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1. Introduction: Hello everyone and welcome to this final Cut Pro ten course. My name is Dan, I'm a
photographer and the YouTuber, and I use Final Cut Pro to
edit many of my projects. This is a complete
beginners guide. So you're going to
learn how to edit a video from start to finish. So first of all, I'm
going to show you how to organize your files and folders. I'm also going to show you how the interface of
the program works, as well as some
keyboard shortcuts. You're going to learn how
to import your footage, including video,
audio and images. After that, you're going
to learn how to remove unnecessary footage
from your video. And then you'll see how
to add text, transitions, basic color grading, how
to record a voiceover, and how to improve our audio. Hopefully I'll see you
on the other side, and thanks for joining.
2. Downloading Final Cut Pro X: All right, So if
you already have the program installed
on your computer, you can hop on to the
next lesson in case you don't going to show you how
to download the free trial. You can try the free
version for 90 days, so three months and then decide if you want
to buy it or not. So we're going to
open up a browser. We're going to write down
Final Cut Pro trial. And the first option
we're going to click. And it will take us straight
to the trial version. So we can click here
and download now. And as you can see, we
also have the buy button. So if we want to
buy the program, we're going to click here. But to start, we're going to download the program
on a computer. And once we have the
program downloaded, we can move on to
the next lesson.
3. Organizing Files and Folders: Before opening Final Cut Pro, I'm going to show you how
I organize my files and folders just to make things easier for you when
you start editing. So as you can see here
in the top right corner, my SD card from my camera
shows up. We come inside. We have a clip that I
recorded and I've noticed many people edit straight from their memory card or an
external hard drive. And although that's an option, I don't think it's
the safest one. So in my case, I prefer to copy the files into my computer. That way if something happens to the external hard
drive or the computer, I still have one more copy. I'm going to bring this file
into my desktop over here. And once that's
done, I can remove my SD card from my computer. Now I have two copies, one and the camera card and
another one on my computer. But of course, if you have many different video
files, audio files, and images that you want
to use in your project, your desktop is going to
fill up pretty quickly. So what I'd like to do
is create a new folder. And in this case I'm
going to call it Final Cut Pro ten course. And what I'm going to
do next is bring in every single file
that I'm going to use in my video project. So in this case, this video here, Let's say I wanted to
use images as well. So these screenshots here. Now I remember I recorded
my audio track separately. I'm going to open
up voice memos. And this is where I
recorded my audio track. And I'm also going to carry
this into my new folder. Now inside my Final Cut
Pro ten course folder, I have a video file, an audio file, and two images. In my case, I could leave
the folder like that. Or if you have many
different clips of video and different audio
tracks and different images, what I also recommend
is to create different folders
inside our main folder. For example, we're going to
create one that's for video, and another one for audio. And the third one for images. Let's say you have
two different cameras recording two different angles. You could create an arrow
folder and a B-roll folder, and then audio and images. In this case, I'm going
to bring this one here. I'm going to bring
this one here. And I'm going to
bring these two here. In my case, I'm
going to right-click Sort by Snap to Grid. Now I have my video here, my audio here, my images here. This is what it looked like. I think it's cleaner and it's easier to work with once
we open Final Cut Pro. So that's what we're
going to do next. We're going to open
Final Cut Pro, and I'm going to show you
how the interface works.
4. Understanding the Interface: So now we're going to
start Final Cut Pro. So in my case, I'm going to press on my
keyboard Command Spacebar. So spotlight comes on and I'm going to type Final Cut Pro. We're going to select
the first option. Because I'm using the free trial as a demo for this course. This message comes up so
we're going to click Okay, so this is the main
interface of the program. Here to the left we
have what's called the sidebar that contains
the library. We're going to talk
about the library and final cuts name instructor
in the next lesson. But basically the library
contains all of our media. Once we import our footage
into Final Cut Pro, it will appear over here. Once we're playing the
video that we're editing, it's going to show up here. Here to the right we have
what's called the inspector. And now nothing
shows up because we still have to
import our footage. But once we do that, we're going to be able to
change things like the aspect ratio and zoom in and zoom out the
position of our video. We're also going to be able to change things about our audio. I'll make it louder or quieter. And lastly, down here, we have what's
called the timeline. So once we import
our footage and we create a new project or video, audio and images are
going to show up here. And it's basically
where we're going to edit our whole project. We still have to take a
look at these buttons here. These here, these buttons here. We're going to do that once we import our footage and start editing because it's easier to see what each and
every button does. So now, let's move on
to the next lesson.
5. Library, Event, and Project in FCPX: Alright, so before
importing our footage, I'm going to explain the naming structure and
hierarchy and Final Cut Pro. Unfortunately, it
doesn't make much sense, but I'm going to
break it down to make it as easy as possible, because we need to
learn these terms in order to edit our video, we have three different
items and Final Cut Pro, which are Libraries,
events, and projects. As you can see here
it says Open Library. But in our case we're
going to file new library, basically a library and final cuts is like a
library in real life. It contains many books
or in this case, different media, video, audio, images, and so on and so forth. Every piece of media that we have goes inside the library, and we're going to
use the same name as the folder that we
created previously. Final Cut Pro ten draft. We're going to
click Save. And as you can see here on the left, now we have a library created that's called a
Final Cut Pro ten draft. And we also have
this folder here. This icon here is the event. As I said before, we
have three items, Libraries, events, and projects. For example, let's
say you traveled to another country and each
day you visit a new city, you can create an
event for day one. And you wouldn't
write down day one. Then we right-click new event and you visit another
city on day two, we're going to name this data. I'm going to click
Okay. Now, you could place your videos
from day one here, your videos from D2
here, in my case, I only use one event and I usually leave the
title by default, which is the date that you
are creating this event. So as I said, we have Libraries,
events, and projects. The last one wouldn't
be our project here. If I click on New Project, I can give this project a name. So this would be final cut
edited version. For example. Which event in event day one, because it's the events
that we created, we're going to
choose the formats, in my case, to an ADP. If you recorded in fork, you would choose for gay. The frame rate.
So 24 p because I recorded my videos in
24 frames a second. If you record in 25 or 30 P, you would choose 25
or 30 rendering. You can leave the
quota by default. The same with the audio
channel and the sample rate. Then we're going to click Okay. Now we have a timeline and were able to start
editing our project. So to recap, there's three
items you need to know. Library, event and project. Librarian. Final Cut
Pro would be like a library in real-life
containing many books. An event in Final Cut
Pro would be like the books in real life
inside of the library. And lastly, the project would be the information
inside of the books. Now for example, if I wanted
to quit Final Cut Pro, I can always come back here to my folder and double-click. And this will open the
library that we just created. So we already have our
library here and event here. And now we just need to
import our footage here. And we can begin editing
our new project. Now we can move on to the
next lesson where we're finally going to import our footage and start
the editing process.
6. Importing Footage: And now we're finally ready
to import our footage. If you didn't fully understand the previous lesson,
that's okay. It also happened to
me the first time. So once again, I'm going to quickly show you how to create a library and then we can
start importing our footage. We come here to
File New Library, and we're going to
create it inside the same folder where
we have our videos, audio and pictures, and we
can name it however we want. So in this case,
we're going to use the same name as our folder, Final Cut Pro ten draft. We're going to click Save. And now we can see we have
created a library and automatically we have this
icon here which is an event, and it's using today's
date as the title. So we're gonna
leave it like that. And we can either
import our media first and then
click New Project, or click New Project and
then import our media. Either way is fine. In my case, I prefer to
click first new project, select the parameters
that I want, and then import my footage. The project name can
be anything you want. In my case, it's
going to be Final Cut Pro edited version. Once we finish
editing our project, and then we can export
it with this name here in event we
leave it by default. Video, as I said, 1080 P
because I record in 1080 P, frame rate to 24 p
because I record in 2014, we don't have to change this and we don't have to
change this either. So now we click OK. The timeline has
been created and now we can import our footage. So there's two different
ways we can either right-click and import media, or we can press on our
keyboard command I, and you can choose either way. In my case, I prefer
the keyboard shortcuts, so I'm going to press on
my keyboard Command I. And this dialogue pops up. So now I can import my footage. My folder is on my desktop and it's called
Final Cut Pro ten draft. If I open this folder, I can see the library
that we just created. And I can import my video
and my audio track. So we can either select
files one by one, by clicking on the
first file and then holding Alt and
clicking the next file. Or we can import
the whole folder. In my case, I'm
going to click here, selecting the whole folder. And then here to the
rights it's asking us add to existing event. We leave that by default. Here. What's important under files, we can say copy to library
or leave files in place. I recommend that you
choose Levi's in place. Otherwise, if you
select Copy to library, it's going to
duplicate the files. And it's going to eat up a lot
of space in your computer. Leave files in place, is okay. This we can leave it unchecked, analyze video, we can leave
it unchecked as well. Transcode in my case, I don't use it either, so I leave it unchecked. But if you're using
an older computer that's not very powerful, you can select,
create proxy media, and as you can see it
says, create copies, optimize for smaller file size and faster editing performance. If you choose to
create proxy media, you can choose ProRes
proxy and that's okay. This will not affect
your final export. It just makes editing faster in case you have a
less powerful PC. In my case, I don't use it. Analyze audio, we can
leave it unchecked. This one, we leave the checkmark on close window after
starting input, we also leave it on. Then we click Import selected. As you can see now, the audio track and video
track being imported. And now we could select our audio track and
our video track and bring it toward
timeline to start editing. But first I'm going to
show you some tips and tricks so you can import
the exactly what you need. So let's move on to
the next lesson.
7. Clip Selection and Audio Sync: Alright, in this lesson, I'm going to show
you how to select either parts of your
footage or your whole clip. Some keyboard shortcuts, and
how to sync audio and video. Let us begin with
a clip selection first, as you can see here, we already have our video
track and or audio track. And as you can see here,
we have different buttons. The important one is
this one over here. If we click on it, we can
change the size over our clips. I'd like to leave it
more or less like this, and we can make them
longer or shorter. Now I can start the
clip selection. If I hover my mouse
over my video, I can see a preview
in real time. Now if I wanted to select this clip here,
this whole video, I could click on it and
simply drag and drop. If I want to go back, I
can delete this clip. I just press backspace on my keyboard and it deletes
it from the timeline, but it doesn't delete
it from the software. We still haven't here. But now let's say you don't want to import the whole clip, you just want some
parts of this video. We can either come here
to the side and drag. And maybe we wanted
to start here. And we can also come
to the end and drag. We can make it finish here. Now we could select this clip
and bringing delta here. So as you can see, it's not, the whole video is just this part that's
inside the yellow box. Now, let's click
Backspace once again. So deleted from our timeline. That's bringing this back
to its original state. So the whole video, as I said, I was going to show you some keyboard shortcuts so we can do this with our keyboard
by pressing I and O. Let's say I move my mouse. And I wanted to
start here where you can see this red line. If I press letter
I on my keyboard, it's going to automatically
make this the starting point. And if I keep moving, and I wanted to stop here and
I press O on my keyboard. It's going to automatically
establish the finish point. So now I can click and hold
and drag to my timeline. And as always, I can press
backspace to go back. In my case, I prefer to select the whole clip and
then edit down here. So I just click and hold. And then I'm dragging the
whole clip down here. Then I would start editing. But first I'm going
to show you how to sync audio and video. I'm going to press
Delete on my keyboard and I record my video
and audio separately. And I recommend that
you do that as well. I do that because the
internal microphone on my camera is not very good. So I use an external microphone. If you do that,
you're going to get a audio track and a
video track separately. The final codon is a
great feature that allows you to sync
audio and video. And just by clicking a button, I'm going to show
you how to do that. We're going to select both
clips by clicking and holding. And we're going to
come up here to clip and Synchronize Clips. This message is going to pop up. We're just going to click Okay. We wait. And Final Cut automatically has created this synchronized clip containing our original video
and are improved audio. And we don't have
to do anything. Now, we can click and drag. And as I said, now we
have only one track with our original video
and the improved audio. Obviously, if you're using a high-quality
microphone connected directly to your camera, you don't have to do this step, but this is for people that record audio and
video separately. Now let me show you some
more keyboard shortcuts. Let's select this clip
and press Delete. Going to come here
and import medium. I'm going to look for an image. So this cute puppy. Import. Now I have a video, audio, and an image. Once again, let's
select this clip here. Let's drag to our timeline. Now, if I wanted to
add in this image, I can select the image
and drag on top. Now if I come here and
I press Space-bar, you're seeing the video, then the image of the
puppy on top of video. The video is below and
the images on top. Now let us do that with
a keyboard shortcut by selecting this
image once again. And we come here and
press Q on our keyboard. But now, let's say you don't
want the image on top. We're going to click here
once again and press Delete. And we're going to select
this image once again. Instead of pressing Q, we're going to press W. As you can see. Now, if we
come here and press Spacebar, we have the video,
then the image of the puppy in-between
these two cuts. Then once again, the
rest of the video. Now that we've seen
how to select parts of our footage and how to add different clips
to our timeline. We're going to start
editing our whole video. I'm going to show
you how trimming and cutting works in Final Cut Pro.
8. Cutting and Trimming in Final Cut Pro: Okay, so now I'm going
to show you how to trim and cut unnecessary parts of our project and
also some keyboard shortcuts to make the
editing process quicker. So let's select the footage
that we want to edit. So in this case, this clip, we're going to drag
to our timeline. And we have the video
and the wave form, all the audio track. In my case, I'm preferred
to see things bigger, so it's easier for me to edit. So if we come here to the right, if you remember, we
add some icons here. We're going to click
this icon here. We have different options here. So the first one is to
zoom in or zoom out. So we can leave it like that. Here. We can also choose
the display option. Only the waveform,
or the waveform with a small video clip
or a smaller waveform. In my case, I like this
one here, the fourth one. So I can see my video, but it also might waveform. Then I'm going to come
down here and make this bigger until it fits
almost all of my timeline. And now I click here again. And now we can see the video and the waveform much better. And as you can see, we
have a red vertical line. If we press Space-bar
on our keyboard, It's going to start
playing the footage. And if we press Space-bar
again, it's gonna pause. So spacebar to play, space bar to pause. And this vertical line here
is called the play head. The method I use to
edit is basically taking a look at my wave forms. Because if I don't
see anything here, this means I was not talking. So I don't need to press play here and go over the video because I
know I'm not talking. On the other hand, here, I started talking and
here I finished talking. And here once more
there's white noise. So I don't need this part here. I'm going to cut these bits
where I'm not talking. So how do we do that? We can either come here
and press blade to cut. Then if we come down here, let's say we want to cut here. I'm going to click. As you can see, it
has created a slice. And then we can come here
and click once again. And now we have two slices. Then we can come back here. Select. Now we can select
this portion and press Backspace
on my keyboard so we can delete this footage. Now, the portion where I wasn't talking isn't
there anymore. If we press space bar
to play, I'm talking. And I keep talking, I'm going to press the
Space-bar again. Now let's say I got confused and I did something
that I didn't want to do. I can press Command
Z on my keyboard. And it undoes the last step. I can press Command Z again. And it goes back one more step. I can press Command
Z one more time. And it goes back another step. Now, as you can see,
there is no cuts. But if you recorded
a longer video of this whole process can
also become quite long. So let's do this with keyboard shortcuts
to make it easier, instead of selecting
the blade tool, cutting and then using the
Select tool once again, selecting and deleting,
which takes too much time. We're only going to
use the Select icon. We're going to move our mouse
wherever we want to cut. We're going to hit on
our keyboard Command B. And as you can see, the
slice has been created. Once again. Here we move our mouse and hit
Command B once again. Now we can just
select this portion here and press backspace
on a keyboard. Let's do that once more. We move the mouse
here, Command B. We keep moving Command B. Then we can select this portion, hit backspace, and that's it. And that makes it easier
and much quicker. But now let's say instead
of having just one track, we have two different drugs, for example, a row and B-roll. So now let's imagine
this strike is our arrow and we're going
to bring down our B-roll. So we're gonna click
and drag on top. Now let's imagine, instead
of creating a cut here, we want to create a cut
on both over attracts. So remember if we press Command B is just going
to slice this drug here. Command B again, two slices
on our original track. Let's hit Command Z to go back. Now let's say I want to create
a slice on both of these. So instead of
pressing Command B, I'm going to move the play head where I want to cut on both. And we're going to
press Shift Command B. Now as you can see,
we have a slice here and a slice on top. Now we can select these two
by clicking and dragging. We can press Delete.
So now we've removed the parts that we didn't want
from both of our trucks. And one more keyboard shortcut, if we wanted to select
all of our clips on our timeline without having to click our mouse and dragging, we only have to press
Command a on our keyboard. And as you can see, both
tracks have been selected. So let's try that one more time. Let's bring our player the year. Let's say Shift Command B. Now we can either click and drag to select only
these two clips, or we can press Command a to
select every single clip. Let's remove this strike here by pressing delete on
our keyboard again. And we have two different clips because we created a slice here. Now let's imagine
you want this clip here to be the start
of your video. So we can just click and drag
the beginning of our video. Now, I can let go of the mouse. As you can see, this has become the beginning and the
ending over video. Now let's imagine when
you were cutting, you went a bit overboard. You can click on this clip. And if you move the
mouse to the end, you can see it changes the icon. If you click here, you can either drag to the left, make it shorter, or you can drag it to the right and
make it longer. And as you can see, Final Cut
saves the original track. And you just have to move
wherever you want it to. Now you know how to trim and
cut in Final Cut Pro ten. And we're going to go over these two icons in
another lesson. First, we're going to
learn how to add images to our timeline and edit the
properties of that image.
9. Adding and Resizing Images: In this lesson, I'm going
to show you how to add images and change its
properties like the size, the position, the opacity, and so on and so forth. So we're in a previous lesson, we already covered how to add an image with
keyboard shortcuts, but we're going to
dive a bit deeper. And this one, here I have
my video on audio track. Here, I have my image. I need to select my image and then bring it down
to the timeline. I'm going to click on my image. As you can see, Final Cut sometimes creates
this selection, but I want the whole picture. So I just need to press X on my keyboard and I would
select the whole image. Then I can drag and drop. And as you can see,
we added the image, but it's on top of my video. So we need to change
a couple of things. But first, let's talk
about this number here. We have the image selected in yellow and this
number in yellow. These ten seconds telling us
the duration of the image. If we make it longer. Now it says 14 seconds. And if we make it shorter, now it says eight seconds. Why am I explaining this? Because by default, when you add an image to your timeline, Final Cut the establishes the duration of the
image to four seconds. If we want to change that,
we can come up here. So final cut preferences. Editing. Down here, we can change the duration of still images instead
of 40 seconds. We can choose five
seconds, for example. Then we close this
window known as resize this image and change
some of its properties. So if we come to the
upper right corner, we're going to see
the inspector, which is this tab here. We can hide it or show it. And we have some
parameters here. For example, under opacity, we can change the
opacity of our image. We have different sub menus. So if we open transform, we can show or hide. If we add show, we can change the scale of the
image, for example. We can make it
bigger to zoom in, smaller to zoom out. If we want to undo this
change, as always, we can press on our
keyboard Command Z, and it will undo that step. Or we can also make some changes and then
leave this unchecked. This way we can see the
changes in real-time. If we check this box, we can see the changes. If we uncheck, it's
not activated. I'm going to leave this on, but I'm going to press Command Z on my
keyboard to go back. If we hide this sub menu, we can also come down
here to the crop menu. We can move the different
sliders to see the effect. So if I want to crop from
the left or from the right, or obviously top and bottom. And the sides from
using the sliders. I can also come in
here and type a value, let's say 20 for example. And as you can see, it's cropped in 20 pixels from the bottom. And I can come here to
the left and type in 50. Now, it's dropped to
50 from the left. If we want to undo everything, we can click on the arrow
and choose Reset parameter. And it's going to
reset everything. Let's hide this sub menu. And this one is, well,
we can also come here to spatial conform show. Here we can choose how the
image fits in our screen. Right now it's set to fit. But if I choose filled, take a look at these borders. Fill the image is going
to fill the whole frame. And if I click None,
gonna do that. But in my case I usually
use fit or fail. We can also come here and click on this icon
here, transform. We can change the size of the image by using
these dots here. So we can change the size
and the aspect ratio. We can also move the image. If I want to undo, I can always press reset. If I press this arrow here, I can select crop or in distort as well
instead of transform. So let's click on the
arrow and use crop. Now we have three
different options here. We can either trim or crop. Once you've finished,
you can click Done. Or if you want to go back as
always, you can click Reset. Now let's say you want to
make this image smaller, but you also want to move
it inside of the frame. So we activate this
icon here, transform. Then we change the
size of this image. So we're transforming the image. Now we just click and move
wherever we wanted to. We can leave it
here, for example. Now, we can make it a bit
smaller. We move it again. When we're done, we click done. And now if we come
here to the play head, we press Space bar. We have our video and
the image shows up. Now that we've seen how to
add and re-size images, we're going to talk
about this icon here, which is the adding
transitions icon. I'm going to show you how to add transitions and Final Cut Pro.
10. Adding Transitions: Okay, so now let's go
over some transitions, how to add them, and how to change some of their properties. First of all, we're
going to create a slice on our video track. We're going to move our
play head here, Command B. Then here Command B. And we're going to
select this part, it Backspace on our keyboard. And now if we move
our play into here, we're going to see how that
looks without a transition. So we're going to
press space bar. That looks okay, but let's add a transition in this cut here. So we're going to move
our mouse to the right. This icon here, transitions browser, so we're
going to click. And as you can see here, we have different
types of transitions. And there's 118 that come
built-in into Final Cut Pro. I'm not going to cover
all of them obviously, but we're gonna see a
couple of them and how they work, for example, blur. And if we move the mouse over the transition from
left to right, we can see how that
would look like. Let's click and drag here
to our slice and drop. Now let's move our play head and press Space-bar on
our keyboard to play. And that's the effect
that transition has. Now once again, if I want
to erase that transition, I can press Command
Z on my keyboard, so I undo the last step. Now let's try a
different transition. For example, Zoom. If I move my mouse
from left to right, I can see how that
would look like. So let's try this
one eq and drag. I'm going to move my
play in the ear and press space bar to play. That looks okay. Some
transitions can be modified, not each and every one of them, but this zoom transition,
for example, Ken. So we're going to place our play head in the
middle of the transition. As you can see, this shows up. What this does is allows us
to change the way this looks. We can make it
bigger or smaller, and we can also move the zoom. Let's see what that looks like. Let's bring our mouse here. Let's press space bar to play. And we've basically changed the way that transition looks. If we wanted to delete
that transition, we have to select it. Now it's selected because
we have this yellow box. We just have to press backspace on our keyboard to delete it. Now let's try with
another transition, for example, movement. And let's look for slide. I use this one sometimes. So let's scrub with our mouse. And this is the effect. Let's click and drag one more, place it in the
minimum, more play head and press space bar to play. This is how it will look like. But now there's
more things that we can do to a transition. So for example, we can change the duration of the transition. So we can come here
and make this longer. So now let's move our play
head and press space bar. Or of course we can make
it shorter like this. And it's bringing once again
here on Brightspace more. That makes it faster. Now, if we make
this a bit bigger. We can also come here
to the inspector panel. Remember, you can show or hide by clicking this icon here. With our transition selected, we can change some parameters. For example, type
instead of a slide n, we can choose slide push, or we can also change
the direction. So instead of to the right, we can choose up, for example. Let's see what that does. Press space bar to play. And that's what it does.
And now if you want to change the transition and
you want to try another one, instead of having to delete this transition and clicking and dragging it all the time. You can simply double-click on a transition you want to use, as long as this transition
here is selected. Let's double-click this one. If we press Play, we've successfully
change the transition without having to delete it, selecting a new one,
clicking and dragging. So we just have to
double-click once again. Let's double-click this one. And now the transition
will be an earthquake. So let's press
space bar to play. And that's the way it looks. I recommend that you don't go too overboard with transitions. Some of them look more
or less professional. But if you use a transition
and every single cut, it's not going to
look very good. So now you know how to add
transitions to your clips. Now let's move on
to this icon here, which is the Effects panel.
11. Adding Effects in Final Cut Pro: Okay, so in previous lessons, we've seen how to add transitions and how to
add and resize images. So now I'm gonna
show you how to add different effects to your video, including how to
blur information, for example, personal details or the face of someone in a
picture and things like that. So first of all, we have
to select our clip. We're going to come
here to the right, to this icon here. And we're going to click on it. And as you can see,
these effects show up as well as this sidebar. And we have 167 items in
Final Cut Pro for free. Obviously, we're not going to cover each and
every one of them, but I'm gonna show you
some of them in action. And like was transitions. If you hover your mouse
from left to right, you can see the
effect in action. For example, age to
film or 50 is dv. And we have 167
of these effects. What we can either
scroll down or come here and take a look at
these sub items one by one. So blur, color,
distortion, light. For example, if we use this one, we can click and drag. This will apply to
our whole video. If we press space bar to play, you'll see the bulk balls
flying all the time. We can also come here
to the search bar. And if we know the name of the effect
that we're looking for, we can simply type the name. So if we come here to all, we search for blur. These three will come up. Now as always, let's
say we want to remove the effect
that we just added. So we're going to
press Command Z, and the effect has been removed. Now let's start with
a different effect and let's choose
color, for example. Let's go down a bit and we
can choose this one here. We're gonna skim. And I'm going to click and drag
to this clip here. And now the effect
has been applied, but I can come up here to the inspector
browser once again, remember, it's this tab here so we can hide
it or show it. We can change the
amount, for example. This will lower the amount
that the effect is applied. We can also change this
here or this here. Almost every single effect in Final Cut Pro can be customized
in the inspector panel. Now, let's say we want
to remove this effect. We can edit, undo, undo, Add Video effect. Now I'm going to
show you how to blur something from a video. For example, here we have
the picture of a cute puppy. We're gonna make this bigger. I'm going to select this clip.
I'm going to click on it. And now I need to
duplicate this layer. I'm going to press
Command C to copy. I'm going to click here
outside of the clip, and I'm going to press
Command V. I'm going to delete this by pressing
Backspace on my keyboard. And now I have two clips
that are exactly the same, but I'm going to move
this one by clicking and dragging on top
of the other one. Now, with the upper
clip selected, I'm gonna come here to the
effects panel and select Blur. I'm going to choose
Gaussian Blur, and I'm going to click
and drag onto this layer. I'm going to bring
my play head here. You can see the
effect in action. Once again, we can come here to the inspector panel and
we can change the amount. And now the whole image
has been blurred. But if we want to
select an area, for example, the
head of the puppy, we're going to add
another effect. We're going to come here to
all and search for mask. And we're going to
choose this option here and draw a mask. And we're going to click
and drag onto this layer. Now, this clip here has two
different effects applied, blur and draw mask. And now I'm gonna show you how that draw mask layer works. With this clip selected. It says click to add
a control point. We're going to click
here and here, and here, and we're going
to draw the outline. I was ahead of the puppy. We can always come
each and every one of the points and move
them one more point. Once we click the first, it's going to close the area. Now as you can see here, we've missed this part of
the head of the puppy. So we can either click and move the blur or we can
move The blurb points, as I said before. So we can change this. We keep moving the points. If it looks too harsh, we can come here to feather
and increase the value. Like so. Once we're finished, we click outside of the clip. I'm going to come here and press Play and see
how that looks. This is how it will look like. So we have our puppy and
its head has been blurred. So as I said, there's 167 different
effects that you can apply. And Final Cut Pro and you can
download or by even more, but that's how you add an effect and how you edit its properties. Now let's move on to adding
text in Final Cut Pro.
12. Adding and Editing Text: I'm going to show you how
to add text to your video, a keyboard shortcut to
do it quickly and how to add an effect to make it look
better. So let us begin. We have our video here
and our play head here. And first, we're going to
come up here to the left. Here we have a small icon
with a letter t. We're going to click on it and the
titles and text shows up. So as always, Final Cut Pro, as many of them
included by default. So we're going to choose one of these and see how it looks. If we place our mouse on top
and move from left to right, we're going to see what the text would look
like in our video. So let's say this
one for example, we're going to click and drag
as always, and drop here. And of course, if we
press space bar to play, we're gonna see how that looks. We have the text here, and if we double-click
on the text, we can come here to
the inspector browser and change the
properties of the text. Instead of this, we're
gonna write down test. What did. We can
also double-click here and change
this text as well. So this is a test. Now let's come back here. Move our plan, press
space bar to play. And as you can see,
we've changed the text. Now we can also come
again to the inspector and change other
parameters of the text. So for example, the font. We can choose out of all of
these styles from the list. So as you can see in real-time, Let's Xt is changing. As we move our mouse. Let's choose this
one, for example. And we can also change
the size of the font, make it bigger or
smaller. The alignment. We can also change this. We can move the text around and if we scroll
down even further, we can rotate the text. We click and move
the mouse. Like so. If we go too overboard, we make a mistake. We can come here and press this arrow that undoes
the last action. We can also change the
scale of the text. We can also show
these sub menus here. For example, outline. Show. If we check this box, these options show up. Now, we can change the
color, for example, It's a bit hard to see, but now we have a blue outline. We can also make it wider
so you can see it better. If we don't like this, we can uncheck the bulks and we can hide this sub menu and
maybe show this one here. We can add a glow effect as well. We can change the color. We're going to pick red. Now. We're going to
increase the radius. And as you can see now there's a slight red glow
outside of the text. So now you know how to add text, but I'm going to
show you a shortcut to insert text quicker. Now, let's say we are here, We move are playing in the
ear and we want to insert a basic text which is after
press Control T keyboard. As you can see, this
shows up basic title. If we double-click,
basic title shows up, we can click and move this. Here. For example, we can double-click and
change the text. Once again, we can change the font to anything
that we want. Let's say this one for example, and we can make it bigger. Let's move it once again. Final Cut Pro automatically
shows you these guidelines. Now you know how to add the text and the keyboard shortcut. So let's add a transition to this text to make
it look smaller. So let's come here to the
transitions browser and click. Now we have the
transitions browser open. We're going to go
down to movements. We're going to scroll
down until we find slide, and now we can click and drag. But instead of
dragging the video, we're going to drag
it to the text. We're going to let
go of the mouse. And now as you can see, these two gray bars have appeared to the
sides of our text. So this means we've added a
slide transition to our text. Now let's see how
that looks like. We're going to move
our play head here and press space bar to play. As you can see now, we've successfully added a
transition to our text and I think it looks much better if we want to spice things up a bit, you can come here and add different transitions or
effects to your text. And now that we've
seen how to add text, Let's move on to the
next lesson where you're going to learn how to
color grade your footage.
13. Color Grading in Final Cut Pro X: When it comes to color grading, we could spend a whole hour
talking about the topic, but this is a beginners guide. So I'm just going to
cover the basics. And then once you get to
see how it would work, so you'll be able
to play around on your own once you
finish this course. First, we need to
select our clip. So in this case, this one. And we're going to come
up here to the inspector. Remember, we can
turn it off or on. And as you can see here, we
have four different icons. This is the one that
will be selected by default where we transform, crop or distort our footage. But we're going to click on this icon here, which
is the second one. And as you can see it says
show the color inspector. We click there,
and this shows up. So we have four different dots. We're not going to get too
technical or just gonna see what each and
every dot does. So the first one would
be like the master dot. We can click and
drag up or down. And as you can see,
it's affecting the color of our footage. We can also move it to the right below wherever we want to. Now, if we want to go back, you can come here to
this arrow and click. And it's going to go back
to the default spot. And here we have
three more dots. This one corresponds
to the shadows, mid tones and highlights. The shadows are in the darkest
areas of your footage. The highlights are the lightest or brightest areas
of your footage. And of course, the midtones are everything that's
in-between these two. So if we come to the shadows, we can change the
color of the shadows. This is black, for example. But if we bring it down, we're adding a layer of color to the shadows
of the image. We can also go back once again. We can try with a mid tones. Let's bring this up. And we're adding a tint to the Midtones. We're going to go back. And with the
highlights, same thing. We can click and drag and change the highlights or
bringing them here. And now it has a red, pink tint. Lets come back here. This, as you can see,
it's changing the color. But if we come
here, for example, to saturation, we
also have a master. Shadows, mid tones,
and highlights. If we come here and we bring the saturation all
the way down here, you're going to see this is going to turn
black and white. Let's do that. Now, we've taken
the situation of the whole clip by bringing
the global slider down. Once again, we can come here to the arrow to undo
what we just did. We can also do this with
the mid tones as well. So let's check the face. We can bring it up. No, it looks like red or we can bring down the
saturation of the face. And now I look like a zombie
if we choose exposure, For example, the same thing
that's going to happen. We can bring down
the global exposure and make it darker
or make it brighter. So each dot is
affecting one thing except for the Global dot that is affecting
the whole footage. And now that you've
seen the basics, we're gonna come up here and we're actually going to
color grade or voltage. If we click on this arrow, we have different options
for color correction. In my case, I use
the color wheels, would feel free to use the
color board if you want to. Or color curves or US
saturation curves. Now, let's begin with
the color wheels. And once again, we have a wheel would affect the color
of the whole frame, just the shadows,
just the highlights, or just the mid-tones. But now we're going to bring up a graph that will
help you color grade. We're going to press on our
keyboard command seven. And these scopes show up. Don't worry, we're not going to talk about technical things. We just have to keep an
eye on these scopes. So we're going to come
to this icon here. We're going to press
and by default, the channel that's selected
as RGB, red, green, and blue. But we're going to choose Luma. What do you have to
keep in mind here is to make sure that
the highlights don't go over 100 and that the
shadows don't go below 0. So we're going to color
grade our footage, keeping an eye on the graph. So in this case, if I were to come here to
global and bring this up, we're going to see at the
same time that this goes up. So let's do that. As you can see, we're making
our footage brighter. But if we go over 100, we're going to start
to lose detail, for example, on my forehead
or on my right cheek. So as I said, we have to make sure we keep
these highlights under 100. So let's bring this back down. We can leave in the air, but
we want to bring the shadows down until almost touching 0. We're going to come
here to the shadows. We'll, we're going to click here and drag
it to the bottom. Now, I'm bringing in
a bit of contrast. Back to our clip. And as you can see,
they're not touching 0, but they're almost there. If we want to see the
changes that we made, we can press Command seven once again to hide these scopes. And we're going to come here
to this bulks and we can check or uncheck to
see the changes. This was our original footage. And if we check again, this is our grading without
with color grading, as you can see, we gave a bit more brightness
to our overall picture. Now, let's say you made a mistake and you don't
like what you did. You can always come here to the arrow and you just moved and double-click on it to bring it back to its
original position. So let's double-click, and let's double-click
here as well. This is our original clip, and if you look inside each and every color
wheel, There's a dot. So if you click and drag, you can change the color inside the shadows
or the highlights, or the mid-tones,
or the global one. Let's come to mid tones. For example, click on the
wheel and move this around. Now we're introducing color to the mid tones, like a orange. Now we're introducing green. And once again, if we don't
like what we just did, we can double-click on the dot and it goes
back to the middle. Now I wanted to show
you one more thing. If you remember up
here we add an arrow with different
correction options. We were using color wheels. Well, we can also come here
to hue saturation curves. What I want to show
you is this icon here, and as you can see it
says click the image and the viewer to select a
color for the curve. I'm going to click on this
icon and I'm going to come inside my footage and I'm
going to choose a color, this pink keyboard to
that I have on my desk. I'm going to click on it. And this is telling me
the colors and makeup. This keyboard, for example, my face, once again, faces are usually orange or
red and a bit of yellow. Now I can click on this
dot and I can move it up. And as you can see, it's
changing the hue of my face. Or I can also bring it down. Now, I look like an alien. And as always, you
can come back here to this arrow and go
back to default. So as I said, in my case, I usually use color
wheels and I also use the scope one pressing
Command seven on my keyboard. You can also see underneath
the color wheels, we have temperature and tint. The important one is
usually temperature. It can make your
image look warmer, or it can make your
image look cooler. Now if I bring
this to the right, it's gonna look warmer. And if I bring this to the left, it's gonna look cooler. And of course, if I
click this arrow here, It's going to undo the
temperature correction. Let's say this is too
warm for my taste. I can come here and move
it a bit to the left. And now I can also play with the shadows or the highlights, or the mid tones. Now we can see them
before and after. This is before. And this is the after.
This is the original. This is the color
graded version. So in my opinion, I think it looks much better. Now we can move on to the next lesson where I'm
going to show you how to record a voiceover and how
to enhance your audio.
14. Improving Audio and Recording a Voiceover: In this lesson,
I'm going to show you how to edit your audio to make it sound better and
how to record a voiceover. So as you can see here, we have our main clip with
our video and audio. Let's make this bigger so
we can see it clearly. We're going to come
here and make this bigger. Zoom in a bit. Like so. Here we have our wave form. So the first thing
I do is come up here to Window Workspace, and I select audio meters. Now as you can see here, we have our audio meters. Once again, we're not going
to get too technical. You just need to know how to
bring these up to make sure your audio isn't too
loud or too quiet. If we come here to
our timeline and we press space bar to play, we can see in real time
these audio meters. So my recommendation is to keep the levels around minus
12 and minus six. So as you can see now again, if we press Spacebar, we're hovering around
minus 30 and minus 20. So this means the
audio is too quiet. So the first thing we're gonna
do is move our mouse here. And as you can see,
these arrows show up so we can click and hold, and then we can bring this
down or bring this up. Obviously, we need to bring
this up to make it louder. Now if we press
Spacebar to play, you can see the levels are moving around minus
12 and minus six. And we could actually
leave our audio like that. But now let's say we want to
make it sound a bit better. We're gonna come up here to the Inspector tab. We're
going to click on it. If you remember here we
have the video Inspector, but in this case
we're going to click here the third icon, which is the audio inspector. This sub menu shows up. First we have the volume slider so we can move it left or right. We can also make it
quieter or louder. And this is doing
exactly the same thing as this horizontal line here. Now if you keep looking
at the wave forms here, we're going to check this loudness box and
see what that does. So as you can see now, the whole clip has gone up
even further and volume. If you remember, I told
you that the sweet spot is usually between negative
12 and negative six. So now if we play back this, it's going to be too loud. Why? Because as you can see, some parts of the waveforms
have turned yellow and red. Final cut this telling
us they're picking. So let's press space bar to
see how that looks like. As you can see here, it's
almost trespassing 0. So that just means
it's total out, but we can always
lower this amount. Now, we've made the audio track louder, but without peaking. If you don't want to
use this feature here, you can uncheck. As always. You can also apply some noise
removal. And this is fine. For example, if you
have an AC running in the background or
some static noise or humming noise, however, because it's removing some
of the lower frequencies, it can also change your voice so you can come here to the
amount and lower this. Let's say 25% instead of 50%. But I do recommend that
you play around with the slider until you find the right amount for your taste. Once again, we can uncheck. And in my case, I'm
not an audio engineer. But if you know
what you're doing, you can also come here to this
icon here and click on it. And this will show
the equalizer. So you can check each and every frequency
and you can bring them up or down, up or down. So I do recommend that you press space bar here to
play the footage. And while the
footage is playing, you move these dots up and down. And then you'll be
able to remove or add decibels to each and every
one of the frequencies. Now you can also come
here to flat open this up and select voice
enhance for example. And this will show you a preset. You can also come here
and select bass boost. And this is a different preset. And as you can see, every time
we choose another preset, the waveform is changing. So you can try these
ones. You're finished. You click X and that's it again. Now it's turned on, but you can turn it off and it will revert
back to normal. Now you know how to
improve your audio, but there is another
thing I want to show you. If you remember from the
adding effects lesson, we can come back here
or hide the inspector. And we're gonna show the effects browser
by clicking on it. Here we have video, we have all, but if we scroll
down a bit more, we have some audio effects. So if we select all, we have different
audio effects that are included in Final
Cut. We have 109. We can come here to the
search bar, for example, and type the weekend
click and drag, and keep an eye on the waveform. As you can see, the compressor
effect has changed. The waveform completely. Decompressor basically
tries to balance the louder parts of your audio and the quieter
parts of your audio. But as you can see, we are
peaking and some of these, we're just going to click
and drag this a bit down. I'm going to close the effects and we're going to
press space bar. And now it's speaking between
minus 12 and minus six. And as you saw, there's more
than 100 audio effects. So you can click and drag. And if you don't like them, you just delete that effect
and dry with a different one. Now I'm going to
quickly show you how to record a voiceover. So let's move our play at here. And let's say we don't
want this audio here, we just want to
record a voiceover. I'm going to press Command B to cut and command B to cut here. And I'm going to select
this part of the footage. I'm going to right-click and
click here on detach audio. As you can see now, we have a video clip and an audio clip. Now what I can do is
select this audio track, press Backspace on my keyboard. Now, this clip here, it doesn't have any audio. So we're gonna come
up here window. And we're going to click
on record voice-over. This is going to show up. You can change the name
of the file if you want. You can select which microphone
you are going to use. Here. You're going to see
a level like this one. So before starting to
record the voice-over, if you start talking, you're going to see
where your levels are. If the borrower doesn't
move too far away, it means it's too quiet. So we are going to come
here to input gain, to adjust the microphone
input level and make it louder right
now you're not seeing anything because I'm using
the microphone to record this voiceover and
this screen recording. But if I wasn't
screen recording, a green bar like this
one, which show up. So after you choose which microphone you
are going to use, I recommend that
you leave this box. Object once you press record and you're going
to have a countdown of three seconds before starting the voice-over and also
mute project while recording the original audio
isn't going to play back. Once you record, you're just going to hear your voice over. Fortunately, these to come checked by default
and Final Cut Pro, so I never touch them. You can choose the same
event that you were editing on or you can create
a new one if you want to. In my case, I leave it by default and this
I don't touch it. Once you're ready to
record your voice-over, you simply click here
this red button. The 3 second
countdown is going to start and then you can
record your voice-over. So now you know how to improve your audio levels and how
to record a voiceover. Let's move on to
the next lesson.
15. Best Export Settings: In this lesson,
we're going to take a look at exporting or footage. Once you've finished editing your whole project
and adding images, text, effects, and
so on and so forth. Or we're gonna come up here to the right and look
forward this icon here, and we're going to click on it. And as you can see, we
have different options, but we're going to
choose Export file. This window shows
up once we're here, we can change the
title of our project. We can also change
the description. By default, RNAs will show up. In my case, I always
change my title. I delete the description. This I lead by default. So first, just to check, you come down here
to read the stats. I filmed in 1080 and
I'm exporting and 1080 at 24 frames per second. This is the duration
of the whole clip. This is an estimate of
the size of the export. And also as you can see, the type of file that
we're exploiting. Now if Final Cut Pro being
an apple program by default, is going to export and dot MOV. And it works fine
for Apple devices. But if you want to
change the format, you're going to come
up here to Settings. We're going to click
here in format. And we have to scroll
down to computer. And as you can see now, the file type has
changed from MOV to mp4. But I also recommend that
you change the video codec. So instead of H.264, faster encode or gonna
select H.264 better quality. The resolution, in my case it's 1920 by 1080 because
I recorded in 1080. If you record them for K, you would have 4k
resolution under this one, include chapter markers,
I leave it unchecked. And here action you can
choose either to save the file or to open
once its export it. If you choose this
one, for example, once the project has
finished exporting, it's automatically going
to open with QuickTime so you can play
the exported file. In my case, I choose save only, and now I would click Next. And once you click Next up here, a wheel is going to appear. Once the wheel finishes, another message is going to appear saying that the
file has been exported. Now let's save this as a preset. So let's hit Cancel. Come here once
again to this icon. And instead of
selecting export file, we're going to click
Add Destination. We're going to
click Export File. And we're going to drag up
here to the first spot. We're going to click here. And we're gonna
select the format, computer codec, better quality. I'm going to uncheck
chapter markers. We're going to select
the resolution that we want, in my case, 1920 by 1080 because I
always record in 1080. If you're recording in fork, you would choose
this option here. So this one and
action save only. And now I can come here and double-click and
change the name. So for example, u cube exports. And once I'm done, I can come
here and exit this window. And now if I come
here to export, the first option would be the preset that
will just create. And that's how you
export your footage and how you create a preset. And now you can move on
to the final lesson.
16. Class Recommendations: And before finishing
this course, I wanted to show you two more
classes from my profile. If you want to check them out. This one will be the
first one macOS setup for beginners if you've just
bought a new Apple computer, this is a full tutorial on how to set it up from
start to finish, but focusing on productivity and minimalism and also
this course here, video editing with
iMovie for beginners. As I said, I use Final Cut Pro ten to edit many of my projects, especially more
professional work. But if I have to edit
something quickly, I tend to use iMovie
and works great. The interface is similar to Final Cut Pro, and
it's also free. It comes bundled with
your Apple computer. So that's it for this course. Thank you very much for joining. As always, feel free to
follow my profile if you want to see more courses and hopefully I'll see
you in the next one.
Dan Prizont, Photographer & YouTuber
