day event. Every day would be a subset of the event. And every day can be an individual project or clip. Like you can see here. An event can have multiple projects. And event can also have multiple clips and multiple projects. And event can also have only multiple clips. To summarize everything, library is the biggest thing. That is their infant could throw. Then there's events, then there is projects, right? We'll understand clips and projects separately, but just make sure you understand this library, events and projects. Let's get back to Final Cut Pro. So first of all, we'll create a new library. So we'll go to File New and library. By default, it will show you name as untitled. Let's make it something that we can remember. So for example, let's say we have a library named as my library. Right? Now by default, you can see Final Cut Pro has created few other things inside the library. One is smart collection and one is this with today's date. Now, if you remember, this one star thing was also mentioned in the Apple article. Let's go back to that article. Here. One star denotes it's an event. Let's go back to Final Cut Pro. This by default is an event which Final Cut Pro has created for you. And the default name for this event is today's date. Let's rename it to something more meaningful. For that, we just press Enter and we'll rename it to my event. We have made the topmost level of library, we have made the middle level of event. Now we'll have to make the smallest part of this whole hierarchy called Project. For that, we again go to File New and we'll create a project. Again. Untitled project will be the default team that Final Cut Pro will give. Let's make it more personalized. We named this as my first project, and it will be by default in the event in which we have created the project using the File menu. That event is my event, which you can see here. This is the video format. So depending upon the resolution of your files, you can choose whatever format you want to have, maybe 2k for k, or if you have an eight core footage, you can do that. But usually, I would advise you to stick to ten ATP HD, which is the most usable video format right now. Same as resolution. Resolution for ten ATP HD is 1920 by 1080. The frame rate again, will depend on what frame rate your footage is short on. 30 frames per second is the most common format in which most of the phones in camera shoot nowadays, you can select this. But if you have some other formats that you know your footage is on, you can select that also. So I'll set it to 30 P only. And rendering by default is on Apple ProRes four to two LT. This is a good option to have. So let's understand what surrendering is. Let's imagine you have footage from various cameras, some from your phone, some form your DSLR camera or sum from, let's say any other thing. You have to make a single edit from all those footages. Every camera shoots in a different format. Some might shoot in MP4, some night shooting MOV formats, some might shoot in other formats. What Val cat has to do is to convert all of those different formats into a single format to be able to edit them. And that is where rendering comes in. As soon as you put the files of different video format inside your timeline, Final Cut is going to render all of those files into one common codec and it will use this. Everything is good. We'll just go ahead and click. Okay. You can see you have created this project inside this event, which is inside this library. The name of your timeline here is also the same as the name of your project, which will be always the case. Your project would be as same as your timeline. You have understood the difference between Libraries, events and projects and we have created a new project, our first project in this tutorial. And in the next one we will see how to actually import your videos and start editing. See you in the next one. 5. Importing Media: Okay, so now that we have made our first project inside the library and the event, it's time to import our footage. Final Cut Pro gives you a very easy option. You can just drag and drop your footage from whatever folder you have saved it on. Let's open my folder of videos and audios. Here you can see there are two folders. One is for video and one is for audio. Let's see what's there in the video folder. We have all these shorts that we have created using a camera, right? And in the audio, there are some music tracks. Let's first import the video files. What we have to do is you have to just select all of them. Drag and drop in this window. Just like that, all of your footage is now imported. The same way you can do it for the audio as well. Let's go back to the audio. We come back to find your hair, go back, have the audio file. And let's say we want to select these two audios, will do that. And we'll again just drag and drop. Just like that. It has imported all our footage that we have to work with. Before going forward, let's see what options do we have in the media browser. So you see the audio is expanded a bit too much, and the videos are perfect with a thumbnail view. So first of all, we'll just decrease the size of this audio clip that Final Cut Pro has by default made very large. For that, we'll click hair, clip appearance and filtering menu. Click here. And this is the duration for which Final Cut Pro is showing us the files for. So we will just decrease this duration. To all. You see. All the footage that we have imported is now compactly viewable. Let's explore some more options. So if we change this, this will increase the overall size of the footage. If you have a lot of files and you want to see all of them at once. You might want to decrease the size of this preview panel. I think this is good enough for us right now. The next option is group by. So if you have lots of content and lots of imports of videos and audios and other format. You can actually group them by various things. Like you can group them by content created. So for example, if you have short content over five days and if you just drag and drop everything, the content created option would display them sequentially. So the fourth day will come first, then third, 10-second, then first, so that you don't miss anything. Similarly, you can just explore all of these things. They have their own way that they work and you can find the best networks for your workflow. Okay? Then we have sort by, sort by also works similar to the group by the difference is it will make a group of those files as per your option selected here. And sort will just sort it and not group it. This has done. And one more important thing to preview what's there in the file. Final Cut Pro gives you a very, very easy option. All you have to do is just put your pointer on the video and just scrub over it. You can also do left. So you don't have to actually click the mouse button. You'll just have to hover it. What it's called in Final Cut Pro scrubbing. You can scrub over any media file and it will show you everything that's inside it right here. You can see it's also showing the number of seconds that the video is. Let's see this one. Let's see, we're talking about this one. Maybe this one. This grubbing will come very handy for you to just check the footage and get an overview of what the whole thing is looking like. And then you can plan your edit, which we are coming to in the next one. See you soon. 6. Moving Media To Timeline: So by now we know how to make a library, how to make an event, how to make a project, and also how to import our footage in Final Cut group. Now, let's do the real thing, which is how to put our files from this window, which is called the Meta browser, to this window, which is called the timeline. I'll tell you multiple ways to do it. Let's start from the easiest. Let's say we want to put this and this and this video in the timeline. So the easiest way is just select the ones which you want to import in the timeline and press the button E. I'm going to press it 123. See, all of these got imported into the timeline and also sequentially. The other way you can do it, again, just select the ones you want to import and drag and drop them in the timeline. Drag and drop is a universal thing that works all across Final Cut Pro. Wherever you have a confusion or you don't know how to do something. This try drag-and-drop ones, and most likely it will work. Okay, So all the files that you will import in the first layer would be called your arrow. There is something called a B-roll. B-roll is the footage that you import on top of your primary timeline. And how to do that. Let's say we want to make this as a B-roll. So we'll just drag and drop it on top of anywhere. For now. Let's say we want to make this a BRI rule and we drag and drop it here. Now, what happens with the B-roll is if a clip is on the top of any clip. So for that duration, when you play your timeline, you will only play the top clip and the bottom clip will be hidden from the view for that duration. And after the above clip is complete, then you can again see the bottom tier. So it's a nice way to transition between two clips without doing any cutting or without being incremented, just place it on top of it. And for that duration of that video, your timeline will play the topmost video and we'll hide the bottom one. And when that top clip is over, then again the bottom one will be visible. This is the air role and B-roll concept in editing. So again, now we also had some audio. So why don't we just imported. So the way to put an audio inside your timeline is your videos mostly sit on top of the audio's in most editing programs, or I would say in all editing programs. That's a standard way of doing the edit. Will pull this audio down and we'll put this in the bottom part of the time n. Now you have a timeline which is ready to edit. You have your audio base, you have your a roll, which is the primary timeline. And then you have your B-roll, which are secondary shorts that you can use. So in the next one, we'll see how to make progress in this timeline. 7. Inspector: Okay, so far we have discussed what is the hierarchy that the Final Cut Pro organizes your project in. How to basically import your footage and how to move your footage to your timeline for your project. We have also understood how to create an aryl, which is the primary timeline. B-roll, which are the clips which are above the primary timeline, which Play when you are supposed to play something addition to the main storyline. And then we have also understood how to include the audio in the timeline. Now, before we go into full-on edit more, I just wanted to make you understand about one very important thing in Final Cut Pro. And it's called inspected. As the name suggests, inspector is a thing by which you can view the properties of any media that you have imported in your project. Why is it important? It's important to know what you're working with so that you can make your decisions about frame rate or export settings based on that, let's understand how it works. Let's say we have selected this clip. And to open the inspector, you go right here into this icon. This is called show or hide inspector icon. As soon as you open this UP, presented with these details about your media that you have selected. Here. Let's see what it shows. The first thing it shows is 1920 by 1080. This is the resolution, which means this clip is shot in 1920 byte NET resolution, which is also called full HD. So you are sure that this clip that you were in when it's full HD. Now next thing is written something called Twenty-five. Twenty-five p means 25 frames per second. The usual popular frame rate on which all the cameras today shoot our 24253060. And sometimes when you shoot slow motions, it's in 120 or 240 FPS. Final Cut Pro writes it as just P. Wherever you see 25 or 30 or 60 P written anywhere inside Final Cut Pro, you should assume it's short form for FPS, which is frames per second. This clip is shot at 25 frames per second. Next, you see is something called wreck 79 or rec 709. This is a color space which comes in a detailed color theory, which we'll cover in probably separate class. But for now, just understand this is the color space of this clip. And usually you will have this color space for most of your clips that will import. Right? Next it will show the name of the clip, which is something you can see also here. Next it will show when it was last modified on your desk or wherever this flip is stored. Right? Next, you can do some notes here, which will be visible only when you open the inspector. But let's say we've typed in human walking wide shot. This is a node that is just there for the editor to quickly understand what is happening in a particular clip. This clip is really simple. It's just about a woman who's walking. But if you are working with little complex stuff in which there are too many things happening in one single flip. You can just use these nodes to get organized. Next is video roles and audio roles, which we'll come to in a bit. It happens here in timeline. Next is start. And start should always be 0 obviously. And is about 15 seconds of this and duration is 15 seconds. This clip is 15 seconds long. This is what the inspector tells you instantly. This is something that you cannot see here. You can scrub it, but we cannot see the information here about how long the clip is. The two places you can see that information about how long the flip is on the clip duration is. First is hair, and second is here. Next is codecs, which is something we will understand in a bit. Next to his camera name. You can also name which camera this was short on if that's important to you. Next is 360 production model is not a 3 sixth video, so it doesn't show anything. And next is called stereoscopic mode, which is just my default. It will show in which event this clip is in right now. So as you can see here, it's in my event that is reflected in here, right location. It will tell you where exactly this clip is. If you're working with an external hard drive, which usually you'll be working in. Because I don't suggest you to put all your data or footage inside your computer and then start editing. We learned this in a previous lesson that we should always work with the media wherever it is, and usually it's on an external hydride. Secondly, this is called available media representations, which means what kind of media is playing this clip right now. So it's the original media. We have not done any optimize our proxy media of this voltage. We are directly tendering the exact same file that we got from the camera. This is all about the Inspector. Let's see how it changes when we select an audio. Let's say I select this. And now the inspector has changed some values. There is no resolution, there is no frame rate, which means it's not a video. Because in audio there is no resolution and there is no frame it in audio, there is something called the bit rate and the studio or the Mono phase. This audio is stereo, which means you'll hear this audio equally in right and left channels of your headphone or speakers. This is called the bit rate of the audio, which is usually 44 kilohertz. This is fine. You don't have to worry a lot about that. Working with auditors. Little easier than working with video. Because in video there are two more variables that are here, which were the resolution and the frame rate. So with audio, everything else remains the same. You get everything like nodes and you also get camera name and all of that. So everything else with audio remains the same as we have discussed for the video inspected. So this is the inspector in which you can just see what exactly is the media that you are working on n, what is the resolution? What is their frame rate? When exactly what the modified. If you wanted to put some notes in there, you can do that. You can also see in which event those flips are and at what location those slips are. This can come very handy when you're working on an audit project. That's what this lesson I'll see you in the next one. 8. Working With Magnetic Timeline: In this lesson, we're going to understand a very important thing and the thing that probably makes Final Cut Pro a very unique video editor that is called magnetic timeline. You already know that this section of an Cut Pro is called the timeline. Very input earlier media, your clips, but Bureau of your audio transitions everything into it and you start editing your project. This section is called the timeline. Before editing, let me introduce you to something called magnetic timeline. Final Cut Pro, by default has enabled something called magnetic timeline. Let me show you how it works. For example, we are selecting this clip and we want to move it. Now, if it's any other editing software, you can move it anywhere and it will replace, overwrite any other clip against which you're placing it. Let's see how this feature works in Final Cut Pro. So for example, if you have selected this clip and we want to move it to some other location. If it's in any other software which is an editing software, this clip would replace that definition clip and probably override it if there is no space. But let's see how the clips move around. Infant approved. So I'm just putting this clip out of this place and trying to place it here. See what happened. This clip just shifted away and give the place to this whole clip. Your timeline is not really much disturbed. Similarly, we have to put this clip, let's say here, everything works like a magnet. This is a north pole, and this is a south pole. And this magnet will repel all those other clips. You will not accidentally overwrite any other clip in your timeline if you're shifting the eclipse from one place to another, trying to build a story. And this is what makes Final Cut Pro really powerful. Let's undo this change like this. Even if he wanted to move any other clip, let's say this one will give me the same behavior. Now, it also picks up the audio if it's linked with a video file. For example, if I'm, if I want to shift this clip, see what happens. Both my audio and my B-roll, what linked to this clip. And all the three things got shifted together and the other clips midway for that clip to be shifted, right? Let's do it again. Let's say we want to hear what we wanted to do it here. So it works in similar fashion. That's not all. You can also multi-select clip and move it in this fashion. Now if you want to move, Let's hit first and the last clip together with this audio, what you'll do is you'll select this, hold the Command button, select this, and then move any of this. And both will stick together and move it like 12. Let's undo this. This is called magnetic timeline, and this is a very unique feature of anchor pro. And one last thing, if you want to select multiple audios and videos and clip and then move it. You can also do that. You can just drag through everything that you want to move. You can move in a similar fashion. Let's say I want to move it here. See everything just got moved very nicely. And every other clip just got out of the way and made the space for all these that we wanted to move. This is the magnetic timeline feature of Final Cut Pro, and it will come very handy and very useful when you are trying to edit your videos. So that's a short lesson on this. I hope you found it useful as you in the next one. 9. Edit Basics - Cut & Trim: Welcome back. Now it's time to get into editing. Let's get back to our timeline and see what we have there. We have our primary line, which is the arrow that we have. We have the button and we have the audio. Right now. Everything that we see on the timeline is in one color, which is blue. But let's make it a little interesting. The way to do it infinite that proof is called assigning the audio or the video. So let's click on the audio and do a right-click. And we go here, assign audio roles, and we assign what exactly this audio is. This one is music. So we assign music to it and instantly it will become much easier visually for you to understand what exactly is doing. What. Now if you have a complex project and there are multiple audios or effects or dialogues, then this comes very handy. You can color this green and you can do, let's say a dialog role to something that is a dialogue which is spoken audio. Or if you have some effects, like an audio effect a person is working, then you have a footsteps their car in your video, and you are having a car braking or a car horn kind of audio effect, then you can choose effect as the audio rule, and it will change the color and make it much more visually distinguishable. And you can edit very easily. Let's change this to music. And we can see nearly. Let's start the editing. The first thing that I would do in this timeline is to make it a little bigger, which I can do from here. And just click this and I will increase the thumbnail size of the audio and the video. And I can also zoom in and zoom out using this. But the shortcut to zoom in and zoom outing is Coburn and plus sign or the minus sign. To be a good editor, you should always know the shortcuts that you are much faster than using the mouse. So you can quickly do the command plus to zoom in or zoom out, right? Okay, so the first and the foremost thing that you should learn as an editor is called cutting the clips. Cutting in Final Cut Pro is also called bleeding. So let's see how bleeding is done first by the official method and then by my method, which is the shortcut. Right. Here, you can see the pointer options which are available in Final Cut Pro. From here, you can click this drop down menu and select the bleed. All right, so as soon as you select the blade tool, your mouse icon will convert into a scissor. And from here, you can just put a cut on any part of the video which you don't like only what you want to remove. For example, I went to cut this, do from here and here. So final Cut Pro will show you a visible line which is a cut, which is denoted by a dotted line. Similarly, I can cut from here to here. Now I'll go back to my appointed icon and I'll simply just delete this and this. Now, remember, we studied about magnetic timeline in the previous lessons. So Final Cut Pro is working like a magnet and the moment you remove something from between, everything else will just shift so that there are no blank spaces in your timeline and everything is working smoothly and nicely. So I'll just undo this change. Second method which is little shorter, is instead of going right here and selecting the blade tool, we can just press the button, be on our keyboard, and it will instantly turn into a blade called a scissors icon. And then you can just chop things off like hair anywhere on the B-roll. Let's say. Then to go back to your default pointer, you can just press the button a, and you are done, and then you can chop them off like this. So these are the two official methods. Now, I'll teach you my method which is the most easiest and the most quickest one. Let me just undo the changes. My method is just wherever you want to cut your video. You just put you put your play head. This is called the play head, the biggest red line that plays whenever you are playing your media, this is called the play head. Put your play head to wherever you want to cut and press Command plus b. That will instantly put a cut wherever your play head is. Let's say I want to, I will press Command plus B. I'll flick hair, and then press Command plus b. It even works when I'm playing. So if I'm playing the clip and I just want to find a moment, write hurt. But I want to cut. I can just press, I can just stop the play and press Command plus P directly without the need of selecting this clip, it will just instantly do the cutting for me. Let's move on. For example, let's say we are here working. It's feeling nice. And now I want to cut, I'll quickly cut it here. Then I can just quickly show these sections of and make my edit. And the storyline that they wanted to create. This is the Cut tool which you will be using most often in your editing projects. Next one is called trim. The difference between cutting and trimming is cutting is usually done from anywhere you want, usually in from between or any part of the clip from inside. Trimming is done from the outside. If you want to trim some outside edges to make some final adjustments to your clips, that is called trimming. The easiest method that I'll tell you to trim is just put your mouse towards the end of any clip and it will instantly change to this icon. This is called the trim icon. You can just press, drag and hold and continue to drag it. And it will instantly trim it to the point that you want to have. For example, I want to trim it right here. It also works in the middle. If you want to trim this clip, it will change its orientation according to which clip it will effect. Now, you can see in this one, the brackets are towards the left-hand side. So if you trim right now, it will affect the right-hand side clip and everything else will also get data along. Let me just undo it. If I'm in the same position and if I'm turning my pointer a little to the left and touching the left clip, it will see carefully, it will just change the brackets to face that clip. And then when I trim, I'm affecting the left-click. Because final Cut Pro is magnetic timeline, it will just shift everything else with this clip. Let me just delete this B-roll for now. And let's see how I trimmed clips look, look like. If you're not happy with this cut, you can do your cuts again. Maybe you want to do it here or we want to do from hair and so on. Trimming helps you a lot with final adjustments. And cutting is abroad kind of tool that you use to make your surely. The next one we'll discuss some more things how to make your study and you edit more interesting. That's it for today. I'll see you in the next one. 10. How To Add Transitions: All right, So after understanding how the timeline works, how we import stuff, how we do the replacements, how we do cut and trim. It's time to add some flavor in your edit. And the way to do it is called Transitions. Transition, by definition is the way you move from one clip to another. For example, if I play the timeline right now, let me just disable the music for now. Let's play it and see how the change between one clip and the other clip happens as of now by default. Let's see here. Right now what's happening is something called as a jump cut. We are moving from one clip to another without any transition in-between. And it looks like we are jumping from one place to other. For example, let's see, from this shot to this one, we simply moved. We moved from the previous clip to the next one directly without having any transition in-between. And this is called a jump cut. Right? Now, if we do jump cuts all over our timeline, it will become a little boring and little confusing to the viewer about what is happening all around. To tackle that, there are lots of different transitions that are present in panchayat, true? And let's understand how to use them one-by-one. First of all, where is the tradition panel? Transition panel is just about here. This is the last icon on the timeline menu of your Final Cut Pro. And all you have to do is just click here and it will open the whole transitions menu, which is available in The Final Cut Pro. For example, these are all the transitions that you can use depending upon what style you have, what preference Do we have? Let's see how to just add one easiest transition, which is called the cross dissolve. I told you earlier that drag and drop works almost universally across Final Cut Pro. So we'll use that concept here also. So we'll just select the cross dissolve and drag in-between these two clips. Now let's see what has changed. So did you see now the transition is much, much smoother and it looks really good. Let's see again. This transition is called cross dissolve, which means two clips are dissolving and itself and they are making way to one another. Let's delete this transition. And the way to delete is just select this transition and press Delete icon. And we'll be back to the jump cut, which was by default. Like this. Right? Now, there are different, a lot of transitions that are present. Let's say we want to use fancy one. Let me see. Let's say we'll do this one. Check-off. The way to preview, how will it look like in your in your film? You can just select the transition and just scrub your cursor on over it. And it will show you the exact transition that will happen if you use it. For example, this one is called arrows. This one is called 360 slide. This is called 360 wipe. Let's select this one and move on to again on the center of the clip. Let's see how this is working. We have added the transition and let's play the clip. This gives you a different mode and different fields about how to change between two clips. Let's delete this. Now let's make it a little more complex. Let's create different transitions between what, three different clips. Let's select cluster resolve here and place it here. And let's select band and place it towards the next one. And maybe let's select 3D rectangle. And right here, let's see how the timeline looks like. This gives us a lot of production value, a lot more flavor than we would've gotten by simply using jump cuts everywhere. This is the way you can make your film. Little more interesting. 11. How To Add Effects: All right, welcome back. So in the last lesson, we understood how to add transitions between reduced or two clips that the path would have been first and the second clip is smoother. And more interesting than just having a jump cut, which is the default behavior. Can you please two clips side-by-side? Just do a short recap. This is what we did and this is where we added the transition in our last lesson. Prejudice was dissolving transition. This was, I think ripe. This was 3D rectangle. Right? Today we are going to discuss about how to add visual effects or how to basically change the appearance of your particular clip or your particular video. So let's select this clip. And the way to access the video effects panel is just beside where we did the last time, which was the transitions panel. Hip. Just besides that, this icon is called the effects browser. So as soon as we click here, we are presented with a lot of effects, which we can add to our videos. For example, let's say you want to add this one aged paper. The best thing is to preview how it looks like you don't have to actually place the effect on the clip. You can just select the clip here and then select the effect here, and then move your mouse over it. So this has one effect, this has gone aged from another effect. Let's say you want to do artificial light. It changes the look and completely transforms your field of the video. Let's say you wanted to do black and white, can do it. You want to colorize, can do it. All right. So let's displace one of these. Let's just place this paper. Again. Drag-and-drop works universally. So you just need to drag and drop On the flip. The moment you place your mouse over the clip, you'll see a small plus icon. That means this effect is dropped on that clip. And we can just drop it here. Instantly. Add that effect to actually, right. Now to access the properties of this effect. We had on to something called inspected, which we have learned in previous lessons. And I've told you inspector is two. See the properties of anything in Final Cut Pro. So if we select this clip and where do we go for inspected? Right here. We select this. And then we get the inspector panel. Here we select the video inspected. And here we can see aged paper, which is the same name as effect hit. These are the properties that we can change if you want to write, for example, how much amount of effect, how much amount of this agent paper effect do we want to reduce it? See what happens? So we can reduce or increase the intensity of our effect through this inspector. This works with any effect. I'll just show you another one. Next one is mask size. See how it affects the overall look. This is adding kind of a VNET. In your clip. Here, you will only see a small portion and everything else is masked. If we increase the mask, it will show much more detail of the video. And let's say we want to do it just here. You want to decrease it by just a touch. Let's see how it looks now. All right, so it instantly has transformed our video from a footage to our memory. Looks like someone isn't remembering their time at some place. So this just adds the context if you're trying to create a story, right? Let's just do another effect on some other clip. Let's say we select this clip and then add indeed it, right? So let's just drag and drop it here and see how this transforms the clip. To edit the properties we just select the clip, would we inspect it? And then they can change the amount or the intensity of this effect that has been applied to our clip. Now, every transition will have different options for intensity or other things that are possible in that particular effect. So all this will change according to what effect do you have placed. But you can change all these parameters to just influence how it looks. Let's say if you want to decrease the color cost, decrease it here and we'll change. It will decrease or versicolor costs from your video. Also, if you want to disable the effect, you can just uncheck this box and it will just show you the original potential would look like. Again, the explicit pick this. This was about all the effects. You must explode everything. There are a lot of effects that Final Cut Pro gives you by default. There is a lot to experiment with and every effect can change the mood and change your story and change your narrative. Some other direction. And you can create different kinds of looks from the same footage using these effects. All right, next one, I'll explain how to add text or what your footage to add some information or some type bills, anything you want. But this is for this one. I'll see you in the next one. 12. How To Add Titles: Welcome back. In the last episodes, we have understood how to add transitions and how to add effects to our flips or videos. And in this one, we're gonna see how we can add exploded. Give some context to the way to access the text menu in Final Cut Pro is a little different because we have access to the effects and transitions menu from here. But the text menu is somewhere different branches. This is the option to show or hide. The titles are generators sidebar. Click this. We are presented with all of these titles and text options that they can access inside Final Cut Pro. All right, so for example, let's say we want to, before that there are lot of options that you can choose. There are 3D options. There are classic options like this. There are custom options. There are lot of other things. Blue, gradient, center, radiant, edge, and out of that, I'll just teach you a few so that you can have an idea how the overall working of this is. Let's say we want to, this one we didn't center. Now the main difference between the title or the text and what we have learned before, which are the transitions and the 3D effect, is that the fixed effects do not go on. The film. Stood there, go over the clip like a beetle video that they have added. I just demonstrated to you. Just drag and drop and you see the moment I put my mouse or wanted, it creates a kind of a horizontal element as a text element. So we need to put anywhere above existing timeline. But let's say we drop it here. It snaps right in the place that you have dropped it, and it gets added as an additional element over the video that you have dropped it on. Let's say by default without doing anything, how it looks for the duration of this. Let me just close this and let me just increase the size of the family. So solve for the duration of this horizontal title thing. It will just appear when it starts from fade away, when it ends. Now, how do we change? What certain insight? You must already know it. We select this and the open, something called inspected. From the moment we do this, there are 70 options. But if you have to select the first one which is inspected, because we are inspecting the title. As soon as we click it, we get a lot of options. Change, the speed of animation or the size of font and all of that. So let's see. It says line one size. Line one is this, which is the name. So if I increase the size, if we just increase the size of name, go back to line two is again description. We can decrease it. But to change the text, you can actually just directly select this display. Couldn't edit the text. So let us say we've been changed this to. If he wanted to change our description, will again click it and it will enable us to edit it. Let's just write. This way. We can adjust by default and create our own titles right now to edit the forums or anything that you want, you just select that again. We'll put the text Inspector. And you can select different kinds of fonts that you want to choose. Let's say you on this for the line one and for line to something else. Maybe. Let's say this. Right. Now you have customized your text by your own days. There are a lot of other options that I would like you to explore and you can edit and change every single aspect of every single title or text. Fan Cut Pro has to suit your own taste and your own need right now until you how to delete that. And that's fairly simple. Just select that a text from here and press, Delete. And like that, it's gone. Let's close this and I've been just take one more to just quickly show you how things work again. Let's say we want this dramatic. Again, just club your mouse over it to see how exactly the effect is like. And again, we can just drag and drop. Now this one is a little bigger in size because it has a lot more animation. And then the last one we can see. But we do not want the effect to be spread across sunlight. That discovering more clips, what we do is like we used to trim our video clips below. Also trim does affect the method to trim was just go towards the edge of this effect, hold it and you can drag and make it smaller. But let's say we wanted to restrict this only to this flip. And now let's see how it looks. The moment we do this Final Cut Pro automatically adjusts the animation to fit everything in that plant. Again, we select this, we go to the inspected. We can change the font color, we can change the reflection. So you want to add reflection. If you wanted to change shorter compare, just click here and they can change in the inspector continues like this. And for the next one we just move forward and then select here again. We can change the title like this. We can move forward. Select again, changed this. That's done. Let's see how we have changed the data. Similarly, there are lot of options and not off titles. See what matches your taste and see what adds value to your project or film. And then you can use it the same way. Just drag and drop here, open the inspector, edit your text and probably edit some parameters like farms inflections. Maybe you can add some drop shadows and just make what you like. That's the way how you create text or titles or what your film. The next one we'd understand how to do some collaborating on our film before exporting it, right? See you in the next one. 13. Color Grading: Welcome back. So till now we have understood everything that is required for you to make a basic edit, a nice film out of the various footage that you have. And you can do that in Final Cut Pro. Now coming towards the end part, I just wanted to introduce you to something that is very crucial on making a final film, which is called the color grading. Color grading is about coloring what you have in a different mood or in a different style that suits your film or your taste, right? Well, let's get into it without wasting any more time. So to color grade anything or any clip, first, let's just select the clip from our timeline. Put our play head here to just see what it looks like in the preview window. To access Color Grading Panel, we have to go to the Inspector. And you already know with inspected is. So after selecting this clip, we just click here and reveal the inspector. Now, the color grading tab of the inspector would be hair in-between, where you see this triangle shaped icon. This is the color inspector icon for Final Cut Pro. So as soon as I selected, we're presented with this layout, which is the color grading layout. The first tab is called color. And as the name suggests, you can manipulate different colors schemes through this panel. Right now there are four dots, which you can see. I'll explain you what each dot means. The first dot is called Global, which you can also see here. If we adjust global or move around this dot, it will adjust the overall color of the video according to what we set it too. Let me show by example. Let's say we move it towards yellow, right? You'll see everything in the frame turns towards yellow. If you want to make it towards, let's say, bluer shade, every single thing turns towards blue. Similarly, if you want to decrease yellow, the yellow is taken away from every single thing, from highlights, from mid tones, from shadows and everything. So let's just bring it back. Next one is for shadows. Let me select another clip so that you can understand shadows better. This one, shadows are the darker areas in your footage. For example, this flip shows lot of hair right here are black or brown or towards read, whatever it is. The shadow part in the hair would always be greater than the shadow part in anything else in video. If we select shadow and if you want to change the color of just the shadows, we can do it by adjusting this point here. If you want to increase, lets say, blue part or human to make it little yellow. So now you see the effect of the yellow tint in the shadows is greater than the effect it is there on the other parts of the image. This is why it is called the shadow adjustment, because it only affects the shadows in your clip. For example, if you want to make it a little towards, let's say red. Now you see it has turned red just in the hair part. Let's get back to where it was. Similarly midtones are the middle ground between the highlights and the shadow. So if this part is a highlight, this part is a shadow. This part would be somewhere in-between, which is called the mid tones. Let's say we want to decrease the blue part of the midtones. Midtones will affect the middle portion more. It will also affect the other parts, but not as aggressively as it will do to the mid tones. Let's get back where we started with highlights. So maybe let me select this clip for highlights. And highlights is the brightest part of an image. So all the bright parts you see, the sky, the clouds, even though white parts here, even the bright parts over here, all constitute as highlights. If we change the highlight slider, see what happens. The highlights are changed according to what color we want to introduce in it. And the shadows like hair, or maybe here, or maybe here, do not change as drastically as the highlights too. If we get back here and let's say you want to influence the global slider in this footage. What we do is we just want to do like this. You see the difference when we take global slider from here to here, even the shadows and everything becomes yellow. If I take it back here and if I just take the highlights, you the difference, it is more subtle. The shadows are not touched dot much, as much as the sky or these white areas are affected by this change. This is how you can manipulate global shadows, mid tones and highlights separately, and create your own mood creator own style for your own footage. The next step is called saturation. Now that you understand global shadows, mid tones, and highlights, this is easy to comprehend. In this one that is vertical slider on the left, this is the global saturation. Saturation is the amount of color that you're fatigue is having. For example, let me just show you by adjusting how it works. If I increase the saturation, every color becomes more prominent, right? Let me just increase this. So you see this blue, you see this kind of brown, red, brick red. Everything becomes more energetic. And if we decrease it, it takes the color away from the image as long as it makes it black and white. If we do it to the extreme, right, Let me just fit it to the view. This is now practically a black and white image, which means every single color has been taken out. This way you can understand saturation more clearly. If we are somewhere in the middle. That's where we are started with. If you want to just create shadows, you can do this. Every single adjustment will have a different feel to it. Similarly for mid-tones, we have, we have. Let me select another clip. Let's say we want to show this one again. We want to adjust highlights with saturation. Highlights are the brightest part of the images. So if I increase this, the brighter part gets increased and the shadow remain not so much influenced by this change. If you want to decrease it, you see only the brighter parts are sucking the color out, right? So I move it back here. Just for reference. If I increase overall thing, everything becomes more energetic, more bright, and more colorful. And if I take the globals, if I take the global slider back, it affects everything to an extent that it turns it black and white if I go to absolute 0. The third one is exposure. Exposure in simple terms just means brightness. If I want to increase the overall brightness of the scene, I can increase the global exposure. If I wanted to make it darker, I will decrease the global explorer and it will create this kind of effect. Similarly, I can change shadows like this, and it will see in this part and on the hair, it's affecting those areas a lot more than it's affecting the highlighted parts here. So let us this, we can do whatever we feel like. Similarly for mid tones. In fact, like this. Similarly for highlights. I can see the highlights are being affected a lot more than the shadow area on this hair. We can do is like this or like this wherever we want. This is the basic color grading panel in Final Cut Pro. You can use it to advantage if you want to create a specific kind of look for your film. And through this, you can manipulate the color, saturation and exposure and overall feel of your film. So this is the color board. This is very important. I encourage you to just experiment with different settings and different moods that you want to come up with your film and apply it and see how it looks. That is all for the color board in this episode as you in the next one. 14. Final Export: Welcome back. By now, you have understood everything that's there to understand in Final Cut Pro, how to make your film, how to import footage, how to edit it, how to add story-line, how to color grade, and everything else that you should know to make your first film. Now the only thing that is remaining is how to export. After you are happy with your timeline, you have done all your edits, you have done all your magic. And now it's time to actually export that film or that movie to upload it somewhere, or to send it to someone that you want to show it. Let's quickly get into how to do that. For example, you are happy with this edit and you want to export it. The Export icon is on the top-right of Final Cut Pro, right here. So as soon as you click it, you'll be presented with all these options by default. The first is export file. Second is Apple devices. Third is YouTube and Facebook. And for this ad destination, for simplicity, I'll always recommend you to export file as default. Because once you do this, then you can upload it to any other service like YouTube, Facebook wherever you want, manually, rather than just exporting it directly through Final Cut Pro. I would not recommend that. Let's understand how this works. Let me click this and it presents you with this layout. Let's see what our information this is presenting to us. So you see this is a black square, but if I scrub through it, it will show me my entire film. Here. You can have a quick preview of what exactly you are exporting. Down here. It shows me the export settings, export resolution of my footage, which is I'm going to get when we export. This is the frames per second or FPS. This all setting, if you remember, we created when we, when you are choosing to create our project or our timeline, this setting will be same as the settings we have chosen here in our project or in the timeline. The audio is studio, which is what we want. This is the bitrate of the audio and this is a total time of the film that we are having, the total duration that our footage will be off. Secondly, this is the extension, Final Cut Pro exports by default in MOV extension. And this is the approximate file size that, that this will produce when you export it. For 45 MB file that you'll be getting with an MOV extension with a duration of this, with an audio of this, with a resolution of this and the frames per second of this. Every single information about the file that you'll be getting. Final Cut Pro will show you before you get before you render the file. Similarly for description, you can change it or going to leave it. Creator would be your name and tags would be whatever your event name was. Now in the settings, you can change the format of video and audio if you're not happy with what Final Cut Pro is doing by default. The first setting is video and audio. Sometimes you want to export Video only without the audio. So as soon as select the video, you'll see the audio setting or the audio information gets banished from here. If I select audio only, the video information gets vanished, and it's only the audio part and the file size changes to just 45 MP, because audio is much smaller than video in most cases. So usually, we will always select video and audio. In the video codec. The video codec, I recommend you to choose H264 because it is a smaller file size and it is an efficient CODEC and it will not take too much space. And it will also be playable in all the mobile and all the computers of today's time. But for example, if you want to change it to, let's say source, this will drastically increase your file size. You see it's 2.17 GB just by selecting this. If I select, let's say, if I select, let's say Apple ProRes execute, you see the file size will increase more automatically. It's almost ten GB. We don't want that. We are happy with H.264. It's a decent file size and it's playable on everything. And you can upload it on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, wherever you want. Finally, we press Next and we choose which folder you want to export it to. We are happy with movies and we just click Save. And the hair. It will show the progress of what it's doing and how much percentage it's done, and how much time. You can just have a look. We'll show in real-time that it's rendering your timeline that's making your film. Let's just wait for it to finish a bit. You are movie is now exported. Let's see where it is. Here. This is your final movie. If you want to see the approximate file size, it's 58.5. If you want to see the details. Here is three, it is. It's the filename and extension. So the file size. This is the create creation time. This is a modification time. This is the dimension. This is a total duration. You can play it by simply pressing Spacebar. Can play it in your favorite media player or wherever you want. And from here, you can exported to YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, wherever you want. This was the final step that you had to take. From importing footage to editing, to color grading, to finally exporting it and making your first movie. I have taught you everything in this class. I hope it is useful and I'll encourage you to share your films, whatever you have made, share your projects with me on this class, there's an option to add a projects. I'm happy to look over them and provide any feedback that is required. I hope this was useful and you make a lot of films spring forward in Final Cut Pro. Thank you for taking this class, and I'll see you in the next one.