Learn to Edit with Final Cut Pro X: Beginner to Youtuber

1. Class Trailer: Edit with FinalCut Pro X : Hey everyone, My name is Assad I'm a YouTuber and a video content producer. And I have been editing using Final Cut Pro for the past four years and then worked with a number of clients around the world. When I first started editing, it was very difficult for me to actually find the classes that were suitable because it was all over the Internet and it was difficult to understand which one I should be watching first. This class is a basic editing class where I will edit my YouTube project that I upload regularly to my YouTube channel. And I will share with you how I conceptualize this project and what are some of the steps that I take when I am exporting or importing projects into my Final Cut Pro. And what are some of the important things that you need to keep in mind? We will go through some editing options. We will be adding images, layers will be adding some sound effects. We'll also be adding other videos and also some translations in this particular class. This will be a good base beginner class for you to understand the concepts of these basic editing. Any can apply them to any software or any, any sort of project that you're working on. If this is something that you are interested in, I welcome you to this Skillshare class on Final Cut Pro. I'll see you in the next one. 2. The Anatomy of Final Cut: Let's try to understand what's inside this after what makes this software what it is and how we can utilize this, it'll be very easy or it will be very important for you to understand this concept or this anatomy before you can move on to making your next viral video or the next Hollywood blockbuster production that you are going to cut on the final proofs. Okay, So this is the blank stream that we are going to get to. All your projects will be in this browser space where all of the things that you are going to add it on your photographs, your videos, your music files, your sound effects, any kind of things that you are going to add to this area, a timeline where you will be doing all the editing and all the mix and match will appear in this area. So this is the area where you will see all those voltages or all those videos that you are going to work on. This is the area where the library will show up and we'll talk more about library. But the library is basically one place where your project exists. So let's say if you are logging and doing mountain climbing, that can create a library, which will be, you can name that library as mountain climbing libraries or any photographs. Anything that goes within that library will be the ones that you'll be using. You can create multiple libraries. You can view multiple levers depending on what you're working on. For example, for this Skillshare, I created a library called Skillshare library of Skillshare class. So that becomes a library. So anything that I want to work on goes in that library. So this is the area where you will actually see all that stuff. And this is a preview screen where anything that you have actually put here will appear here. And as a preview, you can preview all your stuff, all the videos, all the music files, or all those artifacts will be appearing here. Vector, this is where we can crop editors, zoom-in, zoom-out add effects and other things that we can edit will be appearing in this area. Other than that, this is the timeline. This is a timeline where you will see all the videos that actually power. So this is the area where all the videos will be appearing. So anything that we edit will be in this particular area. Other than that, we have menus where you can add music. So if you have items you've purchased me that you have the rights to actually use that music, and they will appear here. And then we have sound effects. So Final Cut Pro comes with inbuilt sound effects. So it has internal sound effects so you don't need to go and purchase sound effects or downloaded from website and get later get copyright strikes on your YouTube channel if you're uploading this. So you can see that there are a lot of different sound effects that we can work on. We can always use our mouse to scrub through that. And you can actually maybe you are able to actually hear the sound that is appearing. So that will come. And then we've got the generators. These are, these are the titles that, that you can work on. You can basically see there are a lot of different ways that you can scrub through and you can see these titles. There are different ways and we go back to my library view which is here. I'm gonna go to my projects and open Pro project that I had. Okay, So this is the library that opened up. I'm going to click on my library and library view. When you click on library, you will see all the things that are in there. Let me just go back to my drone footage and let me just name this drawing. I'm going to double-click drawn video, okay, it's easy to actually see. So you've got to Final Cut Pro glass and then I wanted to show some drawing video. I named that particular event within that library as drawn. We'll talk more about libraries and event in our next class. But I just wanted to show you guys something. Let's say I have this and I'm going to title, and I want to add, drag and drop this title here. And now you can see that I have this data that I just added. I again, I can make changes to this time or if I want, I can name it. Interesting or maybe wonderful. And then you can see instead of information, I had wonderful mode description dilution. So you didn't see that there are a lot of inbuilt things that you can start using and they will help you do a lot of things. So in our next class, we'll talk more about what libraries and all the events are. And, and other than that in this particular class, I think I need to show you one more thing when it comes to things. Or I can just click on this and delete. That said Here, I am here in this area and you can see this in spectrum you write in inspector view, I'm able to actually get information about the Calypso. If you are an advanced editor, you can always create notes for yourself and you can see a lot of different things that are appearing on this project. And actually it will be easy to actually solve it through the footage. You can also change colors. So you can see by clicking on this color option, I'm able to change the saturation of this particular video. Hey, that, that's not bad. And I went off. So I just need to balance it out, I guess. Yeah, So you can do that. There are a lot of other options. You can change the color patterns. And then you can go into this video in spectral mode where you can add effect. So like I said, we can zoom in, zoom out. You can press Control is added or rollback. You can crop. This will be a very handy feature. You've gotten distorted option. You can see there's a show button. You can click on that and you can distort at any axis, x, y, you've got stabilization. So I mean, most of the cameras come with inbuilt see with adhesion that you will be able to use that. But I don't use that anymore. I don't use that at all because most of the photos that I get is actually stabilized. And then we have this view where we can actually see all our footage that we have running. So this is the footage now I'm actually browsing through and I can change the view from here. So like I said, you can add notes to your footage. I can always move this and you will be able to see the frame size and everything. This is a view which I think very advanced editors will use because you need to sign up for it. So they got footage from someone else and they have camera angles, they have notes above that, lucky use this in the beginning, users in the end maybe do some color corrections. All that kind of stuff will appear in this area and you can use that to your advantage. I did not use this for life. I use this basic view where I can actually see my photo agent and thumbnails. I can also increase the size of what AC here, so that document depends on how you do it. I would suggest due to play with this a little bit just to see where your taste is, where it, where you think it's appropriate to actually leave it. And that's pretty much it. That's the anatomy of Final Cut Pro. Yeah, another thing is that you will be able to actually add some effects of these are video effects along with audio effects. And these are the places where we can actually add effects to our videos and all the other things. We've got transitions. So you can see that there are a lot of transitions here. You can just hover through them and you'll be able to see the preview on the previous screen. So these are some of the things that we can actually use. For example, if I drag here in between and see how the transitions work, they do go on. So with this, I can remove this. And let's look at the transition. Not good. Maybe I can drag and drop here. Not matter. Yeah, So that is the anatomy of Final Cut Pro is these are some basic things that you need to understand and work with for the rest of your editing career. So I'll see you in the next class where we discuss how do we create Libraries, events, and other things within that library. We're going to import the footage for our project that we're going to work on in this Final Cut Pro glass. And I'll see you in the next order. 3. Libraries, Events and Projects: In this lesson, we'll talk about what libraries are and how they affect any project that you are going to work on. Now you can see that I still have my previous project that is on. And remember we added some transitions to that. But I want you to understand is this. Anytime you have a library, library consists of all the things that happen within that video. So all the videos that you upload, our videos that you put into your Final Cut Pro software will appear within the library. In our library is just one place where you can see all the things. Now within the library, we have smart collections of these is a bit of an advanced thing, but we'll talk about it in our future class, how this thing can help you sort out some of the footage if you have a large video project that you need to edit. But then other than that, we've got events. So we have libraries and within libraries we have events. For example, you are going for, Let's say this tech conference that you want and you are going to spend two or three days. So each day can be an event or if you make a video on the first day or that things are this anything that you shoot on the first day, you can dump it into the first event. It's easy to actually create an event. You can always right-click in this area and click and create a new events. So when I create a new event, it'll ask me for the name. So I will maybe just score for, let's say I'm looking at, let's say, day 2 of the project. You can either create a new project and I will talk about projects in a short while. But for now let's not create a project. Let's uncheck this. If yours is checked, I want you to uncheck this and let's understand the concept of events sparse. So let's say I create the two event. Now you can see that in this event, Let's assume this is the one, this event, I've got a lot of videos. This is something that I did on day one on, but on the two, I'm going to go out and actually shoot some footage. So you can see that there's nothing here. I have to import media into this particular events. So you've got the library, you have events, and within event, you need to put the footage that you are willing to work on. For example, let's take a look at this drone video that we have. Now this drone video event is my day. I went out and shot some footage for myself. I am drawn for data are drawn with geography that I did. I recorded and I have some pictures also these Adam stills that you can actually see. Not nothing fancy, but I did that for this class of that, I give you an example of what exactly an event would look like. So this is my drawn day out. Maybe I can just rename it drawn the app. Now, all of these events fall under Final Cut Pro class. So Final Cut Pro will take this information under Final Cut Pro class library and we'll store it somewhere where it's safe. And whenever you want to reopen this, you can double-click on that event or double-click on that particular library. And it will open up all this information so you don't have to dump everything again to actually create this. So that is library will do. But within the library we've got events, and then within events we put our foot is now what do we do with this? But iterate, I need to work on this footage here. This voltage is not going to appear in this area. For example, if I were to close what's here? Let's say I close this. Now you see that this footage appears within an event like here. But there's nothing that is a PM because I have not started anything. I need to take some of this footage and put it here and start editing. This is where all the editing will happen, but funnel going to prose asking me to create a project. And what is a project? Anything that appears in this area or the timeline. He, for data that you actually connect together, you add layers or maybe you add text to it will be called a product. Now you can have multiple projects and multiple events within library. For example, here I've already created a project for my drawing skills, but I'm going to create a new project and tried to give you an understanding of what exactly right? I can name this project drawn for maybe the drug. That's just where my reference, right? And you can also see that it's asking me which event I want to put this in so I can choose day one, day two, day three because it's falls under library. Remember I'm in Final Cut Pro class library and it's, I'm able to actually add an event. You can, you can add a project to any of these events. It does not matter, but for this, we're going to add an event with our drawn day out. And then it's going to ask you for the formats, right? So we've got a lot of different formats. Vertical format is the one that you see a lot on tiktok or other videos. For this this particular video, we are going to work great 1080 HD camera and she would forgive you, are more than welcome to do that. But if you want to make it, make things a bit, I think. Easy or smooth. Let's ACE score with 10 ADP and then you get all the dimensions. I will not mess with any of that and I'm just going to create the project. So now you see we have a project and we have this timeline, this magnetic time. Now we call this magnetic data. We'll talk more about this. This timeline will enable us to move the foot it. So for example, I want to just drag and drop this one here. This is an image, so there's nothing happening. I can just press delete and it'll go away. This is a video. I can just take this video and put it here. Now, all this information that I am working with, I can take this also. So you can see this is a video. I can scrub through this. That is the video that you saw earlier. But this is in a different project, which means this is a separate entity. This is a new project. I can do anything I want with it. I can add it in any way. I can edit it in any way. And what you will see here is that I can go to my titles generator and I can maybe add a title. I can extend this. And you can see title subtitle. All that thing will appear in this area. And it's a very basic, simple concept that you can, that you can work with it. So these are some of the things that you need to understand. So for example, I've got drones for Skillshare. You can see the time that I created or the date that I created this and then day out flying. So if I click on this project, this will appear here. So you can see that this was a project that we saw in our previous class. And if I click on this project, this isn't new project. I can create multiple projects within an event, and each project can be for a different reason. For example, I want to create a project. Let's say I create, create a new project. It's going to ask me where I want to put that project. So I'm going to put it in our events called drawn the two. And this time I'm going to make it for, let's say IGTV. Or we have reals. You can make it for tick tock if you want. We are going to change the dimensions of these other settings that you can actually use. So I'm going to go and click on, let's say vertical. And you can see vertical dimensions. You can change this to 10 ADP by 1920. This is what most of the platforms will do. I won't mess with the frame rate framework becomes very advanced for advanced users. I'm just going to click. You may not use oh, okay. Tiktok. Alright, so I've got another event, but you can see that this time the screen is vertical, so I can add footage here. But it's going to appear on a vertical screen, right? Should not be a problem because we can always scale the furniture, right? So you can see now I footage is in vertical mode. So these are some examples of libraries and events within the library and also projects that you create within that libraries. And this is what you will be actually doing most of the time depending on what you're working on. So you have to create projects, you need to have events and everything goes within the event. In all of those events go within the Final Cut Pro Library. In our next class, we'll create new library and import footage into our new library and work on the project for this particular class, I'll see you in the next one. 4. Import your Footage into FinalCut Pro x: Now that you know what Libraries, events, and projects are, let's talk about importing the project into Final Cut Pro. For example, if I go back to my Final Cut Pro project screen, you can see that I made these projects and all this information that Final Cut Pro has now about my project has to be stored somewhere. Like for example, you're working from 9 AM, Let's head till midnight, and you have a huge project now you need to take a break, you need to rest so you can't just leave this open. You can if you want to, but this information will be stored somewhere for you to access the leader. For example, I were to let say close this project of mine. Now, maybe the library, I'm sorry, if I were to close the library, you can see, you can right-click here and you can close the library or you can reveal in Finder, you will know where this library is. If you don't know where the library exists, you can always find that in, in Finder video, but I'm going to close this library. I want to show you where this exist and how we can work with this. Now when I close this library, there's nothing that appears here. Now, an important concept or important thing for you to understand is how you organize your footage before you bring it to Final Cut Pro. And that is what we are going to discuss. And it's a very important thing. I have a folder structure that I have worked on. For example, we are working on this final Cut Pro class. This is the folder that I made him. Within this folder, I created three sub folders that I've got assets. So all of the photos that I get from my memory card or any one that is giving you the footage to edit on. You need to make sure that it exists somewhere on your hard drive or external hydraulic. I put this on external hard drive because it's easy for me to take the hard drive, go to someone else's place. If they have a Final Cut Pro, softer, I can start editing from that hour drive. I'll show you how to do that and it's absolutely amazing you can do that with any editing software either. It doesn't. Final Cut Pro, but you need to have foreign quite pro on the other computer where you are going to have. It's good for collaboration. You can always work with your friends. You can edit some stuff here. You can also send them that file and then they can start working on it. You can give them naughty. I want to do this, I want to do that. There are a lot of things, a lot of possibilities. In COVID-19, pandemic time, a lot of movies were made on a lake. A lot of notes were shared on them, not from the same room. Editors were all over the world hired by a lot of studios and they were working probably you are one of them and you will be maybe in the future working on those projects like this. So you need to make sure that all the video that you're going to work on Do land in this asset folder. You can also name them with the camera. You can create folders for camera like Sony camera, GoPro footage, maybe any other camera footage. So it's easy for you. I use an external audio recorder calls Zoom H5. Any audio that I get from there goes into Zoom H5 folder. And it makes my life a little bit easier when I'm looking beautiful image. The second one that you need to create is called project files. Now a project files are and BMI called libraries depending on what you're working on. So maybe I can just call this, I can just rename this to Final Cut Pro Library. All right, because I'm going to store libraries here, right? So I've got Final Cut Pro Library. You can call it anything, but make sure you know what this is. So for the sake of this class, let's just call this Final Cut Pro Library and ethane, I'm going to start naming it Final Cut Pro Library. You should do that too. Now in this funnel hook for Larry, any library that we created, we need to save it somewhere so I can take this external hard drive would this library and all the information that is within that library, what my footage is, what sort of effects I added in all that information. I can take that library, go to someone else's house or maybe share them with Dropbox or a lot of other softwares are a lot of other sharing services that are available. They can just download that library along with the footage and they can start working on it. So all you need to do is just make sure you upload this to an online server and they can download and start working in. They can download. So this is how you can collaborate there a lot of other ways also to do that. But if you're making just YouTube videos, chances are you're making it for yourself. Or if you want to be an editor, you want to edit for other people. This is something that you can actually look into. Final Cut Pro libraries will exist in this place. I can show you there are some libraries that are already there that I created. For example, the Final Cut Pro class exist here. So I can just double-tap on this for example. And it will open this library. Remember, our drone footage that we worked on? Double-click on the project. And you can see once I've got that drone footage. But an important thing to understand is this, that you need to save your libraries somewhere. You can make copies so I can just right-click and copy this and put it somewhere else as a backup. So you know that this is your library. What you need to do is you need to have one library for one of your projects. So if you're working on, let's say you went to Australia and you made a V log. So you need to have one library, one event in one project in there, right? So you know what exactly that particular thing is about. You can add notes about it and everything. But you can see the size of this library is about 17 gigabytes rate. That's pretty So we'll talk about how we can actually reduce their size. And I'll let because Final Cut Pro does a lot of things in the background that contributes to the size of this particular thing. You can also create templates, whiteout. What my mean by template is you can have the things that you use over and over again already in a library. And you can just save that library and always open that library, rhenium, that library and add more for districts. So that can mean some of the effects that you actually use on a daily basis. Or there's a sort of maybe font-style that your typeface that he has some effects that you use. You can always store that information within that library and use that library again and again, the template. I'll give you few examples as we move along. But for now what we're going to do is we are going to remove this library like this. It's gone. We are going to create a brand new library, and that is a library that we will use to edit for the rest of our Final Cut Pro class here. And it's very easy. You can always click on Open Library or Final Cut Pro will give you the option when you open it for the first time, that where do you want to save your library or which library do you want to use? I'm going to go with new or let's say you don't have this option, we don't want to click here. You can always click on File and create a new library. You can see File, New and create library. The File option, Create new library. You will have immense and project because we do not have a library. So all other projects are, all the other options are grayed out, so that doesn't make sense to use them. I'm going to create on library. It's going to ask me where I want to keep my library, where I want to store my library. So again, I go back to my folder structure, which is on my external drive. I go there and I look for Final Cut Pro Library. Make sure you have this. And then I grow into fat guy Pro or you can just leave it there. Now, I need to name this library. So this library will be called, let's say, Skillshare class library. So anything that I'm going to do now will appear or will be stored. All the information will be stored about what isn't everything within this library. Remember this library location, I know where it is. You will know, if you are starting for the very first time. Apple will store this in its default location. You may do that. It's up to you, but you can always find that location and move that library from two other place. And you can put it in an external hard drive and you can move it there. But this is what a unit declared, the library. And once you create a library, you get that basic information rate. You've got that events are we created this library today, so I've got this event here. I can change this to maybe let's say, what do I do? I, what do I name it? First-class. Let's go through ups. So first-class first solution, there is no information, there's nothing available within this library and I need to make sure that I bring some, put it so we're going to create click on Import media. Or you can click on this option here, which is a button would say is import. Or you can click here or you can press Command and I, and that will bring you to the import option. Now this is a place where we are going to go into our computer's hard drive and find the footage that we are working on, right? So here we have our Skill Share Drive. I've got other drives, always unskilled shared drive. I'm going to go back to my folder which is Final Cut Pro class. Open this. I've got Assets, Export and Final Cut Pro Library and anything that I created or take out of this software, I could final project we're going to export, which I did not mentioned it before. Okay, so I'm going to go into assets and I am going to see what's there in acid. I've already added the video that I'm working on. So you can see there Final Cut Pro gives you a very good view of the project that you will be or the video that you will be working on. And I can choose this and there's this, this video that I'm going to use for my final Cut Pro. I'll tell you what this is all about. And I've got some audio that I've recorded using my external recorder. So this is my audio that you can actually see. And I also added this YouTube subscription button. So a lot of people use this on the YouTube channel. Perhaps you want to use it as well. So I'll tell you what this is about, the green screen, how to remove that, we'll work on that. But what I wanna do now is I want to select all this footage. You can press Command and multiple select. So now that we've selected the footage that we actually want to bring. Going to ask us, what do we want to do with this footage, right? So this is the area where you need to understand what exactly happens. Now, I know that this library is called Skillshare class library. You can see first Skillshare class right now, it's asking me add the Xist add to existing event. Now I've got this event first-class for Skillshare within that library. Now, do I want to add it to this event or another event, or do I need to create a new event? I can always create a new event, but since I already have an event, I'm just going to use this one and use it. There are a few options, copy to library. Now if you copy this footage to library, it will exist in two places. It will exist within that library file because Final Cut Pro will copy all that information, all the footage that you're using in that library file and the size of that library file is going to be massive. For example, the footage that you're working on is 10 gigabyte, or maybe a 100 gigabytes, right? A 100 GB worth of footage that you're working on. If you copy it to the library, your library will have a 100 gigabytes of footage and the drive or the external storage that you have with that footage would also be a 100 gigabytes. So you will have 200 gigabytes or so. So I am not going to copy anything. This is a little bit advanced. We'll, we'll see what we can talk about, what we can do with this. But I'm going to leave the footage where it is and I'm going to leave everything else as it is right here. We also have an option of creating proxy media or creative optimize a media. Usually when you are working with this, it will be created optimized media. So what Final Cut Pro does is it does something to the media or the information that you have and makes it easy to smooth the edit it on your timeline. We'll see how that, how that works. If you create proxy media to proxy media is you have a very large footage. Your computer's not that powerful. You have a very large voltage and you want to actually edit that footage. You want to, you want to cut it into pieces, but your computer is not supporting that. Your computer is turning very slippery because the file size is really large. You can create proxy media and you can choose the percentage of that media, right? So it will reduce the quality of that footage, but it will make sure that you are able to edit smoothly. And when you are finally taking out or exporting the footage, it will link back to the original footage that you have, the a 100 GB or 200 GB worth of files and you will be able to add. So that's a bit of an advanced thing that, that happens, but I can always choose the percentage, like I can choose 12.5% or any other thing. But keep in mind when you use create proxy media, it is going to take time because proxy media finally got probable copy all the videos in your library and make smaller versions of those videos for you to easily edit. So I will not recommend this. Also, you can just leave it as it is. You don't need optimized media. You don't need create proxy media. You can just uncheck all both of these options, the files in its place. And what you need to do is import, select it. Okay? All right, so now that we have our footage imported already, you can see that I am able to actually see this footage. I'm able to see this footage as well. Perhaps it's still loading. You can see the loading oxygen loading bar that is working there. I'm sorry, this is my audio so you won't be able to see much. It's gonna take some time to populate depending on the size of your computer or the processors that you have or the RAM that you have. This process can take very less time. You don't need to worry too much about it. I can also go back and increase the size if I want, if I don't have many things. You can see that I've got this option here also. Now this is just the bare minimum or basic thing that happens within Final Cut Pro. Now you can see I have recorded myself using my camera, which I'm doing right now. And I've also recorded myself using the microphone. Right? So I've got two different sources that are recording audio for me. I use external microphone because the audio quality is better. The cameras are okay, but they're not that good. So if you want to have good audio quality and need to invest in an external microphone. And I've got the media that I'm going to be working with, the song that we are going to be working with. And my own video that I recorded for my YouTube channel. I'll put the link there channel in the description. You can take a look at what sort of videos I have edited for that particular channel. Now, in our next class, what we are willing to talk about is we're going to talk about how we can synchronize the audio from my camera and external recorder so that we get a very smooth and good sounding audio in our video. So we're going to start working on our project. I'll see you in the next one where we sync audio from external sources to internal sources and start working on our video project. I'll see you in the next one. Take good care of yourself. 5. Sync Audio and Video files: In our previous class, we move the footage from our external drive into Final Cut Pro and we are ready to actually start this. Now the first thing that I'll do within this project is synchronize both my external audio that I recorded using my external audio recorder. You can use your phone, you can use a lot of different things to the audio that was recorded using my camera that I'm using right now, Sony A7, any camera that you're using, the audio quality, although how much they claim the brand manufacturer, they claim that it's going to be really good. It's actually very limited. So I use external audio recorder in a studio setting like this. Let me just show you what I'm using and how this audio gets gets recorded. And I'm just going to use my phone here. Now what we're seeing here is my camera that I'm actually using. This is the camera a Sony A7 that are used and how it has its own memory card somewhere here. And all the audio that you're actually hearing great Now, it's coming from this camera. And I've also recorded the audio using my external recorder which is here. So I use my Zoom H5 handy recorder. Now this is a recorder. You can buy this as you can by pretty much any recorder, but this is, and I use this and I connect this to my abroad MDG 4 plus microphone there a lot of microservices directional microphone, which means anything in its direction and straight direction, it will record only that sound. Anything that is on the side will be discarded. So it will have a very clear sound you can, there are a lot of different recorders, but all the audio is recorded in this recorded it has its own memory card. So I take the memory card from here and a memory card from there and put that footage into my assets folder that we discussed. Now that we have that footage in our assets bin, we take that footage and put it in Final Cut Pro. And this is what we are going to see. Now you can see that I have elaborated here. You will be able to actually see in audio file that is here, and also video files. So remember, this video file also captured the audio. Let's listen to this and see what we have. You can always take this skimmer or this bar, this red bar, put it anywhere and press, click on it and press space bar and you'll be able to actually preview the footage. We are, yes, It's 1982. And there's rarer, this is our sort of erasure. Now, this is the audio that comes from the camera itself. I have audio from external audio. And Laura, welcome to reaction, Jack, thank you so much for clicking on this video. We are watching a beautiful song from a film called. Now, you can see that there's a difference between these audio signals and the audio that you get from external hardware is a lot better. You can take this external hardware to anywhere and use some sound effects like you want to, you want to record, you know, water tabs or you want to record rain or wind or anything you can actually use that you won't be able to use your in-built camera and microphone, that it doesn't matter what it comes with, will not be enough or not be sufficient. They are good enough to record audio like that. If you do strong microphone, that is not a problem. What we're doing here is trying to learn what the software is all about. Whatever you have you can utilize that the best camera is, the best audio recorder is the one that you have with you. You can use your fallen to have audio recording and then sync that using the technique that I'm about to actually show you. Now, there are a few ways to actually do that. Now before we do that, we need to move this footage here. But because we do not have any project that we have started, we need to create a new project for this. So I'm going to create a project, let's say. What should they named this? The video channel that I work on, his reaction check, I host that channel. I've been doing that for two or three years. And I've learned a lot of editing techniques using that particular channel. I've worked with other clients, also some freelance clients and, and the job that I actually do also requires me to use the softwares and do editing on a lot of difference opera. So I'm just going to share all that information in these classes with you. Now what we're going to do is we're going to look for and the aspect ratio. So by default, my computer actually gives me vertical. It should not be giving me that. You need to click on you to name your project and also video. You need to choose a 10 ADP ADHD. But that is what if it's chosen by default is great. But if it's not, need to make sure it's 1080 PhD. And I'm not gonna touch this and I'm going to click on, okay, but you see it's in the event, this is the event that we have this immense and make sure it's within the event. And we're gonna click, Okay, now we have our project. This is the project reaction check that I just made. So I'm just going to double-click this and let's see how we can view this for h, right? We've discussed this a while ago. Also. I can either view the footage here I'm like or what I can do is I can drag this footage. So you can see I have this footage on my timeline now. This is the photos that goes on. This is where all the editing will actually happen. I can zoom out of this area in order to zoom in. Or what I'm using is I'm using a trackpad so it's easy to zoom in and out. If you're using your Mac books or MacBook Air, you can use a track back to zoom in on the pinch in and out setting that you can definitely use. But with a magic mouse, you may not be able to actually zoom in or zoom out. So I'm going to show you how you actually can't do that. So let's say our footages here on the timeline. And I have this option called, let's just call it a window that it does something. What you'll see here in this window. Let me just this closer now so that you are able to see that. Okay. So what we have here is how your footage will appear on your timeline, right? For example, if I click on this, it will only show me the audio. So it will match for any audio. So it's, it's actually really good if you want to synchronize that odd year 8. The next option is you want to see a little bit of the video, but more of the audio. And then we have a little bit more. You have the video and the audio somewhat similar. You want to focus more on video. Maybe you're doing some other visual effects. So this is just the video that appears. I can go back here and I can do this and it will just minimize the world thing, right? But right now I'm actually doing. So I will take this. And you can also see that you can zoom in and out. So if you have on the mouse, this is the area unfortunately where you can actually use zoom in. Zoom in and out. Great. So that's, that's a bit of a thing I'm trying to figure out how to actually zoom in and out. If you know the technique, maybe you can comment using my magic mouse, which will be very good thing. Other thing that we have is how large or small you want this to appear. So you can always play with their setting and see which one works best for you. And once you choose that, it will use that as default for your lab for this particular libraries. And anytime you open this library, you will be able to actually see this view. So that depends completely on you. You have. But as we build this project, we will have more videos on top of each other, then you'll be able to actually see that. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take this and I am going to zoom in and show you something. Now you see these peaks that are appearing here. These are the peaks that I will use to synchronize them. What exactly are these peaks? Now anytime you record something and you want to make sure that it's recorded, it all be recorded on both the devices, your camera, and your external microphone. But you need to do something. You need to tell the software that this is the area where I want you to look for and see that is where remember those film where they have a clapper board. You can do the same thing with your hands. For example, when I'm synchronizing this, I will do this. And it will create a peak in both the waveforms on your camera, which is here, and also on your external recorder. What you can do is you can zoom in very carefully. Where did it go? I think there's too much. Let me show you a technique here. You see my, my cursor is all the way there. So I'm going to bring this here, put my mouse here. So anytime a woman, it will just focus on this area. So now you can see that these two peaks are somewhere here. I can always move the footage and make sure it's synchronized. We can see that this will not be synchronized here. So you can see that to some extent. Yeah. So now the footage is synchronized. Now this is a very tedious task. You don't have to, you will have to do that again and again. And it does not make a lot of sense. But finally got to draw has emitted a little bit easier for us to work with this. There are a lot of other softwares also because why not? I mean, your computers are fast and everything. So what I'll do is I'll select both the so you can either do this or you can click command and command. And you can right-click this option and click on Synchronize Clips. But you Synchronize Clips app is going to take the audio from an external recorder and the audio from your camera. Audio from your camera is going to match them. And it's going to look for all those similarities and peaks and do that for you automatically. You will not be a well-to-do. So another thing is disable audio competence from AB clips. So the audio from your camera will be disabled. So you will only hear good audio that is available for us. So what we're going to do is let's say we remove this press delete. I'm just going to make you listen this floor. Hello, and welcome to the Russian geography. So forking on this frequency, the audio is not really good. I am going to synchronize, sorry, I'm going to synchronize this audio here. And let's name this audio or video file. You can name it ended or you can just leave in Final Cut, Pro will tell you that already saved it. So I'm just going to click on this. And it's going to synchronize and the background for me and it'll create a new file. You see this audio sync video file. Now this file that was just created after we sync this, I can remove this actually from the timeline. It's very easy. You can click on it and press Delete. And now we have this new file with the audio. I'm going to bring this here. Or do you think So now you will be able to actually hear the difference. I'm not sure how clear the difference is with these microphone, but it's weak. Final Cut Pro has, Hello and welcome to the final good progress. Synchronize this audio for me and I am now able to actually use or synchronized. So this is how you synchronize external and internal, external and camera audio together. And to get a better thing, this sounds better. Remember, if your video has really bad sound, people will not watch that video because sound is a major part of your, of your visuals, right? Without sound, you're just watching us Allan for him and he won't make sense. Again, this is just an optional thing. If you have an external recorder, you can directly connect that to your camera. A lot of these recorders we'll come and connect to the camera. Required within your camera. I prefer recording outside the camera, and this is the setup that I have as you become advanced filmmaker or you go deep into film making or editing software, you will be able to actually understand this. Perhaps I will make, of course in the future about how you can synchronize these audios or what is the purpose of these audio recorders? But this is what we were supposed to do in this particular class. I'll see you in the next class where we start arranging our timeline, where we start working on this project. We will start seeing what exactly we are able to do within this tunnel. I'll see you in the next one. Take good care of yourself. 6. Select your media with In and Out Points: In our previous class, we talked about synchronizing audio from external microphone or external handled headquarter. In this class, we will talk about the timeline, how it works, how do you select footage and what exactly you can do on this timeline that makes you a video that viral, that next viral video. So I'm back on my Final Cut Pro project. For the sake of this class. Just going to turn this off. Let's say you have a blank slate. I'm going to go back to my project that we had here. Remember we had that folder. I had assets and all assets that we're using in our project. And we've got Final Cut Pro Library. And I am going to click on Skillshare class library, which we created in this class earlier. So once I open that up, I can click on my first event that is here. And you can see all these videos that I'd been selected. You can also, here if I raise my volume a little bit, you can here, as I am skimming, there's audio also being played. And now this is a feature that you may not see in other softwares. It hasn't it, you can turn it off depending on what you have. But you can always skim through a browser. So let's say if you have a lot of drawing charts are a lot of shots that you want to go through very quickly. You don't want to stop and watch. You can just skim through this and find the woman that you actually like and use that moment. It's very fast way of actually doing that. You can turn this off by clicking here. So there are two ways. One, you can actually click on this and it will stop the skimming off the audio and video. Or if you just want the audio to be turned on because it can be a little bit annoying. You can hear that it was really fast forward. You can switch that off by clicking here on this option. So it will switch off the audio skimming, but you will still be able to actually skim your video, which is a good feature depending on what you want, what you don't want, you can do that. Okay? What are we going to do is we're going to select the endpoint and out point in this particular video. You can do it in a lot of different views. I can go ahead and maybe zoom in a little bit like this and tried to see, but you can see that there are wave forms that I'm able to actually see. Or I can click on this other view that is here. And it can maybe start my audio and see what I'm wondering. What I'm trying to do here is I have let's say you have a lot of footage and you want to pick the points that you want to work on because a lot of the footage that you are going to work with is not going to be usable, right? So you want to use the footage that you feel is appropriate or maybe those shots or those angles that you feel is appropriate here, what I'm looking for is I'm looking for that intro bit that I talk about. And I'm going to move that bit into my timeline. I can do the whole thing. I can just take this footage here that is, that is with us or maybe I can just go back to make things easier. Let's go back to this view and I'm going to change how big it looks. I can always take this footage. I have to open my project rate. I can click on my project. You see this empty. I can always take this footage and bring it here. So I've gotten the entire foot is that is here. And I can zoom in and find the place where I want to work on and pretty much do the thing, but I'm not gonna do that. And this is one way of actually doing it. You can see the peaks and everything. But a lot of editors, in order to save time, what they do is they create some in and out points. The video will start from here and will end in a specific place, and that is what we are going to do. So I'm going to go back to this view and I want to see, I want to few more. So you can see I'm able to actually see the audio waves also. So let's play this footage press space bar. So I did this. I don't need this part because I've already sync the audio. Remember this is the synchronize four digits that we are working with. Hello and welcome. Hello and welcome to the actual Jack. Thank you so much. In this video, we are watching a beautiful song from a film called Beiyang go moldy of relying on this. Okay, so let's say, I want this to end here and begin here somewhere here. Let's go ahead and welcome. Okay, So you see, I don't need this bit here. I only need the bit that starts here. So I am going to create an endpoint here. I can just do press I, and it will create an endpoint that you see here. And then I'm going to click in on this. Anywhere your scrubber is, you press plays on, start filling that role, play and go moldy. He lie. Lie. Okay, this is where I want it to end. I can just press O, and you can see that this yellow bar appears over the yellow rectangle or a bracket sort of thing or a selection of appears. Now this is the selection that I can actually remember. This is my timeline. This is the entire footage and this is just part of selection. I can press Delete on my timeline and it will disappear. Now, I can see this hand icon that appears here. I can slowly move this footage here. So you can see now I've selected that footage and only this bit here, reaction jerk 30. So much for clicking on this video, we are watching a beautiful song from a film called baryon and go. Okay, Now this is one way of selecting the Fordist. So you've got in point and our point, I can do the same for other videos. For example. This other video that I had, okay, this one. So let's say I want to do the same thing here with this video. So let's say I like this guy playing guitar. I'm going to click on AI. And then I'm going to find a point where I want to end and I want to click OK. And now this is the footage that I can work with or I can always take this footage and move it here, the timeline. And you can see I introduce this song by, I talked about what this video is going to be above. Now I want you to have this song over here that I'm going to work on. So you can see that you can do this for a lot of different things. You can choose any part and EBIT, and you can press I and move to the bid that you like and press O. So it's ION, endpoint and out point. And you can drag that foot edge all the way here. And it makes your life a little bit easier, right? You can play with this settings, you can play with this option, and you can always zoom in and out. Remember here, we can always do that. You want to watch the entire thing. You may want to increase the size here, or you may want to increase this so that you can see the wave form. So this is an option where you can play with this setting and move it in and out. And that is a very basic way of working with what is you can use the footage that you haven't dropped onto your timeline. You can always go through that footage and select endpoints and out points and then move them to this timeline. And you will be able to actually, I mean, this is where the project begins, right? And this is where the time that it will happen. This is the mean storyline where everything that you are going to work on will be connected to this. I can add effects on this drone line. I can add other videos. I can add titles, I can add introduction videos. There are a lot of things we are able to do now that we know how to select service is selecting your footage endpoint and our point. And in our next class we'll discuss what are some other ways of selecting your footage, working on the timeline, and how do you manage your time then what exactly goes on here in this area? Because once you move before the edge, now this is where you are going to start working on. I'll tune the next order. 7. Speeding up your Media Selection : In our previous lesson, we talked about in and out points how you can select footage. Now, in this lesson, we are going to bring that footage onto our timeline and do other things to make our project look absolutely amazing. This is where we are going to actually start working on this project. Now, I'm going to go back to my Final Cut Pro screen. This was the last in and out points are the things that we actually brought in. I'm just going to select all of this footage and press Delete, and it will go away. Now I'm going to go back to my project here. Remember, we can just make it large or small. But what I wanna do now is I want to have reference of audio. Where does it start and where does it end? And I want to work with that because it's a lot more because I need to know what I'm talking about because this video is of that nature. If you're just working with visuals, let's say you're working with a drone image or some other sort of real that you're working on. You only need the visuals, you don't need the audio, only recorded the visuals, then you don't need to do that, but I needed, so what I'm gonna do is I'm going to zoom in a little bit more than that. Okay, that's the maximum they can go. And I know that I can skim through this video and see what it is. Remember this part where we synchronize on this? Or do you think I don't need this? I don't need this to be in my video, so I'm not going to bring it on my town. I can if I want to, but I'm not gonna do that. I'm just going to, Let's say synchronized from here. I'm just going to leave a little bit of space. For the sake of this example, I will not do that, but let me just leave a little bit of space and press I as a point, I know my video is now going to start from and remember, I want to bring this here, so I am wanting to tell the software that I want you do bring this video starting from here all the way to the other part. Now I'm going to click Play. Welcome, hello and welcome to the action check. Thank you so much for clicking on this video. We are watching a beautiful song from a film called by Yan'an go Moody. He lie. Now this, okay, now this is the intro part of my video. Moody, he lie. Now, I know that this is where I'm supposed to end the antral and go into my channel banner like where I tell people you're watching ABC Channel or you watch a match color. I know this is the place where I need to end. I'm just going to press O, and that is where the footage will end. And now I can drag this footage here to my timeline. And this is what you see, or what I can do is pay very close attention to this one. I will press this footage on the town that and press Delete. And then I'm going to go here and I'm going to work with some shortcuts that will make my life a little bit easier. What you see here, remember, we have not talked about this yet, but these small options that you actually see are used to bring the foot it. So let's say you selected this footage and there are different options that you can work with. There we have an option, Connect and select include two primary storyline. What is a primary story-line? This is the primary story-line. Anything that goes up or below is a secondary storyline. This is not part of, so everything that will happen will be here. I don't want I want this footage to be part of the primary storyline. One way is to just drag and it will automatically go into, It's a magnetic timeline. It will snap to this primary storyline, so I don't want this option. The next thing is, if I hover over this, it says insert the clip in the primary storyline on selected storyline. So what I'm going to do is this is what my clip is. And the shortcut for this, it tells me is W. So I'm going to click on this particular option and click W. Remember, it brought the footage only where my cursor was. If I put my cursor here and I click on this again, this is the selected in and out point and I press W, it will only bring the footage where my cursor was. So let's say I want to put something in between. I feel that a, this will be a better option. If I put something in between this clip, I can again put my cursor here. And remember, not the skimmer. This is the skimmer. This is your timeline cursor you can call it. It will only bring the footage where your cursor is, where your main cursor is, not the schema. So I'm going to press this again, and I'm going to press W, and it is going to bring that thing here. All right. If I want to do that manually, I will not be able to do that because either I put it on top or I put it somewhere here in between. So I bring the footage, you see this small strip, it is connected so it will know where to actually put in the footage. I can bring it here and it will automatically make space for me. And I couldn't be able to do that in order to save yourself from doing that, you can do that. I'm just going to press Delete for Hall. Now my cursor is at the very beginning. I'm going to press W and it's going to bring the footage right here. Now, that is one way of bringing your footage onto the timeline. I can again play around with this and see what we have. Let's go back to our main footage and see what we have. Icann E, I can just extend this if I want. So I know from here all the way here is my footage because I record this, I have an idea, but let's say you don't want this, you want to have selected footage. So what we can do is we can really welcomed, Hello and welcome to reaction, Jack, thank you so much for clicking on this video. We are watching a beautiful song from a film called, let's say you have a podcast video on that can be an hour long, so you need to make sure that watch that video and find out where the mistakes are and you remove those mistakes from there. There is a very easy way to do that. Also, what you can do as you can press L, hello and withdrawal currently know and welcome to reaction, Jack, thank you so much fork. And you can press L twice and it will increase the speed of what you're viewing. So for example, video, we're watching a beautiful song from a film called Yunnan golden leaves layer. Now this is a film that was actually released the way back in 1982. Isn't a requirement. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. And I would record is going to be using you can even increase the speed by pressing L three times quickly. For example, number 1 there I just mammals, we were told it was worth it. This will, because I'm making basically going to be great because it doesn't really hurt. But he's looking at is the one that you are working with the whole age. So this is where it ends. Now what I wanna do is I want to bring this footage from here, all the way here. And I want to drag this footage to this place. And this is what I wanna do. And this is simple. I know that this is where the intro ends and then I want this voltage to begin somewhere in-between. I want like channel and stuff like that. That is what I'm going to put here. But what I'm gonna do instead of dragging this footage, which is easy to do that, you can also use a shortcut. And we will go back to this place. You see this place where the third option was appendices, regular primers that are aligned on so that distorted. And so what will happen is when you press E, So we've got a shortcut E. It is going to put the footage at the end of previous for it. So it is going to begin. Delete this again, and I'm going to zoom in a little bit. And what I'm gonna do is I'm going to give you a demonstration. So we've got shortcuts of W and E for W, it will connect it to the main story line, and it will only put the stuff where your cursor is. For example, I press W, it is going to divide this using it divided this. So here and here it came in between because my cursor was here and I want to remove that and press control Z. And I'm going to instead click on press E. When I press E, it is going to bring it. It doesn't matter where my cursor is. It is always going to put the footage at the end of that. So you can play around with that and figure it out for yourself. What exactly does what I'm going to remove the rest of the thing. So now I know that I have made really good progress when it comes to my timeline. I selected that integral for my for my, for my video and also the rest of the part. But somewhere here, I want to add more things. I want to, I want to be able to add maybe my channel intro and all the other things that I'm able to do in this timeline. Again, when you are browsing this timeline, you can also press L Jacque. Thank you so much for, you know, we are building the tiny little song for the phone call, or young girls is like k, two parts. So it's always going to be L care. I use ELE, hello and hello and welcome to your care. And you can play around with this setting. It's very easy and these are some of them. You can also press through your beautiful iss bar with Spacebar again. And if you want to rewind, you can press a JSON, it's gen chem. So the shortcut is that we are working with our JK, JK, LZ on the timeline anywhere and see what effects they actually bring about in your, in your projects. In our next class, what we are going to discuss is we will, we will try to work with this timeline and try to edit it a little bit more to get what we want. Maybe add some effects and see how we can use different tools to cut this on this timeline and start making this project and start moving to the next level. I'll see you in the next class. Take good care of yourself. 8. Assembling your timeline: In our previous class, we learned about in and out point the shortcuts that we can use to bring the footage to the timeline and also how we can speed up the footage. In this class, I want to lay out the primary timeline of primary story-line onto our final Cut Pro project and then we started working on it. So what I'm gonna do is I, you know, for a fact that this area that I have in my video, I'm just going to select that until I start speaking again. You see there's there's this area where I am not talking, I am not speaking. This area between here, there's a few bits, this is where my intro bit ended. And from here all the way here, I know from my experience that I'm not talking here. And this is the bit that I want to move to my timeline, but I don't want it anywhere in between, any place. I want this to appear here. So I'm just going to press E and bring this footage here. So now I have the footage. I have three different footages I am going to work with. Now what I wanna do here is I know that I am going to put something here. I want to have like them internal bid leg with texts coming in and out and stuff like that. I want to leave that here. What I want to do here is I want to leave a note for myself. So I'm going to put a marker here and then tell myself that this is the area where I want to work with. So I'm just going to press M. That is the shortcut. I'm going to press this, press M and you see that there will be a marker somewhere here. I'm just going to press Control Z and I want to bring my here. That is where my marker is. I'm going to double-click on this marker and perhaps wan to make some notes here. Let's say I want to have intro for the channel. Markers are a good way of reminding yourself. So you know that you need to put something here on this particular timeline. Or another way of doing this is you leave some space. So I'm going to leave marker here. Let's say you wanna do something. For example, you're looking at this footage and I want to put a marketer here and remind myself what it is. Puts some added footage here. So I know that I need to put some footage here and all that stuff that happens here, right? And what I'm gonna do is I'm going to complete this thing here. Now I know that I've done this. I'm going to choose an in point here and a go bag and I'm going to press I. And then I know till the end of the video like something here, I turn off my camera and I want to bring this footage at the end. So now I actually have my primary storyline which is selected from here. I can always, and remember, I chose all this from this footage here I'm going to zoom out. This is one video and I selected that the bits that I wanted to use for my video in one by one, I brought them to this main story line. This is what you are wanting to know whether your video project also, let's say you have you have with V log that you are shooting. So you have this primary storyline where you are talking and anything else that the B-roll footage or are you talking about this very beautiful castle that you went to or maybe went to this very amazing beach that you are doing. You're talking about anyone? John top. So you will have that main story line somewhere here and anything that you want to add or you want to show when you are talking about it, it will be above this. So that is what we are going to do as we create this project a little bit more. In our next class, we will try to refine this timeline and tried to make it a little bit tape and start working with the tools like the Oblique tool, how we can move footage from one place to another. Some interesting tips and tricks that we will be talking about in our next class. I'll see you in the next one. 9. Refining your timeline footage: In our previous class, we assemble the timeline, the main storyline that we're going to work on in this class, we will see how we can use different tools to refine this timeline and maybe at some other additional things like an introduction or maybe add some titles to this particular timeline that we have. So let's jump into the timeline and see what we have in Final Cut Pro. Again, we discuss that we have a library and within library we've got an event. An event has a project file which we are working on here. Now this is a timeline we got from this particular bit we used in and out options in and out point and then drag them all the way to the timeline using different shortcut keys. Now let's see what we can do here. Now if I begin this particular video here. And we'll think you saw what you saw here is that the first bit is not required. I need to start from here. So if I zoom in a little bit, this is the place where I should be starting from two here. So I know this is the place where I shouldn't be starting this thing, officer or kinky. Hello. Okay. This is the place where I should be starting. Now, anything before this can be removed, we have another option here. You can see that there are a lot of different tools that we can actually use. We've got a Select tool which you are working on most of the time, which you have open anyway. The shortcut for that is a and then we have the Blade tool where the shortcut for that is B. What blade tool does is that you will see that the icon will change. If I press a again, which is for our Select tool, and I press B, which is for our blade tool, I can make a cut here. It's very simple. I can go back to my tool and press this, press delete, and it's gone. And I made a change very, very quickly. It's that simple. This is how you, you can't use the blend tool, anything here in this particular place, the library panel, but you are able to actually use these tools here. So I'm going to press Control Z and I'm going to remove this blade cut here. So now we don't have anything. There is however, another way that you can actually do this. You can also see if you go to the end of the clip, you can bring the clip called the way to the play head. And that is where you're now going to start here. So I just made that change without using the blade tool. Now, depending on what you're working on, you can always do that. And another way of actually doing this is you see the clip starts from here. If you want to cut anything from here between the start of the clip and where your play head is, you can always press the shortcut of option left bracket. So anything on the left of this play head will be removed. And let me just do a Control Z again. Take a look at this option. Left. Anything that was on left is removed until the playhead. And if I use the same shortcut with Option plus right brackets or anything on the right of the clip will be removed and you will not see that. So it's gone, it's deleted from your time that you don't have to see that again, I'm going to press Control Z and bring back what we had before. So here what we have, I'm just gonna do, let's just do a simple but here, let's just move this footage here. We have a lot of different ways of doing it. We'll do it a bit more later during our class. So let's see what we haven't broken through reaction here, things going wrong. This video we are working with beautiful song from a film called okay. Now this is where my intro ends. And I've already made a marker note here that I want to have the intro for this channel. So let's go into our assets and see if I can find intro. So in order for me to look into my assets, I just scroll down and see for myself what exactly is available. Okay, so I've got this, I've got the song, but I don't have acid. I know I have got this thing here. Let's go back into the folder and see. Okay, so I've got the audio, external audio, I've got my mean audio or video file and then out of the video that I'm working on, and I also have this. So I need to figure that out. I need to find that intro. I've already made that integral, but that file is not available here. But I already have a template that I have worked on before. And I know in that template library, I have put all the assets that I need on a daily basis, like subscribe button or any other thing. So let's just open that and see if I can just drag and drop from there. So I'll just open this template. And you can see that this template library has opened up. And there are a lot of things that I can see I've made this very quickly. I also have some other related, this is the channel logo that I use. I also have this that I am using the past, but this is the channel intro video that I want to use. There are a few ways of doing that. I can bring my cursor where the midpoint is, where the marker is. And I can remember our shortcut, which is W. It will ask me, you are moving this footage from one library to another. Do you want to do that? I yes, I really wanna do that. So I'm just going to move that bit here. I'm gonna move it here. Let's see, plus w. Okay? Yes. Okay, so it just added that without me, I could have done that in another way also, I can just drag and put it here in between and I'm done. It will ask me again for doing that. Okay, So that is my intro. So our video is looking good. We have made the intro and the channel. Now we need to continue. Let's see what else do we have? Now? I don't need to watch this in its own speed. I can always press L twice to get to faster speed. You don't go up the line. Weight in bad. Okay, now, I have already done that. I want to start from this as a film. Okay? Now this is where a half. All I can do is I can click here and you see the cursor changes. I can drag it all the way here. Or what I can do is I can press the blade tool and make a cut here and press Select Tool again, press a and then delete this. The timeline will automatically adjust to that particular thing. So you don't need to worry about that. Way back in 1982. Okay, now, I want to have something, what I'm talking about this film, I want to bring something from, from the top. I want to bring a poster of this film. So what I can do is as a reminder, I can put a marker here and say film bolster. Remember, I am just making this timeline right now. I'm, I'm just finding it. I'm making sure that I get all the information that is required before I can make more changes. So this is where I'll put something. So this is just a reminder. In the variables will be using is what we've got here. We've got a lot of sort of coursework for this week or something, but rather as a religion I was already heard about and it was Martin students. We're gonna have to do you remember what we had was because I was the difference. Cinders, what we're going to have some pretty good music, unaware of the fact that he is suffering from leukemia. Now this is a piece of information that I feel was really surprising to me when I read about this particular song. So I'm just going to make a marker here and say, maybe adjust. Or let's say I would say important info. This is just for me. So I'm just going to add that information here and keep more important the number that's associated with a zombie. Okay? Here. I said subscribed for that. Okay. And then we move on to the next clip. All right, so now I know that before the song begins, I have to make a few things here. I need to maybe put a subscribe option here. So maybe I'll put markers here, put. So Option. And click Done. And now I have made some changes. Now our timeline is looking good. We have removed some of the things. We can refine it even more if we want. But let's move on to the next clip and see what we have. I know that this is the bit where the song will start, but I want to know when exactly the song starts. Well, you're starts. Yeah. Okay. This is where I press the space bar and you can see that the So there is a wave or there is a cliff that is here. And I know this is where the song will start. So this is the cue for me to bring that song that I'm going to watch for the reaction channel. All right, so now I have this adjustment also. Now we're going to move ahead and go all the way to the end of this. Or maybe what we can do is we can bring the song that we have from the top. I have made some in and out points here. I'm just going to move them. Okay? Now, I can move this and bring it here. So this is where the song will start. So I've talked about the song. I think it's a drag again, subscribed for that. Now, you can't see me because the video is on top of my video and there's nothing we can do. So what I'm gonna do is for now, I'm going to make it invisible so I can press V for visibility. On and off. You click on the clip that you want to make it invisible, you press V. We, you can do that. So I know that this video will somehow end up here, so okay, we've got this video. We know that we are going to be watching this video. I just need to make more adjustments here, but this is where the song will end. So I don't need to do that. So what I'm gonna do is again, I'm going to go in and make changes here. Now I've got the last bit that I need to work on. You can see that there are a lot of waveforms. This was a great surprise that I didn't not know that this is a song called, okay, I know that I start from here. I'm just going to bring this to my cursor. So this is where the song ends. It was a great surprise that I did not note that this is often goes by the light of the written the rotor current in Britain handlers you don't like them are border, which are mostly it's already an aid use because it's not that there's something else going on and what ever you want just these amazing. So I'm going to be tribes in the batch norm and finish our webinar your business, you, you sort of inanimate yet known as actually say but not listening to a song in SQL is for the winnings voice and enjoyed it. I mean, I think it was good because that gives back. Okay. I had enjoyed it. I mean, it was, it was good for listening to this song in SQL. This is where I've made me want to put a picture of the singer. Then I'm talking about not listening to songs in asynchronous women's voices. And I was like, it wasn't like her husband and openness to the republics gets out, was that was also it's out his liver would have to deal with well, I mean, we're all, I think about it and it's all about music. It's actually really, I don't know much about these, these actors that are there, that little pedagogical reasons, national business like it's always do a guitar. It was misleading because it doesn't know me, I suppose really good actors. I mean, I know it started influence written, played with at-risk kids really when the vocabulary put it on the actual, don't know what they're doing and how it was kind of it when you get to pretend that there that really bothers me. Blush. Well, I think it was necessarily putting a little bit more. Let me go to Google's own because you get to the group here was only going to go backwards here. Because you're all right. Okay, so now I have made some minor adjustments to this timeline. And in our next video, we are going to work more on this timeline and try to refine it and bring more and more stuff that can make this even more interesting to actually watch. We'll work on how we crop the image is and how we can make sure that two videos can exist side-by-side. I'll see you in the next one. Take good care of yourself. 10. Adding titles and images: In our last class, we discussed where the cuts are going to happen. I'm pretty happy with how the timeline looks now it's still not perfect, but I'm actually getting somewhere and I'm sure if you are editing your particular piece right now, you may have done something with that piece where you are at a point where you say, okay, this is something that is going to work for me. Now let's get back into our timeline and see what we have here for now. Now, previously we had this introduction badge, right, where I actually talk about. And then you see that transition happens. Now, when this transition happens, you see that it's very blank. People don't know who I am. Perhaps if you're watching it for the very first time, they will not know who I am. I want to add something here, maybe a, a lower third where I can see my name at the bottom. Let's see what we have. So let me just click here on our tidal effect. And we have a lot of titles that we can actually work with. But I'm going to go for built in and out or maybe I can go straight for lower thirds. Now in Lower Thirds, you will have a lot of options. You can always hover your mouse here and there, whatever you like, you may be able to actually put that there. Maybe. What I'm looking at is something very basic and simple. Let's say I like this. I want to put it somewhere here. And once I do that, you can see that it is now connected to my timeline. It appears here, but that is not what, that is not the text that I want, right? There are two ways of actually editing that. You can click on this element here, on your timeline and double-click here. And then you can change the name to let say. And double-click on description, reaction check, that's the name of the YouTube channel that I host, and that's the video that I'm actually editing for. That's one way of doing that. You can also make other changes. If you do not like this font, you can always come to the inspector, which we talked about this area. And you can change font, you can do a lot of different things with this. But since these are built in, in fact, you are welcome to actually play with them and see what makes more sense. But what I wanted to tell you is, you can always change the font or the typeface that appears here. A few Dora is an amazing font. But maybe I want to go for something which is, which is more in line with what I want for my channel. And maybe Helvetica is something that I like. Maybe I can change this one as well to Helvetica where it's elevated. Go. There you go. So you can actually change these fonts. You can also, perhaps when you double-click on it or maybe you can see here, you can change the size of these elements, how they appear. Maybe I'm happy with this. Now this is just an example. You can always leave it as a days or maybe you want to change it, you can definitely do that also. So maybe let's just play and see what we have on this video. We are watching a beautiful song from a film called. Now here you can also put your subscription button. Let's say you want to have maybe a YouTube button or maybe a channel, or maybe something that you want. Maybe you want to put some Instagram options available here. And this is where you see that you can make a few changes. You can also change the color of the font. If you, if you feel like perhaps you want to go for something different, you can see changing, but I'm going to leave it at at where it was black is enough for me. I don't want to mess with any other thing, but it's completely up to you can create a style if you want. I can always delete this by pressing Delete and maybe go for something that is more suitable for the channel like this. Maybe I want to have something like this, and the same thing goes here. I can always put my name here. So that's the name of my channel, right? If you're not happy with this, you can just delete this. You can always play with anything that appears here. You can. But I think what I'm going to do, okay, this one, I'm just going to use this and see what we get here. I like it. I like it where it looks like. And maybe three action check. All right, and again, you can change the font if you want here you can change the color of the font. All of those things are available. You can also change the other settings that are available. Maybe I want to change the x axis, right? This particular form. So you can always play with this transform option, but these are ill been a built in texts or lower thirds. And you can have, you can also have like third party. Lower thirds, you can create your own, you can get them from websites. But as you get more advanced in these final editing skills, you will be able to create your own Lower Third, whether your own kind of thing. But now this is something basic and you can always use this particular option. If you have. You can always see by changing the tracking, I can, I can move it a little bit. Maybe this is something I like. What about line spacing? Okay, that might be applicable, but I wanted to see if I can change the baseline. There you go. You can always move this also. Maybe there's something I like. What else do we have? Rotation? Let's play with the rotation. Okay? I can, I can always change this. I mean, this is fine. I mean, this, this actually just having this part. And if you're able to actually do some keyframing, you can create your own animation within this particular thing. Other than that, you can make them 3D if you want, you can see that it will appear a bit different. If I increase the size here of my window, I move here. So you can see that it has a bit of a 3D sort of effect. I can always disable it and you can see that it changes. I can do it the same width in my name changes if you like it. You can always like it. But this is something that you get that is readily available in Final Cut Pro. But I think I'm pretty happy with what I have here. And I'm going to move forward and see what we have on this video. We're okay. Now, the next thing is, the next thing. What I want to do is I want to end. This is my introduction, but I also made a marker here where a film poster, I'm actually talking about this film, right? So it makes sense that I get a poster that appears here. And I'm able to maybe visually show the people what sort of movie I'm talking about. So what I'm gonna do is I am going to go back to my library, which is here. And I have downloaded the poster. And I'm going to bring that poster. I'm here to this place. Now you can see that the size of this poster is quite, quite large, right? And I want to change this. Now. What do you move this here? You will have an option to again going to transform and you can always reduce the size of this poster. Maybe move it in x-axis, and that's what you get. So it's a very basic and simple option that you have. I can always remove this and bring it back and do it one more time. You can see that it's big. I can go into you can change the color also if you want. This is the color panel, but we will be working here with this. You can always zoom in. I can zoom out. Could change x-axis or y-axis. And I can do this, but it'll be fun, right? If, if I could just introduce this and quickly comes from top leg and stops here. And then maybe I can add some sort of sound effect that, that'll be really interesting. Let's see what are some other ways that you can actually play and manipulate to this environment? I can delete this from my timeline and bring this back here. And what I wanna do this time is, um, I actually want to see this option. I want introduce this option called Transform tool. There are a couple of things is a drop-down menu here. There's Transform, crop and distort. Actually what you have here. It's basically sort of a shortcut to move this element in its space without manually going and doing each and everything on your own in transform option. So it's a very simple thing. I can always click on this by default, it should be transformed. So you have to click on the image and then click here. And then you will see a small sort of dots on the size that you can play with. Always move it from any side and it will automatically move it. But if you go from the edges right, it will do a uniform zoom out for you. I am pretty happy with this. You can see I can also move this in this space, so I don't need to go manually and do my x-axis and y-axis, I can just move it by myself. Let's start to do it one more time. I'm going to delete this and I'm going to bring this back here, assuming I have not moved anything and this thing is not option is not clicked. I click on this, click on Transform tool, and I can go at the bottom and zoom out and place this item here. Maybe I want to increase the size a little bit. Okay? And that is what we will see way back in 1982. Okay, so now what we have here is that we have this option that appears in pops up here. But I want to add some sound effects also. I can go to my sound option here. I've got sound effects like we discussed. Final Cut Pro will come with its inbuilt sound effects, and I can always use one of the sounds. Could worship is a good sound. I'm going to decrease my volume. You can see that there are a lot of different sounds, but I'm actually not a happy rated using this. So what I've done is I have downloaded a sound effect pack. I'm going to bring that, I'm going to press command. I finally got Pro, I am going to go in my assets. And then what I want is I want this whoosh sound effect. So you can see it's a video that are downloaded off of YouTube. It was free and I downloaded and it gives me a lot of different worst sound effects that I feel are more appropriate for my project. But this one also has a video. So let's see what, how, how this turned out. So I'm gonna go back and find where this war some effect is. Okay, this one. All right. Now what I have here is maybe just, let me just increase the size of this. You can see that there is a sort of an if already a market, it should not be here, but I believe I hadn't before this class, so I added some effect for myself. So let me just play this. But what I like here is this. This is a sound effect that I like. What I will do is I'll press I for endpoint and where it ends up press O. Now, I can easily move this and bring it here. But the problem is, it comes with the video, right? I mean, it's okay because as long as you put it underneath your timeline, anything above will be the one that will be primarily video and you will be able to see only that. But what I want is I do not want the video for this. I would rather want only the sound. There's one way of doing that. You can always come here to this option. You can see you can only bring down the video or audio. I'll just go for audio. Let's say just want to have video or audio from a clip. Like in this case, I want the sound effect. I can bring this and try to match it here with my effect. So let's see. I want this to appear. Okay, so that's good. I can decrease the volume a little bit ago. So once that is done, I can move this here. Now in order for him to do this, I can click on this press Option on your keyboard and move the footage with your mouse and leave it here. And then you will be able to copy this so you can press the voltage, I mean, select the footage, press Option on your keyboard and then you can easily move. So a little copy the photos that you have, doesn't matter what you have. I can do the same thing, year option and then drag. And there you go. That is what I did here also. So now here I'm going to match this as it leaves. So maybe I want this. So okay, so now you see that I added Title. I mean, not the title, but a lower third. I also added some effects, sound effects with this data, we also move this and it's in this area. And also we have a few more options that we need to bring in and play it. So in our next class, we will try to bring a subscribe button and perhaps move it in its 3D space, or maybe in the space that we have and tried to see how we can perhaps bring some sound effects to that subscribe button. Also, I'll see you in the next one. 11. Add transitions to your media: In our previous class, we learned how to add lower thirds to our main timeline and also added a few images. I mean, there's a lot you can do with those images in this class, we are going to focus on perhaps adding like a subscribe option and then play around with our transform tools like we did in our previous class and see what is possible when we play with some transition. So let's jump into this one and see what we have. In our previous class. We did add some titles and it looked pretty decent to me. I mean, this is just basic stuff. You can always add more titles by going into our titles option here you can add credits elements that a lot of things that you can do, but this is something basic. I mean, I'm, I'm doing that for my channel, so it's very basic stuff. And then I have this clip that is in-between, that is the introduction or intro for my YouTube channel. And then we added a poster. Now what I wanna do is I also want to remind people to subscribe. And I know from my markers that this is a place where I want to put the sub button. Now, I already have the subscribe button. I'm just going to decrease size and maybe move this a little bit here. Now, I already have a subscribe button here, and that is a video that plays. Okay, that's not bad. Let's look at it one more time. Because it's a video. It comes with audio as well. And I am pretty happy with the kind of sound effect that this particular show has or this particular green screen has. What I'm gonna do is I am going to drag this all the way here, and this is where I want this to appear. Well, RA, you remember what we did in the last class? We only allowed audio to be brought to the timeline, right? So I want to actually import audio and video together because both these components are important and necessary for this step. Okay, What I wanna do here is I want to actually remind people that they need to subscribe. But what you see here is because it's green screen. Okay? Well here, the problem is this green-screen is taking over everything. But that is, there is a solution to that. I downloaded this off of YouTube. It was copyright-free. The person who uploaded this was, was giving this away. I'll put a link to this particular green screen Subscribe button. Also, there will be a lot more that you can actually find. But if you want to find it, you find it in the description of this particular class. Now I'm going to go into my settings option. Remember we talked about these effects and transitions that we can actually play with. And here you, under videos, you need to look for effect called keying. And now KIA and blue murkier. I do not know what is the difference between these, but I do know that if I drag this onto this, it is going to remove the green screen and I shouldn't be able to actually see my myself on the video. But the problem here is that this is too big. I don't know if I'm, I mean, I can't be happy with this, but we also learned about the transform tool that we can work with that I click on this. If this is not highlighted, I can always click on it again and it turned blue. And then I can play around with loops here a little bit. Then I can play around with the size, can always put it somewhere. I feel is more appropriate. Maybe I wanted to use this cream, this side, increase the size for this. And now we can see, great. Now I don't need to do much because this was already part of the video, it was animated already. I just had to remove the green screen, which I did by just moving the gear on the green skin, this will only work on something which is green. If, if, if anything that you had was not green, it it is not going to work. I have not tried it on other colors, but I know for sure that it works on green. I do not want to investigate a lot more. Why exactly that happens? That is more of a different kind of I'm live for an editor. But this is what we did. I mean, we have this step here where the option appears. This will not appear but in our regular view. Okay, so now this is what I get when I put this here. I can move this now anywhere I want. And the subscribe button will appear. I can have it in multiple places. I press option and then drag and drop this anywhere I want. And then it can appear in multiple places. So you can always copy this and bring it to a place where you want. Now, the other thing that we are going to. Actually discuss is, remember when we had these my intro coming in like this. You may not be able to actually see this. I'm not sure if you are, but this intro already has. If I go very slowly, this intro is coming from the bottom and then settling here and then happening. Then when I go to the end, you can see that this intro is coming from top and the bottom. I want to do something similar here, since I already have the sound effect that I have, what I want is I want this picture or image. When I mentioned this, I want this to come from top and come and slant. I mean, like stop somewhere here. But I want to have some effect. So we are going to apply a transition effect. You can apply a transition effect between clips and the same principle will apply, but I want to apply it through and there's an effect to this particular picture that I had because I only want to animate or move this image in this area. I'm going to click on my transition option here, transition browser. And then there are a lot of transitions that you can see that it appear here, right? For example, let's say I put a lens of layer here. I'm not sure it will make sense, but you can see did something right, but that is not an appropriate transition that I actually want me to be static. Let's see what happens inside. You get the idea you can play with setting and we're going to just do things with static. But what I want is, I want, I want movements. I want this picture to move from one place to another. And what I'll do is I'm going to look for some thing like Porsche, maybe Porsche going to be right. Slide. Let's try to put smear and see what we get. Let's see if I can put. Before I put slide, I want to put spin and see what we get. Okay, not bad. That's not bad, isn't it? It appears from somewhere mysterious and land where we want. Okay. You're happy with this, you can't do that. But I generally like slight options because light options are in a way a lot more. I'll say a lot better. So let's play with this. Let's see what we have. I can always increase the size or the speed at which this transition happens, right? So I can increase it all the way here and then see what CAN. Right. But it's too, I think it's slow for me. And you can also see that there's a blur which is absolutely amazing. If you were doing it in a software like After Effects. There are a lot of steps, but here this transition is already available for you, so you can always work on this. Okay, this is good. But what I want is I want the sound effect to start somewhere here. And when the transition is happening, maybe I want to decrease the size here. Let's see what we get. Okay, not bad. I like it. Maybe you don't want to decrease it more. Okay. That's not bad. That's actually very good. So we are synchronizing this effect with our sound effect. I'm happy with this. If I want. I may also want to maybe spice it up a little bit here. So I can take this transition and put it somewhere here. So let's see what we get. I'm talking. Maybe I want to go back. Maybe want to increase it a little bit. And put one here. We're going to transition. Let's zoom in a little bit, see what's happening. Here is cutting off some of my audio. But what I want is I want this to go up. Okay? I'm not going to add it here, but you get the idea that I again. So there you go. I can also add visit the beginning. And this actually works, which I already have a transition built within this video when I made this for my channel. So I'm just not too curious to actually add this here. So we successfully added a YouTube option to subscribe. We also added a bit of transition. You can see with some sound effects. We also have intro, and I think this is looking pretty decent right now. So we should be able to maybe work with this and see for yourself, I'm just remove this. Okay, so now we have a good Lower Third. We also have introduction. We'll also have a transition. The bit, we can replace this with something else if we want, if you don't want the poster, you want to have that, say another video. We will be able to actually put that here also. And then we also added a Subscribe button that we wanted, right? I can always move this somewhere here. And if I want, this is maybe appropriate and maybe I want to call to action here, subscribe to the channels are all these things are appearing now, our video is looking a lot more like a YouTube video that I want to work on, but there is still something left. I still want to polish this and I want to work on the first bit. If I'm satisfied with this, move this to the next bit. And in the next video, I'll show you how we can add effects to our audio to make it sound a little bit better and also add a bit of color to this particular video that we have. So I'll see you in the next one. 12. Enhance Audio: In our previous class, we added transitions to our timeline in between our Eclipse. I'm pretty happy with the kind of transitions that happen. We also have titles on our videos. We also added a subscribe notification that I got off of YouTube. It was a green skin and we remove the green screen. And now we're able to actually see this. What I wanna do here in this class is to introduce a concept of what we can do on one clip and then bring that to another without doing so much work, we can just copy paste. Some are some of the things from one clip. Let's say if you work on a clip and you added some adjustments to that particular clip, can always bring it to another clip without going to do that again and again on different clips. I'll give you an example here on Final Cut Pro. Okay, So for example, what I have here is I'm going to work on the audio for this particular clip, right? This is the audio that I recorded from an external recorder, but alto want to amplify this audio with the inbuilt features that Final Cut Pro has to offer. You don't have to do that, but I'm just want to show you what you are able to actually do with, with Final Cut Pro where other softwares or other editing softwares may not be able to offer you the same kind of thing with the ease at which you are able to do it on Final Cut Pro. For example, these clips are separate clips. Anything that happens on this clip will not affect what, what is happening on this clip. That is not possible at the moment. We haven't done anything to them yet. You can see these are all separate clips. I have edited them. I have clipped them from the main clip that we were working on. Let me just increase the size here. This was the main clip that we were working on and I got most of this stuff from this main clip that we are working on or that I marked in points and outlines and then drag them individually, different parts of my YouTube video. But what I'm doing right now is I want to actually do something. I'm not happy with how it looks, the color, and I also want to increase how it actually sounds right now. It sounds like this. O and welcome to reaction, Carey, thank you so much for taking on this. Now I'm not adding any background music to this format does not allow me to add any background using what, what I'm gonna do is I'm going to click on this and play with the transform occupy in transform option. I can always, we discussed, I can either play with this button here, increase or decrease the size of my video. You can see I can actually move it here anywhere I want. I don't want to do that for now. I'm just going to press Control Z until it comes back to its place. I want to go into the Sound Options here. Now what I have in sound option is the ability to increase or decrease the volume. As I do this, you can see that this is actually going up and down, or there is a small line here that I can use to increase or decrease the volume that I have for today. So perhaps I want to do it I this o and welcome to reaction carry things so much for clicking on this video we are watching, it's loud, it's punchy. I like it because it's downloaded from external recorder and I have some settings into my external recorder that allows me to record the audio from my external recorder, which is right here, and bring it onto this software and then match it or synchronize it if you haven't, if you do not know what I'm talking about, perhaps you want to look at the class where we synchronize audio. Now, I don't want to actually do that. Final Cut Pro gives me a better option to play with this particular thing, right? There is an option called equalization. Right now we are at flat profile, so everything is flat here. What I can do is I can click on this and I can choose a lot of different options that I have here, right? What a one right now is, I want voice enhance and let's say that is a profile that we click on. It will automatically change some of the features or you will be able to actually see, let me go back to flat. Pay attention to this area. This is the same clip that we have here. It's appearing in this area. I can click on false. And you can see it change something. It will sound different from two reaction. Jerry, thank you so much for taking on this video. We are watching. If I disable this and listen to it again. On this video, we are watching, It's a little bit different. I'm not sure if you can tell the difference, but it is different because I can hear the difference with that profile enough. Let's click on another one. Let's see, we go for music enhance. You can see the peaks have increased a little bit. Let's see what we get. Hello and welcome to reaction, Jack, thank you so much for clicking. That's a lot louder. I can always adjust the volume here. I like this into so much for clicking on this video, we are watching a beautiful song from a film called by Johan. Okay, I'm not going to change anything. I'm just going to move to the next clip and listen to this one. Okay. By Johann go, Okay. I'm able to play with this audio feature because I know my microphone and my Recorder or your recorder has inbuilt amplifiers that allow me to increase or decrease the volume and play on edit with the, with the audio of this particular video without distorting it too much. I'm able to do that. If you're recording with your phone or with your camera, you will be able to actually use this feature, but you may not be able to actually increase the volume or play with so much, it will start distorting the audio. So I'm able to do this because I have recorded it with an external recorder. Depending on what you have, you may not be able to actually achieve the same kind of feature, but it's good to know that you have something that can work for you. Now other than that. And you also have other options that you can work with depending on what sort of projects we're working on. We've got pan mode. I can always make my sound surround or make it, yeah, I can give it a different kind of role that it will work on. So let's say if I go and play with this, maybe go for basic surround sound and perhaps show you what exactly. I mean, you may not be able to hear this here, but if you put on your headphones while you're editing your audio, you should be able to actually see the sound moving around and you will be able to actually play with this. So I can always move this here and there, and you can see how the parts of this audio is going to be surrounded duty, actually, Jerry, thank you so much for clicking on this video. We are watching a beautiful song for the machine to be on the left. Buyin go right, moody. And this is how you can manipulate this particular option, right? I usually don't do that because my my my video does not require this. But sometimes if I'm actually working with more advanced editing, always able to actually use this and work with this. So this is, this is actually a great way of playing with your audio. Now, I'm happy with the sound of this audio video we are watching. So much for taking on this video. Okay, I'm happy with this. Now if I want to do the same thing on this other clip that I have, I have to go through again and again. I have to do the same thing on this clip also and sort of try to see what works, what doesn't work, but what Final Cut Pro does, and it's available in other softwares also, it makes life a little bit easier if you can copy paste the effects, right? So I can just press Command. I. So make sure you select. You want to copy the effects from impress command and see that you have. And then moved to the clip that you want to actually add this effect to. So you can click on, you can press Shift Command and V, and it'll give you this option of pasting attributes. Now you can do all sorts of things here, right? Let's say you added other effects like transform position. You change the area where the position was. You should be able to actually see all those effects that you have applied to that previous clip. If you don't want any of those effects, you can always turn them off. Here. I have volume and equalization, and I can just paste this, and it will automatically paste all the settings that I've put in my previous clip to this one, press. And then you can see that was actually really way. I can turn it off. He me he has his 1982 and what i'm, I'm, I'm happy with. The sound is good. People who will be listening. I mean, a lot of YouTube subscribers that I have from my stats, I listened to it on mobile phone. There maybe using the headphones are just using small microphone or spots speakers on their, on their phone. By doing this, I give them a good quality sound to experience. Remember, sound is very important. But again, I'm able to do this because I'm recording with an external recorder. And that allows me to play with this. You can always record with your mobile phone, can record with a lot of other handy to quarter. They can accord with your camera and see if you're able to play with these options. And then you should be able to actually work on one clip and then paste that option onto the other clip. And that will give you a better sounding. And you should be able to work less because you're working on one clip and then you can move those settings. Next one, in our next class we will talk about color options, how we can apply colors, and what are some of the other things that Final Cut Pro can do to make your life a little bit easier when it comes to the editing part, I'll see you in the next one. 13. Colour grade your footage: In our previous class, we talked about audio effects, how you can copy paste if extra one clip to another. In this class, we will talk about the color options, how you can actually change color or color, grade your footage. Let's go into Final Cut and see what we have. Now. In the last class, we talked about a shortcut where you can actually copy settings from one clip and then move them to the other claim. But we only did that with audio. And this one, I want to do the same thing, but I also want to show you how I can work with the colors. My camera is very basic camera. It does not recording some fancy color, long sort of thing that you've heard. I have this very plain color log that I had that I work with. Let's, let's try to change. Let's try to see what we can do with this particular color or this particular footage. I'm happy. I'm sort of happy with what it is, but let's see what is possible. Maybe we can change the color a little bit and let me just click on this clip and go into my Color option and in Maine spectrum, right now, here, you have a few options that you can work with. There's color palette, there is saturation. Saturation will make something look, I mean, you know what saturation is? Something very vivid. Or maybe you can go all the way down to make it black and white. Or maybe you want to work on exposures, see how bright something is. You can always see highlights, mid tones, and shadows. Color correction is a separate field. You may be an editor, but you still need to send your footage. Let's say you become an advanced editor. You still need to send your footage for a film to a colorist who is going to work with his own machine, whose own softer his own way of actually mixing and matching color. But here we're going to talk about the basics of what we can do with our footage. Okay, let's move to something here which is exposure. Let's see, I want to work on the global exposure for this. Yeah, I think it's I think it's pretty okay. I don't need to change that. What about shadows? Do I want to decrease the shadows? Either blacks are going darker or do I want to increase them? Or do we want to leave them where they are? Or maybe I want to play with some saturation, right? Let's say I want the color to be a little bit more popping. Let's talk about mid-tones. Okay? I can always play with them. You can always move around and see what I mean. I do not have a formula that you need to do something like this and then it will make, make your foot is a little bit better. But I do have an option where I can turn it off and turn it on. And you can see that there's a difference in this color palette, right? That something is different. My skim is a lot more, a lot better. I think what you need to do is you need to make sure that the skin color doesn't get new start and you, you retain your original skin color and you don't mess that around. Next thing is the colors, right? Perhaps this is a global color, the overall color, what sort of shade you want to give to your, to your particular video. You can see that it's turning yellow or blue. You may have seen that in some movies where the palette is a little bit warm or cold, you go to the warmer colors, it would look, appear warm. Maybe read, maybe you want to come down to as me, between red and yellow, which is here that see this works or not. Maybe the shadows I want to play with. Maybe, maybe I'm happy with something here. Let's see what we get. Okay, That's turn this off and say, Yeah, I think it's a lot better. I'm, I'm liking this. Perhaps this is what looks better for me. There's no short sharp fomula, like I said, that our work with, but this is something that that is that I can see it is working for me and I can always take this and apply it to other clips also to see if it works. So this is the clip with effect that I have, and then I have this clip. So you can see that this clip is a bit bland When it comes to the contrast or the colors. But when I go here, you can actually see the difference. So it's here and here, here, and here, here, here, here, here. Okay? Now let's copy this and put this effect here. So I'm going to press Shift Command and V. And you can see that now that I've added color effect, you can also see that this is checked. Now, I can uncheck this because I've already added the effect, but maybe I just want to leave it and let's see what we get. Now. This clip is actually similar to what we have here. So what I've done is I've added the colors, have played around with the colors. If you're not happy with it, your, your auto feature on your camera is going to do auto colors and they are more than enough. And we don't do that with their iPhone. Iphones can record videos or color. I mean, the color profile on iPhones when you record a video is absolutely amazing. And with this new iPhone 12 or the next upcoming iPhone 13 or whatever iPhone is on the way when you're watching this, you should be able to actually see really good contrast on the screen of iPhone because of the pixels are already amazing. But when you actually move them to another screen which may not have as many pixel, the color maybe a little bit different. I'm recording, I'm, I'm editing this on my IMF, just five K, which has a lot of pixels that I should be able to actually see. A great deal of pixels and color density that appears in front of me. Again, coloring is a different separate field. You may want to watch some classes on how to color correct your footage, but this is just a basic introduction of what you can actually do and how you can copy-paste the colors from one on, from one video to another. Now, now that you are aware of how you can actually do this, there's another way that Final Cut Pro can actually help you work on colors. And there are a lot of different ways of working in Final Cut Pro, but some of the ways will save you time and will also help you maybe add effects to a larger number of videos instead of just color copy-pasting from one video to another. We'll see in our next class we'll talk about adjustment layers, what adjustment layers are, and how it can actually save your time. I'll see you in the next one. 14. Adjustment Layers: In our previous class, we color graded our footage. We also added some audio effects, and we learned how we can copy paste those effects from one form to another, that where you save a lot of time and you don't have to do it over and over again on every individual clip on our timeline at the moment, what we have is our introduction for our YouTube video. We added some audio effects here. If I click on the audio option here, you can see that I've applied some audio effects music and hence, I can make it flat if I want, but I'm just going to leave it at enhance. And we, if I go into my color profile here, I've also added some colors. Play with the saturation. I've played with the exposure a little bit. I'm going to disable this. I can just click here, and this disables the color that I have. Again, color is a different field. It is a vast field where you have to learn a lot of things about color grading your footage, but this is just basic stuff. What I wanna do is I want to disable this and I want to go into my my computer and perhaps bring an adjustment layer. Now, these are adjustment layers that you can work with ever created several adjustment layers. I've got a crop layer, I've got a gray layer, correction layer and adjustment there. They all do the same thing as just that. I've named them in a different way so I can just move them around. What I'm gonna do is, let's say I won't do a great layer. I, let's just go for adjustment layer and the simple one, I'll just move this here. It works the same way as our title layer where we added titles. You can see that it doesn't make most of you won't see any difference at all. But what happens with an adjustment layer is anything that you do on this adjustment layer effects that you put on their adjustment there, anything below it will be affected by that. For example, if I were to move this adjustment layer all the way here, and let's say only this area is visible to us. Let's Move and see what we get. Let me just zoom in a little bit more. So this is the area that adjustment there is on top of not what can I do on this adjustment layer. If I click on this adjustment layer, I'm able to actually make changes on my inspector. I can actually go ahead and scale this in multiple directions. Perhaps I want to zoom in and zoom out. Now, this effect, this inspector effect or these transformations happening only on the adjustment layer that we have here. So if I were to go ahead and disable this adjustment layer by pressing V, You can see the footage goes back to its normal thing that it was. So I'm just going to go back here, just going to press it one more time. You can see that there are some changes that are happening to this particular footage. I can also let say disable this. Let's enable the footage, that adjustment layer and make some changes here. Maybe we go all the way in scale. Okay? Now this is what we get with our adjustment layer. I'm going to enable the adjustment layer one more time. This is what we have. I can also add a color effect to this adjustment layer. If I go here and I try to let say, change some settings on these, maybe I want to get a little bit of bluish. 10. Maybe I can give you this look. You can see now I have applied my color correction on this adjustment there. And all these, all this information and settings will be applied to this adjustment layer. Which means if I disable this here, on adjustment there, the color settings will also go away. So I can disable my adjustment layer and enable adjustment layer pressing V. Now you can see the difference here is that adjustment layer has all the settings. Pressing V will disable it. And you can see just by disabling the adjustment there, I'm able to actually turn on and off the color correction. The same thing you can do, the adjustment layer is the zoom in or zoom out option. Maybe I want to click on Transform tool and I want to zoom in a little bit on this footage that I have here. And what will happen is that if I make this a little bit here so you can see our footages going on very well and welcome to. And then all of a sudden, you must have seen those Zoom effects that happen, right? So I can be actually very thin, so we actually check things. So I can also move this adjustment layer on top of my text layer and see what is happening here for clicking on this video, you can see that my text layer is too big, so I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna do that. I can always go into my text layer and decrease the side. Get the idea here. Maybe I don't want the transform option for my adjustment layer. Maybe I can just disable this or reset my layer. And now only in color is affected. So you can have different adjustment layers for a lot of different things. Maybe I want to have a crop layer. So I also wanted to maybe, perhaps crop my image a little bit like from here. Also maybe move it to this side. Let's see where we can. Let me just press this transform button and then move my footage here in this space. Okay? Now I go all the way and I just see what we get. So normally what is working well reaction and all of a sudden this adjustment layer made these changes. I don't have to go individually, cut these clips or blade these clips in different places. For example, if I were to do this without an adjustment layer, it would look something like this. I have to use a blade to cut this area, this area, and then press a to select. Now this is the clip that I want to move. So I can always click on this, or maybe I can just edit, crop it aside and then move it to this side using this place. If we go. So now I did all that. Welcome Julia, on this individual clip, you can see I did all that on this individual clip. Now if I want to take this settings and move it to another type, I have to press Control or Command C. Command C. And if I wanted to put the settings here, the same principle applies, Shift Command and V. So now you can see all of the effects that are available here. I want to put all of these effects, let's say an oppressed. And now you can see our first clip also has the same kind of crop that we had. Instead of doing that, I can just add all of those settings to Adjustment Layer and put adjustment layer where I want it to be. And then that way it saves me a lot of time. I don't have to cut or damaged the footage. And also if I have multiple layers of footage underneath there, they will also be affected by that particular adjustment layer. So I'm just going to press the command Z, Command B, ring the footage back to its original place. You get to see what you are able to actually do with adjustment layers. I'm going to remove the crop layer that I've added. And what I wanna do is I want to come here and disable the color for this also because we remember we did color for here. I can enable and disable it. I want to make this adjustment layer as part of the color so I can extend it all over all. Or maybe I can go all the way to here. So anything below this adjustment layer will be affected by the settings that we put on this adjustment. Remember this adjustment layer has been edited four colors. You can create multiple adjustment layers and do a lot of different things with adjustment layers. And you don't have to worry about going individually and working on these clips. So that is what adjustment layers can do for you. And you shouldn't be working with adjustment layers. If, if adjustment layers is not something that you are interested in, perhaps you can individually go and apply the same settings, do these clips, and you will have a better experience in doing that. 15. Reviewing the final timeline: In this class we'll talk about the changes that we've made over the course of this class and sort of Lambda conclusion to what we have done so far and all of these previous classes that we were going through creating this project, Jumping to our final Cut Pro. And, and so you'd for ourselves, the very first thing that we did in this class was to import our footage and synchronize that audio. So we had we had our footage from our camera and an audio from our external recorder. We synchronize that and exported that individually here one by one with all the different pieces. We went through these by creating in and out points in our project and then slowly bringing them here. We also added some elements like the intro part. You can always add logos or pictures for your particular channel if you don't want that. You, I mean, you don't have to do that as long as your continent, what you are saying is applicable this class remember, is to get you started with basic editing. Other than that, we also added an image that appears in this particular thing. If you're talking about a boat, depending on what sort of content you are doing. You can always bring an image or a piece of video instead of this image into this area, we discussed how we can use Transform tool here in the inspector menu and also here by using this option transform option and move this object in its space that we had. We also added some effects or transition effects. So you can see that the picture is coming from earth tone minute. And then we added some sound effects to that. And for the Mac, and at the same time we add a, a YouTube subscribe button which was greeting. And we added some key gears to this particular option that we've got keying and then we add, drag that onto our YouTube button and then became whatever it is right now we also learned we can actually move this in our transform. So the most important thing that you need to understand is that red pressing the Transformed button here, you can change how the footage looks in this particular area that you actually see, the preview area. Also, we learned about adding audio effects on to your footage and then how we can copy paste these effects to other voltages that then, that can be very helpful. Final Cut Pro comes with its own audio and antelopes own audio setup. For me, it gets used up. I mean, it gets you started on things. It's more than enough. If you have a decent audio center, avoid decent audio recording device. We learned how we added more dynamic range to our audio and ultimately were able to actually copy that and put it into all our footage that we have here. Other than that, we also learned about color correction. We learned that we can do color correction on individual clips by going here and playing around with this area. But if you do not want to do that and you want to work with adjustment layers. Adjustment layers is another are some additional things that you can actually work with in Final Cut Pro, not just by God for what any other software that you have. And that will make your life a little bit easier. So now we are in the final stages of our project and I wanted to add some final things into this project before I can actually export the project. But what I want to show you is that I have added another adjustment layer. You can see I've added a crop layer, and this is the adjustment layer that I use for my color. Now what I've done here is I know that this is the area where I wanted people to actually subscribe or subscribe button or call to action. Let's hear this and see what we have. Let's jump into this beautiful song. Poorly. I think I pronounce it right? Yeah, yeah, It's subscribed for that. Okay. Now this is a place where I actually want to do that. So I'm just going to drag this here and make sure that this is available for people. Now that was the first thing that I did. But then the song BIG comes in where I start looking at, I started watching the song and jarring this song and do a bit of a review. I'll put the link to this final video in the description, you can take a look at this song and see how many views of God and what sort of interaction was. But here, I know that I want these two videos to appear side-by-side. I did a few things. If I click on this video that I have, I use the transform tool to actually move this in its space. Now you can see that I'm able to actually move this in its base and this is where the software is going to guide. This is where I wanted to put the footage and my own face. I had to drag it using the transform tool a little bit here so that I can't also be in the same frame. I added a crop layer for my own footage, but I use a transform tool to actually change the dimension of this particular photo that you have. But I also added additional things like transition effect of video coming from top like a discussed in the photograph as well, which you can see here. It is very quick and it's coming from the top. But I also want to add a sound effect. So what we're gonna do is we're just gonna do some recapping of what we learned before. I'm just going to make the size here. This is where the sound effects. We're just going to zoom in. And I am going to just Option and drag. And this will copy this for me. And now here. Okay. So now I've added a sound effect here. Maybe when it's going out, I want to add another sound effects. So maybe I want to copy this and move baseball the way. It's very tiny, so I have to wait like that. Okay, so now this is the bit where I actually start viewing or a start talking about all of the conclusion for my YouTube video or the reason I started this YouTube watching this YouTube video. I'm just going to go here. You can always put your play head in a place and then it will zoom in that area. Maybe don't want to do this. This was the roots. Are footage looks good. I also want to maybe copy, same thing, best option. And maybe I want to put a subscribe notifications here also as we're going through this video. And once this video is done, I think you can see, you can hear that I have not added any audio effects here. I don't want to go there. I mean, I don't want to go into these individually and start adjusting this. What I'll do is I'm happy with this audio effect. I'm going to press command C and paste those effects here, which is color board. I actually don't want because I already have an adjustment layer, so I'm not going to add the color blue, but I want to add volume in equalizer settings, nothing else. I can paste this and you can see it has adjusted my one. This was a good soup dries. I do not know that this was a song compose. Great. Now we have actually completed our video and it's ready to go out. Now, this is the final bit where you can actually see that there are a lot of different layers that are involved. When you look at this class with this, I want you to understand that this is not the only way to actually edit your footage. This is how I feel. It's easier for me to, and I've done it along a number of times for this particular channel. And there are some other kinds of videos that are worked on where the editing workflow is different. Maybe the software that I work on is also different, but these are some of the things that I've found helpful in Final Cut Pro. And I thought you shouldn't be actually doing this in our next class, we'll export this project and we'll learn a little bit about what exploiting gaze and how we can actually get to it. 16. Export your final project: If you've been following all these previous classes, we have finally made our project export worthy. We're going to, in this class, we're going to export this project into the format that we actually want. And we're going to review what our footage. If you look at Final Cut Pro here. The library that we are working on, a Skillshare class library. And we discussed a lot of things here. We discussed about the events and the project that were happening. And here the project that I'm working on is this YouTube episode for my YouTube channel that I regularly post on. We made this review, video review or you can make a film review video out of, out of, I've actually done or the kind of things that I'm doing. But the goal with this entire class Skillshare class was to actually utilize the tools that you will be using on any project that you have. And you can use your creativity and use these tools at your disposal to create the next major viral blockbuster video that you are going to work on. Or maybe you're working with studios and all that are going to help you. Now there will be a lot of different things that you will be doing as an editor when you're editing, not just your YouTube project, but any other project that you're working on in Final Cut Pro, there will be some behaviors are habits that you will develop. Like, I like to edit only in the mornings and I make sure that I have a cup of coffee when I'm the thing that really helps us, there will be a lot of things that you'll be doing. You'll become the person that you want to be in editing. But you will also develop and adapt a lot of different things that you will see other people do. Now in this project, I have reviewed before I started this class, I've reviewed a couple of times and I'm pretty happy with what I have got here. It's not a very advanced high-end project with lots of different layers, but you definitely can see that it has a few, there's, I can always minimize this or maybe just do it like that. And you can actually see the final project as something here you must have seen this sort of view in Apple keynotes. This is what the project is. We worked on this project for a couple of hours and this is what we got and the project that you have not, It's time for you to export. Now there are a few ways to actually export. You can always press this option of share and export it in the option that you actually want. But what I like to do is I press Command and eat, and it gives me an option to actually explore. Now you can click Next and it will export the option. I mean, export the video for you. Estimated size is about 1.13 GB. You can always go into Settings. Leave this as what it is. What I want to, I want you to do is to make sure that your codec is about 26 for I do not know much about depth about codecs, but if you're an advanced editor and probably you're not watching this. But when you become an advanced editor, all of these crores, all of these other codecs that are available, it will make more sense because they may be used for broadcasting or lots of different things when you're working on, you will get a hang off. All these things. I'll just leave all these as it is. And I'm just going to click Next. Now remember when we talked about our folder structure in the beginning, I said that I make folders. Now I have assets where I put all the assets that are used within this project. In this area, I've got Final Cut Pro Library and on these are some of the libraries that I made while I was demonstrating this class. But the main library that we are working on is skillshare class library. And also we had this other folder called export. So now anytime I want to export things outside of Final Cut Pro, I wanna make sure that I have a library or a project folder which I have here, which is Final Cut Pro. And I make sure all of that is consolidated into one folder or into one particular place where I can go, I can just copy, paste this into an external hard drive or a thumb drive and take it to another place or maybe send it via Dropbox or Google Drive and make sure the other person who actually receives or your client who is receiving it will be able to actually see these projects. Or if you're a YouTuber, your project is ready. All you need to do is click Save, name this project like Skillshare, class project. And you are done click Save, and it is going to start rendering this project in the background. Now this is depending on what your computer specifications are and the rendering time may differ. Maybe some people will be able to actually do this. And depending on what computer you have, you will be able to do this in the next, say, 20 seconds, maybe 30 minutes, depending on how large your project is. But this will depend, this time will depend on, on how fast your computer is and how big our large your, your timeline actually looks like. So I hope this entire Scotia class gave you some basic knowledge of how to actually look at the software and work with this software and make sure that you leave your review about this class and let me know what did you guys think? Or maybe there are some other classes that you want to check out. I'll put all of those classes at the bottom of this Skillshare class. I'll see you in the next class. Take very good care of herself. Adios.