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1. Introduction: Lights, Camera,
and Final Cut Pro, whether you're an aspiring
filmmaker, a content creator, or simulate patients about crafting stories through video. This course is designed to equip you with the
skills and knowledge to confidently produce
high-quality edit in this awesome program. Hi there, I'm Alex and
I'm a filmmaker with over seven years of
experience in this domain. I've done a lot of films, documentaries and everything
that is part of film-making. And it's time to create a course that gives you everything you need to know to become
a pro Video Editor, even if you didn't
touch this program. Or at first in this class, we're going to
start with the core structure of Final Cut Pro, exploring Libraries, events, and project to streamline
your editing workflow. Then unleash your
creativity with basic editing, trimming, time, ramping, and everything you need to start your
editing workflow. Next, let's dive into keyframing and animation to
add dynamicity into your edits and start
working with A-Roll and B-Roll for the perfect visual
storytelling experience. After this, refine your
visuals, masking and effects, and start working with
keyboard shortcuts to have a LF, some
editing experience. And lastly, Elevate
your videos with captivating titles
and Generations and some decent color
grading to set them all. Also, audio is half of
the viewing experience, so we're going to have
specially dedicated lessons. And just on that, by
the end of this course, you'll be equipped with the
knowledge to confidently wild Final Cut Pro and create
some gorgeous Editor. So join me on this thrilling
cinematic journey as we say, Lights, Camera,
and Final Cut Pro
2. Windows & Layout: Have a project created the end. Now you can understand how the workflow in Final Cut works. But let's understand what features in Windows
this program offers, so the user interface. So just like I said
in a previous lesson, we start with the first window, that is the browser. Here we can have the library
that we just created, or even multiple libraries. Then we have the events
and we can browse the footage and everything
that we edit to this. After we have the
viewer this window, we have two options. We can either just
click on a video and scroll tweet to see
what it's about. Or the second option is to click on the project
and just crop tweet. But about this, we're
going to see in the lesson where
we're going to talk about how to start editing. After that, we have
the extra timeline, and this is the place where we editor just let me drag a clip into the timeline to
have it right here. So I just drag a clip right here and we have
it in the timeline. And just like I
said, that you can just crop to it and see what Final Cut has to
offer in a viewer time, the viewer Panel has
some important settings. For example, you can choose
how much to zoom in. If you want to see
just a small detail, you can just zoom in. And from here in the corner, you can see close the details, but I'm going to put it back on feed to see the entire view. But also it has some more important features right here on the View button. From here, we have the way how we're going to
view the footage, so we can see the video scopes when it comes to color grading. But about this,
we're going to talk later in this class the angles. If you create the multiple
cameras sequence, and also if you
have a 360 video, you can choose that. There is also one more
thing, the quality. It depends on the processing
power of your mic and also on the quality of your footage
to choose the settings. In my case, the playback
the runs perfectly smooth even from the footage from my server without any problems. So I can leave it on
better quality to see the full potential of this
quality for K HDR footage. But if the mic doesn't support
it or it is an older make, the doesn't run so smoothly, then you can choose
better performance. Final Cut will not
allocate so much Paul on the quality of
your clips and bad on the smooth playback of it. But for now I'm going to
leave it or better quality. Now enough talk
about the viewer and let's get to something
more interesting. And this is the inspector Panel
right next to the viewer. The inspector Panel is
just a way of Final Cut, letting you to
choose the settings, follow, or clips, Libraries,
events and so on. You can just select
anything in this program and some settings will
appear in the inspector, we can just click on
the library and we can see how much size it takes, the location where it is placed, and some other settings. The same heparins.
If you click on some footage in the timeline, we can see the default
effects that are applied. Again, I think that
we're going to have a dedicated lesson talking
about those effects. So here we have
the Video Effects. Then we have the
color Grading panel, the audio panel,
and the info panel, where you can choose the name, some nodes for the video, the start, the duration, ending, and so on. A bunch of settings that
we can use in our edit as the last window that
comes before it into Final Cut is
the effects panel. Here we have effects. We can just drag and drop
any effects that we created. An example for this is blue. If I want to blow this out, I can just take
the Gaussian blur. Also, if I scrub on the
Gaussian blur effect, I can already preview how
these shots would look like. So I can just drag
the effect and put it right there
and it is applied. We have also a transition panel. This panel allows us to connect multiple clips
using transitions. So let's take, for example, two clips right here. Put them together and
I'm going to choose a transition just like this and drag it right
between the two clips. So we can see that Final Cut created as a
transition right here. When it comes to this
windows in the timeline, you have one more important part and these are these
buttons right here. From here, we can choose if you want to scrub to the editor. So for example, if I
turn off this button, you can see that
I no longer have that yellow cursor
to scrub or two, so I like to keep this on. The second is the
audio Scrabble button. If I turn this on, I can also here, and this is also good if you have some talking
head shots where you just talk and you want to perfectly here
where you can trim, but for places where you
can use the camera audio, for example, then I
suggest turning this off and it can become pretty annoying to
people around you. As the last part, one of the most important buttons
right here is the last one, and these are the
timeline settings. From here, you can
choose what you want to be displayed
right there. For example, the zoom in on the timeline that you can
also do from the trackpad, the way we want to have
the footage place. So for example, we want
to see just the audio, just a bit of half of the Video, half the Audio or probably, or just the clip, strike that. The video or so on. And another really important thing that I like
to use when I have some really big eddies that don't fit on just one display. I like to small down the size of these clips just to also have a small preview right here, but also see the
audio and video, but still retain a
really small part. For example, if we have two
clips on top of each other, then we can have them. Then we can see
both of them end. If we have multiple layers, then it becomes pretty
knowing to just scroll up and down and see them. And now there's one
more window that I always like to turn
on when I'm editing. And for this, we need
to go to Window showing workspace and choose
audio meters. This is in my opinion, one of the most important
windows that is a bit hidden when you're
using Final Cut Pro. And this helps a lot when
your sound designing. But about this, again, we have a specially
dedicated lesson. So now you understand
how Final Cut works. You know, the way,
how libraries work, how events and
projects are created, and also how the windows and
user interface will be used. So it's time to start the actual editing process
in the next lesson
3. Inspector Panel: So now let's talk about
the inspector Panel and all the effects that it offers
in the default effects. So I briefly talked in the second lesson about
the inspector Panel, what it offers us, but let's go a bit
more in detail. So at first, we
have the basic F8. Click on the first button. The first one, let me
just select the clip of this cute robot right here
and click it like this. And now we have some
options for it. At first, we have decomposition where we can choose
the blending mode. This is often used for ethics. For example, if there's
some muzzle flashes or stock footage that have
some dark background, you can just set the
blending mode to add and it removes
all the black. But in this case we don't
have such an video. Then we'll have the opacity
I really basic effect. Now coming to some
more advanced things, we have the transform effects. At first we have the
position X, Y, positioning, rotations kill and the anchor point if we wanted
to create some animations. But again about
these, we're going to talk later in this class. Then we'll have the crop effect. The crop effect just
crops in on the video. I can select some pixels
from left, some from right. Then I want to crop from top, from bottom and so on. These are just some
basic effects. I often like to associate these effects to
Premier Pro effects. In this case it is the
corner pin effect. You can just take any corner and move it to somewhere else. For example, we can take
the bottom-left corner, right this and move
it a bit to the left, just like this with
distorted the image. The same thing can
happen if we choose to move this one and we have a
completely distorted image. Then we'll have the
stabilization effect. And we can click
on this and wait, and wait and wait for the
initialization to be done. And these effects, just like the name says,
stabilizes the footage. If you have some
unsteady footage, we can just put slept on this
effect and we'll go to go, oh, the stabilization
is ready and we can see that it made
some improvements. We can also have some
settings, for example, the smoothness, rotation,
translation scale and so on. And also some modes
for stabilization. But for now I'm going to
leave it on automatic. Also, we have the
option for rolling shutter that just
like the name says, fixes the rolling shutter
that can happen in a camera. If you shed, if you set
your shutter speed too low, then we have the trekkers and
these we're going to have, again, a dedicated lesson. We're going to skip color
Grading because again, this will be a separate lesson. And now we're going to
come to the audio where we have the volume
is simple settings. Then the audio equalizer
that we can also do manual and choose the way
how we want our EQ to be. But we also have some
presets that we can use. We also have a really
interesting feature that I love when it comes to Final
Cut, the voice isomerization. If we have some
background noise, you don't need to use
any via effects or any complex effects and so on. You can just slip on this voice aerosolization
and you're good to go. One theme though, you shouldn't overdo
it is, for example, if I just click it right here, you can see that the
amount is 50 per cent, in my opinion, is
a bit too much. Having it 20-30, it's
the best way to go. And also we have
the audio analysis. In some cases it
can fix bad audio, creates some better EQ, boost the voice, the overall
create some better sound. But I personally don't
use this option too much as the last part
to have the pen option. And this is more often
use when you have a spatial audio project, but in this case
we have a stereo. So let's choose the
stereo left-right. We can just choose how much
of the audio should be towards the left or
the right speaker, but I'm going to
leave it to zero. Also, it has the option
for spatial audio. We have some presets right here, but I want to go
to basics around. We're not going to see
right now the difference between because it is
a stereo sequence, but with these small knob, we can move the sound around
where we want the speakers, where we want the
sound to come from, which speakers, for
example, I can just read, direct this to the left
speaker or to the right, left or to the center or wherever I want to have
the audio and Final Cut automatic processes where
this out you should come from and where the speakers
who should stand and so on. As well as part of the
audio configuration, we can choose to
have it in a mono. An example for this is
right here in my class. This mic records only mono and I need to change the
audio to dual model. Have it on both speakers and you shouldn't hear me just
from one speaker. Also, a second way is this
stereo, the default way? Many cameras are already record stereo and it
is the way to go. And reverse stereo if we want to reverse the left or
right speaker channels. But now we're going
to leave it on stereo as the last part in
the inspector Panel, we have the info where it covers some info I would like to
name says about the clip. So for example, we can choose the way how the
clip should look. For example, we can have it is now in the
dialogue preset. By that, I can put
it as an effects. You can see that it
already changed the color, music and so on. This can be really
helpful when you have some really big projects. I like to separate the main camera from
the B-Roll and so on. Then we have the
start and duration. They can also help you. For example, if you want to move your playhead
to a certain time, I can just click it. I can just click right here
where the timestamp is. And I can write, for example, the ending, it is
16 s and 11 frames. I can just click Enter and it
moves the play head around. Also, here are some
other information about the audio codecs. And if we have 360
lenses and so on, a bunch of info, this is what we talked
about the inspector Panel. Many things are going to follow in these inspector Panel because the main purpose of this is just like I said in
some other lessons, to let the user
decides for effects. Let's take just a quick
example right here. Another Gaussian blur I'm
going to take right here. And you can see that
India inspector Panel, I have here the Gaussian blur, and I can just
choose the amount of Gaussian Blur I want
to have in my video, search things we're going to
cover later in this class, in, when it, when we're
going to talk about effects. But for now, the inspector
Panel has one more really, really important
things, and these are animations covered
in the next lesson.
4. Animations: Now it's time to start with
the animation process. And it starts with keyframes, just like in any program. When you go from Adobe to Unreal Engine or any other
program that creates, that can create video content. We use these keyframes. So the same things goes
now for Final Cut. So we have the same clip right here that with the cute robot. And let's create some
animation on it. An example for this can be a simple and really
basic scale in, so I'm going to go here
into the inspector, go to the side of the scale all and click on this
small keyframe button. Keyframe now have
an edit keyframe. And we can now go through the, through the video
and the right here, Let's say I can add
another keyframe. How can we add keyframe? Well, either by pressing
again on this button or by changing the value, I'm going to change the value. So we can see that during
this entire process, we see that here the
numbers are moving. Okay, so it's a pretty
easy way to do this. And yeah, it's a cool way, but we can get more
advanced than that. To get more advanced
into this animations. Not enough just to
use the inspector, but we can go right
here into the timeline. So I can just right-click and choose Show Video animation. And we have here a bigger trick. I'm going to press the Plus key from the keyboard shortcut pick with where I'm to zoom
in a bit or you can just go to the settings
and zoom in right here. And now we can see right here
the keyframe animations. I can move the scale
keyframe from here, and the entire video plays a
much faster, just like it. It's as easy as that. I can further add
some more animations. For example, I can write here, click on a transform animation, then zoom and go here
to move it just a bit. Let's say to the left to
center a bit the robot. Then we here again, we have the robot a bit out of frame so I can move
it right back. This is just, I'm basic
example of how we can use these animations in a
really easy manner. The same thing goes for every single effect
that has these options. The same thing can go. So for the crop I
can have right here, I can put an animation for the left end and TOD
end of the video. We're going to crop this video out from the left,
just like that. And you can see that for the entire
duration of the video, we have cropped this thing. Same thing we can go again, just move these keyframes
to certain place. And like that,
animations can also be done on effects
like the following. I open the effects library, go to bluer and I'm going to take this
time that direction. And bluer. Just put it on the
effect right here. And I'm going to go right
here, chose the direction. Let's say I'm going to
choose this direction and add some amount
in this direction. The same thing can go here. I can just create a keyframe, move some friends
with the arrows keys, put another keyframe and then move against some firms
with the arrow key. Now we have here some small buttons that let us move between the keyframes. We have two arrows and it lets us move for the key-frames, like we have here, a
keyframe in the middle. I can just put it to zero. We can with the keyframe button. When we have the playhead
own a certain keyframe, and the keyframe
button turns yellow. We can also delete
these keyframes, so I can just click right there and we have the
keyframe deleted. And if I put it back, we have it back. Just like this. It's pretty easy to create
keyframes in Final Cut. And with the keef
Video animation Panel, It's as easy as that. Just creating some basic
and really easy keyframes. It about creating
some basic animation. Just like I said, any
effect that we're going to cover in this lesson can
have animations done. A really cool example is
just like I showed you. If in my case the robot
was out of frame, is zoomed in a bit, move the keyframes
around, and that's it. Now, let's see how
we can get more advanced with editing
with A-Roll and B-Roll
5. A-Roll & B-Roll Editing: Now, let's say really common
way of creating videos. And these are just
like in this case, some talking head shots
with some B-Roll. What are these? Well, we're going to
use A-Roll and B-Roll. So the A-Roll is
the main tricks. So in our case,
in Final Cut Pro, we have the main storyline, which is the person
talking just that here. But then we can add some B-Roll onto the person or
the people talking. This is Bureau end for this, we have the other tricks. So let's how to do
this in Final Cut Pro. So I'm going to
create new project. But for this, I'm going
to create a new event. So let's call this
a role and B-Roll. And in this one I'm going
to import some footage. So let's hear from Gulf
here from finder footage. And I have here a studio. One of them is from
my previous class. So here I can just have
my footage right here. It's me talking. And I can just go right-click and choose
New Project from here, I'm going to give it a name. So let's see tutorial. I'm going to choose for K, So the settings that
we just talked about. Okay, so now we have here
the video that I have shot. So how can we add these, these A-Roll and B-Roll? The first thing to go
is probably to avoid some mistakes that made
head happen on the arrow. So for example, you can see that here I'm starting to talk. So I'm going to press X on
the keyboard to delete it. Then I have again a paragraph of me talking and
I have a break. So let's cut this right here. Then again some continuous
peers and again a Cut. And then let's say from
here I'm going to make another cut and I'm going
to do another cut here. And let's say this
is my tutorial. So if we play back the scene, we can see that we have here a jump cut and we
don't want to make any jump cuts in
a tutorial or in a video if there are not
necessarily how to hide this. Well, we can add bureau, so I'm going to go
to the other event and I'm going to choose a video, Let's say in this class I'm
talking about lighting. So I can go right
here and choose from a shot that has some
interesting lighting. For example, this one. I can choose right here, the part where the character enters the set and looks around. I can just click it and
drag it light here. But probably the main
thing that I want to have in this tutorial
is to have the voice, my voice to be the
most prominent. So one thing to do
is to, first of all, I can just go to the
volume and turn it down, let's say to me minus ten. But sometimes I don't want any of these audio
in the B-Roll. Sometimes the audio
for the Bureau can be just wind or something
that annoys the audience. So I can just right-click
and choose detach audio. Now we see that we have the
clip separate from the audio. So I can just delete this in
the clip without any audio. In the main audio is
still me talking. But now this clip
is a bit too long. It is almost the
entire tutorial, so I can just I can trim it, of course, but I can go to modify every time
and choose fast. And from this I can just, just like the name says, read time the clip
or spray drip so I can have it at eight
times the speed. Now you can see that
the clip is way shorter to hide the card that we just
made because of a mistake. In my talk. We can just put it right here. But you can see that the, we start directly with the U, let say comic face and we
don't want to start like this. Filmmaker can immediately
identify that there was a Cut. So to hide these
Cut even better, we can move this to cover
the entire duration of the Cut and some friends before it and some
frames after it. This is the way how to edit
with A-Roll and B-Roll. So just like I said, we have here the main
trick me talking. I can add after that, some I can add after that some clips while I'm
talking just like here, I can edit, I can three meat
and we have here a tutorial. Such tutorials and just basic A-Roll and B-Roll can
get pretty overwhelming. If you have some
clips off talking, then some B-Roll, then probably you have some more B-Roll, even steak on top of each other, probably with some, let's say if I add this clip right here and put it here to have it
a bit in a crop to wave. Let's say for example, I can crop it from
here, like this. And below it we see
the other side. So just like this, we can have some, we can have a bunch of clips
that can get stacked up. So It gets pretty messy. So to get, to make this more, to make this better and to have it do everything I better way. I can just I can
add some videos. So you can see that if I
right-click on the main trick, I can assign a video. There are two templates,
videos and titles, but I want to add something
more for the Bureau. So I can just go right here into roles for the library and
add another Video role, and I'm going to call it B-Roll. I can also change the color. If I don't like this color, I can go for a more reddish
color and just click Apply. Now I can select my entire
bureau right-click and choose. My B-Roll has become this
color that I have just chose. But now let's also
add some music. So let's go into
Finder, just like here. And we have here some music. I can just drag it. But this time I wanted to have it into the A-Roll and B-Roll. I edit it right here. I can put it like this and we have now music
for the tutorial. I can trim it from here. Delete and also delete
this empty holder. We have music. But
now how can we find the difference between what
we talked and the music? And now we have some
mess in the audio. Let's see if I also have some. If I detected the Audio, Probably if I recorded with an external mic or
something like that, then we can get pretty messy also in
the audio right here. So I can also here, go to assign audio roles and choose music and other preset. For this, you can again
have a bunch of rows. A creative way to
use these roles is for each scene separately. An example for this can
be used in short films. My short films, I create each
scene with a certain color. And then if the
timeline gets too big and I want to go into
a specific scene, then I clearly see that difference and I can
follow up with the shot list. This is just some basic example. But coming back to the
A-Roll and B-Roll Editing, this is a really easy way of creating a video
just by using the main trick and
then adding B-Roll to the second or third or
whatever track you may add. But then the thing, the thing comes that if, let's say I move this, I create another
B-Roll piece here. Let's say you need to be
really careful on the holder, on the main story line. Let's say if I delete this clip, you can see that also the sound disappears and also
the previous B-Roll. So when editing with
A-Roll and B-Roll, be really careful
at these things. So that's about it
when it comes to some basic but powerful Editing. Now with them to also
explore some of the effects. And let's start with masking
6. Pancake Editing: I just showed you how you can edit A-Roll and B-Roll together. But this works only if you
have somebody talking, for example, to have a
main track, the error. But what if you
have certain event, what is your A-Roll?
Well, guess what? You don't have any A-Roll, then we'll now you need some
other editing technique. But there is a catch. Well, you can simply
just direct your footage into the timeline
and start with it. But there is a really, really known editing technique well-made for events or even
films if you want to use it. And this is the pancake
editing technique. You might have heard about this editing techniques from
other editing softwares. Egn, guess what? You can
do this in Final Cut Pro. So let's see how to do this. Well, I have here again a
project and what I'm going to do is to first import
all of my footage. So let's see here I have some footage
from my latest film, the trailer of the film. So let's see. So I'm going to
select, let's say, some more footage like here, and drag it in the timeline. And now you'll see
that we have here a lot and a lot of footage that we can use Sharp in
different angles and so on. Okay, so to create these two timelines that we just talked about,
the two pancakes, we need to select
all of our footage, right-click and choose lift
from storyline or simply click Command Option and
the up arrow, like this. And now we have our
footage up here. I'm going to drag it below the main storyline to
have a preview of it. Now how does this
pancake Editing work? Well, I'm going to simply
scrap to the footage. Like you see we have
here multiple shots over the main character
getting out of bet. I'm going to zoom in a bit, end scrub through and see which one was the
best take of it. Like this, I like
this second take. So I'm going to select this and drag it over the timeline. And now you see we have
here the button timeline. So the button pancake is
actually the timeline where you have all of our
footage and the upper pancake. And the upper timeline is
the timeline where we will have the final result after
you have your edit down. So let's see, I'm going to
drag one more shot from here. Now before we take on
with the second shot. Now, it's time to Cut the now it's time to dream what
we don't want from this shot, for example, I don't want
quiet the beginning, so I'm going just to trim a bit of it at the beginning
and the end, like this, we have the final product that we going to put here
in the upper track. Then I'm going to continue
seeing multiple shots. Let's say the swatch, I'm going to add. So like this, I'm
going to drag it and simply make it shorter
the duration that I like, like this, and so on. You can do this for infinite time and just
put it like this. You can continue working
on your pink like this. You can continue editing
on your project. The best I like to work
with the pancake Editing is when it comes to events where
I have a bunch of footage, but most importantly in events and even on
some short films, you are going to have
your footage in order. This means the
first footage will be the first shot
that you took in. The last one will be the last shot that you
just took on that event. This means that all of these shots will be in
the order you have taken them also in the order they
have happened at that event. So it is much faster
truths to just scrub through them and simply drag and drop them into
the upper timeline. And these pancake
editing techniques has also an advantage. Sometimes you don't
want to repeat the same footage
over and over again because the viewer
will notice that you might have used again. Then your viewer will, might notice that you have used the same footage
over and over again. This doesn't look professional. So the pancake editing technique will eliminate distinct
because you have already moved that
footage that you have just used in
the upper timeline. So we won't see it again. At the end where you
have all your edit down. Just copy the clips
that you have here and put them into a new
timeline, New Project. And that's it when it comes
to the pancake entity. If you don't want to
use this technique, mostly if your shots aren't shot in the order
they have happened. For instance, in a film, you need to go with the
traditional way and simply go into the browser
and search for the shadow, have looking, you
are looking for. But for events where you
don't quite remember while shots you have taken
or something like that, then it is an East for
you to just search. Then it is an East
for you just to scrub to the entire
event with what, with what you have just shot and that it's to create an edit
7. Titles & Generations: Now let's talk about
titles and Generations. These are some really
interesting features into Final Cut that can really make your
work much faster. And they are mostly made if you work with some other Apple apps, for example, a promotion
to create them, but to have some
default presets. So let's go from the library's tab in the browser to the titles
and Generations top. And here we have again
two sections, okay, so here we have a
list of titles that are pre-made and can be really, really easy to use. So let's take an example. I would like to use the
atmosphere effects. So at the beginning of my edit
i1 to insert these titles. So you can see that I have
a preset made by Apple, just like this coming in and
then the edit can start. I know that the question on
your mind is how to edit this title because we don't want to have these
titles here thing. So in the inspector Panel
we have two more buttons. So let's click on
the second one. Here we have the
options for the title. I can just set a title. For example, in my edit. I can change the font. I like to go with something,
something like that. Let's see a really
interesting font. I personally really
loved the default font on Apple's website and
Apple events and so on, which is San Francisco Pro. Just like this, I can increase
the size of my title. And there are really a lot of settings that
you can go through. You can even change
the material. But these settings
that are more below our specificity
for these template that I have just chosen. So I will leave it like this. Maybe just increase the depth, for example, the
width of the text. So just playing around
with the settings. And I already have
a pretty cool title to begin for my video. So this is how titles work. Me, titles from this
library can simply be chosen and just drag
and drop like here. Just drag it here. And I can put it like this. Put a title. Let's say this is a robot. Then I will also change
the font to San Francisco. I'm will make it a bit bigger. End from the transform panel, I can just click on
this button right here to move it a bit
at a lower third. And like this, I have an
animation with text coming up. So the titles are
really easy to just take and customize them
without any problems. Mostly I like to use the
basic title just for, just to add some text on top of our time talking or
something like that. Then we have the Generations, which different than the titles. The titles are meant
to be overlaid on your footage and
maybe to be edited, but Generations are meant
to be that footage. So let's see
something like that. There is a generation of clouds, so I can put here some
clouds in my edit. Just like this. This is just like
using stock footage. I can cut it right
here and delete. And I have here some clouds. Just working with stock
footage. Before my edit. I can even adds a
curtain to hide, let's say the edit
before it starts, it's a bit too big,
right? Like this. Let me just cut it. And you can see that
I have a curtain that hides the beginning of
the edit, let's say. So just like I said, these are just ideas or
templates or like I like to call them stock footage right into Final Cut
for you to edit. You can even use them
as place holders. You probably know
this image from iMovie trailers if you use them. Or you can even have
some shapes generated. Let me drag this
shape right here. Each one of these generation
can be customized. I can go here on the
forest button and choose, for example, the shape
I want the square. Maybe add a bit of
roundness to the corner. I don't want it to be to
have any fear colors, so I'm going to disable the probability
the outline can be a magenta color or something
like this end, it's done. The same thing goes
for the curtains. I can choose the color. I want to have some
blue curtains. And like you see, they were changed
even for the clouds. You can change the parameters. I can add more clouds or less and just play around
with the settings. This is how titles
and generation works. If want to create
them by yourself, you will need to use the
Apple Motion App to do this. And these are just some
EPA motion templates. You can download even
more titled presets and Generations from online
stock footage websites. Titles have also really
interesting feature and these can be combined with tracking covered in
the next lesson.
8. Color Grading: Color Grading, it's a
really important part in your video editing process. You can shoot row
or log footage. They really need
some color grading or you just want to make your colors pop out and to be more pleasant
to look at and, or maybe just to correct
some bad coloring. So let's see how this works. So I'm going to go with some
nature clips right here. So let's see how we can go on the color grading
in inspector Panel, Let's switch the
color grading tab. And here we have multiple
effects that we can apply. First of all, we have the
default one is the color board. Let's ask strengthen
certain colors. Choose the saturation
on the dark parts, the mid-tones in the highlights, and the same thing
for the exposure. So for the collarbone, I recommend to use the
saturation and exposure. It's a easier way to go and it's the thing that I personally use this
effect the most. So I want to have a
bit more saturation in these darker parts so I can just increase the
saturation like this. Also for the exposure, these shutdown as a
correct exposure. But I, just for demonstration, I can put a bit more, less exposure into the
white highlight areas and a bit more in
the dark areas. This was just a plain example. After this, what I like to use is to add some color curves. Color curves, just
like the name says, has some curves in
multiple colors. I personally use
the most the luma. And to have some really quick
and nice color grading, I like to create the more
I really popular effect, which is called the S curve. So I'm going just to
slightly increase the highlights and slightly
lower the shadows. We see here that we
form some sort of an S. The same thing you can go
with dedicated colors. We have in the left part, the complete blacks
of the shots. So for example, if you
have a just a dark shadow, then here will be the parts
that are most darker. And on the right
side we're going to have the brighter parts, just like the histogram
on the camera. So I can, for example, just drag down a bit
from the highlights, from the complete white, but, but add some blue, for example, in the highlights, but not
so much in the whites. But I want to increase
a bit in the blanks, but not too much in the shadows. So this is a really
easy way to use curves. But just like I
mentioned previously, the way I like to personally
use the curves the most is by creating an S curve. If I have some overexposed shot, that of course I
can add a bit down from the complete whites
in the same thing. If I have some
underexposed shots, I can just add a bit on the Blake's to color correct them. After it. I like to add some color wheels, and this is the
effect that I like personally to use the
most in color grading. But I'm not just slipping
on some color with shifting some colors here
and there in the teeth. Now, I want to go more details on certain parts
of it of the shot. So I'm going to add the
color wheel effect, but I'm going to click on the Mask button and
add a color mask. I'm going to select
the water right here, just like we saw in the
episode with the less, with the masking,
I'm going to select purely just the water like this. And because they want
to show that it is a clear increase water, some really wonderful shot
to be pleasant to look at. I'm going to slightly take the overall the overall colors of the shot towards the blue, maybe turkeys a bit,
something like this. Just by disabling the effects, you can see how much of an improvement this
effect has made. But on the outside, I Pro, we see here a lot in the
lot of green behind. So I would like to go outside
and just slightly go a bit towards the green to make this greenish look
more powerful, more pleasant to can
and more greenish. So I did this just to make the entire shot look matter too. The green more powerful
because we have a lot of trees and plants right here. I'm going also to add
one more color wheels. And this time with the mask, I'm going to select the sky. So again with a view mask and going to just
select the sky. So I don't like the sky
is a bit overexposed. So I'm going to slightly
shifted towards blue to have a more blue sky. But because we see that
the sky is overexposed, I'm going to go back
to the color curves. And from the exposure
I'm going to it a bit down the
complete white, just like I said previously. And to see what the
last effect means, the hue and saturation curves, we can change, really much change certain
parts of our shot. An example for you can go in detail with
each one of them. But to keep this lesson short, I'm going just to go
on the main ones. And this is hue versus hue. I'm going just to select
again just for an example, the water like this. And you can see
that the effect has made his plays three points. So the middle point is the
color that we just selected. And the second two points
are the threshold the, of it, if I increase this, so I can move this
color more towards green or towards magenta, purple or something like that. And also we have
the hue saturation. I'm going to again select for
us an example, the water. Again, it's selected
the same clips, but this time we're
going to increase the saturation for that color. So if I put this blew up, you can see the saturation overall on the shot
has increased. The domain rule. When it
comes to color grading is to really think about what you want to
achieve it your shot. If you have some
more creepy shots, some horror movie for example, then you might want
to create some more greenish, reddish,
darker colors. Or maybe if you have
some nature or you're female or female goals and our then you want to
go into teal and orange. Look, this was just a slight
look at color Grading. Of course, color grading. And just these inspector
Panel can have a complete dedicated
class just on them
9. Audio: In this class we talked a
lot about video editing, but Final Cut has also
audio editing inside of it. And it goes pretty easy. So let's see how this works. Well, first of all, I have
here my edit, some music, and from the inspector Panel, I have the Sound
Options. What do I have? The most basic
settings of all time? The volume, which lets me make my music louder or quieter. Also, one thing I
recommend is to always have the
audio meters enabled so I can go to Window Workspace
and select audio meters. This will make that I have here the audio meters like here. You can see that now
the audio meters are starting because I'm
not playing the video, but the audio meter should
always indicate a value between -12 db and minus six. If you go slowly towards zero, you will have a
pretty loud sound. And this can be used in
films when you want to show a big impact and you can use it, but also makes
sure that you will not have the sound over zero because it will clip on some
speakers or an earphones, the viewer or the listener, Let's say we'll
hear that clipping noise and it shows that it was
not professionally edited. So make sure that your
audio doesn't clip. Also voices are
recommended to always sit between minus six
and minus deaths. If you have them above, then we'll hear just the
voice and nothing around it. It will be pretty disturbing
for the listener. But also if have them under -12, then they will need to
crank up the volume on their device and they
can hear you talking. So again, put the sound
between minus six and -12. This is the best values
when it comes to editing. Then we have some
more options like the equalizer and
voice isomerization. First of all, what
is this equalizer, where the equalizer short EQ, is a common audio editing which lets you change
the tune of your sound. For example, we have here
multiple prices, for example, to enhance the voice, to enhance the music, to have a louder, to reduce the buzzing
noises from harm reduction, bass, bass and treble
boost and reduce month. We have here a lot of templates. So for example, if you
want to have a music to really be there
with a lot of bars, you can go to bass boost. And you can see that Final
Cut automatically made the adjustments needed so that the lower frequencies
are being more, are being more louder. But for now I'm
going to leave this on fled, the default mode. One more thing is that here
in the audio preview or, or also in the
timeline we have here. Some are red and yellow
dots on top of our Audio. If we see them, this means
that our audio is clipping. This is not what we want. So always make sure
that you will never see in your Audio such parts, red and yellow we stones into your audio will make
your sound clipping. Also, we have the
voice aerosolization. Well, in this music
there is no voice, so I'm going to import some
of me talking like here. I can choose the the point and outpoint and I'm going
to drag it like this. And I have some parts of me talking from one of
my YouTube videos. Well, first of all, this sound was
recorded mono because this microphone I'm using right
here records Justin mono. And this means that I
have a stereo track, 1 hz sound in the other
one doesn't have sound. So how can we fix this? Well, we have here at the
bottom of the inspector Panel, we have here an option. So I can choose here
to have dual mono. This means that I have one track that plays on both tracks. On Final Cut, I have the
stereo track default. And I can also
reverse the stereo to have the left and right
speakers being reversed. But for this extra clip, I'm going to put
it on dwell mono. Like this. I have now stereo sound
coming from both speakers. Now if I would have a lot
of noise inside my shot, you can go this the
old-fashioned way and make this using the EQ
to reduce this noise. But it will also make
your sound not so quiet. Not so good anymore. It will affect the voice
of your Ireland and so on. So do not have such problems. I can go into the
inspector panel and choose right now
voice aerosolization. I can also have the
amount I founded. The best amount for
reducing noise is between 30% and 50 per cent. If you go over this limit, then you're going to
affect again the voice. So this is one of my favorite
features in Final Cut, purely separates the voice
from the other sound just like the AirPods does in a
FaceTime call, for example, the same algorithm
is used in Final Cut to reduce the noise and, and simply put the voice
as clear as possible. Thing that I love
about Final Cut is the ease of Editing
multi-channel audio. So this means a 5.17, 0.1. And so on. A sound system, we have here the
pattern options. I can hear set a
stereo left-right pen. And it gives me the amount I can shift the Audio towards the left speaker or
towards the right speaker. But I also have the
options for ice around. I can choose the basic surround. And going a bit more down, we have here the five speakers
for a five dots one setup. This project, when we created these at the
beginning of the lesson, we have these just on
stereo so we don't see any, we won't see any difference. But for this to work, you need to make your project as a surround sound project. But like this, I can
have the main point where the sound comes from
and simply drag it around. In Final Cut Pro, automatic, a process from what part? From one speaker the
sound should come. It's as easy as that. Also have some presets for music for a ambiance and
whatever we want. These were some basic
parts of audio, but we have also
the Audio Effects, which I'm going to shortly cover a bit from the effects
panel we have here, the Video Effects
and scrolling down we have the Audio Effects. First of all, the
names of the face clearly show you what
they are intended for. We also have some
presets, for example, for a large room
so that the sound, sounds like a large room. If we go two spaces or medium or whatever space you want
the audio to sound from. We have a preset for this. Also, we have some
cool places that you can find also in
GarageBand, for example, to make your voice sound
like an alien or to sound brighter cartoon or whatever
presets you want to use. Mostly some audio effects
in Final Cut, our presets. But in each category we have also the
presets already made, but also the effects
that are used in these presets to really dive
deep into how to use them. You can just simply
drag and drop and preset and
you're good to go. Or if you want to
go more advanced, you can drag and drop
the effect on top of your audio and edit from there.
10. Exporting: You have your edit none, and it's time to send
off to your friends, to posting on social media or even send it to your client. But you can just put the
Final Cut library to them. So you need to export
your project as a video. So let's see how to do
these in Final Cut. Here I have the project of my trailer for my
next short film. And I'm going to go up here. I have a button which if
you use an Apple device, you know this icon already, which is the share icon. So here is the share button. So let's see here what are the most important tools
for an edit doors needs. So from here I can choose
on Add Destination in Final Cut opened
up a new window. From here, you have
the default option, which is exporting file, which has name says just
exporting the file. Then we have a preset which is different made
for, for K films. Then you have the sharing
option for social media, which will compress your
footage as massive as much as possible for
the platforms needs. And as the last part, which is not default, the default lead turned on in Final Cut Pro is the
safe current frame. And this is really, really good when it comes
to creating a tablet, for example, in your field. Then you can click on
Add Destination, end, use any other things
that you might use. For example, you can
choose to have it as an image sequence to compress it even more to say
it on an e-mail, to have to burn in
on a brewery or DVD, even for live
streaming and so on. But now let's see how to
actually export the file. Now I'm going to go onto the share button and
choose Export File. First of all, we have
here a description. I'm going just to delete the default description
in this video is about, and I'm going just
to leave the title. Then you have here a creator option which you
can put your own name. And then you have some tags. Which Final Cut we'll figure
out depending on what File Save important your
library wildfires have used, what information you
have, edit and so on. But for now I'm going just to
select all and delete them. Then you have here
the settings options where you can choose the format. First of all, you have
the Mastering tab, which is for video and audio. Like this. I have
chosen to export my file at its highest quality. So like you have, you can see here Video Codec. It is the source in which
I have shot the clips. Then you can choose
the resolution, which is the resolution of
your project color space, which is already defined by the project and
the Audio Format, again defined by the project. Lastly, you have here an
include chapter markers, check box where you can choose if you want
also to include the markers in your video that you have placed
in your timeline. For example, by
pressing the M key. And lastly, have an action
that Final Cut should do after it finishes
the exporting. My case, I have left
it on save only, but you can open up
with QuickTime or with the Apple TV and so on. At the end you can choose
the role of your file. You can choose, you can leave it on default as QuickTime movies. So as an MOV file, then you can also choose to have different types
of this MOV file, but also to have just the video and video as separate file
or audio or separate file. And you have multiple presets. But the best is
if you will leave it on default only
if you need some, some more specific needs, then to export the video
you're going to click on Next, like you see it opened up a Finder window
and I can click Save. Up here we have the
background task. And you can see here
that Final Cut is working on sharing.
Like you see here. It creates the clip. Like here. We are ready and we can
see the final film, but there's one, but there
are multiple settings. Well, we can go to Film
for K, which have, which has the same
settings like the, like the export file. The only difference is
that here you can choose, you have here some
other options. For example, as an Apple device, it will export the
file with MOV. If you choose computer, it will export this with
MP4 or for web hosting, it will compress the
file as much as possible to be perfect for web pages. But now I'm going
to click on cancer. Then we have the YouTube
and Facebook which have the same settings
at the beginning. But then in the settings we
have some more basic ones. We can just choose
the resolution if you want to have it at the
maximum resolution. That good tip here is if
have a client or if you just want to show it to somebody
and get some feedback. But it's not the final version of your project then
I highly recommend not exporting at
the highest quality that you can create these. First of all, it will
take up much more space. It will be harder to
share on iMessage or WhatsApp or whatever platform
you're using to share it. And it is best just to
keep it more simple. For example, if I need to send an edit to one of my clients
and I always send them in, in, in 720 P, I tell them that it
is in seventh 20. Pete not expect that I
have shattered this, that I have shut their
event or they are Film or whatever they have wanted to
film in a lower resolution. And I can just get feedback
and only the final version, I export it to the
highest possible quality in progress and to occupy as much space as it needs and then put it on my hard drive or just any through Cloud
and is the final result. But until you have
the final result, keep it as small as possible. Lastly, we have an option that
is not enabled by default, which is safe current frame. And this is best if you want to have a tab name for your film, just export the
frame end like this. You're good to go.
From the settings. You can choose the type
of the immune, JPEG, PNG Photoshop or whatever
type you can use, or to scale the image
for the aspect ratio. If you have used a 21
by nine aspect ratio, for example, for the films. Lastly, if have caps
captions inside your Video, then you can choose to burn
them in or leave them out. Also here in the Export window, you can also scrapped
your timeline to have just the last glance at
it before it is exported. And if you have any mistakes that you have
noticed after the Export, then you have, then you need
to re-export everything. They need to export your files and just send
them to your family, your friends put them on social media or sending
to your client. And you're good to go to
have your Video done. And now you are an
experienced editor. But you need to know
one more thing which is some advanced settings
of Final Cut Pro
11. Conclusion & Class Project: Now we came to the
end of our class. Thank you so much for
sticking with me and I hope that you learn something new
about editing in Final Cut. And now you're ready to start working on your own
projects in Final Cut, knowing everything
about the basic editing for the class project, you can find the class
resources besides the libraries that I created to see how I've been editing, you can find a lot
of footage that I've made for you to edit for free and just create
an edit with this, find some music tried to color grade the food is
create a decent edit. The video and audio effects, use tracking and
masking and even use A-Roll and B-Roll Editing
for your practice. I will be so happy
to give you a, I will be really happy
to give you feedback on your work and I can't
wait to see it. Thank you again so much
for sticking with me. And I hope that you
learn something. You have a great day.
Alex Sofonea, Filmmaker & Full-Stack Developer
