Video Editing For Creators: Edit Your First YouTube Video in Final Cut Pro

1. Introduction: Hey, there, five years ago, I was right where you are right now sitting in front of my computer, starring at Final Cut Pro and wondering, how do I actually put all of this together? I spent countless hours watching tutorials, reading articles, and experimenting with trial and error. I made mistakes, got frustrated, and at times, wanted to give up. So my name is Amir, and I wish there was a class that put everything I needed to know in one place, a single class that could take me from a complete beginner to someone who can confidently create a polished YouTube video from the very first shot to hitting that publish well, fast forward to today, and that's exactly what I've put together for you. This is the class I wish I had back then. Whether you've never opened Final Cut Pro or you've played around with it, this class will guide you step by step through the entire process. We're going to cover everything from understanding the basics of video editing, organizing our footage, mastering transitions, effects, color grading, sound design, you name it. The best part, it all leads up to a final project, creating your own very YouTube video. Or if you don't have any footage, I will provide you with the footage you need to follow along. You'll take your idea, film it, edit it, and by the end, you'll have a fully polished video ready to upload on YouTube. And trust me, I could learn all of this five years ago with no directions. So if I can do it, you can, too, and this class will help you along. So if you're ready to stop piecing together random tutorials and actually learn how to create professional looking videos from start to finish, you're in the right place. I'm excited to see what you create and to guide you through this journey. Join me in this Final Cut Pro class, and let's bring your video editing skills to the next level. I'll see you inside. 2. Class Orientation: Before we start with the actual class, I just wanted to give you some advice on how to get Final Cut Pro. And if you don't have Fina Cut Pro, you can use Apple's Trial offer. Let me show you where you can find it. If you just type in Finau Pro Trial, as you can see, I've already Googled it for you, you can use Fina Cut Pro for free for 90 days. But if you want to go straight ahead and buy it without trying out Fina Cup Pro first, you can do it by going to the app store and looking for Fina Cut Pro. And you will get to see a buy button right here, I've already bought it, so I just get to see the button open. But if you don't have it yet, you will be able to buy it right from here. And as you see, it's a well reviewed software of Apple, five stars, over one k of ratings, which is quite rare, I should say. Okay. But what if you are a student, then there is this offer Apple makes for students only. And if you just type in Final Cut Pro student discount. Just go to Buy Pro Apps bundle, and you can buy the whole bundle for $200, which means you'll get Fin Pro Logic Pro, which is a software to record voices, podcasts and all of that. Apple Motion, which is the equivalent of Adobe After Effects, which is very handy if you want to create transitions for Final Cut Pro. It is a bit technical than Final Cut Pro, but if you put your mind on it, you can learn it as well. And compressor, to be honest, I've never used this application, even though I have it on my Mac as well. So this is the bundle for $200, and Final Cut Pro on its own, costs around, I guess, $300, if I'm not mistaken. We go to Apple's official website. And we get to buy it. It's 350, and I'm in Europe, so it shows a Eurosg. I believe if you are in the US, it will be slightly cheaper than 350. I know by experience, Apple products are always a bit expensive here in Europe. I'm not sure why, but they are. So those are the three ways to get your hands on Fin Cap Pro. To be honest, if you don't have it yet, just opt in for the free trial. You get to use M Panica Pro for 90 days for free, and if you don't find it like software for you, the ething software for you. You can always cancel it. You don't even have to cancel it. You can just download it right away and use the 90 days free trial. But if you do find it helpful and you want to just invest in it because you want to become YouTube or whatever, definitely can go buy it. If you are a student, don't forget to just go for the bundle which costs you $200. There's one more thing I want to share with you, which is, if you want to follow along, I do have the videos I filmed myself, which are the raw videos, the ARL and the Burl. You can find them in the resources tap down below. But if you want to film your own video, which is even better, I highly encourage you to do that. Film your own video that gets you in the habit of filming your own videos. Go ahead. You will not be limited by following along this storial. This storial is meant to make you get familiar with Final Cut Pro and help you understand the editing software, even if you're using your own footage. So yeah, that was my $0.02 about this introductiory. I hope you like this class. And if you have any questions, just leave them in the class discussions down below. And even share with you work, that will be great. So yeah, I'll see you in the next class where we discuss how you should organize your files and media. 3. An Organization System: Okay. So before we jump into Final Cut Pro, let me tell you that having an organized system is one of the most crucial parts of being organized, especially if you are an editor for someone else who sends you a lot of files, and he or she does require sound effects, graphics, and all of that. So you need to have those things in one place. This video is all about making that folder that keeps you organized. So before you do anything, go to your documents, create a new folder by hitting Command Shift N. All this folder, whatever you want. I'll call my name, and I've already done that. So let's give it a two. And this is the root folder where you have all your other folders stored in. So inside this folder, we want to create another folder, and this one will be a template because this is a set it once and forget about it. You set it just by following along on this video, and once you've set it, you just have to duplicate it and give it a name. The time I give it the name of the subject of that video that way I know exactly what that folders are all about. So inside this template, we want to have our sound effects. So let's give it a one and call it SFX. We want to create another folder with graphics or stills. And here goes all your stills, images, icons, and all of that, so you don't have to download them every time you create a video. That goes also for the sound effects. You find those sound effects you like most, and you store it in here and you just forget about it. And every time you find a new sound effect that you like, you download it from the Internet, and you store in here, and that way you grow your library overtime and before you know it, you have all those cool sound effects store in this place. So let's go back, click on Template and hit Command Shift N. And we call this folder our A role, and this is where all the ARL will be stored. We also want to have B rule. And if you don't know what ARL and B rolls are, I'll show you in a moment what those are. I click every time back on Template. That way we don't create a folder inside the folder like I did this time. So let's go back into template. And we want to make one last folder which is ready to be published. So once you have edited your video, you stored in here. That way, if you have multiple gigs or you are making multiple videos for your own YouTube channel, and you already edited that video and you're satisfied about it. You just have to store it in here and you will find it very quick. So this is actually my template I work from. As you see here, it has the exact same thing. I've left this unedited out because I don't use it much. So one up to five are the folders I use most. So in here, I have my sound effects, my stills, the Arol and roll is for now empty. But if I just duplicate this one out two, and the video I'm working on in this class is about the Samsung S 24, and I gave it exactly that name. So now I have this folder I can work from. It still has my sound effects. I still has my graphics, the A role, the B roll aren't there because I haven't moved those into here. So let's do just that. I'll go to my Sonya A seven C two camera that I filmed that video with. I guess it's somewhere in here. It's number this is the raw video I'll be editing throughout this class. I will leave this exact raw video in the resources tab that way you can follow along if you don't have your own video. I still highly recommend you to create your own video. That way you get the hang of it and you know how to create those A rolls and ls. But if you don't have those, you can just edit along with me using this exact video with some BRL I'll be uploading as well. So let's go ahead, Command C, go back to the document folder, the Samsung S 24. This is the A role, and let's paste it in here. So once you've placed your A role inside the right folder, let's go and place our Bro in the exact same folder. So I'll paste them right in there, and now we have or A role, B roll, the graphics, the sound effects. And I guess I have everything I need for this exact video. If I find out that I need some more graphics or sound effects, and I go over into the Internet and I download those, I'll go first and paste them in this template folder. That way, I'll have them for future reference, future videos. But also, I'll paste them in here just to be able to find them very quickly. So what I want you to do is just go ahead, create that folder system that we just went through to be more organized and gain your time 4. Exploring Final Cut Pro: So if you're opening Final Cut Pro for the first time, it might look a bit intimidating, but believe me, it's nothing like Adobe After Effects or even like blender. Final Cut Pro is very minimalistic and it's very basic, and you need to understand three parts when it comes to editing and Final Cut Pro. That is the difference between libraries, events and projects. Libraries are basically the highest level container that holds all your media events and projects. So you can think of libraries as a big box where all those events and projects get in events are smaller containers inside libraries, and those who hold your media files. So remember, when we were organizing our folders and Finder, whenever you create those files, such as your video file or your graphics or your Soundefft or your audio file, all those files go into events. And the purpose of events is to help you organize your media inside Final Cut Pro in a manageable way. Projects, however, are basically your timeline inside Final Cut Pro, and that's where the actual editing happens. Go over to New. You see that projects and events are great out. You can't click them because you haven't created a library yet. So let's go and create a library. And by default, Final Cut Pro tries to store that into your movies category. You can do that, but once again, you want to be organized. So let's go back to our file that we've created. And since this video is about the Samsung S 24, I'll store my library right in. So let's give it a name. And most of the time, when it comes to libraries, I'll just give it something like so it's Samsung S 24. I'll call it as 24 dot FCP Bundle. So you'll get this extension anytime you create a library. So let's save that inside the Samsung S 24 folder. And now we have some more things that just came up right after creating that library. So now we've created our library. Let's import some media. We can do it two ways. You can just go ahead to your finder and select all your files where the A rule, the B roll, the sound effect, the graphics are stored. And obviously, we're not going to just import the actual library inside the library. That doesn't make sense. So we don't have to select that, and you can just drag and drop it inside this bucket in here or inside this window. And now all things that were inside these folders are now in our event. So if I go to sound effects, as you see here, it gives us the exact same name that we've created in our folders, right here, sound effects, graphics, AOL, B ready to be published is not visible. Why? Because there's nothing in there. If I were to place a file in here, it will be visible as well with a key icon in front of it. But since there's nothing in there, FincaP doesn't bother to show you that event as well. So just show you the things that you have stored stuff in it. So Broll ArolGraphics, and sound effects. And now I've selected sound effects. I just get to see my sound effects. So graphics are all the stills or the images. The Arol is basically our raw footage that we will be editing, and the B rolls are everything that comes on top of the A roll just to give the viewer something else maybe you show them something that you're talking about. So let's go ahead and create that project that we've just talked about. One more time. It starts with library events, and now the project. And this is basically the timeline I've talked about. You can give your project a project name. It doesn't have to be SEO proof. You can change that later on whenever you upload your video on YouTube. So let's go ahead and call this Samsung as 24 review or something. You can leave this one as is. The video format is set at four K. I highly recommend you to set the video format just as you've shoot it in. So if you have shot your video in four K, leave it in four K. If you've shot your video in ten ADP, change it into ten ADP. Well, this is the resolution of four K 38 40 by 21 60. The frame rate, basically, the amount of frames per second, a video is made out of a bunch of stills, and those pictures are frames that goes into seconds. So commonly, most videos, most films, even, most cinema videos are shot in 24 frames per second. But if you have changed that into your camera setting, you need to change that in your timeline, as well. So I've shot my video in like 30 frames per second, so I'll change it into that. The rendering, just leave it in Apple Progress. By now, you don't have to worry about it. And just like that, we hit okay. And now we have this timeline that we can work with. So go ahead, make sure to understand the differences between libraries, events, and projects. And if you have any questions about those, just leave them in the discussion tab down below as I will try to answer all of your questions. 5. FCP Settings That You Need to Change: So before we go over to the editing process, I want you to change some settings. Otherwise, this file that we've just created now will balloon up, and it will use all your storage in your hard drive. So at now, it's set at 32 MB. But let me show you how fast it can grow if you have not set the right setting. So go ahead and hit Command coma on your keyboard. Go to Playback. My settings are already set, right, but I'll change them back to the default settings, which are the settings that you will find your final Cup Pro at. Normally, this one is selected. Background render every couple of seconds. And Import, it says, copy to library storage location and not leave files in place. So I've changed those two settings. I'll close this one, and let's go ahead and I have done something that I have not explained yet. Don't worry about it. I'll explain everything in just a second. But let's go ahead and make some edits very fast. To show you something. I'm not doing anything, but I'm just playing around into that timeline, just to let Fina Cup Pro render in the background. So as you see here, it's rendering is transcoding and analyzing media without you having noticing that, but it does that on the background. And let's go back to that file. And as you see here, look at what happens right now. I ballooned up to five gigabyte in a couple of minutes. I'm not even joking. I've inputed my video into the timeline. I've made a couple of cuts. I've entered some basic titles in there, and just like that, it ballooned up to 5.24 gigabyte. And before you know it, it will get up to 20 gigabyte, and I've had libraries as large as 200 gigabytes. I kid you not. My MacBook sounded like it was a helicopter. So I want you to change those settings and you will not have this problem whatsoever. So I want you to do is go ahead and hit Command comma, first, go to your playback. We don't want to have Final Cut Pro render every couple of seconds on the background. So we just need to take that off. So deselect that. Go to your import, leave files in place. We don't want them to be copied to the library storage. We want to edit them right from here. So just leave them in there. Go ahead and deselect create optimized media and deselect create proxy this way, your library will not be as large. It will be max at like a couple of gigabytes. If you've imported, a lot of media and if you wear ithing all day long, it will not be bigger than a couple of gigabytes. So don't worry about that. Make sure to change these settings and you will have an easy time on your Maco. 6. Editing the A-Roll Version 1: Okay, so let's create a new library because I've deleted the last one. That one just ballooned up to five gigabyte, and I don't want to work with that. So as mentioned in the previous video, you can create a new library by opening a library right from here or go to File New library. So let's go ahead and create a new library. We're all about being organized. So let's go ahead to the root folder, the Samsung S 24, and create one right here. I most of the time use initials of the title of that video and save. So if I go to Finder, there we have the library I've just created. If I click on it, it's very small. It's 180 1 kilobyte, which is nothing. Okay, let's import our media, go to documents, and import this bunch and drag and drop it into here. And automatically, it will import all your media into Final Cut Pro. So let's create a timeline, a new project, and let's call this it doesn't matter what you call it, but give it like a distinct name. Our video format is four K. Like I've explained in the previous video, it's 30 frames per second and leave the codec, the color space and all of that, as is. Okay, so now I want to explain something about editing. So the editing process is basically cutting off all the bad takes and leaving all the good takes inside your timeline. There's no one on YouTube who's able to just film a video in one take without making any mistakes. You will make mistakes. If you are editing for someone else, you will be making mistakes because that's natural. I mean, the biggest YouTubers over there do make mistakes whenever they talk in front of the camera. So you want to edit out all the bad mistakes and leave all the good parts for the video. That's the basic when it comes to editing. And you can do that in two parts. So here we have this timeline right here. And as you see, I can click whatever I want, and you get to see that part of the video. So if I hit my space bar. The video, the actual video gets played. So let's select this clip from the beginning and hit the space bar. See here, I'm now just testing out if everything's working great is a camera, working is exposure and all of that. And I just do this a couple of times just to make sure the camera is picking up those sounds. I can see on my display the waveforms of that audio going up and down, and that way, I know, okay, the audios working, the cameras working. Everything's going great. So now this video was meant for you guys, and that was like a small introduction. Obviously, I'm not going to leave that in the video, in the actual video that goes live on YouTube. So I'll go ahead and skim through it until I find the part where I start with the actual video. If you hit L, that video gets played. If I hit L on my keyboard twice, it goes very fast through it, and you can hit letter L four times or five times. And every time you hit L, it goes faster and faster. So now I'm, like, mounting my camera on the Manfrod thing that holds my camera and give us this top down view. And I believe this is where I will start talking. So I guess it's right here. Okay, so here's where I start talking. Let's assume this is where the video starts. What I want you to do is hit I on your keyboard, and whenever you hit I, that's where it starts. As you see here, this yellow line is basically an indicator where your video actually starts and you can drag that with your mouse. And as you see here, there's an orange playhead, the exact same one as this one. And wherever you click, that's where you can hit I and it will shift into that. That's where the actual video will start. So that's the first part. Then I click L to play that video. Okay, so it seems like that's where the video starts. I made a small mistake, as you can hear right here. So as a so as So I said, and I stumbled and I've repeated that as so as an iPhone user, and I continued my sentence. So obviously, I don't want to have that first take in the video. And with the right and left arrow, you can go a couple of frames back and forth. And if you hit Shift and you hit the right arrow or the back arrow, it goes, I believe, like ten frames back and forth. Okay, it seems like I start talking right there. I can hit I. And as you saw there, this is where the actual video will start. I hit L iPhone user. I've been There's a mistake one more time. I go back, I hit I once more, and I let the video start right there. As an iPhone user, I've been working on this Samsung S 24 for the past four months or so. I think I have a good perspective on this phone, and that's what this video is all about. I want to talk about the specs. I want to talk about the camera, about the design of this phone Okay, it seems like I've made a small mistake right there. I hit J on my keyboard. It goes back. Okay, so if I hit one more time, Camera. So I said, and I don't want to have that in there. So let's say I want to stop my video. Spec camera. I want to stop my video right there. This take, I want to stop right there. So I hit i to make sure to tell Final Cut Pro, Okay, this is where the take starts. And here's our playhead. And I want to tell Final Cup Pro this is where it needs to end, I hit Oh. So this is the part I want to extract out of this whole video. Because that's the good part. Okay, but I want to move it into the timeline because the timeline is a place where you start building up your video. So what you want to do is hit the letter E on your keyboard. And just like that, we've extracted that part of the video into our timeline. So basically, it's very simple. You skim through your whole take, your whole video. You go with your mouse, you hit somewhere on that take wherever you feel like, that's where the video starts. And you listen to it, you hit L to let it play. And whenever you feel like, Okay, this is where I want that take to start, you hit I on your keyboard. And you make sure to let it play, and wherever you want to have it stop, you hit on your keyboard. Okay, that's the part I want to take out of the whole video clip and to let it transform into your timeline, you hit the letter E, and that way, it will take it to the end of that clip. You can also hit the letter Q on your keyboard, and what Q does is, like, take wherever this playhead is at. So if I hit the letter Q, takes it right there where that playhead is at. Maybe you're working with your B rolls and you want to place them on top of your actual A role, you just hit Q, and it takes it right where the playhead is at. But whenever you're working with your A role, the actual part where you're just talking about whatever you're talking about, you want to just organize them one after the other. So I go in here, I hit the L on my keyboard. Okay, so I'm not saying anything, but it's just for the sake of an example. Let's say I want to stop right there, I hit O, so just select this part of the video. Here's my playhead. If I hit the letter E, it will take it right here. If I would hit the letter Q, it will take it wherever my playhead is at. So that's a way of editing your videos. I actually don't edit my videos this way, but I wanted to show you multiple options, all the options that over there, just to give you a variety of options to choose from. In the next video, I'll show you how I edit my videos, and that's right from this timeline. We'll be also looking at these tools that you can choose from the blade tool, the Zoom tool, the position tool, the Select tool, and all of that. So go ahead, make sure that I've created a timeline, input all your videos into Final Cuppro and make sure to just play around with that A roll that bra Arle that you haven't edited yet, just to get the hang of it and the feel of how it works inside Final Cup Pro. 7. Editing the A-Roll Version 2: Okay, so that was one way to edit your A roll. The second way to edit your A roll is basically to take your whole take and bring it to the timeline. So if I just select all of my take and as you see here, that yellow line that suggests that the whole take is selected, I hit the letter E on my keyboard to bring this whole take into the timeline. And just like that, we have this timeline that we can skim through. No, I like to have my playhead skim through the video by just moving my mouse, how to do so. You go here and you select this icon, turn skimming on or off. It's now set off and now I've set it on. And now if I just move with my mouse, I can just skim through it. But like I said, the basic of editing an a timeline or editing your A rule is by just removing all those bad takes in there. So now, as you see here, this is the first part of me explaining to you what this video is all about and how I'm setting up all those things behind the scenes. I'm still talking to you, so I don't want all of this to be on the actual video. So I'm skimming through my timeline to find the part where I wanted to start. As you see here, this option is way easier because you can just skim through it. It's very easy. Whereas here, it's kind of going clicking to places and guessing where you want to have it start. So I like to have it right here just to be able to skim through my timeline as easy as possible. And if I want to have a part of a video, I can just let's say I start here. I can see on my waveform that the audio is starting right there. I go to my toolbox. I change it into the blade tool. I cut it right here. I change it back to the select tool. And I delete on my keyboard. And just like that, that whole thing shifted to the left because Final Cut Pro provides a magnetic timeline. Magnetic meaning that like a magnet, it snaps to the left side of the timeline. You can think of it as like a force right here, a magnetic force that's pulling everything that's on the timeline. The left. Et's assume the video starts right here. So I go through it. I find a bad take like in here. I don't say anything. I want to remove that. I go to the blade tool. I make cuts on both sides. I go back the Select tool and I hit on it, and I hit backspace. Well, let me tell you something. No one does it like this. Going to this toolbox, picking a certain tool, select cutting, cutting, going back, choosing the select tool, hitting on the part that you want to delete and hit the that's cumbersome. No one does that because that takes forever. That's why you need to have your brain program to choose keyboard shortcuts. And as you saw right here, behind the blade tool, we see the letter B. Behind the select tool, we see the letter A. Meaning, if I just hit the letter B on my keyboard, that select tool changes into this blade tool or the scissors. In other editing tools, it changes into an actual blade like a razor blade and Final Cut Pro changes into a couple of scissors. The letter A gives us that Select tool, meaning we can select parts of our timeline. The letter T gives us the trim tool. So if I hit letter T, it gives me the srimTol. And what this trim tool basically does is basically take in that part that we've selected and you can just roll back and forth to select a certain portion of that clip. Let's say this part is still visible, I don't say anything in there and it's still inside this clip, I go and move it to the lift. That way, it starts where I start talking, where the actual thing is happening. That goes as well here. If I just move it to the lift, I make sure that waveform starts at the start. There's also a position tool, and remember when I told you that there's here a pulling force that pulls everything to the left. If you don't want to have anything at the start of your video, you can choose the position tool, drag to the right and that way, it creates this blank space that doesn't show anything. So let's say for whatever reason, you want to have a black start. You don't want to show anything at the start of your video. Not sure why you would do that, but let's assume you would. You want to position your clips with a position tool, and you do that with the letter P. So I'll change it to the select tool by hitting the letter A. And I'll change it back to the position tool by heading the leather P, and that way, let's say, I want to have a black space in here, I can just drag and drop it. That way, this particular clip will not be pulled to the left. There's something in between this clip and this clip. There's nothingness that's happening right here, for whatever reason you want to have nothing for a couple of seconds between this clip and this clip. Well, you can just hit the position tool and drag it wherever you want. If I would have my select tool, I couldn't have done that because there's this pulling force right here that just snaps everything to the left. So you need, therefore, to have your position tool. There's also this range selector selection, and you can call it by hitting the letter R. And what it does is basically, let's say I want to have this portion copied and paste somewhere else, I can select exactly that one portion. Command C. Let's say for whatever reason I want to delete this same exact part, I can just select it, hit the backspace and that will delete that thing. That's Command Z to bring it back. I can also command to cut it off right from there and maybe I want to have at the end of the clip for some reason, I'll go to the end and I place it right there. So that's basically the range selection. You select a range of a particular clip, and you can just cut it right from there and bring it to another position, or you can just delete it because you don't want to have that in your clip. There's also this hand tool, and this way, you can just skim through your timeline. This is not the easiest part. Whenever you see me do this and this, I use a MMX Master three Musk and that gives me this wheel I can scroll back and forth. With. You can also have the Trackpad, Apple Trackpad that way. You can let's say you're editing on your laptop, you can just go back and forth with your trackpad. Basically, I never use this hand tool. There's also this Zoom tool and you can zoom into the timeline or you can zoom back. That's also not something I use most often. That brings me to the end of this video because in the next video, I'll show you exactly how to set up your keyboard. Be able to do all of these things like in a snap of a second, like zooming in, zooming out, choosing your blade tool, making splits inside clips, cutting off portions of those clips, and that will happen in a second and a split of seconds. I'll see you in the next video where I'll explain to you how to set up your keyboard, like how I do that, and in a couple of days, your brains will be just programmed to use just your keyboard and maybe your mouse to edit your whole video. So I'll 8. Creating Your Own Shortcuts Inside FCP: Video is all about creating those shortcuts to have them memorized in your head. And in a couple of days, using them, they should become second nature to how you edit your video. So let's go and do just that. If you hit Option Command and K, you get this window. This is basically the default setting. This is how Fine pro comes when you download it for the first time. But we want to make our own shortcuts because, yeah, it's way, much better to use those shortcuts instead of Fin pro shortcuts. So what you can do, the default will always stay there, but you want to duplicate that and give it a name. So yeah, call it whatever you want. You can just leave it as copy of default. Or you can call it favorite shortcuts, okay? And now those favorite shortcuts are in there. You can also import shortcuts from another editing software or export them. Let's say you want to try out the VNG resolve in the future. You can always use the shortcuts that you are used to. So how to assign those shortcuts to your keys on your keyboard? By default, as we saw in the previous video, if you hit the letter L, it plays forward, but I don't want it to be there because that way you keep moving your hand back and forth from the right side of the keyboard to the left side of the keyboard. So we want to have everything that we need in this area. That way you just don't move your hand from this particular place. So with your right hand, you use your mouse, and with your left hand, you use those shortcuts. So play forward, as you see right here, we want to assign that to the letter C. So let's find it, and it's set alphabetically. So you can just go to the letter P, play forward. It's right here. What you want to do is just drag and drop it on the letter C. And now if I click on C, command is to play forward. X, we want to skim throughout our timeline. And if you want to turn that on and off, we want to hit the letter X. So let's go to skimming. It's right here, and you want to drag and drop it on the letter X. The letter Z is playing backwards, and you want to have that. So let's go to play backward and it's set on play reverse. That was the letter J. So let's drag and drop it on the letter. So if we go and save this one and close it, if I hit the letter C, as you saw there, the playhead goes forward. If I hit the letter Z, playhead goes backwards. And if I hit the letter X, I can't skim through my timeline because I've turned it off. This has been turned off. If I hit the letter X once again, I now can skim through my timeline. So let's go back and customize that keyboard even further. We have now the letter A, the letter, and the letter D. So we want to assign the letter D to deleting the clips that we don't want. By default, it's set to the actual delete key on your keyboard, but as I said, you don't want to move with your left hand to here just to delete the clip. You want to keep your left hand in this area. So let's assign the the to letter D. Letter S, that's basically splitting between clips. So let me show you what I mean. By default it's Command B. That way you can just split your timeline entirely, but we want to assign that to the letter S because that's way easier. So once again, we hit Option Command K. We go to our favorite shortcuts, and let's assign letter S to splitting those. So if you just click on Letter B, you'll find that command right here. It's Command B, and it's called blade, meaning splitting those clips in your timeline. You just drag and drop it on the letter S. You make sure it's set as a command without any modifier, so it shouldn't be here, so it should be right here. So let's delete that. By the way, if you just drag and drop outside this window, it just deletes that command that you've just set it into. So let's see if that works. Let's save that close. Now I'm skimming throughout my timeline, and if I hit S, there you go. I'm just clicking the letter S, and I can just make changes very easily. This is like life changing. You will be editing in two or three times the actual speed. Someone else will be editing, and I'll show you in a second why that is. So let's go back to that window and hit Command Shift K. Let's go further. We're still in our favorite shortcuts. We've assigned the letter D to delete something. The letter S is assigned to the blade tool to split in multiple parts. I like to leave the letter A to select the select tool. So meaning if I close this one, and if I have it on the trim tool and I want to go back to the Select tool, I just hit the letter A. So let's leave it just like that. And this part is also very important. Now we have the Q, the W, and the E. Let's focus on the Q. What do we want to have letter Q assigned to? Well, basically, if I close this thing, if I want to delete everything that comes right after the playhead to the end of that particular clip up to that split, by default, Final Cut Pro allows you to do so, but you need to hit Option and the right bracket. And that way, it just eats up everything that comes after the playhead. If I want to delete everything before the playhead up to that split, I hit option and the left bracket. As you just saw there, let me just so I'll make a split right here. And let's say I want to delete this area, I hit option and the left bracket, and that deletes everything that comes before the playhead up to this play I I want to delete all of this, I hit option and the right bracket, and that deletes everything up to this play. But we don't want to hit option left bracket option right bracket. That takes a lot of time. I just hit Command Option K to go back to this command editor, and let's assign those two commands to the letter Q and the letter W. So like I said, it was option and the right and left bracket. So let's click on the right bracket. And option is right here. So it trims to the end. Trims everything after that playhead up to wherever the split is, wherever that particular clip ends. So let's drag and drop it to the letter W. Want to do the very same thing with this left bracket, and it trims from the playhead up to the start, and we want to assign that to the letter Q. If I save this now and I go back and let's say I want to delete everything before this playhead, up to the split, I just hit the letter Q. And if I want to delete everything after the play head up to that split, I just hit the lead W. I promise you, this is life changing. I highly, highly recommend you to assign those two letters, the Q and the W to trimming to the end and trimming to the start from the playhead because it will just change the way you edit your videos and it will basically TN X your editing speed. So let's go back to that command editor by hitting Command Option K, and we want to change one last thing, and that's number one and two. To zoom in in your timeline, I've showed you, it's quite a hassle. But if you want to zoom in your timeline, you want to hit command and the equal sign. As you see here, command equal sign means zoom in and command minus sign means zoom out. We want to do that by keeping our hand on the left side of our keyboard. So we want to assign the command number one and Command number two to zoom in and zoom out. As of now, it's set to go to library browser you will not use that a lot. If you want to go to library browser, you just use your mouse and you go to the library browser. Now we want to assign the Zoom in and zoom out to those two numbers. So let's go and remove this one. Like I said, you just have to drag and drop it outside of this window, and Final Cut program will remove that automatically. And let's go to Zoom Out, drag and drop it right here. So we want to assign that to the command and number one. Number two, as you see, with no modifier, it will cut and switch to viewer angle two. I want to leave it like that. I just want to remove this one, go to the timeline because once again, you don't do that a lot. So if you want to go to the timeline, you can just use your mouse. So let's remove this one, and let's go to Zoom in and drag and drop it on number two. This way, zoom in. Whenever you hit Command two, you will zoom in, Command one, you'll Zoom outlet. Save that, close it. And as you see here, I can zoom in, zoom out by hitting Command one and Command two. So now basically I have all my editing tools assigned to the left side of my keyboard, and beside all of these shortcuts, you don't do a but maybe you will find yourself doing something a lot, but there's a lot of work to have that done. Just go to Command Option K, look for whatever command you want to assign to a certain letter on the left side of the keyboard. That way, you don't have to move your left hand to the right side, back and forth and assign it to a particular letter or number that you haven't assigned anything to. And that's basically it. This video was to help you create those shortcuts, but more importantly, it was to give you another perspective on how professional edits go and edit their videos. They don't use the mouse to go to this toolbox. They just use their keyboard. And like I said, you will build up that muscle memory. Before you know it, your hands will just go and edit that entire timeline without having to lift your left hand to the right side of the keyboard, and that will speed up your editing time dramatically. So just remember, option command K is what brings up that keyboard editor. If you find yourself working with a particular function a lot, just make sure to program it into that editor, and that way, you'll have edited for life. And the next video we'll bring these shortcuts to life by editing our actual ARL inside the timeline with those new keyboard shortcuts. 9. Putting Our Own Shortcuts Into Action: So I've closed my Final Cut Pro, went to bed, and now it's the next morning. And I want to open Final Cut Pro in the same state that was the last time I've used it. Well, the only thing I just have to do is go to this FCP bundle. Double click on it. You go to your library and hear this. Our timeline. If we double click on it, it's in the exact same state as we've left it. I'm going to delete this timeline because I've just used it to demonstrate to you how those shortcuts work. I want to open this entire clip into this timeline because in this video, I'll show you exactly how to edit your A rule inside your timeline and not as we've saw a couple of videos ago, by all the time clicking I play further and hit in O, hit and E to bring it to the timeline, each fragment separately. That's not how edit. But there are a lot of people who edit this way. I don't prefer it that way. How I prefer though is by selecting this entire clip hitting E to bring it to the timeline. And now I have this whole thing, this rock clip I can work with. So like I said, in the previous video, this entire first thing, it's about 1 minute or almost 2 minutes, it's just me talking to you, scare share. So this is not a part I want to have in my actual video, in my actual YouTube video. So I'm going to go up to, I guess. Okay, so this is the part where I start talking about the actual phone. This is where my YouTube video starts at minute four and 4 seconds. So now, I'm not sure if you remember this, but last time I've explained to you a shortcut to just delete everything that comes before the playhead up to the start. Well, we've assigned a shortcut for that, and that is the letter Q. If I just hit Q, it just eats up everything that comes before that playhead. If I hit the letter W, it will eat everything that comes after this playhead. So let's command Z D, and let's fix our timeline just to make it fit our screen. Okay, and this is where the video starts. I notice there's already something I want to change to the entire video, and that is how it's set. It seems like my camera has recorded this video upside down, so I need to fix that. Click on the actual clip. Let's go to its settings, and this is where all of the settings of the clips are. I haven't talked about this yet, but in this window, this is where you can do all kinds of things like the blend mode. If you have two clips on top of each other, we'll be talking about the blend mode more thoroughly in a future video. The opacity of the clip, you can turn up and down the opacity. That's not something that we want to do to a single clip doesn't make any sense. You scale it up and down. You can rotate it, and that's what we want to do. So let's go ahead and let's rotate it 180 degrees just to make it horizontally and facing our way. Let's make this one 100%. You can crop it and distort it. And as you see here, the transform the crop and the distorted tool, those tools are here as well. Transform corp and distort. If I go and hit transform, I now can make it smaller and bigger. Now I've made it smaller inherent at 73%. If I go back and make it 100%, once again, it just goes back to 100%. You can also crop it, meaning you can just show a portion of A video. Let's say I just want to show that phone right there. I can just crop it and play it like this. That's not something I want, so let's command Z that. And there's also this distort tool, and that's to distore it. That's also not something I want to do. So let's command that as well. This is just a tangent. I wanted to go in just to show you that these tools exist. You can find them in here or you can find them on this panel right here. Basically, when it comes to editing your A role, we've already set our shortcuts. I can hit C multiple times to go forward. If I hit Z multiple times, I go backwards. And every time I want to stop the video, I just hit the space button, and that way, yeah, I just stop the video like this. And as you saw right there, I've made a couple of mistakes. Let me show you what those mistakes are. IPhone user, I been so as so as you saw right there, I said, so as an iPhone user, and I stumbled over my words. What I need to do, I'm going to zoom into my timeline, and remember, we've assigned that Zoom tool to Command two, so that way we can zoom in. And let's get the playhead right here where the sentence starts. I can see that out of my waveform and hit the letter Q. And just like that, we've deleted that entire mistake I've done right there. And then I hit the letter C to just play it. Okay, so there's another mistake. I said, I want to talk about the specs. I want to talk about the camera. That doesn't sound confident. So let's remove that. And I guess that is right here. You will start learning how to read this audio waveform, I guess, it's called by just looking at it. Right now, it just looks like Gibberish, but over time, you will get a six sense of where those mistakes are. As you see here, it goes down, and there's just a single waveform. And this is where I suspect I've made that mistake. So let's see. The designs So, so that's Okay. So how to fix this very easily. Like I said, the S, we've assigned the letter S to split our clip. I go a couple frames forward, and this is where I think the sentence starts again. I've made a split right here. I just have to hit the letter Q and it eats up everything that comes before display head. You don't have to go hardcore and remove all the ms and S. There's this AI tool that can detect all your ms and and you can just let it spin through that AI tool and remove it entirely with just a click of a button. Most AI tools, though, will not help you clean up your timeline as we do right here, because you just need a human to, like, make a story out of it. I mean, at the end of the day, it's mere viewing a Samsung. It's not much of a story I tell. But still, there are elements AI can't detect. It's not like 100% flawless. You just need to have that human touch to it just to make it perfect. But if you want to remove those ums and ahs, is an AI tool, and I'll be speaking in depth over what AI tool you can use in your advantage to just remove those ms and s, and that way, you'll have an easier time editing your A roll. So let's go and hit C to plate. Okay, so I want to remove that. Once again, I hit the S to split that clip. I go up to this point where I continue with my sentence without that M and hit Q to just eat up everything that comes behind this playhead up to that split that we've just made. Okay, so it seems like I continue talking right here. So right now, I'm just checking mine. Okay, so this is me talking to you guys, actually. Okay, so let me tell you something. Everyone in the tech world, I'm talking about MKBHD, all those big guys. They have notes on them about the specs of any phone. I mean, they have years of experience. They know exactly what a phone can do and not do and what the display Brighton should be and what display a phone is made of, but. In general, they do have something, a separate phone where they have all their notes about a certain topic. So, Okay, so this is me talking to you, like I said, Okay, so now I'm just checking onto those notes, and let's see. So this is where my sentence starts, it seems. So, the phone has an out? Okay, so I stumble right there. Okay, so I need to go back. Let's zoom out a bit. Let's make a split right here, or let's see where I just stop talking. Let's go ahead and get started. Okay, so I said, let's go ahead and get started. Let's make a split right there. Okay, so that's a sentence we don't want in the actual clip. I think my sentence starts right here. So let's hit Q, and we'll delete everything that comes behind this playhead up to that split that we've just made. So let's go ahead and get started. So right out of the bed right out of the bed, the thing that's noticeable is that this phone has a 6.2 oh, I need to make sure. Okay, so I had that phone right there, and I don't know, doesn't make sense to have it right. I mean, if you are honest to your audience, just do that. They will not mind. If anything, they will respect you even more if you are just honest about what you do on your daily on how to make your videos if you make a lot of mistakes and all of that, because at the end of the day, we all are humans, and if you show that vulnerability, that's something they do appreciate about you. So let's go ahead and Okay, so it seems like this is where the actual sentence starts. Here's that split, and let's hit like that, we've deleted everything that came before that playhead. There's also another way what you can do is hit in the S key and go a couple of frames further, hitting the Sky one more time, clicking that actual clip that you want to delete and hitting the letter D, which stands for delete. We've assigned that as well in the shortcut video. And just like that, we got rid of that mistake I've made right there. And as you've noticed, the clip just snaps back to the previous clip. And like I said, that's because of the magnetic timeline. Funa Cap is famous about it just keeps snapping everything that you've deleted to the left because there's this magnetic force right here that just pulls everything to the left. Other softwares like Premiere Pro, don't have this future. You just have to do it manually or there are some techniques to go around that, but it's annoying. I've edited in Premiere Pro in the past. I mean, don't get me wrong. Premiere Pro has its strong points. It has its advantages like textbas editing and beautiful effects that you can add to your video. But when it comes to edit Final Cup Pro is like I don't know, it's my preferred software out there. And with me, a lot of people as well. It doesn't crash. It just keeps running because it's made for Apple, and they've made their software sophisticated just to keep it as smooth as possible. So like I said, it doesn't crash. You don't have to save it every time. So as of now, we've made a couple of cuts right here. As you see, we've deleted a couple of videos. Let's say I want to just close this application entirely. I hit command. It's right here. I can go and open it backup and it will take me exactly where I was. I didn't have to command S to save it or all of that. I just the Final Cop Pro does that all for me automatically on the background. It keeps rendering here, and it does that for you. So even if you run out of battery and your Macbook just shuts down, you don't have to worry about losing your work because, A, you were on the first time, you were very organized by making those clips we've made in previous video, and B just has everything you need in these folders. Like your A role is where it needs to be your Bs are where there needs to be your graphics, are there, your sound effects. If you didn't have those files in here, maybe in your downloads or movies, you will be more likely to lose them. Okay, that was a tangent. I just wanted to talk about how I edit my videos when it comes to editing them in the timeline, and that's exactly how I edit them. There's nothing more I can add to this, so I'll just go ahead and edit my entire timeline without boring you even more. And I'll see you in the next video we'll be talking about placing our B rules and our effects and all that. 10. Use B-Roll and Effects the Correct Way: So basically your viral complements your video. They just show parts of something you were talking about in your video. And to make the start of your video more engaging and as you know or may not know, the first 30 seconds of a video are crucial. If you're not engaging your audience or if you're not giving them what the title suggests, they will just drop off and go to another video, and that will hurt your engagement a lot. YouTube or the algorithm will just consider that as a bad video. People don't want to watch that video and it will not be revealed to a broader audience. Let's make sure that first part of the video has some more spiciness, if you will. Let's zoom out and let's go to the beginning of our clip and let's zoom in once again. As you see here, I do have some footage. This is just me showing the phone in action, basically. And let's see what I say at first. So let's bar. Though I said I've been working with this Samsung for the past four months or so, maybe I'll just make an entry point in here and drag this thing in here. There is some background nose. It seems like there's a fan going on in that room. When you're standing in the room, you don't hear anything, but the mic can pick up a lot of noise. Let's bring that down. Okay, so I don't want to show this part in here, so let's hit split and bring it a couple of seconds. And if I hit Q, see what happens here. Doesn't snap anymore to the previous clip. Why? Because that magnetic capability is just working on the actual timeline, on the actual AR. Everything that's here in the middle has that magnetic functionality. Whereas whatever's on top doesn't have that. So it doesn't snap automatically. You need to do that yourself. A trick to help you do so because if you just take that clip and try to place it right here, it will not snap to the previous clip as you see right here. Therefore, you need to press and hold the letter N and bring it to that previous clip and as you see right there, it snaps right onto it and you see this yellow line that appears meaning there is snap functionality going on on the background. I I release my finger from the letter on my keyboard, there's no yellow line if I hold it, there is I say a couple of things. I said, I want to talk about the specs. I want to talk about the camera, about the design of this phone. Maybe I'll show something like a camera thing right here. Oh, let's see. Okay, so so I'm filming this part in here and I'm filming it in AK 30 frames per second. Maybe I'll just show this part in here. And let's go a couple of frames to the top. Let's hit O and drag and drop our clip to the timeline. Unfortunately, we can't hit the letter Q to just bring it automatically to the timeline, as we saw in the previous video. Why? Because we've changed our keyboards. If I hit Command option K, these are our favorite shortcuts. And remember, we've assigned the letter Q to having it just delete everything that comes before the playhead. That's not anymore like bring it to the timeline. If I go back to the default keyboard and I close it, I can bring it by just hitting the little que and it comes to the timeline automatically where that playhat is at. So yeah, it's one or the other. You can't have both words. So maybe I'll just leave it at my favorite shortcuts and I'll do it manually because most of the time I use those shortcuts more often. So I will select our favorite shortcuts, hit close, zoom out, go to the start of that video, zoom in. And so we definitely need to mute this clip, and let's bring this somewhere here. So that's way too short. It's not what I want. Maybe I'll bring this in here. Maybe I'll just delete this as a whole. So as you saw here, we had here a jump cut. If I hit the letter V, by the way, it just turns off whatever clip you've selected. So if I select this clip, and I hit the letter V on my keyboard, it just turns it off. If you hit the letter V again and you need to have that clip selected, it turns it on. So let's turn this Ba as you saw here, we had here that jump cut, and if you want to mask that jump cut, if you don't want to make it visible, once again, it's not that annoying, but if you are for whatever reason, want to just hide it, you can just add a l on top of it. So I can be adding some more all on top of this just to highlight the fact that I'm an iPhone user. Maybe I'm shooting myself using the actual iPhone. It's not necessary for this clip. I am happy with that. I can add some captions into this clip. But therefore, I'll need to use a plug in, and I haven't showed you yet how to download all those plugins. That will be in our next video where I'll show you how to download the best free plugins out there. And trust me, there are a lot of free plugins you can use. You don't have to pay anything for a plugin. There are like plugins where you need to pay for, but I recommend you not to do so. You will have everything under your belt with the free plugin. So yeah, let's see. What more we can add. I don't have much of a role. I just have these two clips for now, but I can add a lot of things take sections out of this thing. As you see here, I don't know, I'm just showing the phone outside in a bright day. So let's maybe add an O. And when I say this phone surprised me in a good way, I'll just show this clip. Maybe I'll just trim this part right into. I'm not going to just play this whole clip because I've just done that by editing this whole A role. So I know where I need to place those B roles. And this is one more type I'm going to give you. Whenever you do something, just do it as a whole and come back to the next thing that you want to do. For example, in our previous video, we've edited our A role. At that point, I'll be focusing on just the editing. And I'm not going to focus on the visuals on adding transitions between clips on adding sound effects and all of that. I'll just focus on the edit on the actual cutting the bat takes out of the A roll. Then when I've done that, I'll go back and I focus on adding rolls, effects, and all of that. So that way, you'll know where you want to add your als. Okay, so I'm holding now the phone horizontally, and I show. Maybe I'll add this portion in here. I for N and O for out, and I'll bring it in here. Maybe I'll bring it right here because I see a lot of cuts on this A role at this part. Because this clip is selected, I can hit the S on my keyboard and it will cut this part here. It will not add any edits to the actual al because that one is not selected. I need to make sure that clip selected and I hit the letter Q, and just like that, I remove that silence boring part of the v. Here that I show the display brightness outside, and I want to demonstrate that. So let's go ahead and maybe I'll just make an end point in here in. So that's where I turn the brightness all the way up, and I show it on Cam and let's so this is something I want to work with. Let's take it. And you can also hit Command X, just to remove it from there, just like how you edit a Word document. Command X, just put it from that place, and you can command V it, command paste it somewhere else. But at this part, I'm talking about the display brightness of the phone. So it seems like I might just add that VRL in here. Let's turn the volume down. Let's say you've made a mistake on your video and you want to correct that. So what you want to do is hit Control T, and that will give you a basic title that you can work with. Right here. If you want to move that title, you need to have that layer selected. Make sure you hit this transform tool, and now you can move it wherever you want. So let's see where I made that mistake. So okay. So this is where I should correct myself. I'll just hit this asterisk symbol, and I'll call it facial recognition. So let's see how this looks, and let's make it like a couple of seconds. This is how you can fix up your mistake or maybe just remove that part and you've corrected yourself. Definitely, you should make sure you've recorded your videos as precise as possible. But once again, we are all humans. We make mistakes. And if you find out that you made a mistake, you will not go back and film that a whole new video just because you want to correct your mistake right there. You can just correct it this way, and a lot of other people do the same thing. That's basically the theory behind putting bells on top of your A roll. You just go over your clip, once again, and you just spice it up with, like, portions of that Arol or beryl, I should say, that you film separately from your Arol. You can go like hog wire, just stuff it all up with beryls. I'm not sure if that does anything good to your video, but if your audience like that, and you can sense that, but by the feedback they give you, you definitely can do so. I'll just keep my role add up very minimalistic. The next video will be a fun one because we'll be adding more functionality into Funa Co Pro by downloading free plugins and making sure to use them the correct way. 11. Downloading Some Free and Useful Plugins: Let's go ahead and download some free plugins. Plug ins are basically those apps that make your program even better. Let's say you have an iPhone and you want to download an app on your iPhone to give more functionality. That's basically what plugins are. They are made by third parties like Motion VFX or other people. Even a lot of YouTubers have made plugins by themselves, and you can make plugin by this application called Apple Motion you don't have to need to know what Apple Motion is or how it works, but just know you can make those plugins with Apple Motion. You can make transitions, titles, effects, generators, and all of that just with Apple motion. I need to say it's more technical. It's not as easy as Final Cut Pro. So don't stress about that. If you are just an editor, you can solely focus on Final Cut Pro, and you'll be a good editor without having to know any of Apple Motion. Okay, this motion Vx is basically the best out there. It's like Chef's kiss when it comes to creating beautiful transitions, titles, effects, generators. And they offer a couple of free plugins. But therefore, you need to make an account. You need to let me sign out just to show you how to create that account. And hit the sign up button, it should be right here. Fill in your email, your password and confirm your password, or you can just continue with Google, Facebook, Apple, or Amazon. Hit I accept conditions, and just like that, you've made yourself an account. It's very trustworthy. These people made great things when it comes to creating transitions. You will most likely will receive an email to just confirm your sign up and after doing so, you can login and start downloading those plugins. After you've made an account, go to Installer. And M Installer is basically an application that you can install on your mac. Let me show you how it looks like. It's this one right here, there seems to be some updates. I'll do that later on. And these are all the plugins I've downloaded in the past. Trust me, once again, you don't need all these plugins. Most of them are paid. I've paid like about 400 euro or dollar just for these plugins. I mean, I use them, but you don't have to be a good editor. Just with the free ones, you can make amazing videos for your clients or even for yourself. So once you've installed this thing right here from this patient, I'll leave all the links in the resources tab down below. You can start downloading plugins. And the first free plugin I highly recommend you to download is CameraC. And to do so, you just have to click on it, get it for free. I already have a SOTs you already owned this product, accept those conditions and pay. Once it's downloaded, you'll be able to find it inside installer. And once it's in here, you can just go ahead, Install, and it will install automatically on your Mac or IMAC or MacBook. The second plugin I want you to download is an adjustment layer. I'll explain in a second what an adjustment layer is, but you need this adjustment layer. Every other editing program comes with an adjustment layer built in, but for some reason, Fina Cup Pro doesn't provide you with an adjustment layer. And as an editor, you need an adjustment layer because it will help you save so much time. So go ahead and download this adjustment layer as well. There's also this light diffuse, which is a cool plugin. It shows you see those halos around those lights. You can create that by just filming a scene. This is done with a plugin, which is this free plug in as well. So you can also get it for free. Let's see what else. These are demos. They are not basically free, but you can use them for a while, and if you like them, you can just buy them. There's also this behavior basic. It's a cool plugin. You can just This one is free, and you can make things appear on screen. So get it for free and download it. If you don't like it, you don't need to use it. You can delete it later on. But it's a cool one. It gives you all these effects that you see here on screen, and I'll show you exactly how you can use it in a second. Let's see what else you can download. Also this Transition Luma, and so let me mute I will give you this transition as you saw right there. It just blends. To clips blends into each other as you saw right there. You can download it as well if you want. But Final Capro has some built in transitions that you can use, and that's all motion via fix. So once you've done that, let's go to a second place where you can download a free plugin, which is very handy. You will use it. Which is made by this guy. This is a solo developer, I guess. His name is Tokyo Haja. I'm sorry if I butchered that name, but he made a great plug in for free, and you can find it on his YouTube page. And once again, I'll leave the link of this YouTube page in the resources tap down below. And you can download it by just clicking this Bitly link, and it will download it automatically. You get a zip file, and I'll show you in a second how to install that download in Fina Cup Ro. He has also some other plugins that you can choose from. But yeah, if you like those plugins, by all means, just go ahead and download them and maybe support this guy. I'm not sure where you can support him, but if there's a way Oh, he has a pay pall, Yeah, make sure to support him. He made a great job creating this particular plugin I use a lot. So yeah. Uh, this guy, I guess, his name is Dylan from the Fina Ca Bro. That's his YouTube channel. If you type this in, you can go in here. And he has this beautiful plugin. As you saw right there, it creates this lightning effect around objects. As you see there, that plugin is called saber by the Fina Ca Bro and it gives you that effect on top of any object that you add. So this is the actual object and you can play around with it and give it some effects on top of that object. You can make it. You can give this lightning effect and you can play around with it. It's a cool plug in to and if you don't like it or maybe you will not use it a lot, you don't have to download it. You can name whatever price you like. You can even put a zero in there, and I want this and download it afterwards, you will need to fill in your email just to be able to receive that plugin. It has also this handheld plugin, and this handheld plugin makes it look like someone is holding your camera, which gives it that dynamic shot. Instead of that static shot. It's a cool one to have as well, and it got 11,000 downloads. So it's a good plug in with almost all those downloads give it a five star view. So this is a good plug in. Last one is made by this guy. His name is Nigel, I guess, and I'm sorry once again for Oh, Ryan. It's not Nigel. It's Ryan. I'm sorry. His last name is angle Ryan angle. You can download his plug in as well for free, and this is a free VHS effect, or I want you to download the free VHS transition, basically. So go ahead to the search bar and type in VH free VHA transition, and you don't have to do so because I will provide you with the actual go to the transition, continue for free, and it will add it for you in the shopping cart, check out. You will need to fill in your email once again, and he will send it to you for free. Now, we've talked about motion VFX provide you with this app that helps you install those plugin in Final Cut Pro. But most of these apps, most of these plugins don't give you the installer application, how to install those plugins in there. Well, let's take, for example, this plugin in here made by Tapio Haja. So let's go to Downloads, and it's right in here. Make sure to unzip it. This is the actual folder. It gives you some instructions on how to download this plugin. But if it didn't do so, you can just go ahead, copy this one, go to movies. Motion templates, this one is very important. It should be under motion templates. It's an effect. So if I go to Fina CAP real quick, this is an effect right here. This is a transition. The difference between effect and a transition, and we'll explain more in detail effect you can dragon drop an effect on top of your actual shot. For example, dragon drop it on top of this clip right here. As you see right here, those lights get more diffused. I don't need it for my actual video, but if you're filming outside and you have a lot of lights, definitely that one is also for free on motion V effects. Let's go ahead select this box and hit backspace, and that way you've just deleted this effect. So you need that tab five in and out effect in your motion template. Go to effects, make a new folder, and a folder is basically those all these categories in here. So if I go and make a folder called, I guess it's called Tab five and paste it right in here. So tab A was it, but I'll leave it as tab five. If I close Finite Car Pro and open it once again, it's sort out alphabetically. So you'll find it here. As I said, by creating that folder, you've made a category and you'll find it right there. That's basically how you install a plugin that doesn't come from motion V effects. You need to do it manually. You need to do it yourself, and you need to paste it in here by motion templates, and you need to choose a category where you want to place it. Because effects are not the same as transitions. If you have downloaded an effect, you shouldn't place it on the transitions, and that goes the same for titles, generators, compositions and all. Yeah, that's basically how you download and install those effects. When it comes to motion Veffcs, you will get this handy application that does all the work for you. When it comes to those solo people in the developers, I guess, they are called, you need to do it manually, and when it comes to installing a plugin manually, you go to movies. Motion templates, this is very important. You can't place it somewhere else. If you don't have motion templates, you need to create a folder and call it motion templates as that you can't make typos. It should be exactly like this. You go get info, and you add an extension to it, which is dot localized. It should be typed in exactly like this. Let me show you what I mean. This is the actual template. D, it says motion templates localized. If you don't have this motion template folder, you can make it. If you do have it, I believe you will have it because once you've installed that installer, installer will do it for you, so you don't need to worry about not having it. So download that installer app download those plug ins from motion V effects, and you will have that folder that you can continue working on and installing all the other effects from all these other people. 12. Putting Our Plugins to Work to Enhance Our Workflow: Okay, so now we've downloaded the plugins that we need for continuing editing our videos. I want you to go and find your adjustment layer. Adjustment layer, you should have that because that's a layer that motion VFX provides in their free range of tools. And adjustment layer is basically a nothing layer that does absolutely nothing to your video on its own. So, for example, if I just delete it and it's right here in my effects browser or in my title browser, I should say, if you go to this button right here, and you look for it on the titles. You will find it somewhere here. So mine, it's right here, and if I just drag and drop it on top of any clip right here, it stands there and it does absolutely nothing. But what this adjustment layer is good for is basically changing everything that's underneath it. So if I want to make some color correction to this clip right here, I can add that color correction to just the adjustment layer. So if I go into this effect browser right here, and this basically is where you add color corrections. So you can add a color wheel to it. And basically, this is how you can add colors and turn down the exposure to turn up the exposure, your shadows, your mid tones, global highlights. Basically, color correction needs to have a separate course on its own, and I might be making that course separately. But if I can give you just the gist of it, if I, for example, turn the exposure of the global settings up, you see picture looks like hideous. This is not something that you want to render in your final shot. But just to give you an example, that effect is basically given to this adjustment layer. If I happen to remove it by deleting it, the picture goes back to normal, and there's nothing in there. But if I bring it back that color change that we've added to this particular adjustment layer, and that doesn't just go for the color correction. So let's say I want to delete the color correction on the adjustment layer, I just have to make sure this is selected. We know that it's selected because it has this yellow border around it. And I just hit the lead key, and that way, there's no color correction added to this adjustment layer. But what you can do, for example, remember when I talked about those jump cuts, let's say you want to add some effect to that obvious jump cut to make it less visible. What you can do is take this adjustment layer, bring it on top of wherever that cut happens right in front of it. So it's right there, and bring your transform tool to make display a bit smaller. And that way, you'll have this effect. You can just copy this adjustment layer and you can paste it wherever you want. Let's say you have multiple jump cuts you want to correct. So I want to correct this one as well. For example, I just have to go here. And as you see right there, it you kind of have seen this effect a lot on YouTube videos. They just jump to make the shop more dynamic and not that static, and that's something that you can add to. There's another thing you can add to this adjustment layer, and that's those effects. So let's say I want to go into my built in effects. So those are the built in effects that come with Final Cap Pro, and you should have those. Let's go to those color board presets, and I want to maybe add this effect to my shop for whatever reason. I just have to dragon drop it on top of that adjustment layer. And just like that. And as you now this effect is just added to this adjustment layer. If I happen to delete this adjustment layer, none of those effects will stay there because only layer that's affected by those effects I've added to that portion is that adjustment layer. So that's basically what an adjustment layer is. I assume you've downloaded, and if you haven't, make sure to do so because it will add a lot of value to your editing. So let's see if I zoom out. I see there are a lot of transitions missing between those clips, and you can add transition. I mean, you shouldn't overdo it, but if you add strategically transitions between clips, these are transitions. But if you go to your dynamic transitions, these transitions are added to your Fina approach. So let's zoom right in there. And let's say I want to add a transition between these two clips, I'll just have to drag and drop this on top of it. This one. So that gives it something dynamic. It just tells the viewer, Okay, there's something else coming and get the viewer less bored because at the end of the day, this is a top down video. I kind of get bored. You kind of get bored from it very easily. So you need to add those effects and transition strategically and B roles yeah, to keep the viewer engaged, basically. So what you can do with a transition, you can make it as big or as small as you want. I want to make my transition snappy and very quick, so I'll just go and make it smaller. Oh. Okay, so that was way too fast. Let's make it. Okay, that was still a bit too fast. Okay, so that's something I'm looking for. Let's say you want to add this particular transition to all your clips because you want to stay consistent with your edits. What you can do is go on top of this transition, hit the right key of your mouse, and make it as a default transition. That way, every time you go between those clips and if you hit the apostrophe on your keyboard, that's the key on top of the shift key. You just have to hit Command T, and that transition will be added automatically between your clips. By the way, I'm not sure if I've said that, but to go to the end of any clip or to the beginning of any clip, you hit the apostrophe key on your keyboard. See how that playhead just jumps to the end of the clip. If I want to go back to the beginning of that clip, you just have to hit the column key on your keyboard. So it's the apostrophe key and the column key, and this way, you can just jump between cuts. It also jumps between layers. So let's say a layer ends here and it starts here, it will jump to the end and start of that layer. If I go back one more time, there we have it. Let me zoom out. You can see what I'm talking about. So I can just keep jumping from cut to cut, basically. Yeah, so that's basically it. Adjustment layer is definitely handy tool, and your transitions, you might have downloaded more transitions from those free resources, check them out. It's basically just drag and drop them wherever you want in your timeline. Obviously, where you have those cuts between clips and see what works for you and what doesn't and make a signature out of it, because that way your audience will remember that it's you who's editing those videos, and a lot of creators out there do have an own signature on how they how they edit stuff and all of that. That's all about those effects that we've just downloaded in previous video and how to add transitions and effects to your adjustment layer and onto your clips, basically. In the next video, we'll talk more about color grading and the basics. 13. The Basics of Color Grading: So, like I said, in my previous video, color correction should be its own topic, but I'll try to explain to you in a simplified manner how color correction works. Most of the time, when you shoot with an iPhone, the colors are great as they come. The iPhone or Apple managed to give their videos good Kodak that just produces good looking videos out of the bet. So if I go, for example, to this shot right here, as you see the color are actually good by default. I didn't change anything to this shot, and this shot was shot by my iPhone. If I go, for example, to this shot, this shot was shot with the Sony A seven C two, and with more advanced cameras, you'll get more room to color correct impost. Those cameras are made for professionals. They know how to set up their ISO, the shutter speed, and all of that. I'm not going to bore you with all of that jargon, but just know if you buy or if you own a more professional camera, most likely you'll need to color correct impost. So, but how to do so because we see here that this shot has already great colors, this shot, for example, as well. See, my skin tone is already colored correctly. The bushes on the background, they are already colored correctly. If I go to this shot, for example, the colors are most of the time good as they come when you shoot with an iPhone. But let's say you have this dark washed out image and you want to give it some color correction. But just those clips that you want to change those color correction too. Well, you can do that by just going to that actual clips, so let me zoom in to show you what I mean. You can select that individual clip, and you can start color correcting right here because as I mentioned my previous videos, this panel is meant to add adjustment to your videos, whether it's scaling it up or down or cropping it on a certain side or distorting it. But you can also add some color correction to this thing. So let me command Z all of this. So you can also add color correction right from this tab right here. Okay, so with the latest update, Fine CAP gave us this enhanced light and color. I wouldn't call it AI, but it's more kind of machine learning. Faneca Pro just uses your computer CPU to just analyze this image and gives it as best as it can the great colors possible. So if lick on it. I just enhances this particular crip clip as best as it can. It adds some exposure to it, some brightness, highlights, black points, also adds some color correction to it, saturations. And to be honest, this shot doesn't this shot looks great as it is. I'm quite happy with it, but it has some red glow to it, I guess. So you can definitely go with this shot, and it should be fine. But you don't have to. You can just go and even adjust that exposure even more and contrast and brightness. And I'll be talking about exposure and contrast in a second more deeply. But I just wanted to tell you that this button exists and you can use it for your advantages. So if you don't care about color correction and you don't want to spend much time on it, you can just use fine cut Pros enhance light and color button to do the job for. But if you don't want to do so, you can basically go and make sure this color adjustment is selected, and we know that it's selected because it has this yellow border around it. So I go and hit backspace, and just like that, I've deleted all those color correction that Fina CAP did for me. But if we want to adjust those colors manual, well, we can do that from here as well. That's the same thing. Or we can just click on this button and we'll do some light exposure correction for us, or we can just hit this button separately, and it does some color correction for us. But there is another way, and that's through color board or color wheels. Let's look into the color board first. Color board you can color grade by adjusting these bucks, I would call them. You can adjust the saturation or you can adjust the exposure. And both on color saturation, exposure we have, we can change the global, which is this spot right here. This changes the global color of that whole image. If I go up, the whole image turned into this hideous color into green. If I go down, the whole image changes into like this red, reddish kind of color. If I go to the extreme point, we get just a global red image. If I go back, let me command Z it just to bring it back a 0% level. And let's talk about the shadows. The shadows are basically all the shadows that are on your shot. So we see here some shadows. This is where the light is coming from. We see here some shadows, and you can change the color of those shadows as well. So if I just this to the top, it's not as we saw on the global puck because that global puck changes the whole image into green. But the shadows, it just changes the shadows into this blueish color. See how here where the light is at, it's still kind of white, so it didn't change anything. If I go to the midtones, let me just command Z that a couple of times. If I go to the mid tones, it will change the mid tones of this image right here. And before I go even further with explaining what mid tones and highlights are, you can't just detect all of those things from the actual clip right from the shot. We just need to have something that extra is basically a hesigram hesogram that shows you where those colors are at and how you can change them. I don't want to go that deep with this video because then this course will be changed into a master or an advanced color correction class. I don't want it to be that. I just wanted to give you an idea that there is a possibility to color correct right from here and just a little bit eyeballt. I don't want to go in one extreme or the other, just make sure those colors are a bit correct and they are not way too off from your shot. That's what those colors are. Most of the time, I don't even touch them. I just go straight ahead to saturation or exposure just to make sure my shot just that little bit extra pop. If I go, for example, to the exposure, once again, we have the global, the shadows, the mid tones, and highlights. The global will change the exposure of that whole image. If I go to the shadows. So you just kind of look where those shadows are. Like, here, here, here we have here some shadows. This is not a part where the shadows are at. But if we go to those shadows, this is this spock. And if I turn the exposure up, it will see all those shadows kind of disappear. And if I bring it back, those shadows get extra dark. In here, we have that we have more light and that didn't get affected by it. Obviously, if I turn it down entirely, my whole image will go away. You get what I mean. If we go to the mid tones, once again, therefore, you need to have this histogram that you need to look into. If you want to go that deep, you can just go to Window, Workspace color and effect, and you will get this histogram that you can look into. If you want to make some skin corrections, you can go to this icon right here and go to Vectorscope, and this will help you create some color correction to those skin tones. Make sure that you know about these tools. If you want to go back to how this screen looked like, we go to Window workspaces and the default or hit Command zero. So if I hit Command zero, I'll go back to the panels we've been working with the past couple of classes. So this possibility is available. We can do some color correction. I'll highly recommend you to just start with Final Cut Pro's machine learning thing. It's right here as well, and it does the job for you, and it does a pretty good job. But what if you want to change colors to just some parts of your video clip and not the others? Well, therefore, we have this adjustment layer we've talked about in the previous videos. So I bring it if I delete, go to where all my plugins are installed, all my titles and adjustment layer, and I bring it right on top of my clips. And if I drag and drop it to the left or the right, it takes its place right where it blooms. If I bring it up to this place because here's where I've turned my artificial lights on, and I definitely definitely recommend you to just make sure all the lightning is correct in pre production before you go into this editing phase and not fix it imposed. But let's say something happened and you haven't noticed that it's way too dark in your place just like in here, we kind of can correct it imposed. So we have this adjustment layer selected. Let's go actually to this color correction thing, and let's enhance it by just clicking this button. And to be honest, I'm kind of happy with this result. I just wanted to kind of give it some more exposure, and you shouldn't overdoing these things because going to one extreme or another will make your shot look bad. So just go a couple of percentage to the left or the right. We can add some contrast to it, we can add some brightness to it. And I'm kind of happy with these results. You can just turn off the color correction Final Cut Pro did for you. Want, or you can turn it back on. That's up to you. Let's go ahead and see the difference between having this color adjustment and having our image just as how it came right out of the camera. So this is how it looks how it came from the camera, and this is how it looks with some color correction. And to be honest with you, I'm happy with this result. So yeah, that's what color corrections are. You can find that right here in this panel under this tab and you can add as many layers on top of the other as you want. So if I had color wheels as well, and color wheels and color boards are basically the same. You just get another view on how to adjust those globals, those shadows on those midtones. So if I go to wheels, we get to see global shadows, midtones, highlights, and it's just a bit different than color boards. Most people do prefer to just color correct and color wheels. If this doesn't look the same on your screen, you can just go to view and select all wheels, and that way you get all wheels in one image, or you can just go and hit single wheel and you can go between the global, the shadows, the midtones and the highlights. Like I've reiterated multiple times throughout this class, is that color correction should be its own class. Just know the keyword here is not to overdo it, and you'll be fine every time you add some color correction to your videos, especially now we're filming with iPhones. Those colors are great out of the bad. So yeah, go ahead, make sure to play around with those colors, make sure to know where they are. In the next video, we'll be talking about how to make scribbles on top of your video. 14. Scribbling on Top of Our Video with FPC's Built-in Effects: Okay, so on this video, I want to talk about how to make those scribbles on top of your video for free. I want to talk about how to make a clip faster and slower within Final Cut Pro. And finally, we're going to talk about built in effects that come within Final Cut Pro for free. So how to make those scribbles on top of your video. Obviously, yeah, you can buy a plug in that makes those scribbles for you, but if you don't want to, like this thing in here, I just have to drag and drop it, and this is not me affiliated with motion V effects. But you can just buy a plug in that does that for you, but you can do that for free, as well. For we need an extra device that gives us the opportunity to scribble on it. And ideally, I will highly recommend you to do it on your iPad. If you have an iPad with a Pen tool, that way you can just draw very easy and create beautiful drawings. But if you don't have an iPad, you can just do it on your iPhone as well. And if you're using Android, you can do it on Android as well. Only two things you need is your device and Canva. For the sake of example, I'll be doing it on my iPhone just to pick the hardest device to make those scribbles on because I'll need to be drawing with my finger. And since it's very hard to draw with your fingers, you can make easy stuff on your iPhone. First things first, make sure you're recording your screen. So turn that on, and you need to go and download Canva. If you make an account on Canva, they offer a free version. First things first, make a design that has a custom size of 38 40 by 21 60, which is four K. That's resolution four K. And you want to give it a green background color. So let's go ahead and give it that green background. Color. And once you've done that, you go to this draw functionality of Canva. So pick your pen tool and give it whatever color you want. I'll just go with a black color, and I'll just draw a star, for example. Let's first make the weight of our pen tool a bit heavier. I'll go with maybe 30, and I'll just go with a star just like. Now I have a star animation on my phone, but I need to export that into my computer. So let's terminate that screen recording and send it to your computer. I'll just use AirDrop to do so. So there we have it and make sure to stay organized. So let's drag and drop it into our folder, and I'll just place it on the graphics. Okay, so once I have it into that graphics folder, I'll just drag and drop it in my finicaP and we have this thing that we can work with. So let's go ahead and make some edits. So if I drag and drop it from the start to the point where I start drawing, let's see, and you can see on the right side of my screen that I kind of do something. Okay, so this is where the drawing begins. First things first, we need to crop it just to make sure that only the screen where the drawing happens is visible. So let's crop it. So now I only have the star that I can work with. Let's transform it. And now we have this star on top of our video, but it has this green color on the background, but we've chosen the green color deliberately because that color is easy to remove this effect. If you go to your effect browser and you hit all, you go to green Ker and you type in green screen Ker. This is the one you need. You just have to drag and drop it on top of that video that we've made, screen that screen recording that we've made on our device. And just like that, it disappeared entirely. So as you saw there, we have this effect that's built in with Fina Cup Pro. You don't have to pay for it. It just comes with Fina Cup Pro. But there are a lot more effects like these color effects that you can just drag and drop onto your clips. And what these effects do is basically change color the color state of your video. So if I just drag and drop this, for example, I don't even have to drag and drop it. I just have to ho with my mask over it. And you see my that clip has now this red hue on top of it. And what it does, if I just drag and drop it, you see that on top of my video, and it gives it this remap thing that you might need to use for whatever reason. And just like that, there are a lot more presets that you can use, color board presets. These just change the way your clip looks like. Like if I change it into this green thing, I'll just basically changed the color board. So if I go to colorbard, you see it made those changes into my color grading of the video. Obviously, I don't want that, so I'll just go to this video icon and I just remove it by hitting delete. But let's go back to our actual drawing. If we look at it, you see that it gets drawn on top of my video automatically, like an animation. But we can make it even a bit faster. What you need to do and to get your clips go faster, therefore, you have to just hit Option Command R, and you get this green bar on top of your clip. If you go to this handle right here, you can just bring it back, and that way, you can just have it like go 500% faster than the original velocity, if you will. So just like that, it went way too fast. Maybe I want it to be just 276% faster. I don't know. Okay, so maybe that's something I am happy with if I just bring it back. So I'm bringing it back by clicking on this handle and not this handle right here because if you click on this handle, you change the speed velocity of that clip. If you click on this handle, you just remove a part of a clip. So I want it to be just 2 seconds long, over 2 seconds long. So it gets that animation real quick and it disappears. That way, you can create whatever animation you want. If you're doing this on your iPhone or Android phone, I highly recommend you just stick with one drawing at a time because you're using your finger, and it's a bit harder to draw with your finger than, for example, on an iPad with Apple pencil. If you have the Apple pencil, you can make beautiful drawings maybe you want to scribe something on top of your video, which looks very great, and it gives that and it will give your videos that unique feeling that your audience will recognize you from. So what I want you to do is go ahead and create those scribbles for yourself. Use your iPhone. If you have an iPad, even better that way, you can just use the iPad pencil. If you have that as well. Otherwise, just stick to your iPhone and also just keep it simple since drawing with your finger can be very challenging. 15. Exporting Our Final Project: Maybe you want to upload it on your socials on YouTube, on YouTube, on TikTok or whatever socials you're active on. And there are a couple of things to know before doing so. The first thing is that you most likely need a thumbnail. And what I do when creating those thumbnails, I just go to a specific part or where I think, Okay, this shot looks a bit interesting people might get interested just watching by just seeing this exact thumbnail. So let's say for some reason, I just wanted to export this shot. What I need to do is just go with my cursor with my playhead and just stand on that particular shot. Or I'll just film a clip that's meant to be my thumbnail. But regardless, you will need to have your playhead stationed at that particular timestamp. Once you've done that, you just go to exploore and you'll go to save Kernel frame. So you can export it as a PNG or if you go to settings, you have multiple multiple options to choose from as a JPAG as a Photoshop file event, just go over to your Photoshop and start editing from there. Most of the time, I just export it as a PNG. Go to next, give it a name. I've already exported a couple of PNG, so I'll just give it some random name Samsung S 24 V six, and your file is being saved into that root folder that we've created. I've chosen for graphics, and here is our file. You can use this even further to create your thumbnail. Just know that thumbnails are most likely will be at this size, be very smart on how to place your text. Don't put a lot of text on your images. Maybe you want to put some icons on it, but make sure just know that this is basically the size of your thumbnail when it end up on YouTube. That's one thing, but eventually you want to export this whole video. We go back to our library, the SS 24, that's the name for our library, and we'll select the project. We can modify some settings. Most of the time, I've already told you this video shot on four K. This is the resolution of four K, and it's shot at 30 frames per second. The rendering, most of the time, you don't have to worry about it. Just keep it at Apple Progress 422 HQ. But the color space is the most important one because let's say you have selected the white gamut HDR rec 2020 PQ. So let's select that and see what happens. If I go and want to export this file, and this is most of the time where you need to export this file. So don't choose any other way to expect for this right here. And we get right away a warning that tells us using an a bit codec with HDR content may affect your video quality. Well, that means once you've exported this whole video, your video will look just horrible. It will look very bright and nothing will be visible. I've just banked my head onto the keyboard the first time I've encountered this like a couple of years ago, and I just don't want you to encounter the same thing. So go back. Let's cancel this. Make sure your project, this timeline, basically is selected, go to modify and make sure it's set on standard Beck seven oh nine and most of the time, if you're shooting with your iPhone or even with a digital camera, make sure not to shoot in HDR because AGR clips are very bright, and if your audience are watching her videos on their smartphone and they're in a dark place, maybe before sleeping, they watch a video, they will get this bright image and you will be notified about it by your audience. Just believe me, will you will get some comments about how bright your video is. No one wants that. Most of the time, best quality that you want to invest in is your audio. If that's fine, then people don't worry much about the quality of the image. And we are now in 2024. Most of those images are as good as they are when they come out of the camera or when they come out of the phone. So just keep it at Rec 709. Hey, okay, go to this Export button, export your file. And now we don't have any warning. But there's more. So if I go to settings, your video codec should be set at h264. This is what YouTube recommends you to upload your videos at. We can go to Apple Progress 422, but see what happens here to the size of this file. It becomes gigantic. You don't want to have that. It will render in, like, ages, and you'll have a file of 35 gigabyte on your machine. No one wants that. You can go Higher by going to an uncompressed ten bit file, and this will turn this file into a dinosaur. No one wants 500 gigabytes of storage taken up with just one file. So make sure to just keep it at age 264, and that will leave us with something that's reasonable. I mean, 6.2 is just good. It's on the higher end when it comes to video files, but, hey, an 11 minute video, and we've stuffed a lot of things into that video. So I'm happy with that. If I hit next, I'll make sure to save it in this folder ready to be published that way. I know. Okay, so this video is fully edited. I can just upload it on YouTube or if you are a freelancer and you're working with someone, you can just send it to them. You know, this video, I don't have to touch it, except if I get some feedback from the guy who I'm working with, then I can go back and edit it even more. What you then need to do, let's save that. So let's say you're a freelancer and you're working with someone, and he told you, Well, I want to add some text at any point of this video. So let's close this. Okay, so it says, Are you sure you want to quit? There are texts that are currently in progress. Obviously, I can't close it because I'm rendering that video, so that was a bit stupid of me. So let's wait until this is fully rendered, and we have the actual file, and I'll show you a way to just go back to this exact same setting so that you can just go ahead and put the changes that the person who you're working with wants in their actual video. Okay, so the video's done rendering. And let's say you just close Fina Cup entirely, and you go to your folder, and let's find out if it's really in there. It's ready to be published. Here we have our actual video. IPhone users Samsung. So this is the video we've already edited this video, and you just go over with your day. Later, you find out that you've made a mistake or your edit wasn't quite as you've expected it to be in the final version and you want to make changes into that. Well, luckily, we have this FCP bundle, our library that we have saved into this root folder, and we can just open it, and it gives us Fina CAP back as we've saved it the last time just right before rendering that video. So that's quite good. So let's say your partner, the person you're working with, wanted to make some slightly changes. He gave you some feedback on your final edit, and he wanted to do or she wanted to have something different in the final video. So what you do is just go back to this FCP bundle, open it, and Final Capo will just open the place where you have your library, where you have your project, where you have all your files, just because you've done great job organizing all those files at the beginning of your editing process. So that way, you'll have everything that you need inside this FCP bundle, and you can go make those adjustment and render, once again, go over to explore file, make sure this video codec and the resolutions and the color space is good. Color space is set at standard Beck 709, go to Next and make sure to have it on the right folder. If I save it, it just tells me it's already in there. Do I want to replace it? As of now, I don't want to replace it. I just wanted to make sure you're aware of the fact that you can bring some changes into your final edit way. So go ahead, export your project, and most importantly, know what your project settings are. So understand what your video format is. Is it four K? What's the Codec? Is it set on Apple PRs 422? What's the frame rate? Is it set on 24 frames per second? Is it set on 30 frames per second and understand what your video codec is when you're finally about to export that project to a final destination.