Final Cut Pro + Canon 5D Mark II WorkflowIntroduction| 00:00 | Before we begin with the lessons, I
would like to point out a few things
| | 00:02 | regarding your system setup and this
training series. So first of all because
| | 00:07 | the Canon 5D Mark II produces high-
definition video at a resolution of
| | 00:11 | 1920X1080P at 30 frames a second, I
strongly recommend that you use an external
| | 00:18 | fast FireWire drive or a separate
internal fast drive to store all of your
| | 00:25 | Final Cut Pro projects and the media files onto.
| | 00:29 | So don't make the typical mistake that
most new editors make. They simply use
| | 00:34 | the internal hard drive on a standard
Apple computer as their only hard drive
| | 00:39 | to store their Final Cut Pro projects
on and their media on and that will work.
| | 00:45 | However, I've got to warn you now your
system will struggle. You see, during
| | 00:49 | the process of editing when you play
those native HD files just by themself
| | 00:55 | that will probably work just fine.
However, whenever you start to edit such as
| | 00:59 | when you do little things like
when you add a transition between two
| | 01:03 | high-definition video streams, at that
point your system is temporarily playing
| | 01:08 | two high-definition video stream at
the same time. That means that you are
| | 01:12 | going to be demanding twice the
amount of data from that single drive.
| | 01:17 | So if you use your internal system
drive to attempt this request you will be
| | 01:20 | pushing your system to the outer limits.
You will then experience little things
| | 01:24 | like stuttering during playback or
complete pauses during playback. So if you
| | 01:30 | use an external or separate fast drive
to store all your HD media files on, you
| | 01:35 | will decrease the stutter that you will
experience during playback. As a matter
| | 01:39 | of fact you eliminate it all together
by using a fast external drive or a fast
| | 01:45 | separate internal drive for those of
you that are using tower computers. This
| | 01:49 | alone will make a big
difference during your editing process.
| | 01:52 | Now, remember Final Cut Pro allows you
to have multiple layers and video while
| | 01:56 | you are editing. In fact it's very
typical to have as many as ten layers of
| | 01:59 | video playing back at the same time. So
having a drive to handle multiple video
| | 02:04 | streams at the same time is crucial.
Let's backup though, if you decide to edit
| | 02:10 | with just your single drive in your
computer system that will be fine, because
| | 02:15 | when you export your movie out as a
finished movie, in other words when you
| | 02:19 | change the codec when you export out
to a .mov or a Flash file or even a .wmv,
| | 02:26 | you merge all those layers down to one
video stream and that really makes the
| | 02:31 | difference when your client or when
you want to view the movie, because it's
| | 02:35 | now one stream. So if you can live
with the stuttering with that single drive
| | 02:39 | then that's fine you can keep going.
| | 02:42 | So let's talk about something else, I
also recommend installing as much RAM
| | 02:46 | into your computer as possible. And
doing this will increase the overall
| | 02:49 | performance of your computer
when multiple applications are open.
| | 02:54 | Now as for the lessons in this training
series, I wanted to create them to get
| | 02:58 | you in and out of Final Cut Pro as
quickly as possible with as little time and
| | 03:02 | energy as possible. The goal is not
to just teach you the tool, but it's to
| | 03:07 | teach you the tool and have you apply
the tool so that you actually build a
| | 03:12 | real world project and you will
actually have a finished movie when you
| | 03:16 | complete this training series. It
makes a lot of sense to have you building
| | 03:20 | something while you are learning the
tool, while you are applying the tools. It
| | 03:24 | just helps everything sink in so much quicker.
| | 03:28 | So have fun with this training series
and you will quickly be on your way to
| | 03:31 | editing and creating within Final Cut Pro.
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| Meet Final Cut Pro| 00:00 | Apple designed Final Cut Pro to be a
very powerful editing application. As a
| | 00:04 | matter of fact, they also designed it
to be a very simple and easy to use, and
| | 00:09 | that's exactly why professional
editors have embraced Final Cut Pro.
| | 00:13 | It's simple, easy and very powerful. So
with that said, I would like to take a
| | 00:18 | moment to introduce the interface
to you so that you're a little more
| | 00:21 | comfortable working with this
application when you continue with the future
| | 00:24 | lessons in this training series.
| | 00:26 | So, let's start off in the upper left-
hand corner of the interface and let's
| | 00:29 | talk about this window and this is
called the Browser. Now, the Browser window
| | 00:33 | contains two major components that I'd
like to address. The first component is
| | 00:38 | the Browser contains all of your
projects and project elements. It also
| | 00:42 | contains Effects which is the
second item that I want to address.
| | 00:46 | If I Click on the Effects tab, notice
how it comes forward. If I Click on a
| | 00:49 | Project tab, notice how that comes
forward. Yes, this is a Project tab and the
| | 00:53 | Project is represented by this tab. If
I close this tab, a project will close,
| | 00:59 | but Final Cut Pro will remain open.
With that said, you can have as many
| | 01:02 | projects open within Final Cut Pro as
you'd like. All the items within this
| | 01:07 | project are directly beneath, so
let's talk about these items. I'm going to
| | 01:10 | start at the bottom and work my way up.
| | 01:13 | The first item I want to talk about is
this item right here and this is a video
| | 01:17 | clip. This icon which looks like a
filmstrip, in fact, I have several here, are
| | 01:21 | all video clips. Now, most of these,
if not all of these, contain audio as
| | 01:25 | well. It would just depend on how you
originally recorded your video and the
| | 01:29 | camera I use, the Cannon 5D Mark II,
does record audio. So, yes, in fact, I do
| | 01:34 | have audio attached to these video clips,
but this filmstrip represents video.
| | 01:38 | These are all contained in a folder.
Well, officially, this is called a Bin.
| | 01:43 | Notice when I Click on the triangle, it
opens to reveal the contents of the bin
| | 01:47 | and if I Click again it closes. Well,
bins are used to organize items within
| | 01:52 | your project and they are very handy.
| | 01:54 | Right above it is a Sequence icon, this
represents my Sequence/Timeline window.
| | 02:00 | If I close my Sequence, I simply have
to Double-Click on this icon to open it
| | 02:05 | up down below and, of course, we all
know, the Sequence is where you assemble
| | 02:09 | and edit your movie, more
on that in future lesson.
| | 02:12 | Right above it is a Photoshop Layered
file, notice how it has the exact same
| | 02:16 | icon. That's because Final Cut Pro will
allow you to import a Photoshop Layered
| | 02:21 | file and when you Double-Click on this
icon, that Photoshop Layered file will
| | 02:25 | open up in its own sequence.
| | 02:27 | Right above that are JPEG photo
images and Final Cut Pro will allow you to
| | 02:33 | import just about any popular graphic
item such as PNG, BMP, of course, JPEG,
| | 02:40 | TIFF, Final Cut Pro will handle those
graphic items quite nicely. Notice how
| | 02:44 | the icon is a little
different than the other icons.
| | 02:47 | Right above that is a speaker. That
speaker represents audio. You can import
| | 02:53 | audio from a CD, from your MP3 player,
you can use it within your movie to
| | 02:59 | build your movie within Final Cut Pro.
Let's talk about the Effects tab which
| | 03:03 | is right behind my Project tab.
| | 03:04 | If I Click on that, of course, the tab
comes forward and there's a couple of
| | 03:08 | folders I want to talk about real
quick and I will open those, the Video
| | 03:10 | Transitions and the Video Filters.
Notice how they are sub categories here and
| | 03:15 | I have opened up the Dissolves here and
the Transitions and the 2D Effects, our
| | 03:20 | filters here in my Video Filters.
| | 03:22 | This is actually an add-on, happen to
have additional filters, if you pay in
| | 03:25 | close attention, that are not
standard within Final Cut Pro because I've
| | 03:30 | purchased these. But anyway, the
Transitions are little different than the
| | 03:33 | Video Filters, of course, because
Transitions are items that you used to go
| | 03:37 | between one clip to another whereas a
filter will allow you to change the look
| | 03:43 | and the feel of the video clip
itself. But basically, there is a lot of
| | 03:46 | transitions and a lot of filters here
within the Final Cut Pro and I would
| | 03:49 | suggest when you get a chance to
familiarize yourself with them and we will be
| | 03:52 | talking about and using
these in a future lesson.
| | 03:55 | So I am going to Click on my Project
tab to bring that forward. We're done with
| | 03:58 | the Browser for now, let's talk
about the Viewer. Now, to talk about the
| | 04:03 | Viewer, which is the window to the
right, right here, I want to load a video
| | 04:06 | clip and I want to show
you how the workflow goes.
| | 04:09 | When you load all of your items within
your project and you want to begin to
| | 04:12 | edit, a common workflow is to basically
select a clip and I am going to select
| | 04:18 | this one. You can Mouse-Click and drag
it into the Viewer and let it go and it
| | 04:22 | may take a moment to load it in,
because it's a high-def clip, but basically
| | 04:25 | there it is.
| | 04:26 | The Viewer will allow me to preview
this clip and there is a couple other ways
| | 04:30 | to navigate through this clip down here
below in the Viewer. I can Mouse-Click
| | 04:33 | on the Play button, it will
basically play or I can Mouse-click on this
| | 04:37 | Playhead and drag it to the left, drag
it to the right. I can navigate through
| | 04:41 | the clip, but the idea here is to
preview the clip, maybe make some changes and
| | 04:46 | send it down to my sequence and build
my movie from left to right within the sequence.
| | 04:51 | There are tabs up above here that allow
me to work in different area, such as,
| | 04:55 | I've been working in the Video tab
already, but if I want to work in the Audio
| | 04:58 | tab and I Click on the Audio tab if, in
fact, you've recorded audio, originally
| | 05:02 | with your video, you'll get this tab
and you can manipulate the audio levels,
| | 05:06 | you can Click on this to adjust the
levels or Click on this to bring the audio
| | 05:09 | up and down. It's pretty cool.
| | 05:11 | If I want to add a filter, maybe make
it black and white, I would drag it in
| | 05:14 | here from the Effects tab from the
appropriate folder, drag it right in and it
| | 05:19 | changes and it's very cool. There is
also a Motion tab that allows me to
| | 05:22 | manipulate the attributes of whatever
is loaded into my Viewer, but it's quite
| | 05:27 | a handy tool, you'll be spending some
time here in this Viewer window in a
| | 05:31 | future lesson.
| | 05:32 | Let's move over to the Canvas window,
which is to the right of the viewer and
| | 05:36 | the Canvas window represents anything
that's down in the sequence. It will
| | 05:41 | basically show me my movie, it will
show me items that I have assembled down in
| | 05:46 | the Sequence. If you look closely,
there are very similar navigation features
| | 05:50 | in the Canvas window as you will see
over here in the Viewer, but it allows you
| | 05:56 | to view anything in your Sequence.
| | 05:58 | Speaking of the Sequence, let's move
down to the Sequence. This is my Sequence
| | 06:02 | and it's in the Timeline window. I
can have as many sequences open in my
| | 06:08 | Timeline window, which is quite handy
feature, but basically, I have a basic
| | 06:12 | movie assembled to help you
understand how the Sequence works.
| | 06:15 | Well, to begin with and right out the
gate you'll notice the center divider
| | 06:19 | here, anything above this center
divider is a visual item, okay. Anything below
| | 06:24 | the center divider is an audible item
and you can tell by looking at the colors
| | 06:29 | of these clips, Audio is green, Video
is blue, Graphics can be a different
| | 06:36 | color, for instance, this text item
is purple, and you can see, I have the
| | 06:40 | Playhead here in the Sequence wherever
I park the Playhead is where I'll see up
| | 06:45 | in the Canvas window, it's quite handy.
| | 06:47 | Notice, when I Mouse-click and drag
this to the right, the title goes away and
| | 06:50 | it moves on to the next item or I can
drag it to the left, same thing. I also
| | 06:54 | have Transitions down here. I also have
a black graphic at the beginning and a
| | 06:58 | black graphic at the end. So, this is
kind of a mini-movie and over here are
| | 07:02 | all the layers. We'll talk about this
too in a future lesson, but basically
| | 07:05 | here in the Sequence is where you
will edit, trim and build your movie.
| | 07:11 | Let's talk about two more small windows
real quick, basically, the Toolbar and
| | 07:16 | the Audiometer window. The Toolbar has
a lot of tools that you will use while
| | 07:21 | editing your project. If you look
closely, most of these have a little arrow in
| | 07:25 | the upper right-hand corner.
| | 07:27 | If you Click and hold down on a button,
it will reveal additional tools. There
| | 07:31 | is a lot of cool shortcuts to bring
these up. I suggest you learn some of those
| | 07:35 | while you are editing, because it
will speed up your editing process. But
| | 07:37 | basically, these are very popular
tools that you will use while editing.
| | 07:41 | The Arrow Tool, by the way, officially,
is basically the most popular tool.
| | 07:46 | It's a selection tool and whenever
you're done using the tool, you must put it
| | 07:50 | away and Click on the Arrow Tool.
We'll spend more time on that later on.
| | 07:55 | Basically, this is your Audiometer
window and it represents all the audio
| | 07:59 | levels in your Sequence. It tells you
if the audio is too loud or too low. It
| | 08:04 | doesn't tell you, it shows you. But
you cannot manipulate the audio levels
| | 08:08 | here, you can just simply monitor them.
It's quite handy though, you'll be
| | 08:11 | looking at that while you edit your projects.
| | 08:14 | Well, with that said, we are done
with the introduction to the interface,
| | 08:17 | you're now ready to move on.
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| Project preset| 00:00 | There are off a lot of popular video
formats in our industry today, and how
| | 00:05 | does Final Cut Pro know which format
you want to use? Well, there are really
| | 00:10 | two ways to do this. When you create a
new project, you can from scratch dial
| | 00:15 | everything in and it's a little bit of
a time-consuming task or you can create
| | 00:20 | a preset that is located
in the Easy Setup option.
| | 00:23 | As a matter of fact, if you navigate up
to the word Final Cut Pro in the upper
| | 00:26 | left-hand corner, Mouse-Click and
select Easy Setup, you'll see here if you
| | 00:30 | Click on anyone of these formats,
let's just say NTSC, and you select the Use
| | 00:34 | button, you'll see that there is an
off a lot of popular formats just in the
| | 00:38 | NTSC and/or if you select HD,
there's a lot there too.
| | 00:42 | Wouldn't it be nice if there was a
Canon 5D Mark II Preset, so that when you
| | 00:48 | select it, you Click on that and your
entire project is properly dialed in to
| | 00:53 | match the resolution, the frame rate,
the codec, well that's what I am going to
| | 00:58 | do. I am going to teach how to make a
preset that will eventually become a
| | 01:02 | major time saver, so that whenever you
create a new project, you select that
| | 01:05 | and you're good to go. Let's do that.
So navigate up to the upper left-hand
| | 01:09 | corner of the Final Cut Pro Interface,
Mouse-Click on that word Final Cut Pro
| | 01:13 | and select Audio/Video Settings.
| | 01:16 | Now the Audio/Video Settings window
will open, of course, and then I'd like you
| | 01:19 | to select Sequence Presets, which is a
second tab from the left, Click on that.
| | 01:23 | When you do that, you'll see the
word Presets and you'll see all of these
| | 01:26 | presets and there is a lot of them. You
will see a bunch of them with locks and
| | 01:30 | you'll even see one with the checkmark.
| | 01:31 | Well, the checkmark means that that's
the default preset, and in my case, it's
| | 01:35 | DV NTSC 48 kilohertz, which means if
I were to create a generic project, it
| | 01:40 | would be automatically setup for DV,
which I do not want for footage that came
| | 01:45 | from my Canon 5D Mark II, because
that's high-definition and DV is not.
| | 01:49 | The lock means you can't change the
preset which is good, because what I'm
| | 01:53 | going to have you do is I'm going
to have you select any preset just by
| | 01:56 | Clicking on it. I am going to select
DV NTSC and the blue highlight indicates
| | 02:01 | it's been selected. I'm going to
Click Duplicate. Now when I duplicate that
| | 02:05 | preset, I am not going to affect that
preset, because I've made a duplicate.
| | 02:08 | But what I am going to do is dial
all this in, so I can properly set up a
| | 02:12 | preset and then I will do basically a
Save As so that I have a brand-new preset
| | 02:16 | for any project that I want to
edit my Canon 5D Mark II footage from.
| | 02:21 | Okay, so first things first, we just
want to make a bunch of changes here and
| | 02:24 | the first thing we want to do is type
in a name for this preset and let's make
| | 02:28 | it make sense. So we're going to type
in Canon 5D Mark II, and down here in the
| | 02:35 | Description I would like you to type in
something else that makes sense. So we
| | 02:38 | are going to type in Use this preset
when editing footage from a Canon 5D Mark
| | 02:46 | II. Here we go.
| | 02:55 | Okay, now with that done, after you
typed in both the name and the description,
| | 02:59 | here in the General tab we want to make
a bunch of changes. So the first one we
| | 03:02 | are going to change is the Frame Size.
So we are going to Mouse-Click on this
| | 03:04 | white button and we are going
to select HDTV 1080i (16:9).
| | 03:07 | And if you're wondering why we're
selecting 1080i? Well, because at this
| | 03:13 | particular time that's the only option
for the resolution the Canon 5D Mark II
| | 03:18 | shoots with. We're not going to be
converting to interlace, that's what that
| | 03:20 | "i" stands for. We're not going to
convert because the Canon 5D Mark II shoots
| | 03:24 | in 1080p, we just have to select it.
Now I would imagine that at some point
| | 03:29 | Apple will have a 1080p option here,
but for now it's not there, so select that
| | 03:34 | and everything will be good, I promise.
| | 03:35 | Here in the Pixel Aspect Ratio, we just
want to Click on this white button and
| | 03:39 | select Square, make sure Anamorphic
16:9 is unchecked. Here in the Field
| | 03:43 | Dominance Mouse-Click on that, select
Upper, Editing Timebase, change it from
| | 03:48 | drop frame to non-drop and a just
quick note, the Canon 5D Mark II does not
| | 03:54 | create time code. It does create 30
frames a second, which means it's non-drop.
| | 04:02 | That just makes sense.
| | 04:04 | Possibly in the future, we might be
able to natively select drop frame, but in
| | 04:08 | a different lesson, I show you how to
change that actually, in case, you want
| | 04:12 | to send your project out for
broadcast purposes, which I know a lot of you
| | 04:15 | probably are or some of you will. In
a different lesson that you'll find in
| | 04:19 | this training series, I teach you how
to change it within Final Cut Pro so that
| | 04:22 | you don't affect the video but
you do change from non-drop to drop.
| | 04:26 | Okay, so that's in a different lesson
but for now we want to stay in our course
| | 04:29 | here. Timecode Rate, we want to Mouse-
Click on this and select 30, non-drop,
| | 04:34 | and then a Compressor we want to
select H 264 which is the codec that we're
| | 04:38 | going to use and here it is at the bottom.
| | 04:41 | And then over here in the Audio Sample
Rate, we'll select 44.1, we'll select
| | 04:45 | OK, and you will see here, look
there is our Preset, okay, it's got the
| | 04:48 | checkmark, no lock by the way. Then
we're going to select Summary. So Click on
| | 04:53 | the Summary tab and we need to make a
couple more changes here in the Capture
| | 04:56 | Preset, we want to Click on this
and select Generic Capture Template.
| | 05:01 | Here in the Device Control, we
want to Click on this and select
| | 05:04 | Non-Controllable Device, Video
Playback, None, Audio Playback, Default, and
| | 05:09 | make sure this first one, Sequence
Preset does have Canon 5D Mark II. Then
| | 05:13 | select Create Easy Setup by Clicking
on that button. Let's give it a name, of
| | 05:16 | course, something that makes sense,
Canon 5D Mark II, and then down here, type
| | 05:23 | in Use this when editing footage from a,
let's just type in 5D for this one,
| | 05:35 | Mark II, there we go.
| | 05:38 | Okay, then we select Create here and
then Final Cut Pro is going to save this
| | 05:42 | Preset in the appropriate location,
very deeply within the system drive and
| | 05:47 | we're going to Mouse-Click on Save and
then we're going to select OK, just like that.
| | 05:51 | Now, from this point on, whenever you
open up Final Cut Pro and you want to
| | 05:56 | create a new project which, by the way,
I covered in different lesson, because
| | 05:59 | creating a project is different than
creating a project preset. But basically,
| | 06:04 | now if you want to use that preset, you
navigate up to the word Final Cut Pro,
| | 06:08 | Mouse-Click, select Easy Setup, and
look at that, under the Format HD, Canon 5D
| | 06:13 | Mark II, how beautiful is that! Then
you select Setup and then we're done.
| | 06:18 | Now, I want to profess to that once
you've done this you should create a new
| | 06:22 | project. First of all, I showed you
in a different lesson, but even though
| | 06:26 | we've selected that preset, the
existing sequence is still set for the previous
| | 06:32 | default preset.
| | 06:33 | I hope that makes sense, so you're
going to have to create a new project.
| | 06:35 | I do cover that in different lesson, but
for now, you know how to create a preset,
| | 06:39 | congratulations! You're now
ready for the next lesson.
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| Project setup| 00:00 | Okay, let's get started with creating
and setting up a project, but before we
| | 00:03 | do that, I want to point out a
couple of things. If you look in the upper
| | 00:06 | right-hand corner of my desktop, I have
three drives. I have my system drive, I
| | 00:10 | have a separate drive and then I
have an external FireWire drive.
| | 00:14 | I want to indicate to you that you do
not want to use your system drive to
| | 00:18 | store audio and video files, especially,
high-definition files that came from
| | 00:23 | your Canon 5D Mark II. Why? Because
this system drive is busy running the
| | 00:28 | computer and it's also going
to be running Final Cut Pro.
| | 00:32 | I strongly suggest that you invest in
an external FireWire drive. So then when
| | 00:37 | you store all of your media on here,
the system drive can focus on running the
| | 00:42 | computer and Final Cut Pro.
| | 00:44 | So with that said, I would like you to
Double-Click on a separate drive other
| | 00:49 | than your system drive and it's
usually always the drive in the upper
| | 00:52 | right-hand corner that is your system
drive. So Double-Click on that separate
| | 00:56 | drive. I am going to do that now, I am
going to open it and then I am going to
| | 00:58 | navigate over to this gear wheel, I am
going to Mouse-Click on the down arrow
| | 01:02 | and I am going to select a new folder.
| | 01:04 | Now a new Untitled folder will appear
and I am going to called this, well, just
| | 01:08 | for training I am going to called it
Canon 5D Mark II. And I am also going to
| | 01:15 | take it a step further. I am going to
colorize this, so it's easier to find.
| | 01:19 | Now I am going to Control+Click on it,
Ctrl+Mouse-click and I am going to
| | 01:23 | select Green. Now that folder is
highlighted, which makes it easier to find.
| | 01:28 | Now I am going to close this out,
close out this Finder window and I am going
| | 01:32 | to go into Final Cut Pro and because I
already have Final Cut Pro open, I am
| | 01:35 | going to navigate down to my dock and
I am going to select the Final Cut Pro
| | 01:38 | Hollywood slate to open it, and of
course you will need to open up Final Cut Pro.
| | 01:42 | Now when Final Cut Pro is open, we
are going to create and setup our new
| | 01:47 | project. We are going to utilize the
project preset that we created from a
| | 01:52 | previous lesson. If you haven't watch
that lesson, I encourage you to do that
| | 01:55 | now because we are not going to
cover that in this particular lesson.
| | 01:58 | So first thing is first. I would like
you to close any project that's open
| | 02:02 | within Final Cut Pro. So navigate
to the upper left-hand corner of the
| | 02:05 | interface, Ctrl+Click on the Project
tab, mine is Untitled, do not close the
| | 02:10 | Effects tab, Ctrl+Click on the Project
tab and I would like you to close all
| | 02:15 | projects until you see just the Browser
and just the viewer, and of course your desktop.
| | 02:21 | Now we are going to used the preset and
it's actually simple to get to you, you
| | 02:26 | navigate up to the word Final Cut
Pro in the upper left-hand corner,
| | 02:28 | Mouse-Click and select Easy Setup and
then I want you to select the Format: HD
| | 02:32 | and then I want you to select
the Canon 5D Mark II Preset.
| | 02:36 | Once you've done that, then you Mouse
-Click on the Setup button. Now once
| | 02:41 | you've done that Final Cut Pro dials
in everything. It dials in the proper
| | 02:44 | resolution, the proper frame rate, a
correct codec, it's all there. All you
| | 02:49 | have to do now is select the word
File, Mouse-Click, New Project and in a
| | 02:55 | moment we are going to have a blank new
project that is properly setup for the
| | 03:00 | files that came from a Canon 5D Mark
II. There are a couple of other things
| | 03:05 | that we need to do first, but here we go,
we have a blank project. Now we need
| | 03:08 | to save it and select our
Capture Scratch Disk Location.
| | 03:11 | So here we go, we are going to navigate
up to the word File again, Mouse-Click
| | 03:14 | and select Save Project As. We are
going to locate our external drive or our
| | 03:19 | system drive and look at that. There
is our project folder, we are going to
| | 03:22 | Click on that so that our project lands
here. We are going to name the project.
| | 03:26 | I am going to called this again just
for training purposes Canon 5D Mark II,
| | 03:32 | just like that I will Mouse-Click on
the word Save. Then I am going to select
| | 03:36 | my scratch disk location. Now earlier
I said Capture Scratch, that's just out
| | 03:40 | of a habit, it truly just can
be your Scratch Disk Location.
| | 03:43 | So navigate up to the word Final
Cut Pro, Mouse-Click and select System
| | 03:46 | Settings and in the System Settings
window, here on the first tab, Scratch
| | 03:50 | Disks. I know it's a funny phrase.
It's what we used a lot in this industry.
| | 03:54 | Now we are going to select the set
button here. This is the current location,
| | 03:57 | which is wrong. I want you to Mouse-
Click on that, select your project drive,
| | 04:04 | then Click on your Project folder and
look there is our project and then we are
| | 04:08 | going to select Choose and then we are
going to select OK and now we are ready
| | 04:12 | to import all of our media.
| | 04:15 | So I want to point out a couple of
other things. I am going to hide Final Cut
| | 04:17 | Pro by navigating up to the word
Final Cut Pro and selecting Hide Final Cut
| | 04:21 | Pro. I want to go over to my project
hard drive. I am going to Double-Click on
| | 04:26 | that. I am going to open up my project
folder, so I will Click on that once and
| | 04:29 | look what we have in our project
folder. We have our Audio Render Files, of
| | 04:32 | course, our project, that's the project
icon, our Capture Scratch Location and
| | 04:37 | our Render Files. This is where
everything exist, they all exist in this folder.
| | 04:41 | It's very convenient. If I want to move
this project, I can Mouse-Click on the
| | 04:45 | folder and drag it to another drive.
It's that simple and then I can bring it
| | 04:48 | over to your place to do some editing
or any other edit bay to do some editing
| | 04:52 | or I can delete it. I can Mouse-Click
and drag this folder down to the trash.
| | 04:56 | It's very simple, but the two things,
you absolutely have to remember;
| | 05:00 | here they are.
| | 05:01 | Whenever you want to bring, additional
music, or photos, or graphics, you have
| | 05:07 | to import them here into the mother
ship; first, which is the project folder,
| | 05:13 | before you import them into Final Cut.
In other words, you have to bring them
| | 05:16 | here first and then import them into
your project. Why? Because, they need to
| | 05:21 | live here first and they need to be
linked to your project by importing them
| | 05:26 | into to project after you drag them
off the disk or the hard drive into this
| | 05:32 | project folder first.
| | 05:33 | So that way when you do move the folder,
all the media goes with it. The other
| | 05:37 | thing you have to do, let's go back in
the Final Cut, so I'll press Command+Tab
| | 05:40 | to get into Final Cut, and there we go,
is whenever you open up a project I
| | 05:44 | want you to promise me that you will
check to see where your Scratch Disk
| | 05:49 | Location is and now it will guarantee
that everything is going to work properly.
| | 05:54 | The way to do that is navigate up to
the word Final Cut Pro, Mouse-Click and
| | 05:56 | select System Settings, then you look
here. Is this location correct? And if it
| | 06:02 | is, you are good to go. If it's not,
select Set and find that project folder
| | 06:05 | and select it and then select OK. If
you do those items, you will always be
| | 06:09 | safe and you'll keep your projects
separate in a self-contained world in that
| | 06:14 | folder and you will
definitely be a happy editor.
| | 06:17 | Well, we have completed this lesson.
Thanks for watching and you are now ready
| | 06:20 | for the next lesson.
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| Transferring and importing into FCP| 00:00 | So of course after you've recorded
your high-definition video files utilizing
| | 00:04 | your Canon 5D Mark II, is you are going
to want to bring those files into Final
| | 00:09 | Cut Pro, so you can start to edit
your movies. As a matter of fact, you may
| | 00:12 | even want to bring in those 21-
megapixel still images that you also shot with
| | 00:16 | that camera as well and of course,
Final Cut Pro will accommodate both of those
| | 00:19 | formats quite nicely.
| | 00:20 | So in this lesson I want to show you
how to quickly and efficiently bring those
| | 00:24 | files into your computer edit system
and properly import them into Final Cut
| | 00:29 | Pro. So first things first is, of
course, you want to take that Compact Flash
| | 00:34 | card out of the camera and I suggest
you plug it into a Compact Flash Card
| | 00:39 | reader, and when you put that card
into the card reader, an icon on your
| | 00:44 | desktop will appear, as you can see
here in my Desktop, the EOS Digital icon
| | 00:48 | did appear, and it
represents the Compact Flash Card.
| | 00:52 | No if you have installed the EOS
Utility software that came with your Canon
| | 00:57 | camera, then the Image Browser option
will probably appear as well, and I am
| | 01:02 | going to show you kind of an efficient
manner that I believe is a little bit
| | 01:07 | quicker than the software, than the
Canon software. So you can close that
| | 01:11 | software if it opens.
| | 01:12 | Now once this icon appears on your
Desktop, simply Double-Click on it to open
| | 01:17 | it, navigate to the DCIM folder and
you will see the sub-folder which in my
| | 01:23 | case is this folder here, EOS5D folder,
and then once I select that, then I
| | 01:27 | will see all the different images and
I can simply Click on the still images
| | 01:31 | that I took, and I'll get a preview in
the right-hand column. It's that simple.
| | 01:35 | I can also get a preview if I Mouse-
Click on any video file, you will notice
| | 01:39 | the .MOV extension which represents
the video file, but once I select that, I
| | 01:44 | can hover over the image in the column
over here on the right and push Play,
| | 01:47 | and I get a quick preview as well. So
it's pretty straightforward. It's very
| | 01:50 | simple to do it this way. If you hover
back over that same image, you will get
| | 01:54 | a Stop button that will appear. You can
Click on that and that will stop that.
| | 01:57 | So you can quickly preview any of
the clips or the still images that you
| | 02:04 | obtained with your camera. So now I am
going to simply select the clips that I
| | 02:09 | want, I am going to drag them into
my Project Folder. Now in a different
| | 02:12 | lesson, I showed you how to properly
create a Project Folder. So I am going to
| | 02:16 | suggest if you haven't seen that lesson
yet, go back and watch it, because I am
| | 02:20 | simply going to follow the workflow
after that Project Folder had been created.
| | 02:27 | So you need to create that first
before you get to this lesson. I hope that
| | 02:30 | makes sense. So I am going to navigate
over to my external drive, I am going to
| | 02:34 | Double-Click on it, because this is
where my Project Folder exist, and I create
| | 02:38 | kind of a pseudo project
folder just for this lesson.
| | 02:40 | So I am going to Mouse-Click on it,
but then I've also created a sub-folder
| | 02:45 | that is titled HD Video Files, and I
have already done it. But I will show you
| | 02:48 | how to quickly do it, just simply Click
on your Project Folder, Mouse-Click on
| | 02:51 | the gear button and select New
Folder and you will get a folder there.
| | 02:54 | Now I am not going to use that folder;
actually I probably will. I am going to
| | 02:57 | use this for the still images. So I
will type Still Images, there we go, and I
| | 03:03 | am going to do these separately. So
within the HD Video Files folder, I will
| | 03:07 | simply navigate over here and I will
Command+Click, so I will push the Command
| | 03:12 | key down first, then I will Click, Click,
Click, on the video files that I want
| | 03:17 | to transfer over. I may want some or
all of them; Mouse-Click on one of them,
| | 03:21 | keep your finger down on the Mouse
and simply drag them over and place them
| | 03:25 | into the folder and let it
go. That will transfer over.
| | 03:30 | Then you can go into Final Cut Pro, I
am going to navigate down to my dock down
| | 03:34 | here, I am going to open up Final Cut
Pro. Once they transfer over, simply
| | 03:38 | Click on the Browser, navigate up to
the word File, and Mouse-Click and select
| | 03:42 | Import, Folder, navigate to your
project hard drive, which is what I am doing now.
| | 03:48 | I am going to navigate back to that
one project folder that I created. I am
| | 03:51 | going to select the HD Video Files,
which is where I originally dragged all my
| | 03:56 | high-definition video clips to. I
haven't done the still images yet, but then I
| | 04:00 | will Mouse-Click on Choose and
voila! They appear in my project.
| | 04:04 | Of course, I have to save this project,
but here they are, they came in, and I
| | 04:07 | would follow the same procedure for
the still images. But this how you do it,
| | 04:12 | they have to go from the card to your
Project Folder first, and preferably that
| | 04:17 | folder is on an external fast FireWire hard drive,
and then I import them into Final Cut Pro.
| | 04:24 | That's the workflow for both high-
definition video clips and your still images
| | 04:28 | utilizing the Canon 5D Mark II.
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| Transcoding clips| 00:00 | So of course after you've recorded
your high-definition video files utilizing
| | 00:04 | your Canon 5D Mark II, is you are going
to want to bring those files into Final
| | 00:09 | Cut Pro, so you can start to edit
your movies. As a matter of fact, you may
| | 00:12 | even want to bring in those 21-
megapixel still images that you also shot with
| | 00:16 | that camera as well and of course,
Final Cut Pro will accommodate both of those
| | 00:19 | formats quite nicely.
| | 00:20 | So in this lesson I want to show you
how to quickly and efficiently bring those
| | 00:24 | files into your computer edit system
and properly import them into Final Cut
| | 00:29 | Pro. So first things first is, of
course, you want to take that Compact Flash
| | 00:34 | card out of the camera and I suggest
you plug it into a Compact Flash Card
| | 00:39 | reader, and when you put that card
into the card reader, an icon on your
| | 00:44 | desktop will appear, as you can see
here in my Desktop, the EOS Digital icon
| | 00:48 | did appear, and it
represents the Compact Flash Card.
| | 00:52 | No if you have installed the EOS
Utility software that came with your Canon
| | 00:57 | camera, then the Image Browser option
will probably appear as well, and I am
| | 01:02 | going to show you kind of an efficient
manner that I believe is a little bit
| | 01:07 | quicker than the software, than the
Canon software. So you can close that
| | 01:11 | software if it opens.
| | 01:12 | Now once this icon appears on your
Desktop, simply Double-Click on it to open
| | 01:17 | it, navigate to the DCIM folder and
you will see the sub-folder which in my
| | 01:23 | case is this folder here, EOS5D folder,
and then once I select that, then I
| | 01:27 | will see all the different images and
I can simply Click on the still images
| | 01:31 | that I took, and I'll get a preview in
the right-hand column. It's that simple.
| | 01:35 | I can also get a preview if I Mouse-
Click on any video file, you will notice
| | 01:39 | the .MOV extension which represents
the video file, but once I select that, I
| | 01:44 | can hover over the image in the column
over here on the right and push Play,
| | 01:47 | and I get a quick preview as well. So
it's pretty straightforward. It's very
| | 01:50 | simple to do it this way. If you hover
back over that same image, you will get
| | 01:54 | a Stop button that will appear. You can
Click on that and that will stop that.
| | 01:57 | So you can quickly preview any of
the clips or the still images that you
| | 02:04 | obtained with your camera. So now I am
going to simply select the clips that I
| | 02:09 | want, I am going to drag them into
my Project Folder. Now in a different
| | 02:12 | lesson, I showed you how to properly
create a Project Folder. So I am going to
| | 02:16 | suggest if you haven't seen that lesson
yet, go back and watch it, because I am
| | 02:20 | simply going to follow the workflow
after that Project Folder had been created.
| | 02:27 | So you need to create that first
before you get to this lesson. I hope that
| | 02:30 | makes sense. So I am going to navigate
over to my external drive, I am going to
| | 02:34 | Double-Click on it, because this is
where my Project Folder exist, and I create
| | 02:38 | kind of a pseudo project
folder just for this lesson.
| | 02:40 | So I am going to Mouse-Click on it,
but then I've also created a sub-folder
| | 02:45 | that is titled HD Video Files, and I
have already done it. But I will show you
| | 02:48 | how to quickly do it, just simply Click
on your Project Folder, Mouse-Click on
| | 02:51 | the gear button and select New
Folder and you will get a folder there.
| | 02:54 | Now I am not going to use that folder;
actually I probably will. I am going to
| | 02:57 | use this for the still images. So I
will type Still Images, there we go, and I
| | 03:03 | am going to do these separately. So
within the HD Video Files folder, I will
| | 03:07 | simply navigate over here and I will
Command+Click, so I will push the Command
| | 03:12 | key down first, then I will Click, Click,
Click, on the video files that I want
| | 03:17 | to transfer over. I may want some or
all of them; Mouse-Click on one of them,
| | 03:21 | keep your finger down on the Mouse
and simply drag them over and place them
| | 03:25 | into the folder and let it
go. That will transfer over.
| | 03:30 | Then you can go into Final Cut Pro, I
am going to navigate down to my dock down
| | 03:34 | here, I am going to open up Final Cut
Pro. Once they transfer over, simply
| | 03:38 | Click on the Browser, navigate up to
the word File, and Mouse-Click and select
| | 03:42 | Import, Folder, navigate to your
project hard drive, which is what I am doing now.
| | 03:48 | I am going to navigate back to that
one project folder that I created. I am
| | 03:51 | going to select the HD Video Files,
which is where I originally dragged all my
| | 03:56 | high-definition video clips to. I
haven't done the still images yet, but then I
| | 04:00 | will Mouse-Click on Choose and
voila! They appear in my project.
| | 04:04 | Of course, I have to save this project,
but here they are, they came in, and I
| | 04:07 | would follow the same procedure for
the still images. But this how you do it,
| | 04:12 | they have to go from the card to your
Project Folder first, and preferably that
| | 04:17 | folder is on an external fast FireWire hard drive,
and then I import them into Final Cut Pro.
| | 04:24 | That's the workflow for both high-
definition video clips and your still images
| | 04:28 | utilizing the Canon 5D Mark II.
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| Assembling clips| 00:00 | So once you are done photographing and
videotaping with your Canon 5D Mark II,
| | 00:03 | what would be your next step? Well,
if it was to edit the high definition
| | 00:09 | footage, wouldn't you want to bring
it in to Final Cut Pro, and begin the
| | 00:12 | assemble process of putting down the
clips here in the sequence to build your
| | 00:16 | movie? That would be the next step and
that's what this lesson is all about.
| | 00:20 | We need to start you on the proper
path that begins that building process. So
| | 00:25 | here is what I would like you to do. I
would like you to create a new Final Cut
| | 00:29 | Pro project that utilizes the Canon 5D
Mark II Preset Technique, that I showed
| | 00:35 | you in a different lesson, and that
will guarantee that Final Cut Pro is
| | 00:39 | properly setup for those high definition
video files that came from your Canon 5D Mark II.
| | 00:44 | Now once you have done that, once you
have set up your project, I would like
| | 00:47 | you to Click on the Browser to
activate it, and let's import all the stuff we
| | 00:50 | are going to use. In fact, we are
going to not only bring in high definition
| | 00:53 | clips, we are going to bring in some
photos and some music, maybe some graphics
| | 00:57 | later on because generally, I would
like to bring everything into my project
| | 01:02 | that I know I am going to use first,
before I start building down here in the sequence.
| | 01:06 | So I will just do that. Click on the
Browser, I am going to Mouse-Click on the
| | 01:09 | word File here at the top. We are
going to import some high definition files.
| | 01:12 | Now I am going to import the
training media that was included with this
| | 01:15 | training series. You don't have to use
this media, feel free to use your own
| | 01:20 | and follow right along.
| | 01:21 | So I am going to Click on the Media
folder, I am going to navigate to the HD
| | 01:25 | Footage and I am going to Click on
the first item and then I will hold the
| | 01:29 | Shift key down and Click on the last
item. Just like that, I will select
| | 01:32 | Choose, and all of the items came in.
Now we have imported a bunch of items,
| | 01:37 | what if we import a folder? Let's try that.
| | 01:40 | So I am going to navigate up to the
word File, Import, this time, I am going to
| | 01:44 | select Folder, because I want to go
back to my drive that contains the media
| | 01:48 | that I want to use, I will Mouse-Click
on the Media folder and I am going to
| | 01:51 | select the Photos folder and I will
select - notice how these are all grayed
| | 01:54 | out, just because when I select Choose,
they all come in but they are in a
| | 02:00 | folder, and this is really a bin, now
that it's in Final Cut Pro, but if open
| | 02:03 | this up, there they all are.
| | 02:04 | So what if you want to create a bin,
what if you want to tidy all this up,
| | 02:07 | because all the video clips are kind
of -- they are all over the place. Well,
| | 02:10 | that's actually a good idea. I suggest
you try to keep your project as nice and
| | 02:16 | tidy as possible because it becomes a
little clustered up sometimes, and it's
| | 02:21 | hard to find things.
| | 02:21 | So I am going to navigate up to the
word File, I am going to select New, Bin,
| | 02:25 | okay. And I am going to give it a name.
Look it's already ready to go, you can
| | 02:28 | just start typing. I am going to call
this HD Clips. That's pretty easy, and
| | 02:34 | you can individually just Mouse-Click
and drag the clips in that you want. I
| | 02:38 | think an easier way is to in fact,
let's use this group, I am going to
| | 02:42 | Mouse-Click and drag, look how I am
creating; I am going to call it a square
| | 02:45 | lasso, and boom. I am just going to
select a group of them and then I am going
| | 02:50 | to drag it in.
| | 02:50 | Let's try it up here, I am going to
select just the group and put it in there.
| | 02:54 | I will drag that one in, and I will
Mouse-Click on all of these and drag that
| | 02:59 | in. Now, if the following happens,
let's open up this bin here, and let's open
| | 03:04 | up this bin here. If you accidentally
drag something into any of these bins,
| | 03:09 | let's say for instance, the Sequence,
let's say that ended up in a bin. That's
| | 03:14 | okay if it's in there, but if you
want to get it out, in other words, if I
| | 03:16 | close these and I want it in or outside
of the bins, open up the bin, take this
| | 03:23 | item, it could be anything, drag it up
to the top part of the columns, see how
| | 03:27 | it lights up, see how it highlights,
and let it go, it's not outside.
| | 03:31 | If you need to change the location from
one bin to another, simply just drag it
| | 03:35 | into another bin, but if you want
something outside, that's what you have to
| | 03:39 | do, you have to drag it up to this part
right here and then let it go. Okay, so
| | 03:43 | let's open these bins and I am going to
bring in a song as well. So I am going
| | 03:48 | to navigate up for the word File,
Mouse-Click, and I am going to Import a
| | 03:51 | Folder, I will go back to that drive,
Media, there it is. I will bring that in.
| | 03:57 | That's in its own bin now.
| | 03:58 | It's only one song but it's in this
folder for a reason. It's just a reminder
| | 04:03 | for me to tell you that outside of
Final Cut Pro, if you have installed the
| | 04:07 | Final Cut Pro Suite, which is all of
the different software that comes with
| | 04:11 | Final Cut Pro, you will also have
this folder. It's sitting on the system
| | 04:17 | drive, if you do a search outside of
Final Cut, you will look for this folder,
| | 04:22 | you will not only find the folder, but
you will find a mini gold mine in the
| | 04:26 | folder. It's, I will probably say, a
good 70 plus, royalty free, good quality
| | 04:32 | songs that you can use in your
productions at no additional cost to you.
| | 04:37 | I know that sounds like a used-car
salesman. But it's true, no, no it's not
| | 04:42 | true that I am used-car salesman, but
it's true that these are great songs that
| | 04:46 | are royalty free. Trust me when I say
that, these are great songs. In fact,
| | 04:49 | this exact song, even though it's
spelled kind of funny, is in that folder. So
| | 04:53 | when you get a chance, you don't have
to do it now, take a look, look for that
| | 04:56 | folder, and you will thank me once
you find it, because it's really, no one
| | 05:00 | even knows about this.
| | 05:01 | Okay so with that said, now that we
have pretty much everything that we know we
| | 05:05 | are going to use for the next few
lessons, let's save our project here. How do
| | 05:09 | we do that? Navigate up to the word File,
Click on it and select Save Project.
| | 05:13 | There is a shortcut, Command+S, okay. I will
probably bring that up every once in a while.
| | 05:17 | So let's take a step back for a moment,
we have all of our video clips, we have
| | 05:21 | our photos, we even have that song,
what is normally the first thing that most
| | 05:26 | movies start with? It's black, right?
Well, how do we create black? How do we
| | 05:32 | get to it? What do we do? Well, we
need to create it using the Viewer. It's a
| | 05:36 | little button right here on the bottom
right hand side, it has the letter A on it.
| | 05:40 | I would like you to Mouse-Click on
that and select Matte, Color, and what
| | 05:46 | happens is our Viewer changes all of
a sudden, it's gray. And if you look
| | 05:49 | closely, this is the duration of
whatever is sitting in the Viewer, it's ten
| | 05:53 | seconds of gray. Well, we definitely
don't want gray. We will change the
| | 05:57 | duration in just a minute but we need
to change this to black, how do we do that?
| | 06:00 | Navigate up to the Controls tab here
at the top, Click on it, and it comes
| | 06:04 | forward and we get this little gray box
here, Click on that, locate the Crayon
| | 06:09 | box right here where my cursor is now,
once you have selected this, this crayon
| | 06:13 | box, you will see here that you can
select any color here. I would like you to
| | 06:17 | Click the black crayon, Click on that,
select the OK button, navigate back up
| | 06:22 | to the top here of the Viewer, Mouse-
Click on the Video tab, and now we have
| | 06:27 | ten seconds of black.
| | 06:28 | Well let's change the duration to two
seconds, how do you do that? You Click
| | 06:32 | one time, Click once in the Duration
window, type in 200, Enter, that's it. Now
| | 06:40 | Mouse-Click on this black, I know it's
hard to see, and you drag it over, and
| | 06:43 | you let it go when you see the black
border. Do you see the black border here
| | 06:47 | in my project. Okay, I am going to
let it go, and it will called Color.
| | 06:51 | Let's change that. Click on it once,
gently Click, how do you gently Click?
| | 06:55 | Well, it takes practice, it takes a
little dexterity, but if you Click too many
| | 06:59 | times, you will get a blinking cursor
which is fine, but I will need you to
| | 07:02 | highlight the word and type in.
| | 07:04 | I would like to type in 2 Seconds of
Black, just so I know the duration,
| | 07:11 | exactly what it is, and of course it's
in alphabetical order, this is how this
| | 07:16 | particular column is. it's all in
alphabetical order just going to the top and
| | 07:19 | that's all. And then push Command+S to
save your work. So let's get this party
| | 07:23 | started. Let's start to
build our movie down below.
| | 07:26 | Now if you don't have three layers of
video and four layers of audio, let me
| | 07:30 | show you something real quick. If you
Control+Click in between the last number,
| | 07:37 | let's say video -- well, let's
say you didn't have these, you can
| | 07:39 | Control+Click, you can select to Add
Track, boom, you get another track, okay.
| | 07:42 | Let's do that, it works the same way
down here, you get four tracks of audio,
| | 07:47 | get three tracks of video. In fact,
if you want to get rid of a track,
| | 07:50 | Control+Click right in that area, Delete,
and make sure this little guy here is
| | 07:55 | connected, V1 to V1. We will
explain that down the road here.
| | 08:00 | Okay, so we are ready to go, we are
ready to rock, the first thing that goes
| | 08:04 | down in our sequence is that black clip.
So we Mouse-Click on this icon, not
| | 08:08 | the text, and you drag it down to V1
and you pop it right up against the
| | 08:13 | beginning and a couple of things just happened.
| | 08:15 | Number one, we get this red color, and
this little guy right here is called the
| | 08:19 | playhead. Remember, that just went to
the end of the clip when I let it go.
| | 08:22 | Anytime you drag something down, this
playhead will go to the end of it. So
| | 08:27 | keep that in mind.
| | 08:28 | Let's talk about this red item here.
That represents something that doesn't
| | 08:32 | match the high definition settings of
our sequence. These clips match it but
| | 08:38 | not this. And it's not a bad thing
having a color here. That indicates that. In
| | 08:42 | fact, if you were to take your playhead
and drag it over the color and push the
| | 08:46 | play over here in the Canvas window,
you get this unattractive unrendered sign.
| | 08:52 | And that's okay. We are actually going
to render our sequence at some point but
| | 08:57 | basically, make sure your playhead is
at the end of that last clip, and one
| | 09:01 | another thing I want you to take note
of is make sure these two buttons are
| | 09:05 | green, okay. And if they look gray
like this, just Click on it, that's the
| | 09:10 | Snapping button and this button is the
Linked Selection button, and I will say
| | 09:14 | for 90% of what you are going to do
is a new edit, and this should aways be
| | 09:19 | green, keep that in mind.
| | 09:21 | Okay, so let's bring down our next
clip and this time I am going to go to an
| | 09:27 | item called Bride at Window. You can
use any clip you want, but I am going to
| | 09:32 | take this clip, and I am going to Click-
and-drag from the filmstrip icon and I
| | 09:35 | am going to drag it to assemble it down.
And look what we get this time, we get
| | 09:39 | a few extra boxes, if I just let it go
-- I will show you what it is, basically
| | 09:44 | this is video and this is audio. And
of course, anything above this center
| | 09:50 | divider is a visual item,
anything below is audio.
| | 09:53 | I bring that up because when you are
using your Canon 5D Mark II, most video
| | 09:57 | cameras, not just that camera, will
also record audio, so we are going to start
| | 10:01 | utilizing something new here other
than just a visual item and it's audio. So
| | 10:05 | we definitely need to pay attention to that.
| | 10:07 | Notice when I move this up or down, I
can drag it to the right, drag it to the
| | 10:11 | left, move it up. It's basically
going to do what I want it to do, and that
| | 10:15 | audio just kind of follows along with
the video, right? And it's almost like a
| | 10:18 | dog on a leash, that follow -- most
dogs follow on a leash, but it follows
| | 10:23 | along in this case.
| | 10:24 | Well that's a good thing. So whenever
you want to move a clip, do it from the
| | 10:28 | center not from the end, look how your
cursor changes to a double flat arrow,
| | 10:32 | that means something entirely different,
let's not do that. Click-and-drag from
| | 10:36 | the middle and boom, put it next to
that last clip that you want to connect it to.
| | 10:40 | Now notice when I do that, I get
triangles between the two clips, that's a good
| | 10:45 | thing. That simply means there is no
gap. They snapped together like two
| | 10:49 | magnets, right, great. Let's do
something different. This time I am going to
| | 10:54 | double-Click on this clip called
Light Meter and I am going to load it by
| | 10:57 | double-Clicking on it. It loads it into
the Viewer, and this is really the most
| | 11:02 | common proper technique.
| | 11:05 | You take a clip from the Browser, you
load it into the Viewer, you look at it,
| | 11:10 | I am going to Click-and-drag that to
playhead, you look at it, to make sure
| | 11:13 | it's the clip you want, if it is, you
Mouse-Click, and you drag it down, and
| | 11:17 | you connect it to the last clip.
| | 11:19 | It's just like a bicycle chain or it's
just like a sentence; you are going to
| | 11:23 | keep adding to build and the goal of
this lesson, one of them, is to build a
| | 11:29 | rough cut, that's just merely getting
the clips that we know we want to use
| | 11:33 | down here in the sequence.
| | 11:34 | Let's not use photos for now, let's
just stick with video. So that's really
| | 11:38 | kind of the workflow, get the clips in
the Browser, load it in the Viewer, look
| | 11:43 | at it, drag it down to the sequence to
build your movie. What if you wanted to
| | 11:47 | bring a couple of clips down or
three or four clips? Let's try that.
| | 11:51 | Well I am going to Click on the first
clip which is going to be, lets go with,
| | 11:55 | I am going to use Photo session of
Bride, I will Click on that, and then I am
| | 11:59 | going to push the Command key down.
And I am going to Click, and then I will
| | 12:03 | Click, and then I will Click on several
other clips, and if I mouse -- now I am
| | 12:09 | going to let everything go, I am going
to let the keyboard go, and the mouse
| | 12:11 | go, if I Mouse-Click on one of them
and I start to drag, look what I get, At
| | 12:16 | Wall, which is the first clip
at the top, plus three others.
| | 12:20 | You can't load all three into the
Viewer, you can only load one, so I would
| | 12:23 | just go right down to the sequence and
then come down as a group. And then I
| | 12:27 | cant let the mouse go, yeah, but I am
going to bump it right up against the
| | 12:30 | last clip and let everything go. The
playhead goes to the end, all three clips
| | 12:34 | are now connected to the last clip in
my sequence. So that's if you want to
| | 12:39 | drag a group of clips down.
| | 12:41 | Well, what if you want to get rid of
one of these clips, or what if you want to
| | 12:45 | swap places, in other words you want
this clip in this clip's place? Well
| | 12:49 | that's actually quite easy, which
would also encompass you moving a clip,
| | 12:52 | several clips actually.
| | 12:54 | So how do we move a clip? Go to the
middle, always go to the middle, when you
| | 12:58 | want to move something, Mouse-Click
and drag it out of the way. Now, if I let
| | 13:01 | it go right there, it's going to cut
that clip in half, the one to the left of
| | 13:06 | the playhead. So I have got to make
sure that when I let it go, it's free and clear.
| | 13:11 | Then I take the one clip that I want
to move, take it from the middle, and I
| | 13:15 | drag it over just like that. Then I
take this clip and I drag it over, and I
| | 13:20 | just keep going until the movie is
back together and it's in the order that I
| | 13:24 | want them to be in.
| | 13:25 | What if there is a clip on the sequence
that you don't want, that you just want
| | 13:28 | to delete? Let's say it's this clip
here. Click on it, push Delete, it goes
| | 13:32 | away. Now it will cause gap, and then
you will have to move the clip over, or
| | 13:36 | if there is nothing continuing
beneath it, right or above it, like another
| | 13:40 | video clip or additional audio, you
could Click on the gap and push Delete. And
| | 13:48 | when you push Delete, that gap goes
away and the clip goes over. It's pretty
| | 13:52 | good little technique.
| | 13:53 | Now notice where the playhead is, just
bring it to the end, okay use it as a
| | 13:57 | marker. There is one other thing I want
to show you. Check this out. If I Click
| | 14:02 | on a clip or a group of clips, so I
am just going to use one for now, and I
| | 14:05 | Mouse-Click and I drag it all the way
over to the Canvas window, look what I
| | 14:09 | get, this Canvas Overlay menu, it's
very handy, if I let this go right here,
| | 14:13 | Insert or Overwrite, I will let Insert
go, boom! The clip goes right to where
| | 14:18 | the playhead was, pretty handy, I like that.
| | 14:22 | One thing I do need to bring to your
attention though, using that feature, I
| | 14:27 | like to call that automated editing,
when you use that feature, not only do you
| | 14:30 | have to know where the playhead was,
what if the playhead was way over here.
| | 14:34 | That clip would have ended up way over
here. It would have ended up on V1,
| | 14:38 | not V2, not V3.
| | 14:40 | Now why would it not go to V2 and V3?
Because earlier I had you set this button
| | 14:47 | to V1. This button here Video1 right
in this column, this represents whatever
| | 14:53 | video you drop in those options.
Where it ends up is whatever layer it's
| | 14:59 | connected to. I hope that makes sense,
let the paint dry on that for just a moment.
| | 15:03 | Again, this button represents
whatever video you are going to drag to the
| | 15:07 | Canvas Overlay button, remember that
it will only open, it will only show
| | 15:11 | itself when you drag video over to the
Canvas window, and it will only go to
| | 15:15 | whatever it's linked to, and it will
end up where the playhead is. If the
| | 15:19 | playhead is right here and this video
is linked to the third track, watch what
| | 15:24 | happens. I will try this clip.
| | 15:25 | I will drag it over to the Insert, I
will let it go. Look where the video in
| | 15:29 | it, look where the audio in it. It was
connected to A1 and A2, same with audio.
| | 15:34 | So that's just a technique, that once
you understand what it means, it's really
| | 15:37 | powerful, it's really a good technique.
| | 15:41 | So we have co covered an awful lot here
in this lesson. In fact, I am going to
| | 15:44 | delete this clip, I will push Delete, I
will select and push Delete. I am going
| | 15:47 | to park this back down. I am going
to make sure these are connected.
| | 15:50 | We have covered a lot of items. What I
would like you to do before you continue
| | 15:53 | to the next lesson is bring the clips
down to the sequence that you want to
| | 15:59 | use, put them in the order that you
want them to go in, all on V1 and create
| | 16:04 | that rough cut. Add the black at the
very end and once you have done that you
| | 16:08 | will then be ready for the next lesson.
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| Auto Sequence setup| 00:00 | This next lesson is one of my
favorites to show new editors because it really
| | 00:04 | shows off the power of Final Cut Pro,
yet it's very simple technique. As a
| | 00:09 | matter of fact, I call this technique,
Auto Sequence Setup and what this
| | 00:13 | technique will do is it will
automatically match my sequence settings to the
| | 00:18 | video that I originally captured using
my Canon 5D Mark II. And what you are
| | 00:24 | about see is something unfortunately
that's a little bit common, and once you
| | 00:29 | understand what it is, you will be
able to deal with it and fix it and more
| | 00:34 | importantly you will
understand it. So here we go.
| | 00:36 | I am going to take one of my clips
and load it into the Viewer which I have
| | 00:40 | already done. You can see the clip
over here in the Viewer and I am going to
| | 00:43 | drop it down onto a blank sequence;
this is important that you do this for the
| | 00:47 | very first time with a empty sequence.
| | 00:50 | So I get this message that says,
Attention! This clip does not match the
| | 00:54 | sequence's settings or any of your
sequence presets. This is only going to
| | 00:58 | happen if you didn't set your project
up correctly or you are using a different
| | 01:04 | sequence from a different project. So
this isn't terribly bad, but really what
| | 01:09 | it wants to do is it wants to
correct that problem. It wants to match the
| | 01:12 | sequence settings to the video
clip and it will do it automatically.
| | 01:16 | So I am going to suggest you select
Yes, go right ahead, Final Cut Pro will
| | 01:20 | analyze the clip, it will disappear
for a moment, there it goes, it will come
| | 01:23 | right back. It will have the clip down
on the sequence and there we go; there
| | 01:27 | it is. You can see that because there
are no colors up here; red, orange, green
| | 01:32 | or yellow, that it did it correctly. If
you see any of those colors up here, it
| | 01:36 | didn't do it correctly and you
will have to go back and try it again.
| | 01:39 | So basically, Final Cut Pro analyzed
the video correctly and it made the
| | 01:45 | changes correctly but it didn't do the
audio correctly. Do you see these green
| | 01:49 | lines here? That basically means that
the audio sample rate doesn't match the sequence.
| | 01:54 | So I am going to show you how to fix
that and while I am showing that to you, I
| | 01:58 | want to point out a couple of other
items. So Click on your sequence to active it,
| | 02:02 | navigate up to the Sequence
Settings here at the top menu, Mouse-Click and
| | 02:05 | select Settings, there we go and the
Sequence Settings window will open and you
| | 02:10 | can see here the Frame Size 1920 x
1080 is fine and then it continues to say
| | 02:15 | HDTV 1080i (16:9), wait a minute,
back up, 1080i. Well that's not entirely
| | 02:22 | true. We are not using interlaced video.
That's what the I stands for, we are
| | 02:25 | using progressive and I believe that
this is a small minor fix that Apple will
| | 02:30 | change in a future Final Cut Pro release,
because we are definitely not working
| | 02:35 | with 1080i, we are working with 1080p.
So don't let that fool you is really
| | 02:38 | what I am saying.
| | 02:39 | Everything on this side is correct;
this is all the video side like the Pixel
| | 02:43 | Aspect Ratio, Field Dominance is correct,
the Upper field, the Editing Timebase
| | 02:48 | is 30, Compressor, H.264, that's all
correct. The audio though, which is over
| | 02:54 | here, that's something I want to show
you, how to change. We want to change the
| | 02:57 | rate because it thinks it's 48 kHz
or at least it didn't change it to the
| | 03:01 | correct sample rate. So I am going to
Mouse-Click on the white button here and
| | 03:05 | select 44.1 kHz. That is the correct
sample rate that the Canon 5D Mark II
| | 03:10 | recorded my audio at. So I am going to
Mouse-Click on OK, there we go and look
| | 03:15 | those green lines disappeared.
| | 03:16 | Now my video and my audio are
correctly set by using this technique and I can
| | 03:23 | continue to edit all my clips down
into the sequence with confidence.
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| Insert editing and trimming| 00:00 | Let's talk about a few practical
editing techniques that you would normally get
| | 00:04 | to once your rough cut is done. Now in
the previous lesson, I had asked you to
| | 00:09 | create your rough cut with all the
clips down on the sequence ending in black
| | 00:13 | and of course, starting with black to
just get the clips down on the sequence
| | 00:17 | that you want to use.
| | 00:19 | The next step would be to preview your
movie. So you will want to take the play
| | 00:22 | head and drag it by just clicking
on the top part, drag it to the very
| | 00:26 | beginning or push the Home key on
your keyboard, now of course, we are not
| | 00:29 | going to see the black, but then you push Play.
| | 00:32 | Now we haven't rendered yet so you
will see black but then the first clip
| | 00:35 | appears and then the second clip
appears, so on and so forth; what you are
| | 00:38 | probably going to discover is you
either have clips in the sequence that you
| | 00:43 | don't want, or there are clips that
you want to add to your sequence. Now we
| | 00:48 | have already covered how to get rid of
clips, how to delete clips. Let me show
| | 00:52 | you how to add clips and then we are also
going to talk about trimming the clips as well.
| | 00:58 | So how do we add a clip to an existing sequence?
| | 01:01 | First of all, I suggest you use the
play head as a target. So mouse-click on
| | 01:05 | the play head or simply click here on
the time code, if you click, click, click
| | 01:10 | here in this time code area, not in
that open gray area, nothing will happen if
| | 01:13 | you click there, it will actually
make the play head snap to where you are
| | 01:17 | clicking, and I have noticed here if I
want to follow the progression of the
| | 01:21 | day, here at the end of the ceremony,
it shows the bride and groom leaving the
| | 01:26 | church but then all of a sudden they
appear at the reception location, there is
| | 01:30 | a clip of them getting into the car
that I want to insert in between two clips.
| | 01:34 | Well take the play head and drag it
and let it snap, you will know it's
| | 01:39 | snapping with those triangles between
the clips, let it snap between these two
| | 01:43 | clips and now that's pretty straight
forward. I have already loaded the clip
| | 01:46 | into the Viewer and then I just mouse-
click on this Insert button right here.
| | 01:51 | Now before you do that, when you insert
a clip into the sequence, it's going to
| | 01:56 | insert where the play head is and where
this video button is linked to whatever
| | 02:03 | layer. So if it was up here, and I
linked it by clicking on that, it would put
| | 02:07 | that video up here on v2 where the play
head is. So I don't want you to do that
| | 02:11 | unless all of this video is on v2. So
make sure this is in the proper location,
| | 02:16 | make sure it's linked and the same
with the audio; keep that in mind.
| | 02:20 | Now when I click on the
Insert button, watch what happens.
| | 02:22 | Boom! It put that clip in the proper
spot. Let's try that again. Over here, the
| | 02:28 | bride and groom are getting their
photos taken of course. I would like to add a
| | 02:32 | clip between the Car and At Wall. So
let me locate the clip I want to use, in
| | 02:37 | my case, it's the Photographer 1, I am
going to load that up, there we go. And
| | 02:42 | I am going to do the same thing, I am
going to park the clip in the appropriate
| | 02:46 | spot between two and then I will mouse
-click on the Insert button. Boom, it
| | 02:50 | puts the Photographer clip in between
there. Great editing technique, super
| | 02:55 | easy and if you don't like what you
did, remember you can always undo;
| | 02:58 | Command+Z will undo your last edit.
| | 03:01 | Now once you get all the clips in the
order that you like them to be in within
| | 03:07 | your sequence here in Final Cut Pro,
the next step would be to trim the clips
| | 03:12 | and there are a couple ways I want to
show you how to do that. You can trim the
| | 03:15 | clip right down here on the sequence.
So normally I would just start at the
| | 03:21 | beginning and start to trim.
| | 03:22 | Now why would you trim?
| | 03:23 | Here is why, because when you are out
video tapping, you always try to get a
| | 03:28 | little bit before the action and you
try to get a little bit after the action.
| | 03:32 | In other words, you start
rolling before the actual action.
| | 03:36 | So I am going to go to the very first
clip, I am going to park my play head,
| | 03:39 | look how I just click right here in
the time code area, I am going to park it
| | 03:42 | on that clip just so I know what clip
it is and then I will drag it to the
| | 03:46 | beginning and this time I am
going to turn Snapping off.
| | 03:51 | So how do I do that?
| | 03:52 | I am going to navigate all the way
over to the Snapping button, over here in
| | 03:55 | the upper-right-hand corner, I am
going to click on it to make it turn gray,
| | 03:58 | that actually means it's off. I am
going to do that so that when I mouse-click
| | 04:02 | and I drag this play head, it just
glides over all the edit points. Remember an
| | 04:06 | edit point is where two clips meet and
the reason why I am going to do that is
| | 04:10 | because I want to use it as my target.
| | 04:13 | In other words, I will drag it to where
I want the clip to begin which is right
| | 04:17 | about there, that's when this
particular clip is starting to get in focus and
| | 04:22 | then I will go to the head of the clip,
okay. I will mouse-click and I will
| | 04:27 | drag and I will go right to where the
play head is and then I will let it go.
| | 04:31 | That's going to require a little bit
of practice. I am going to undo what I
| | 04:34 | just did by pushing Command+Z.
| | 04:36 | Where you place your cursor, when it
turns into a double flat arrow, it needs
| | 04:42 | to be slightly on the side of the clip
and in the direction that you wanted to
| | 04:47 | going in. I need to be on the right of
the edit point, mouse-click and then I
| | 04:51 | drag and I just kind of basically
let it go once I get to the play head;
| | 04:56 | remember we use that as a target,
as a destination location to trim.
| | 05:02 | So then, now it's just the matter of
click on the gap, click and then push
| | 05:06 | Delete, just like that. Let's do that
to the end of this clip. So again I am
| | 05:10 | going to use my play head, I will
click and drag, I will start at the end of
| | 05:14 | the clip and I will move my way
backwards in the clip, okay that's good, that's
| | 05:19 | enough. I will actually park it to the
left of the edit point. If it's to the
| | 05:23 | right, I am on the other clip; see that.
I needed it to be to the left, I will
| | 05:27 | mouse-click and I will drag to the
play head and then I will let it go, see
| | 05:32 | that, and then I will click on
the gap. That's one technique.
| | 05:36 | The other technique is actually pretty
straight forward too which I really like
| | 05:40 | and that is so I am going to
use this long clip as an example.
| | 05:44 | So I will take my play head, I will
drag it over and I will park it on the clip
| | 05:47 | just to confirm that yes that is the
clip that I want to work on because I can
| | 05:50 | see up here in the canvas one of that
it is. I am going to then double-click on
| | 05:56 | this clip so that it loads into the
Viewer because I am going to work on it up
| | 06:01 | here. What a concept. Then I am also
going to turn Snapping back on. So I am
| | 06:05 | going to click on this button
right here, Snapping is back on.
| | 06:08 | So once the clip ends up here in the
Viewer, I can then work on the clip up
| | 06:13 | here and it will
automatically update down in the sequence.
| | 06:17 | Why is that? And how is that?
| | 06:19 | Well, we have loaded the clip by double-
clicking on it up into the Viewer. Any
| | 06:23 | changes we make to it, will
automatically reflect back to where the clip came
| | 06:27 | from. All you have to do is make sure
that these little dots here, these are
| | 06:32 | called sprockets, make sure those appear.
| | 06:35 | So watch this, you see this little
arrow right here, that's the in-point. If I
| | 06:39 | mouse-click and drag that arrow, and
I let it go, it updates down on the
| | 06:44 | sequence, see that. That's pretty cool.
| | 06:46 | Now why would I do it here? Because I
have a nice large window to look at. I
| | 06:50 | can mouse-click on the out-point and
drag it over just like that and let it go
| | 06:55 | and it updates down on the sequence.
Then I click on the gap down below and I
| | 06:59 | delete it, click, Delete.
| | 07:01 | Now there is another technique that I
want to show you that utilizes the Ripple
| | 07:05 | Edit Tool and I will use that up here
in the Viewer. So check it out, I am
| | 07:10 | going to navigate over to my Toolbar,
mouse-click and drag it over, it's the
| | 07:13 | fourth set of buttons down; 1, 2, 3, 4,
it's just little hook button. If you
| | 07:17 | don't see it and you see the figure 8
button, keep your finger down on the
| | 07:21 | mouse and on top of the button
actually and then you will see there is this
| | 07:25 | little Hook Tool, mouse-click on it
and select it, then I can mouse-click on
| | 07:30 | either the in-point up here in the
Viewer or the out-point, mouse-click and drag.
| | 07:34 | As I drag, it will update the sequence
down below. The nice thing about this is
| | 07:39 | when I let it go, there is no gap.
It automatically adjusts all the clips
| | 07:45 | preceding that edit point to make it
work. There is no gap, it's a great little
| | 07:49 | feature. So I am going to mouse-click
on the in-point with the Ripple Tool and
| | 07:53 | I can see what I want by
just looking up in the Viewer.
| | 07:55 | I will let it go, it adjusts down in
the sequence. When you are done with
| | 07:59 | the tool, put it away.
| | 08:01 | How do you do that?
| | 08:02 | You click on the arrow. That's your
normal, let's just call that your hand,
| | 08:06 | okay and these are all the
tools that can go in your hand.
| | 08:09 | If you want to, let's say, I want
to place a clip right here in between
| | 08:16 | Photographer 1 and At Wall. You take
your play head, drag it in the right spot,
| | 08:20 | let's load a clip, I going to call this,
let's go with together, double-click
| | 08:26 | on that, so it loads into the Viewer.
This time up here, we are going to do a 3
| | 08:31 | Point Edit, this is the most common
edit in the history of film making.
| | 08:34 | So we loaded the clip into the Viewer,
I am going to use this play head and I
| | 08:38 | am actually going to trim the clip up
here first even before I send it down on
| | 08:42 | the sequence. I am going to decide an
in-point, I will leave that there and I
| | 08:46 | will click on this button to create a
new in-point. Boom! It creates a new
| | 08:49 | in-point. I will drag the play head
over to the right, look for an out-point,
| | 08:53 | let's say that's it, I will push
this button to create an out-point. How
| | 08:57 | convenient is that?
| | 08:58 | Now all these footage over here is
still here. If I just click over here and
| | 09:01 | drag it, it's still there, you can
change the in-point by just dragging it to
| | 09:05 | that new location, or take the play
head, find the new spot and click on the
| | 09:10 | in-point button. It's that simple.
| | 09:12 | Now you have trimmed the clip in the
Viewer and now after it's trimmed in the
| | 09:17 | Viewer, I click on this button right
here on the Insert button and boom, it
| | 09:21 | sends the clip down trimmed,
done; how convenient is that?
| | 09:26 | So what I would like you to do now is I
will need you to trim everyone of these
| | 09:30 | clips with the techniques that I
showed you. Anyone of them will work
| | 09:34 | beautifully. You will need to trim
these clips just to get the hang of it, just
| | 09:39 | to learn it and once you are done
with that, once you are trimming, and
| | 09:42 | inserting new clips, you will
then be ready for the next lesson.
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| Transitions and filters| 00:00 | So let's talk about adding transitions
and filters to our items down here in
| | 00:04 | the sequence. So at this point the
workflow is that you've already placed all
| | 00:09 | your clips down in the sequence. You've
put them in the order that they need to
| | 00:13 | be in and you've trimmed the in and the
out points. We've talked about this in
| | 00:17 | the previous lessons in this series.
| | 00:18 | Once you get to this point, then
you're ready to add transitions and filters.
| | 00:23 | There are practical transitions and
filters, and there are just basically fun
| | 00:27 | transitions and filters. If you get a
chance to go through all of them, I think
| | 00:31 | you'll quickly realize which ones are
more practical than the fun ones, but
| | 00:35 | they're all usable and they
really spice up your sequence.
| | 00:38 | So let's talk about the practical
transitions before we move on to the fun
| | 00:42 | transitions. We'll do the same thing
for filters as well. But what I'd like you
| | 00:46 | to do is right at the very beginning
of your sequence you should have a black
| | 00:50 | clip and your first video clip. We'd
like to fade up from black here at the
| | 00:54 | beginning. So let's just go get a dissolve.
| | 00:56 | I'd like you to park the playhead in
the middle right between those two clips.
| | 01:00 | You'll know that when you drag your
playhead over by Clicking on the yellow
| | 01:04 | triangle here, drag it to there in
between both you'll see the triangles that
| | 01:07 | indicate that it's
perfectly placed in the right spot.
| | 01:10 | Then I need you to zoom in. So with
your playhead at the right spot, navigate
| | 01:14 | straight down to the zoom bar down
here and drag it to the left, just like
| | 01:18 | that. So that way you can see the
detail that a transition has to offer once
| | 01:22 | you have placed it on the sequence.
| | 01:24 | So let's navigate down or let's
navigate up actually to the Effects tab here in
| | 01:28 | the browser, Click on that, bring it
forward and then let's open up the Video
| | 01:32 | Transitions category by Clicking on
the triangle there. While we're at it,
| | 01:35 | let's just open up the Video Filters
as well. We're also going to open up the
| | 01:38 | Audio Transitions which is way down
below here. Audio Transitions and there are
| | 01:42 | only two, but we're going to
use Audio Transitions as well.
| | 01:45 | Let's go back up to the Video
Transitions. Of course, you'll see some extra
| | 01:49 | folders here that I have purchased
over the years. So let's ignore those
| | 01:52 | because you probably don't have those.
Let's just go to the ones that we know
| | 01:56 | you do have, which is this category here,
the Dissolve category. Let's open that up.
| | 02:01 | You'll see here that we've several
dissolves, a lot more than you probably
| | 02:05 | thought there would ever be, but
there is one that's underlined, Cross
| | 02:08 | Dissolve. We'll explain that in just a
moment, but basically this is your basic
| | 02:12 | Cross Dissolve. The duration is right
over here, 1 second, which is default for
| | 02:16 | all transitions in Final Cut Pro.
| | 02:18 | To add this to two clips in your
sequence, simply Mouse-Click on the icon and
| | 02:23 | drag it down and watch what happens
as I get to the edit point. I can place
| | 02:28 | this transition. Do you see the high
lit area or the highlighted area? I can
| | 02:31 | center justify it. If I drag it to
the right just a little bit, I can right
| | 02:34 | justify it or if I drag it to
the left, I can left justify it.
| | 02:38 | Well, that all has a difference, but if
I right justify it, I let the Mouse-go,
| | 02:42 | transition is placed. It begins at the
edit point and then the clip fades up.
| | 02:47 | If I were to center justify it, the
clip would start over or if I were to right
| | 02:52 | justify it, the clip would start way
over here. So I know that might not be the
| | 02:56 | easiest thing to understand in the
world but make the transition end up right
| | 03:01 | where the original edit point is,
which where the playhead is.
| | 03:03 | So if you place the transition in a
wrong position, Click on the transition to
| | 03:07 | select it, then push the Delete key on
your keyboard, get rid of it and try it
| | 03:11 | again. So I'll Mouse-Click on the icon,
drag it down. Let it go. it's right in
| | 03:15 | the spot that I needed it to be in,
because we're going to add an audio transition.
| | 03:20 | So let's go down to the Audio
Transition category. Let's do the same thing in
| | 03:24 | the Audio Transition. Just simply drag
it, put it in a right spot, just like
| | 03:28 | that. What if you wanted to preview
this transition? Look, we really can't see
| | 03:31 | it, can we? Until we play it back,
but we cannot because it needs to be
| | 03:34 | rendered. If we push Play now, it'll
say Unrendered. We don't like that.
| | 03:39 | So let's drag this playhead back to
right before the transition, push the
| | 03:43 | Option key and the letter P. It'll
step through it over here. That's pretty
| | 03:49 | cool. That way you don't have to render.
| | 03:51 | Now if you do want to wash it after
it's been rendered, simply Click on it,
| | 03:56 | navigate up to the word Sequence here
at the top, Mouse-Click and select Render
| | 04:00 | All. Do me a favor before you do this;
or Selection actually. Okay, so let's
| | 04:05 | use Render Selection. So when you
select Sequence, Render Selection, make sure
| | 04:10 | these are all checked, every one of
these. So go through and just select it and
| | 04:14 | that will check it. Just select Render
Selection, let it go and it'll render.
| | 04:18 | The speed of rendering is really
based on CPU strength of your computer.
| | 04:22 | Once it renders, once just that
transition renders, look how it changes to a
| | 04:25 | blue color. That means I can just park
my playhead before it, push Play. Very
| | 04:32 | nice, plays back beautifully. We
rendered, that was the first thing we
| | 04:36 | rendered. So far so good.
| | 04:38 | So we've added a Cross Dissolve, the
audio fades up. Did you notice that too?
| | 04:41 | Audio fades up, that was really nice.
What happens though, if you try to put a
| | 04:46 | transition between two clips that
haven't been trimmed? We spoke about this in
| | 04:50 | the previous lesson and I've mentioned
it a few times already. I don't want to
| | 04:54 | beat the dead horse, but you just have to
trim the in-point and the out-point of
| | 05:00 | any clips that you want to add
transitions to. It's just how it works.
| | 05:03 | So let's try our Cross Dissolve. Let me
just show you what happens when you try
| | 05:06 | to add a transition between two clips
that have not been trimmed. So let's try
| | 05:10 | right here, nothing. It will do it to
one frame which is really a straight cut.
| | 05:14 | If you let it go, it's one frame.
That's not going to happen. So let's Undo it
| | 05:19 | by pushing Command+Z.
| | 05:21 | You really have to trim. So how do we
trim? Let me just do it real quick. I'll
| | 05:23 | Mouse-Click and drag and trim. Mouse
Click, drag and trim. I'll Click on the
| | 05:28 | gap, push Delete. Then I'll Mouse-
Click and drag the transition down. Now it
| | 05:34 | works. So you've got to keep that in mind.
| | 05:37 | Notice though between two video clips
that I placed the transition dead center.
| | 05:42 | So that one equally fades down, while
the other one equally fades up. So you'll
| | 05:48 | need to pay attention where you place
the transition. So how do you do that?
| | 05:51 | How do you know where it's placed? Well,
if you visually miss it and you park
| | 05:56 | it down between two clips, Double-
Click on the transition, either on the left
| | 06:00 | or the right side. When
you do that, what happens?
| | 06:03 | What happens on with anything that you
Double-Click on? Well, most of the time
| | 06:06 | it's going to show up in the viewer.
Here we go. This is the transition, this
| | 06:10 | is the clip before the transition and
this is the clip after the transition.
| | 06:15 | You can see the little thumbnail icons
there. This is the outgoing clip, this
| | 06:19 | is the incoming clip. There are all
kinds of options here. You can Click on
| | 06:23 | these to change justification.
| | 06:24 | Look what I just did. I clicked on
this. It's saying that the transition
| | 06:28 | duration must be adjusted to a line
as requested because I didn't trim that
| | 06:32 | clip enough. You're going to see this
quite often. So I am glad it came up.
| | 06:35 | Just select OK and it'll do it can. So
it changed into 21 frames. If you wanted
| | 06:40 | it to be a longer transition,
Click on the center justification.
| | 06:44 | By the way, whenever you get a
little message that appears when you do
| | 06:47 | something, try not to freak out,
just read it and do what it says. It'll
| | 06:51 | generally explain what you need to do
to fix that issue. So anyway what if I
| | 06:56 | want to change the duration? Well, you
can just Click on the Duration box right
| | 06:59 | here once and type in 30 which is 1
second. If you have trimmed it enough,
| | 07:04 | it'll work.
| | 07:05 | What if you want to change the position?
Well, you can. You can Mouse-Click and
| | 07:09 | drag it over as far as you can to where
that clip was trimmed. Notice, I can't
| | 07:14 | go any further than that because the
clip wasn't trimmed enough for this clip
| | 07:18 | over here. That whole trimming thing,
it may take some time for you to
| | 07:21 | understand. Just trust me when I say
this. Trim the clips and then place your
| | 07:26 | transition down between
the two clips that you like.
| | 07:28 | What if you want to replace a
transition? What if you didn't like it? What if
| | 07:32 | you wanted this Ripple Dissolve instead?
We'll park your playhead right on the
| | 07:36 | transition that you want to change.
So you'll see over here on the canvas
| | 07:39 | window what it's going to look like.
Let's try this Ripple Dissolve. So I'll
| | 07:42 | Mouse-Click and drag it down. You'll see,
that's kind of cool. That's a Ripple Dissolve.
| | 07:47 | Notice, it updated in the viewer and
there are all kinds of parameters here.
| | 07:51 | Most of the transitions have different
parameters. We don't have time to cover
| | 07:55 | them all, but I suggest at some point,
just experiment. Go through and park
| | 07:58 | your playhead in the middle between
two clips and start dragging transitions
| | 08:01 | down. You'll really begin to
understand what you have and more importantly,
| | 08:04 | you'll understand what the practical
transitions are compared to the just the
| | 08:08 | fun and crazy transitions.
| | 08:10 | So I am going to go back. When I get
this Cross Dissolve, I am going to put it
| | 08:13 | back here and drop it right in
between there. So it goes back to the Cross
| | 08:17 | Dissolve. Let me show you another cool
little trick. I am going to move down to
| | 08:21 | another set of clips here. So
watch this. What if I just wanted to
| | 08:25 | automatically add a transition
between two clips? Let's do it. Ctrl+Mouse
| | 08:29 | Click, Add Transition Cross
Dissolve. Wow! That's cool.
| | 08:32 | It does that with the transition, that
is your default, which is the one with
| | 08:36 | the underline. See this is underlined.
It'll be on the quiz later on. The
| | 08:40 | transition that is underlined is your
default transition. Now what if you want
| | 08:44 | to change it? Well, that's easy to
do, ready? Ctrl+Click on the other
| | 08:47 | transition icon that you want to
change it to. It can be in a different older
| | 08:50 | by the way. Ctrl+Click and select Set
Default Transition and it changes it.
| | 08:56 | What if you want to change the duration?
Click on the Duration box gently and
| | 09:01 | type in whatever you want. Let's go
with 15 frame which half a second. Now
| | 09:04 | that's not going to update until I
reset it as the default transition. So if
| | 09:12 | that happens, simply reset it as the
default transition. Now every time I use
| | 09:17 | this transition down on my sequence
between two clips, it'll be 15 frames.
| | 09:20 | Watch if I Mouse-Click and drag it down,
look it's shorter. If I Double-Click
| | 09:25 | on it, 15 frames. So enough with
transitions. Let's move on to filters.
| | 09:32 | So when you want to add a filter to
your sequence, it's quite simple actually.
| | 09:37 | Park your playhead on top of the video
clip that you want to add the filter to.
| | 09:41 | In my case, I have added to this clip
that needs color correction. But I want
| | 09:45 | to show you just to how to
add filters to edit your video clips.
| | 09:47 | So you park your playhead on the video
clip, let's navigate over here to the
| | 09:51 | browser in the Effects tab. Let's go
away from the transitions and make sure
| | 09:55 | you're in the Video Filters category.
Open that up and let's go to Image
| | 10:01 | Control. Let's open this up by
Clicking on the triangle and I am going to
| | 10:06 | navigate to the Tint option. Here we go.
| | 10:08 | I'll Mouse-Click, I'll drag it and
I'll place it into the clip. Look how you
| | 10:12 | get that border around the clip. When I
let it go, black and white. Wow! That's
| | 10:17 | nice. I like that. I actually fixed it
without doing anything. Well, I really
| | 10:22 | didn't fix it and put a barrier
on, I just got rid of the color.
| | 10:25 | But what if I want to adjust the
parameters of that filter or just get rid of
| | 10:28 | it? Wellm with the playhead parked
on the clip that the filter's in,
| | 10:33 | Double-Click on it. What happens when
you Double-Click on something? It loads
| | 10:37 | it into the viewer most of the time.
I'll say 90% of the time, but there are
| | 10:41 | other things that happen
under certain circumstances.
| | 10:43 | But most of the time when you Double-Click on anything, that's going to load it
| | 10:46 | into the viewer. How do we know
where the clip came from? These brocades
| | 10:50 | indicate this clip came from the
sequence. So any changes we make, we will only
| | 10:53 | affect that clip in the sequence,
not this clip in the browser.
| | 10:57 | So anyway, back to the filters. If I
navigate up to the Filters tab, there it
| | 11:01 | is. At the very top of the viewer, look!
There are a couple parameters here. I
| | 11:05 | can Mouse-Click on any one of these
things and watch what happens when I drop
| | 11:07 | the amount down to about 40%. That's
nice. That's more like a Sepia tone. That
| | 11:12 | is really cool. I'll take that any day.
| | 11:15 | What if I want to change the color of
the tint? Well, Click on the color box,
| | 11:19 | let's go with more of a orangish color.
Let's drop it down, give it an older
| | 11:24 | film look. Wow! That's cool too. I
like that. That's how these filters work.
| | 11:28 | Let's try one more filter. Then I'll
show you how to get rid of the filter too.
| | 11:30 | So I am going to park the playhead on
this clip. Let's navigate to a different
| | 11:34 | category, to this Blur category. I want
to use the Compound Blur. So I'll Mouse-
| | 11:39 | Click. This is a great filter, by the
way, for weddings, drop this in and that
| | 11:43 | gives it that a soft edge look. Wow!
That is something that will make the bride
| | 11:49 | cry for good reasons.
| | 11:50 | Well, what if you want to work on that
filter? Wait a minute, stop. The viewer
| | 11:55 | shows the filter from the last clip,
you Double-Clicked on. So I am doing this
| | 11:59 | on purpose. Get in the habit of
parking your playhead on the clip you want to
| | 12:04 | work on, add the filter and
then Double-Click on the clip.
| | 12:09 | Even if you think you've already done
it, as a precaution Double-Click on the
| | 12:12 | clip to load it in the Viewer and
then you'll know you'll be working on the
| | 12:16 | right filter for that clip. Then, of
course, it has all the parameters you can
| | 12:21 | change and have some fun with.
| | 12:22 | If you want to get rid of a filter,
Click on the description of the filter.
| | 12:27 | There it is, Compound Blur. If you
Mouse-Click up here and drag this over,
| | 12:31 | you'll see the rest of the names. Just
Click on the name of the filter, push
| | 12:33 | Delete. It goes away.
| | 12:35 | You can stack filters too. What if I
go back over to this filter where I have
| | 12:40 | the black and white added to it? I'll
Double-Click on it. Let's add the full
| | 12:45 | amount. Once I've made whatever
changes I want to do, I can actually add more
| | 12:50 | filters. I can just
navigate over here and stack them.
| | 12:52 | I can also add this Compound Blur to
this same video clip and then they get
| | 12:56 | stacked. See that's really nice. See
now we're really going in a direction that
| | 13:01 | really makes Final Cut Pro shine. You
can just add as many filters as you want
| | 13:05 | here in the Filters tab to stack them
and adjust them and really make some
| | 13:11 | beautiful images with the
items here in your sequence.
| | 13:14 | So we've covered a lot of ground. What
I'd like you to do now is go through and
| | 13:18 | add transitions wherever you like in
your sequence, add filters wherever you
| | 13:22 | like. Once you've done that, you'll
then be ready for the next lesson.
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| Mixing photos with video| 00:00 | I want to teach you how to add photos
to your video here in the sequence of
| | 00:04 | Final Cut Pro. Now we have already
assembled our mini movie and if you have
| | 00:08 | been following along through all of
these lessons, really we are just picking up
| | 00:11 | where we left off from the previous
lesson, where we have already assembled
| | 00:15 | clips, transitions and a couple of
filters and we are ready for the next stage.
| | 00:19 | So if you navigate over to the Photos
bin in your Project Window, open the
| | 00:23 | folder or open the bin actually if
you haven't already done that and take a
| | 00:26 | look at these photos. Double-Click on
the icon to load them up into the Viewer
| | 00:29 | and you will see that they
are all really nice photos.
| | 00:31 | By the way, these all came from
Frank Ellis photography. He was the
| | 00:35 | photographer at this particular wedding,
on the day that I was following him
| | 00:38 | around. He told me, he said that I
could use this or use these in the training
| | 00:42 | and I am happy to oblige.
| | 00:43 | So basically, we have all these
photos and we are not going to add all of
| | 00:46 | these, but I do want to use some to
show you the several popular techniques on
| | 00:50 | how to get those photos into our
sequence. So let's just do this in a logical order.
| | 00:54 | The first photo is a photo of the
invitation, it's a nice, clear photo. When
| | 00:59 | you load a photo into the Viewer, by
default it will come in 10 seconds. So
| | 01:02 | it's a little too long. So I am going
to navigate up to the Duration Time Code
| | 01:07 | window, Click once so that it's blue.
If it's not blue when you Click in it,
| | 01:10 | then simply Mouse-Click and drag over
the current number that's there and type
| | 01:14 | in 600 and then push Enter. That will
change the duration to 6 seconds. Okay,
| | 01:19 | so that's done.
| | 01:20 | Then we need to decide where this
invitation is going to go. So where do you
| | 01:24 | think it would go logically? Probably,
at the beginning. So let's Mouse-Click
| | 01:27 | on our playhead right here and drag it
over and I am going to park it right on
| | 01:31 | top, boom, between the black clip
and the first video clip and even this
| | 01:36 | transition. I am going to actually
Click on the transition to get rid of it by
| | 01:40 | pushing Delete and I am also going to do
the same thing to the audio, Click and then Delete.
| | 01:44 | We also want to make sure that this
button here, V1, is not on V3, destination
| | 01:49 | track or V2, that it does need to be
on V1 destination track and there cannot
| | 01:54 | be a gap here. So you need to Click
on this to close that gap and make sure
| | 01:57 | that our source, which by the way,
this V1 represents whatever is sitting in
| | 02:01 | the Viewer, will end up on being at V1
video track in just a moment because we
| | 02:07 | are going to perform an Insert Edit. Here we go.
| | 02:09 | So with this photo in our Viewer and
the playhead parked at the right spot,
| | 02:14 | with our source and destination items
being correct, simply navigate over here
| | 02:19 | to the Insert button option and Mouse-
Click and boom. It sent it right down to
| | 02:23 | the sequence. It's perfect,
it's easy, quite simple.
| | 02:27 | Okay so what I want to do now is I
need to bring up a few things regarding
| | 02:30 | photos. So I am going to Mouse-Click
on our playhead, I am going to drag it
| | 02:33 | over the photo. Then I am also going
to select the photo. I am going to Mouse-
| | 02:36 | Click and select it. Okay so make sure
you have done those two things. Then I
| | 02:40 | am going to navigate over to my Canvas
window and you can see already there is
| | 02:43 | something not quite right about this.
| | 02:45 | You can see here that there is black
empty space basically on the left and on
| | 02:49 | the right. Now why is that? That's
because the photo, the actual Aspect ratio
| | 02:54 | or the size does not match the high
definition video of everything else that's
| | 02:59 | on our sequence. So we need to fill
this gap with something. Well, we are going
| | 03:02 | to fill it with the photo. We are
simply going to zoom in to the photo to fill this up.
| | 03:06 | So to do that, I will need to
navigate to the View button which is where my
| | 03:09 | cursor is now. Mouse Click, make
sure Image+Wireframe is selected by just
| | 03:14 | Clicking on it and letting it go. Then
you will see this white wireframe, it's
| | 03:18 | actually an X.
| | 03:19 | Then I could simply Mouse-Click on the
very corner, any one of these corners
| | 03:23 | will work actually, and drag to expand
the size. Then I will stop right when
| | 03:28 | this blue line is hidden on the left
and as much on the right. Now it basically
| | 03:33 | fills the real estate. That's very simple.
| | 03:36 | Now again, we had to do that because if
you continue on to the next video clip,
| | 03:40 | look how video fills it in. That's just
being consistent with the visual items.
| | 03:45 | Now we need to fade up from black into
this photo and we need to fade it down.
| | 03:48 | Now we have already talked about
transitions which is how you do that.
| | 03:51 | So I am going to use the shortcut and
I did mention this in the Transitions
| | 03:54 | lesson. Ctrl+Click between the two items,
select Add Transition Cross Dissolve.
| | 03:58 | Pretty straight forward, I will do
it again here. Add Transition Cross
| | 04:01 | Dissolve, that's Ctrl+Click, give that a try.
| | 04:04 | Now after we render, of course,
because this red line means we have to render
| | 04:07 | to build this, it will fade up into
the first photo. It will be visible for
| | 04:12 | that designated amount of time that we
typed in, remember. Then it will fade
| | 04:15 | down into the first photo. Well, that's
going to be really nice when it's done.
| | 04:19 | So let's talk about the other popular
way of getting a photo into the sequence.
| | 04:25 | The photo that I want to work with
this time is photo number 6. So let's
| | 04:28 | Double-Click on this. Of course, it
opens up into the Viewer and I want to make
| | 04:33 | that appear before this video clip,
it's kind of the intro to where they are
| | 04:38 | getting married.
| | 04:40 | Basically, the way to do that -- and it
could be any one of these photos by the
| | 04:42 | way, it doesn't have to be that photo.
I am going to Mouse-Click on this
| | 04:45 | transition to get rid of it by pushing
Delete. There we go. I am not even going
| | 04:49 | to use my playhead. I am going to scoot
that all the way. I am simply going to
| | 04:52 | Mouse-Click and drag it straight down.
Now there is a couple of things you have
| | 04:55 | to pay attention to when you do this
and I will point them out as we do it. So here we go.
| | 04:59 | I am going to Mouse-Click on this photo
from the Viewer, drag it straight down.
| | 05:04 | Basically, I am going to put it in V1.
You see how it's kind of dark. I am
| | 05:07 | going to move it to the left until it
snaps. Do you see the triangles? I am not
| | 05:11 | going to let it go until the arrow
points to the right. Look how the arrow is
| | 05:14 | pointing down, that is incorrect. It
would perform an over write edit. If I
| | 05:17 | would let it go, it would simply
cover the video that's already there.
| | 05:21 | So I need the video to move over to
the right. So I will bring the Mouse-up
| | 05:24 | slightly until it points to the right.
There we go. Now it will perform an
| | 05:28 | Insert Edit. Look how it went from a
selected clip to a bordered clip. Before I
| | 05:34 | am going to bring it down, it's solid.
See that, that means it's going to
| | 05:37 | perform an over-write edit. If it
points to the right, that indicates an Insert
| | 05:42 | Edit and when I let it go, watch what
happens? Boom, everything moved over,
| | 05:46 | that's exactly what I want it to do, success.
| | 05:49 | So one other thing. We didn't change
the duration, did we? At least we didn't
| | 05:53 | do it up in the viewer. Well, that's
because there is another way to change the
| | 05:55 | duration. You can actually change it
down here in the sequence. How do we do
| | 05:58 | that? Well, Ctrl+Click on the photo,
navigate to Duration. There it is, let it
| | 06:04 | go and type in the duration. For this
photo, I would like it only to be up for
| | 06:08 | 5 seconds. So I am going to type in
500, Enter twice on the keyboard. Boom,
| | 06:14 | everything adjusted, the photo is now
5 seconds and I can add my transitions.
| | 06:19 | So again, I am going to use that
shortcut, Ctrl+Mouse Click, Add Transition
| | 06:22 | Cross Dissolve. Ctrl+Click, Add
Transition Cross Dissolve. And I should also do
| | 06:28 | it for the audio as well. So Ctrl+
Click, Add Transition, Ctrl+Click. I mean
| | 06:33 | it's that simple. So well
this is working out real nicely.
| | 06:36 | Now for this particular photo, if we
select it and we go back to our Wireframe;
| | 06:40 | Remember we spoke about this just a
moment ago; we could expand it out really
| | 06:44 | far till it fills the entire video. That's
an option but I really think that it
| | 06:48 | takes away from the photo.
| | 06:50 | In other words, we need to make it look
like it was a real wide angle photo and
| | 06:54 | it was. It was taken with a wide angle
lens. Then I could shrink it in too, but
| | 06:57 | then we kind of lose perspective of
this. So we just maximize it from edge to
| | 07:02 | edge and that's just the true size of
the photo and I think we should just
| | 07:07 | leave it. I think it looks great the way it is.
| | 07:09 | Okay, so let's talk about the third and
final technique of adding photos to our
| | 07:12 | sequence. So I am going to Mouse-Click
on this Navigation Bar here. I am going
| | 07:15 | to go to the very end. Once I get to
the end here, I am going to get rid of
| | 07:20 | this last transition that fades to
black. I am going to get rid of the audio
| | 07:24 | transitions as well.
| | 07:25 | So I will simply Click on one of them,
they both get selected. I will push
| | 07:29 | Delete and I am going to Mouse-Click
on this black and drag it over to the
| | 07:32 | right to get it out of the way. I don?t
need the playhead for this. I am going
| | 07:37 | to drag it directly from the Browser.
So it's going to be photo number 9 and if
| | 07:41 | you Double-Click on it just to review
it, there it is. That's going to be our
| | 07:44 | closing image for this mini movie.
| | 07:47 | So I am going to Mouse-Click on the
icon and I am simply going to drag it down
| | 07:51 | and I want to park it, boom right in
the sequence. Then I will Mouse-Click and
| | 07:54 | drag this over, so that it's parked
up against the photo. I will change the
| | 07:57 | duration of this photo by Ctrl+Clicking
on it, selecting Duration and this time
| | 08:01 | I want this to be 8 seconds. So I
will type in 800, Enter, Enter, twice.
| | 08:06 | Then I will use my transitions here
again, right. I will automatically add
| | 08:10 | transitions between this video clip
and this photo by Ctrl+Clicking on this
| | 08:13 | point, select Add Transition Cross
Dissolve. Ctrl+Click, Add Transition Cross
| | 08:18 | Dissolve. I will do it again here. Ctrl+
Click, Add Transition and last but not
| | 08:23 | least, I will Mouse-Click on this
photo. Again, we are going to use our
| | 08:26 | Wireframe. I am going to bring it out
just enough to cover the amount of real
| | 08:31 | estate that would be seen
on a regular TV and boom.
| | 08:34 | What we are going to do with this is we
are going to add a title over this and
| | 08:37 | this will be our closing visual item.
It's going to be a nice little title
| | 08:41 | right here. It works out beautifully.
So that's it. If you want to continue to
| | 08:45 | add more photos to your sequence,
please feel free to do so. Once you have done
| | 08:49 | that, you will be ready for the next lesson.
| | 08:51 | By the way, if you want to render
everything here in the sequence, don?t forget
| | 08:55 | after you have added everything to
Click on the sequence, navigate up to the
| | 08:59 | Sequence option here at the top menu,
Mouse-Click and select Render All. Please
| | 09:03 | make sure everyone of these items are
checked. If they are not, go in and check
| | 09:07 | each one, okay. Select Render All
and you will be off to the races.
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| Color correction| 00:00 | Occasionally, you are going to need to
color correct some of your video files
| | 00:04 | that you generated from your Canon 5D
Mark II. It's just the reality of video
| | 00:08 | production. Occasionally, you just
don't get the right white balance or you
| | 00:11 | video tape something with the
wrong color temperature, but for whatever
| | 00:14 | reason, you have just got to make it look good.
| | 00:17 | Here in Final Cut Pro you can do that
with about five or six Mouse-Clicks, it's
| | 00:21 | pretty straight forward, it's very easy.
So what I have done is I have set up a
| | 00:25 | sequence here with a few video clips.
You can see right where my playhead is
| | 00:29 | parked, that if you look up in the
Canvas window, that this particular scene at
| | 00:34 | the wedding just didn't turn out right.
| | 00:36 | I didn't do white balance and I have
the wrong color temperature set in my
| | 00:39 | camera. It happened to be right at a
critical point during the ceremony, of
| | 00:44 | course, but thank goodness we have
Final Cut Pro, because it will correct this
| | 00:49 | and make it look beautiful.
| | 00:50 | So I am going to park my playhead right
on top of the clip. In this case, this
| | 00:55 | clip is the kiss1 and color correct.
This clip should be in your media folder,
| | 01:00 | if you want to work on this one or you
are more than welcome to work on your
| | 01:03 | own personal clip and
follow me through this process.
| | 01:06 | So my playhead is parked on the clip, I
am going to navigate up to the Effects
| | 01:09 | tab in the Browser and Mouse-Click on
this. Then I am going to navigate to the
| | 01:13 | Video Filters folder, Click on the
triangle to the left of the folders, let it
| | 01:16 | points down to reveal the sub-
categories. Then I am going to navigate to the
| | 01:20 | Color Correction folder. I will Click
on that triangle to the left of that.
| | 01:24 | You want to locate the Color Corrector
3-way, which is this guy right here. I
| | 01:28 | am going to Mouse-Click on the icon and
I am going to drag it down and place it
| | 01:32 | into this clip. Now once I have done
that, I will have to Double-Click on this
| | 01:38 | very clip. I will Double-Click on it,
that loads it up into the Viewer. So I am
| | 01:42 | going to navigate up to the very top of
the Viewer and I am going to locate the
| | 01:46 | Color Corrector 3-way tab. There
it is, I will Mouse-Click on that.
| | 01:49 | Of course, what you will see are three
gradient circles. These three gradient
| | 01:54 | circles represent the Blacks level, the
Whites level and the Mids level of the
| | 02:01 | video clip down in the sequence where
your playhead is parked. With these three
| | 02:07 | circles, we can do an awful lot of
good things to that video clip and it's
| | 02:12 | actually automatic.
| | 02:14 | If you look to the bottom-left of each
one of these circles, there is a little
| | 02:16 | color picker. See this, the Whites
has one, the Mids has one and the Blacks
| | 02:21 | have one. We are going to start with
the Blacks first. We are going to Click on
| | 02:24 | this color selector, Click on it. You
don't need to keep your finger down on
| | 02:27 | the mouse. You just need to Click on
it once, navigate over to the Canvas
| | 02:30 | window and Click on something
that's supposed to be black.
| | 02:33 | When you do that, it sets the Blacks
level, okay. Then we are going to set the
| | 02:37 | Whites level. We are going to select
the Whites selector by Clicking on it
| | 02:42 | once. Again, you don't have keep your
finger down on the mouse. Then I want you
| | 02:45 | to select something that's supposed
to be white in your video scene. In my
| | 02:49 | case, it's the bride's dress. It
should always be white, right? Okay, I am
| | 02:52 | going to Click on this dress. Look at
that, oh my boy! That looks beautiful.
| | 02:59 | Well, we can do a couple of more things
to make it look even better, believe it
| | 03:02 | or not. Well, we can see here when we
Click on the white dress, that what was
| | 03:07 | missing was the blues. We can tell that
because this bubble right here normally
| | 03:12 | starts off in the middle and it
immediately move to the right or the
| | 03:14 | bottom-right. It added the blue to the scene.
| | 03:18 | Well, if we want to adjust the Mids,
we have to do the same thing with this
| | 03:21 | bubble but maybe not as much. So I am
going to Mouse-Click on this bubble and I
| | 03:26 | am going to drag it down to the right
just a little bit and look at that, oh
| | 03:30 | my! Look how much better this image
looks compared to the first moment we
| | 03:35 | dropped it in our sequence.
| | 03:36 | Now I am going to adjust the
brightness by Clicking on this adjustment level
| | 03:41 | here, I am going to drag it to the
right and brighten it up. Look at that, wow!
| | 03:45 | It doesn't need a whole lot, just a
tiny bit. Now for the true test, we are
| | 03:49 | going to look at the before and after
by navigating up to this really cool
| | 03:53 | feature up here in the Tools option at
the top menu, Mouse-Click on that and
| | 03:56 | select Frame Viewer. This little handy
guy will show us before and after and
| | 04:02 | look at the difference, it is huge.
| | 04:05 | Now you have to make sure that two
items are set, so you will see what I am
| | 04:09 | seeing in my Frame Viewer. You have
to make sure that in this button option
| | 04:14 | here, that when you Click on this, you
have the Current w/o Filters selected.
| | 04:18 | So do that now, if you haven't done it.
Then over here, you will need to make
| | 04:22 | sure that this button says Current
Frame. Then when you do that, you will see
| | 04:27 | here, you will see the before and after.
I can move this around by dragging it
| | 04:32 | and to see just what we started with
and what we ended up with is a huge difference.
| | 04:37 | And just to double check things I am
going to go down to my sequence and I am
| | 04:41 | going to back the playhead up. I will
park it on the previous scene and I will
| | 04:45 | just see if it's matched. Okay so we
will look at this scene, we will look at
| | 04:49 | that scene. Oh my! Totally matches. The
client will never know. This is such a
| | 04:54 | powerful tool, it is great for fixing
color problems within Final Cut Pro.
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| Creating basic titles| 00:00 | Click right there the play head snaps
to the end and this is critical that you
| | 00:03 | leave the play head parked over the
visual item that you want the title to be
| | 00:07 | placed on to because I am going to show
you two ways to get that title down to
| | 00:11 | the sequence, and the other item that
you need to make sure is this v1 Source
| | 00:16 | button is linked to the v1 Destination
layer which is this layer here. So you
| | 00:21 | need to make sure that those items are there.
| | 00:23 | Okay, so now for the good stuff,
navigate over to the Viewer which is this
| | 00:26 | window here, go to the bottom right
hand side you will notice the letter A
| | 00:30 | button, Mouse-Click and select Text
at the bottom, then scroll over to the
| | 00:35 | right and go down to the second Text
option and let that go. And the word
| | 00:40 | Sample Text or the words Sample Text
will appear in the Viewer. Now the rest is
| | 00:44 | pretty straightforward, Mouse-Click
and drag over to the Super Impose option
| | 00:49 | over here in the Canvas Overlay
menu option and then let it go.
| | 00:52 | Now, when you do that, boom! Final
Cut Pro places this title perfectly over
| | 00:57 | this item that the play head was parked
on. How convenient is that? Now to work
| | 01:02 | on this title, simply Double-Click on
this, we Double-Clicked on it in the
| | 01:06 | sequence so that it updates up here in
the Viewer so that you can work on it.
| | 01:09 | Now it's just a matter of Clicking on
the Controls tab, which is this tab right
| | 01:13 | here in the Viewer, Click on that and
all the rest is pretty straightforward.
| | 01:16 | Simply Click once in this box, like I
did, the text turns blue, if it didn't
| | 01:20 | turn blue and you see this blinking
cursor, Mouse-Click and highlight by
| | 01:24 | dragging the cursor over and then start
to type. Then you can move down here to
| | 01:27 | the Font button, Mouse-Click and
select any installed font that you have in
| | 01:31 | your computer.
| | 01:32 | You can change the Size by Clicking and
dragging the Size bar here or typing in
| | 01:37 | the numeric value of that font or the
font size that you want, you can select a
| | 01:41 | different style, the Alignment, the
Color, there are lot of options here.
| | 01:45 | Normally what I recommend you do first
is this: you see this little Origin area
| | 01:50 | here, Click on this plus button and
when you do that, you can barely see that
| | 01:54 | there is a red plus. See that?
| | 01:55 | Mouse-Click and drag down, do not let
your finger off the mouse, but drag the
| | 01:59 | text to an area, that's it easy to see
the text and look how perfect this photo
| | 02:03 | looks for our title, because it's nice
and dark here, and there is plenty of
| | 02:07 | room in this area.
| | 02:08 | But by dragging that over, once you
let the mouse go that plus disappears by
| | 02:11 | the way and you want that plus to
reappear to move the text again and you will
| | 02:15 | need to Mouse-Click on this origin plus
button one more time and it reappears,
| | 02:20 | Mouse-Click and drag where you
want that title to be placed.
| | 02:23 | One of the thing you may want to
open or reveal is the following. If you
| | 02:27 | navigate up to the View button in
the upper right hand side of the Canvas
| | 02:30 | Window, Mouse-Click on that and select
Show Overlays and your Title Safe and
| | 02:38 | Action Safe regions should be shown.
And if you don't see them go back up to
| | 02:43 | the View button and make sure Show
Title Safe is selected and checked. See that?
| | 02:49 | So you need to make sure both of these
are selected and checked, okay, and this
| | 02:53 | Image can be checked here as well. Okay.
So once you have done that, now you
| | 02:57 | just type, it will go back and change
the font and the color in just a moment.
| | 03:00 | So I am going to Click one time here in
the Text area and you can type anything
| | 03:05 | you want, anything you think makes
sense and in my case, since this is a
| | 03:08 | wedding demo, I can type in Mr. & Mrs.
Ryan Benson or Valerie & Ryan Benson and
| | 03:14 | then of course the date, whatever you
think is contemporary and cool, will work.
| | 03:18 | I am going to go old style, old school
style, traditional, I am going to type
| | 03:22 | in Mr. & Mrs. Ryan Benson, and we
will type in the date December 28, 2008.
| | 03:33 | Okay. And of course you can use the
arrow keys on your keyboard to go between
| | 03:41 | letters and that you can Backspace and
make some changes, if you like. Now you
| | 03:46 | are not going to see the changes down
here until you do the following. Just
| | 03:48 | simply - you can Click anywhere below
the text area such as here in the Font
| | 03:53 | Size, when you do that look how it
updates, of course that's far too large and
| | 03:58 | the Size of course can be adjusted
here by Clicking on this little dial here
| | 04:02 | and dragging to the left or to the right.
And I am not particularly crazy about
| | 04:06 | that font, I do like the size and
the color, so let's change the font.
| | 04:10 | So I will navigate to this Font option
here and Mouse-Click on this and I am
| | 04:14 | going to go with kind of a fancy font
and Bickham Script Pro is a pretty good
| | 04:21 | one. I am going to select that and of
course it shrunk and of course the space
| | 04:25 | also was enlarged between this first
and the second title, so we will work on
| | 04:30 | that in just a second, but I am going
to Mouse-Click on this size one more time
| | 04:34 | and drag it to the right and
increase the size, there we go.
| | 04:36 | We don't want to go far over the Title
Safe region, but then I will Mouse-Click
| | 04:41 | on the Leading option here and I will
drag it to the left and look out that
| | 04:43 | bottom row or look how that bottom
row of text moves up. Okay, so with that
| | 04:51 | said basically, this title is just
about done. Again we can change the color by
| | 04:56 | Clicking here in this white box and
select a crayon box here first before going
| | 05:02 | down into here and you can Click on any
one these colors if you would like and
| | 05:05 | then select OK and change the color, I
am going to leave mine white. So I will
| | 05:09 | Click on the white crayon and I'll select OK.
| | 05:11 | But that title as far as creation is
complete down here in the sequence there
| | 05:16 | are a couple of things that I want to
bring the attention. The first one is we
| | 05:19 | do want this title to Dissolve Up
and in order to do that we can add a
| | 05:24 | transition at the beginning and one at
the end. And I showed you how to do that
| | 05:27 | in the previous lesson, but before I
show you again, I am going to Mouse-Click
| | 05:31 | at the very beginning of this title. I
am going to Mouse-Click in and drag it
| | 05:33 | and trim it, just a little bit and
then I'll Ctrl+Click at the very head of
| | 05:38 | this text clip, Ctrl+Click and select
Add Transition Cross Dissolve. Look at.
| | 05:41 | Then I will do the same at the tail
of the clip. Ctrl+Click, Add Transition
| | 05:46 | Cross Dissolve, how
convenient is that? Very nice.
| | 05:50 | So, I am going to show you a different
way to create and drag a title down to
| | 05:56 | your sequence and that is if we
just decide we want to place the title
| | 06:00 | anywhere, over here in the sequence
whether at the beginning or at the end, you
| | 06:04 | can navigate back up to the Viewer,
Click on the Video tab, navigate back to
| | 06:08 | the letter A and look the word Text is
now at the top of these options, because
| | 06:12 | it was the last thing I did. And or if
it's not there, you can navigate to the
| | 06:16 | Text at the bottom and look at all
these other options we have, Outline Text,
| | 06:20 | Lower 3rd, Scrolling Text which is
really cool, Typewriter, there are all kinds
| | 06:24 | of cool things that you can
experiment. Most of these look the same.
| | 06:27 | I am going to Outline Text, select that,
because this will give us a little bit
| | 06:33 | of a different result, plus I want to
show you how to get the text down at the
| | 06:36 | sequence, anyway. But I am simply
going to Mouse-Click on this item in the
| | 06:39 | Viewer I am going to drag it down, I
am going to place it just anywhere in my sequence.
| | 06:44 | Now when I let this go, I want to make
sure the arrow, see the arrow, which is
| | 06:47 | where the cursor is pointing down,
because that would indicate an Overlay Edit.
| | 06:51 | Correct? So I will let that go, look
how the text of course, is still on layer
| | 06:56 | v2 and it's appropriately placed in my sequence.
| | 07:00 | Now you can see immediately when I
place the play head over that text, that
| | 07:05 | it's a nice large bold font with an
edge and again if I want to work on this
| | 07:11 | particular item in the sequence, I
park the play head over it, then I
| | 07:16 | Double-Click on the item to update it
up into the Viewer, I can navigate then
| | 07:20 | to the Controls tab and I have a few more
options and a couple of different options as well.
| | 07:25 | Of course the sample text here is a
little bit smaller, but I can simply type
| | 07:30 | by Clicking in there once and then
typing in whatever I want and then I can
| | 07:34 | navigate to the font size and all that,
but the different item that I want to
| | 07:38 | bring up or the two different items
are the Line Width which is the edge.
| | 07:41 | So if I navigate to this option here
and I drag this slider to the left, look
| | 07:45 | how the edge will then shrink and I
really think something around, I don't know
| | 07:50 | 17 to 20 as far as size is concerned
would justify this particular font, okay.
| | 07:56 | When I say that, that means different
fonts will have different reactions to
| | 07:59 | the line width, which is that outer edge,
but then the Color, the Text Color is
| | 08:03 | here, the Line Color is here.
| | 08:06 | And then there are a lot of different
options here for Softness, Opacity and
| | 08:10 | all that, but you can explore a little
more with this particular text creator,
| | 08:16 | which is the outlining text and place
it anywhere down here in the sequence and
| | 08:21 | one last item that I do need to bring
to your attention and that's the following.
| | 08:25 | We've been talking a lot about adding
transitions to make items dissolve up or
| | 08:29 | fade up and or fade down at the end.
Well I am going to show you one more
| | 08:33 | option then I'll let you go, if you
navigate to the bottom-left-hand side of
| | 08:36 | your screen you'll see there is a
little button called Clip Overlays button.
| | 08:39 | Make sure it's Clicked in, so right
there that means its off. If can Click it,
| | 08:44 | you'll notice that there is a black
Opacity line here for video and you'll
| | 08:49 | notice pinkish red lines for audio.
| | 08:51 | Well if I get my Pen tool by pushing
the letter P on my keyboard or going over
| | 08:55 | to the toolbar and pushing on the Pen
option, when I park my cursor right where
| | 09:00 | that line is and if I Click once
I'll go to keyframe. If I Click and drag
| | 09:05 | again, this will now ramp
down, so this title will fade.
| | 09:10 | See as I Click through it up in a
Canvas Window, how it does that. If I want to
| | 09:13 | get rid of that keyframe, look how my
cursor changes to a cross hair, I can
| | 09:17 | Ctrl+Click on it and select Clear and
then that goes away and then that tramp
| | 09:21 | goes away, there's still one keyframe
there, but basically Click and drag, you
| | 09:25 | have to have a beginning and an ending
keyframe to do this. I am going to ask
| | 09:28 | you to try that on this title.
| | 09:29 | So to make it fade up, you need a ramp,
right, to fade up into. So you Click
| | 09:33 | once, like I just did, to add a
keyframe, then you Click again and you drag
| | 09:37 | down and it fades up and it fades down.
| | 09:41 | You can figure out the duration as
far as how long these are by just simply
| | 09:44 | Mouse-Click ing and dragging this in.
See that? You get a little plus and a box
| | 09:48 | that tells you how far it's going in.
So real convenient. If I want this to go
| | 09:53 | +24 frames, I just Mouse-Click and
drag and it tells me exactly by letting it
| | 09:58 | go where it's going to land, and I
can do the same thing to this other keyframe.
| | 10:02 | So it's a real convenient way to fade
up and to fade down into visual items in
| | 10:07 | the sequence that I think are handy.
Let's put that Pen tool away by pushing
| | 10:10 | the letter A, that's a shortcut to get
rid of the Pen Tool and we have covered
| | 10:14 | a lot of items here. I would like you
to practice and make a few titles and
| | 10:19 | once you feel confident in doing that,
you'll then be ready for the next lesson.
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| Adding and adjusting audio| 00:00 | Audio represents at least half of the
total experience that your viewer will
| | 00:04 | encounter while watching your finished
movie. So in this lesson, I'd like to
| | 00:08 | show you and teach you some practical
features within Final Cut Pro that allow
| | 00:13 | you to maintain the levels at a correct
level and how to adjust music that you
| | 00:19 | can bring down into the sequence to add
to the overall quality of the project.
| | 00:23 | So let's start off first by importing
music from a CD, that seems to be the
| | 00:27 | most popular method of getting music
into your project and I am going to start
| | 00:32 | off by hiding Final Cut Pro, so I'll
push Command+H on my keyboard to hide
| | 00:35 | Final Cut and as you can see here on
Desktop I have already inserted a standard
| | 00:40 | audio CD and I am simply going to Double
-Click on the icon so that the contents
| | 00:46 | of that disc will be revealed.
| | 00:47 | And I am going to suggest that you
Click on the Column View button which is
| | 00:51 | this button right here, when you
Click on that all the tracks are nicely
| | 00:54 | aligned and you can see from top to
bottom that I have 38 tracks in this CD.
| | 01:00 | Now when you want to listen to a track
it's pretty easy. Simply Click on the
| | 01:04 | track one time. So I'll Click on track
16 just like that and in a few moments a
| | 01:09 | preview will open in this column here
and you'll see here in a moment, it's a
| | 01:14 | music note and if I hover over the
music note a play button will appear. Now
| | 01:18 | it's it's just a matter of
Clicking it which I'll do now.
| | 01:21 | And I'll be able to hear the music. Now
I may or may not use that sound but the
| | 01:26 | point is you can preview all the
songs that you would like and it's pretty
| | 01:29 | easy. Once you have found the music
that you would like to use, then you will
| | 01:32 | have to copy the music from the CD into
your project folder before importing in
| | 01:38 | Final Cut Pro. You really need to
understand that workflow. You cannot and
| | 01:43 | should not well you could if you want
but you shouldn't import music directly
| | 01:46 | from a CD disc.
| | 01:48 | Because if you eject the CD disc after
that it'll break the link that Final Cut
| | 01:53 | Pro needs to maintain that media within
the project. So copy the tracks from he
| | 02:00 | disc first in your project folder and
then import into Final Cut Pro and you
| | 02:04 | will be good to go. So I am going to do
that. I am going to navigate over to my
| | 02:06 | project hard drive which is this hard
drive here. I have opened it up, navigate
| | 02:10 | to the project folder itself, Click on
it and then of course anything I put in
| | 02:13 | this column will then be in my project folder.
| | 02:16 | So now I will navigate back over to
this track I'll Mouse-Click and I'll drag
| | 02:19 | it into this particular column here
and I'll let it go. Now depending on the
| | 02:22 | size of the track this could take a
few moments. But this is only 3.5 meg, so
| | 02:27 | it happened really quick. So getting
the music from the CD at that point is
| | 02:32 | actually pretty easy now and some
editors will even eject the CD so they don't
| | 02:36 | make the mistake of importing it from
the disc. So if you need to do that go
| | 02:39 | right ahead. I am going to just close
this Finder window by Clicking in the
| | 02:41 | upper left hand corner and I'll close
this Finder window and let's go back into
| | 02:44 | Final Cut Pro.
| | 02:45 | So I will navigate back down to the dock,
Click on the Final Cut Pro icon, here
| | 02:50 | we go and now I will just Click on my
Project tab within the browser and I will
| | 02:54 | push Command+I which is the shortcut
for importing and I'll go to my project
| | 02:58 | drive, then I'll go to my Project
Folder and I Double-Click on the Track and
| | 03:02 | then of course appears instantly within
Final Cut Pro. Now one thing I like to
| | 03:07 | do with music is I like to look at the
duration which is this first column here.
| | 03:10 | This is only a 20 second audio clip.
The other clip that I have the other
| | 03:15 | audio clip is over 2 minutes.
| | 03:17 | And of course, you have to make sure
that your audio or at least the music that
| | 03:21 | you want to use is at least the same
link as your finished project or you might
| | 03:25 | have to double the song which is fine
or add multiple songs which you can do.
| | 03:29 | So what I would like to show you
first is how to simply add music to the
| | 03:32 | sequence and that's pretty straight
forward. If you Mouse-Click on the icon,
| | 03:36 | which I am going to do now and drag
down to the sequence you want to make sure
| | 03:39 | that you are placing the song into an
open audio track. And you also want to
| | 03:43 | make sure that the arrow was
pointing down and then you can let that go.
| | 03:47 | If you don't have additional audio
tracks open, you can go to the last track
| | 03:52 | that is in your sequence and in between
the track number and the lock, you can
| | 03:56 | push the Ctrl key and then Mouse-Click
and select Add Track. Do you see that?
| | 04:02 | Or you can delete tracks whatever you
would like to do and you can add as many
| | 04:04 | tracks as you would like within the
sequence. Or within reason. You can
| | 04:08 | actually add upto 99 tracks,
if you really, really want to.
| | 04:11 | So once you have the appropriate amount
of tracks open and you have dragged the
| | 04:14 | music down you can then begin to mix
the audio. Now if you want to get rid of
| | 04:20 | an audio track, you can just Click on
it like that and push Delete and I am
| | 04:24 | glad I did that because that song is
just not long enough. I am going to go
| | 04:27 | back up to another song that I have
already imported and I am going to
| | 04:30 | Mouse-Click and drag it straight down
and this one is a little bit longer,
| | 04:33 | which is good for me, and I am going
to place it in tracks A3 and A4 and I am
| | 04:37 | going to make sure the arrow is pointing
down which is my cursor and I'll let that go.
| | 04:41 | Now this is very common, when you drop
anything into the sequence the playhead
| | 04:45 | will snap to the end of that item and
in my case it did exactly that and I can
| | 04:50 | no longer see to the left in my
sequence and when this happens, Click in an
| | 04:54 | open area of your sequence just to
make sure that it's activated and push the
| | 04:57 | Shift key and the letter Z and what
that does is it makes everything viewable
| | 05:02 | within my sequence window.
| | 05:05 | Okay and then I can see everything
which is a good thing. Now I can navigate to
| | 05:10 | the end of this audio clip just like
this and Mouse-Click and trim it. Okay,
| | 05:14 | and I'll let it go right about there
and I could add a fade at the end of this
| | 05:20 | song by pushing the Ctrl key on my
keyboard, Mouse-Clicking and selecting Add
| | 05:24 | Transition Cross Fade. Now the song
will fade down and we are not done yet but
| | 05:28 | that's how easy it is to add music to
your sequence. I am going to suggest you
| | 05:32 | to do a couple of other
things before we continue.
| | 05:35 | You may want to make your track heights
a little bit bigger. So to do that you
| | 05:38 | can navigate in between any one of
these tracks whether it's video or audio.
| | 05:41 | Hold the Shift key down, Mouse-Click
and drag and all tracks will expand. You
| | 05:46 | can also turn the audio waveform out.
So what's an audio waveform? The audio
| | 05:50 | waveform is the footprint of levels of
the audio and I'll show you what that
| | 05:55 | is. You can navigate down to this
little arrow here way down in the corner and
| | 05:59 | it's the timeline layout pop-up.
Mouse-Click on that and select Show Audio
| | 06:03 | Waveforms. Okay and when
you do that there they are.
| | 06:07 | That is the foot print of the audio,
meaning it shows levels and you can see
| | 06:12 | with this song it starts off kind of
low and then it gets louder and louder and
| | 06:15 | it gets real loud over here. So when
that happens with any of these tracks you
| | 06:19 | can clearly see that you may need to
adjust the volume. So the first thing you
| | 06:25 | need to be aware of is the audio volume
okay. The overall audio volume of your
| | 06:31 | timeline/sequence. Actually I am just
going to say of your sequence should
| | 06:35 | never exceed -3db, maybe -2db for
digital audio. It will just become distorted
| | 06:44 | and it's probably not going to work and
I am just going to Click right here in
| | 06:47 | the time code area of my sequence, okay?
| | 06:50 | My playhead of course will go there and
I'll Mouse-Click on the Play button and
| | 06:53 | you will need to listen to the levels.
So I am going to push the Play button
| | 06:56 | now and you can see the levels are way
up there, okay. So I am going to stop
| | 07:02 | the play back by pushing that Play
button and you can see the red dots are just
| | 07:06 | lighting up like stop lights and you are
going to need to bring the volume down.
| | 07:11 | So a couple of things that you can do.
You could just navigate to the volume
| | 07:15 | level which is right where my
cursor is now and if you do not see this
| | 07:18 | pink/reddish line in all of your audio
clips then you'll need to navigate down
| | 07:24 | to this Clip Overlay button which is
just right here and make sure that it's
| | 07:27 | on. If it's off, you won't see those
lines at all. You need to Click on it and
| | 07:33 | then of course you'll see it.
| | 07:34 | Now when my cursor is parked over
that red line or pink line, you can
| | 07:39 | Mouse-Click and drag it down, you'll
see that I am lowering it, in this case -6
| | 07:43 | db and I can keep going and I have
learned over the years that music really
| | 07:47 | needs to be around -22, maybe -23 or
24 db before it's subtle. Especially if
| | 07:55 | it's the background music and I'll push
the spacebar on my keyboard to play my
| | 07:59 | sequence again and let's listen to the volume.
| | 08:01 | So it's still too loud and in fact, I
couldn't hear the music. So the point of
| | 08:07 | doing this is to adjust the levels
appropriately. And you can adjust the levels
| | 08:14 | in audio that came in with video. You
can go to each one if you would like and
| | 08:19 | just drop the levels by dragging this
down. You can even use the Pen Tool which
| | 08:24 | is a cool feature.
| | 08:25 | The Pen Tool is right over here. It's
this bottom pen looking button and the
| | 08:30 | shortcut is the letter P by the way.
So if you Mouse-Click on this and keep
| | 08:33 | your finger down there is three Pen
Tools. You need to pay attention to which
| | 08:37 | Pen Tool you have.
| | 08:38 | You need this Pen Tool here. The one
that doesn't have a little sign next to it
| | 08:42 | or if you just push the letter P on
your keyboard it's the shortcut. Now I just
| | 08:47 | pushed the letter P and I have
actually selected the Pen Tool itself and I
| | 08:51 | don't see a pen as my cursor, do I?
Well, you won't, until you park over an
| | 08:56 | item where the Pen Tool can be
utilized and of course, now I can see it. And
| | 09:02 | how this works is actually pretty easy.
If you Mouse-Click you will get a key
| | 09:05 | frame. You can barely see it but it's
there. If I Click again I can drag the
| | 09:09 | volume down. If I Click again and
again, I can drag the volume back up.
| | 09:13 | So if I were to play this back right now,
when the playhead gets at this point,
| | 09:17 | the song dips down and then it comes
back up over a very short period of time.
| | 09:22 | So how do you get rid of the keyframe?
Well, you can Ctrl+Click on it and
| | 09:27 | select Clear and it goes away and if
the keyframes are real small then you
| | 09:31 | might have to zoom in.
| | 09:33 | And how do you zoom in? Well, there is
a couple of ways to do this but you can
| | 09:36 | park your playhead right on the
keyframe that you want to adjust or get rid of
| | 09:40 | and then navigate to this Slider option
right here and zoom in and the playhead
| | 09:45 | stays perfectly centered.
| | 09:47 | Or you can just push the letter Z and
a magnifying glass will appear and you
| | 09:51 | can Click, Click, Click to zoom in.
And if you want to zoom out, hold the
| | 09:54 | Option key and you'll get the opposite
of whatever your magnifying glass might
| | 09:58 | be. So in my case it was plus, if I
push the Option key, it'll be minus and I
| | 10:01 | Click, Click, Click and zoom out,
that's one of my favorite ones because I can
| | 10:04 | zoom in and I love the Option key go.
I can zoom in to a very specific spot.
| | 10:08 | Now to get rid of that tool I will
push the letter A and the Zoom Tool goes
| | 10:12 | away and I can go back to working.
So adjusting volumes with keyframes is
| | 10:17 | really good. Now I can also for instance,
if I want to work on just this audio
| | 10:22 | clip, I can Double-Click on it and of
course it will appear up in the Viewer
| | 10:25 | and I can make my adjustments up here
which is pretty handy. One last thing
| | 10:30 | that I want to show you regarding
audio which I believe works pretty good is
| | 10:33 | what I like to call global audio control.
| | 10:36 | Now I am going to Click on my
sequence and then push Shift+Z so I can see
| | 10:39 | everything. And I am going to hold
the Option key down and I am going to
| | 10:44 | Mouse-Click and create and drag and
create a square Lasso and I am only going
| | 10:48 | to select the audio that came in with
video because I may not want to use this
| | 10:53 | audio at all, I may just want music
and by selecting just the audio and by
| | 10:59 | holding Option key down, that will
happen. I can then navigate up to the word
| | 11:03 | Modify here at the Top menu,
Mouse-Click and select Levels.
| | 11:08 | Now with this little Gain Adjust
capability I can Mouse-Click and drag this all
| | 11:13 | the way down, all the way down and
then push OK and watch what happens to the
| | 11:17 | audio levels down in my sequence, ready?
Boom! They all dropped, how cool is
| | 11:21 | that. They all just went down. And it's
pretty easy, I didn't have to Click in
| | 11:24 | each one and drag the levels down of
each one. That would take sometime. I just
| | 11:27 | did them altogether. So that's a great feature.
| | 11:31 | Now earlier when I held the Option key
down and I dragged and I selected .I had
| | 11:35 | to do that because this button was
pushed in. In other words, it was on. The
| | 11:40 | Link Selection button, it was on.
| | 11:42 | You have to make sure that this button
is on and we are to do what I just did
| | 11:46 | with the Option key, okay. If it's not
then it won't work. So as a matter of
| | 11:51 | fact both of these buttons should be on.
Okay, well that's about it for audio
| | 11:55 | levels. What I am going to suggest you
do now is go through and listen to your
| | 11:59 | levels and adjust accordingly. It may
take a little bit of practice. You might
| | 12:03 | have to Mouse-Click and drag
levels up and down you might have to add
| | 12:06 | keyframes, you might have to delete
keyframes. Remember Ctrl+Click on each and
| | 12:10 | hit Clear, just like that.
| | 12:11 | Ctrl+Click, Clear and then adjust the
volume of an entire song just like I am
| | 12:16 | doing now. So keep that in mind, have
some fun with this feature. It's a real
| | 12:20 | important lesson, this particular lesson.
Practice, practice, practice and once
| | 12:25 | you are done, once it sounds good you
will then be ready for the next lesson.
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| Converting non-drop to drop frames| 00:00 | Because the Canon 5D Mark II records
the video in a Non Drop file format, I've
| | 00:07 | had a lot of people ask and I have even
seen a few blogs regarding how can they
| | 00:11 | get around this? How can they take the
Non Drop file format and change it to a
| | 00:15 | Drop-frame for broadcast reasons?
| | 00:18 | Well, believe it or not, you can do it
with ease in Final Cut Pro. It's just a
| | 00:22 | matter of setting up a Preset within
Final Cut Pro to handle this seamlessly
| | 00:27 | without affecting the video whatsoever.
| | 00:29 | Now, this is very similar to creating
a new project that we did in a earlier
| | 00:33 | lesson with a couple of different
keystrokes. So let's jump right into it.
| | 00:37 | First things first, I would like you
to close any opened project within Final Cut Pro.
| | 00:43 | The way to do that is to navigate up to
the left-hand corner and Ctrl+Click on
| | 00:47 | any Project Tab. Don't close the
Effects Tab, just close the Project Tab. So
| | 00:51 | Ctrl+Click and select Close Tab. I want
you to close all projects until you see
| | 00:56 | three things, the Browser,
the Viewer, and the Desktop.
| | 00:59 | Once you have done that, I'd like you
to navigate back up to the word Final Cut Pro
| | 01:03 | on the left-hand corner, Mouse-
Click and select Audio/Video Settings. Then,
| | 01:08 | I want you to select the second tab
which is titled Sequence Presets, Click on
| | 01:12 | that. And then I want you to Mouse-
Click on this blue navigation button and
| | 01:15 | drag it down until you see the item,
it's check-marked. Here in my case, it
| | 01:19 | says, DV NTSC 48 KHz just because I
want you to know what we are going to be doing.
| | 01:25 | I want you to Click on the Duplicate,
so we are going to duplicate this Preset
| | 01:28 | and we are going to get into a
duplicate Preset that we are going to change
| | 01:31 | completely and then we are going to
do a Save As. So we have a brand new
| | 01:36 | template, and we do not want to affect
any previous template that was already
| | 01:39 | created. So once you are in the
Sequence Preset Editor, we are going to change everything.
| | 01:44 | First things first, as we are going to
change the name. So highlight the text
| | 01:47 | in the Name box and let's call this
Canon 5D Mark II, and we are going to call
| | 01:53 | this Non Drop to Drop. In the
description, I want you to type in Use this
| | 02:00 | Preset when converting to Drop frame.
That way you will know exactly what this
| | 02:08 | is going to do, and any other editor
will also know what this Preset will do.
| | 02:13 | In the General Tab, I want you to
change the Frame size by clicking on this
| | 02:16 | white button here to HDTV 1080i(16:9).
You might be thinking, wait a minute
| | 02:22 | Frank, why are we selecting 1080i? Well,
for now, that's what we have to do.
| | 02:26 | We're not going to convert, in another
words, we're not going to take the 1080p
| | 02:29 | footage from the Canon 5D Mark II,
and convert it to 1080i. The reason is
| | 02:34 | because we are going to make sure
everything else down here we will leave it in
| | 02:36 | the progressive mode.
| | 02:38 | We just for now have to select this
Preset. I would imagine that Apple will
| | 02:42 | change this in a future release of
Final Cut Pro. But, for now, this is what we
| | 02:46 | have to do. So trust me on this.
| | 02:48 | Navigate to the Pixel Aspect Ratio,
Click on this button and select Square,
| | 02:52 | uncheck Anamorphic if it's checked. In
the Field Dominance area, Mouse-Click on
| | 02:57 | this and select Upper. Editing Timebase,
leave it on 29.97 because that's our Drop Frame.
| | 03:03 | Here in the Timecode, we want to Mouse-
Click on this and select 30 Drop Frame.
| | 03:08 | Most importantly, in the Compressor,
we want to make sure we have our H.264
| | 03:14 | Codec selected. So we want to Click
on this button and navigate all the way
| | 03:17 | down at the bottom, and there it is,
H.264. Leave that alone once that's selected.
| | 03:22 | Then in the Audio Settings, I want you
to change the Rate from 48 by clicking
| | 03:26 | on that button to 44.1. Then, select
OK. Then, navigate over to the upper
| | 03:32 | left-hand corner. By the way, there
is our new Preset, Canon 5D Mark II Non
| | 03:35 | Drop to Drop. Perfect.
| | 03:37 | Click on the Summery Tab. Here, in the
Sequence Preset, you will see that what
| | 03:41 | we have done so far is reflected in
this button. So leave that alone. Here in
| | 03:44 | the Capture Preset, I want you to
select Generic Capture Template. Here in the
| | 03:48 | Device Control, I want you to select
Non Controllable device. Then, in the
| | 03:53 | Video Playback, select None, leave
Audio Playback as Default and then create or
| | 03:57 | select Create Easy Setup.
| | 04:00 | Once you have done that, you will be
prompted to give our new easy setup Preset
| | 04:03 | a Name. So we are going to have to
almost repeat everything we have already
| | 04:06 | done by typing in Canon 5D Mark II.
Oops! Let me back up here, 5D Mark II and
| | 04:15 | this is Non Drop to Drop. Perfect, Non
Drop to Drop, there we go. And then in
| | 04:29 | Description, Use this when
converting to Drop frame. Perfect.
| | 04:39 | Once you have typed all this in, Mouse-
Click on the Create. Once you have done
| | 04:43 | that, Final Cut Pro will put this New
Template. And in my case, mine is titled
| | 04:47 | Canon 5D Mark II Non Drop to Drop. In
fact, I want to add a number 2 to this
| | 04:52 | because I have already created this
before. It will create this new Preset and
| | 04:56 | put in our Custom Settings that will
allow us to get access to that, to this
| | 05:00 | Preset for future project. So
Mouse-Click on Save and select OK.
| | 05:04 | Now, back here in Final Cut Pro, the
easy part begins. Once that Preset is
| | 05:09 | created, it will be there forever
until you go in and find it, and delete it.
| | 05:14 | So we are going to navigate back up to
the word Final Cut Pro, Mouse-Click and
| | 05:17 | select Easy Setup. Perfect. Here, in
the format under HD, look what we get?
| | 05:23 | Here is the Template that I just
created, Canon 5D Mark II Non Drop to Drop.
| | 05:28 | However, actually let's Mouse-Click
on this and I want to make sure that I
| | 05:33 | don't have it in any other spot. Yeah,
that's it. Perfect. Leave that alone.
| | 05:37 | Now, I am going to Mouse-Click on
Setup, and then I am going to select New
| | 05:41 | Project, and because I selected that
Preset as my Project Settings, it's all
| | 05:49 | going to be setup correctly now for the
footage that was shot originally using
| | 05:53 | a Canon 5D Mark II.
| | 05:54 | To test this, I am going to Click on
the Browser, navigate up to the word File,
| | 05:57 | Mouse-click, and select Import. I am
going to quickly Import one of the clips
| | 06:02 | that was originally shot
using a Canon 5D Mark II.
| | 06:06 | Here is one of the most important
part of this entire lesson. After you've
| | 06:10 | saved your project, and after you have
given the name of course, you want to
| | 06:13 | start to edit your footage. Take the
first clip, drop it on the Sequence, and
| | 06:17 | you will be prompted with this little
Window that says, Attention! This clip
| | 06:21 | does not match to Sequence Settings
or any of your Sequence Presets. That's
| | 06:24 | okay, in a rare case, and this is
one of them, I want you to select No.
| | 06:28 | When you select No, it's going to leave
that Drop-frame time-code. You can see,
| | 06:36 | if I zoom in here, Click on this, we
have our Drop frame indications right here
| | 06:44 | between the 2 and 0, see that. We are
working in a Drop-frame sequence without
| | 06:51 | affecting the video.
| | 06:52 | See, there are no colors up here which
means that we can successfully use our
| | 06:55 | footage now and convert from a Non
Drop to a Drop on our output and that was
| | 07:02 | the goal of this lesson. Well, I hope
you learned a lot in this lesson. It's a
| | 07:06 | very good lesson, and of course it will
really help when you want to send your
| | 07:10 | final footage out for broadcast purposes.
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| Finishing and exporting your movie| 00:00 | So when you get to the point where
you've completed all your editing, you are
| | 00:03 | then ready to deliver the product
to your customer. And there are many
| | 00:07 | different ways to do that. I would
like to take about a handful of the most
| | 00:10 | popular ways of getting this project
out the door. And a few of those would be
| | 00:15 | of course delivering in a Windows Media
format, possibly delivering in a Flash
| | 00:20 | file format, or of course a DVD, or
maybe even iPhone or iTouch/iPod which are
| | 00:27 | all very popular today.
| | 00:29 | So let's talk about all those, as a
matter of fact. So one thing I do want to
| | 00:33 | recommend you do, is make sure your
sequence has been rendered completely, and
| | 00:36 | how do you double check that? Well,
Click on a sequence to make sure that it's
| | 00:39 | been selected, then navigate up to the
Sequence option here at the top menu,
| | 00:42 | Mouse-Click and select Render All.
| | 00:44 | Now, when you select this, make sure
these are all checked, if they are not, go
| | 00:47 | ahead and check them all and then
come back and select Render All. When you
| | 00:50 | select this option of course Final
Cut Pro will go through and make sure
| | 00:54 | everything has then been
rendered and ready for export.
| | 00:57 | So let's start of with WMV. So with
that said, I had to purchase an additional
| | 01:04 | plug-in to do that. In other words,
I had to buy additional software and
| | 01:08 | install it on my computer to have
this option because it's not native.
| | 01:11 | To do that I would simply Click on the
sequence, navigate up to the word File,
| | 01:15 | Mouse-Click and select Export, Using
QuickTime Conversion. When I select that,
| | 01:21 | and I navigate to the Format here, I
can Mouse-Click and I'll see here that I
| | 01:24 | have a Windows Media option.
| | 01:26 | Now again, for those of you who didn't
purchase this option, you will not see
| | 01:29 | this. When I Mouse-Click on this
option button here after I have selected
| | 01:33 | Windows Media then the options will
appear, and the name of the company that
| | 01:36 | makes this product is Flip4Mac. It's
really easy to find on the Internet. You
| | 01:41 | can do a Google search and
you'll find it real quick.
| | 01:43 | Now I don't have time to go through
all the different settings here, but
| | 01:45 | basically you can select a profile,
and if you Mouse-Click on this you'll see
| | 01:49 | there are a lot of profiles here.
Everything from presentation, high, medium or
| | 01:55 | low to dial-up or ISDN, variable bit
rate, there are all kinds of different
| | 02:00 | formulas here.
| | 02:01 | I would suggested you start off with
an easy one, such as this One pass CBR.
| | 02:06 | CBR stands for Constant Bit Rate. 800
kbps, 16:9, and by the way any of these
| | 02:12 | options that you choose, you must or
at least should select 16:9 because the
| | 02:16 | video that came from the Canon 5D
Mark II has an aspect ratio of 16:9.
| | 02:20 | So let's just go with this first one
here, I will select that. Everything else
| | 02:24 | is fine the way it is. I'll Mouse-Click
on this option here which if I increase
| | 02:28 | to about 80, which is normally what I do,
will make sure the quality is pretty
| | 02:32 | decent. As far as the bit rate is
concerned, there is a rule of thumb that you
| | 02:36 | need to follow; the higher this number
is, for instance if I type in 2500, the
| | 02:40 | higher that number is the better to
quality is but the larger the file will be.
| | 02:44 | So you might have to do some
experimenting, if a customer says to you, well, we
| | 02:47 | have to make sure that the files are
not larger than 10 megabytes, okay. Well,
| | 02:52 | you might have to do a little bit of
math and some experimenting to get it as
| | 02:54 | close to that 10 megabyte file as
possible. That's just an example, it could
| | 02:58 | happen to you.
| | 02:59 | If the sky is the limit for file size
then change this from 2500 to 4500, and
| | 03:03 | you'll get some really good quality.
But I think 2000 to 2500 is pretty good to
| | 03:08 | maintain the HD quality from the
camera that you use to shoot with.
| | 03:13 | As far as the actual physical size is
concerned, if you Mouse-Click on this you
| | 03:16 | must select or at least I am going to
say, at least strongly suggest you select
| | 03:20 | a 16:9 formula. The one that I
normally choose is this one right here,
| | 03:24 | 1640x360. That seems to work pretty good,
and a file size is generally not too large.
| | 03:30 | Now as far as Frame Rate is concerned,
if you Mouse-Click on this blue up and
| | 03:33 | down arrow button, I am going to
suggest you select 30. Now a word of caution
| | 03:37 | though. A lot of older PCs may not be
able to play this back at 30 frames a
| | 03:42 | second, but you may have to do some testing.
| | 03:45 | But after you determine that it can
or can't play then of course you can
| | 03:48 | dial-in a different Frame Rate, you
can dial-in 20 frames per second, or even
| | 03:53 | 7.5. Of course it will jump, because
it is not 30 frames per second. But you
| | 03:58 | can at least experiment and see
what that computer is capable of doing.
| | 04:01 | So for now, I am going to go with
all this, I am going to select OK. I'll
| | 04:05 | navigate to my project drive, I will
select the Project Folder, I'll type in a
| | 04:11 | name that's appropriate. I will just
call this Wedding video, and you'll see
| | 04:16 | the extension there is WMV which stands
for Windows Media Video. When I select
| | 04:21 | Save, it will export it out to that
format. I can hand that to my customer and
| | 04:25 | they are very happy that
it will playback on a PC.
| | 04:28 | Now what about the other option that
I mentioned Flash, which is extremely
| | 04:32 | popular with web designers and websites.
If I Mouse-Click on this option here,
| | 04:38 | I Mouse-Click on that and I'll select
Flash, again, you are not going to see
| | 04:41 | this option unless you purchase the plug-in.
| | 04:45 | Now you probably laugh, because I am
now talking about two items that don't
| | 04:48 | exit in Final Cut Pro. Maybe someday
they will, but for now they don't. And if
| | 04:53 | they don't, then you do need to
purchase these if you do want to export out to
| | 04:56 | these two very popular formats and FLV
Flash is an absolute popular format for
| | 05:03 | placing video on websites.
| | 05:04 | So I do want to walk through this
quickly as well. I'll select Flash Video, I
| | 05:08 | will Mouse-Click on the Options button
and before I forget this is made by a
| | 05:11 | company called On2 Technologies, it's
the number 2. So On2 Technologies. You
| | 05:18 | can do a search on the internet
for this as well. But basically, this
| | 05:22 | particular plug-in is very
straightforward. It's a plug-in design for Final Cut Pro.
| | 05:27 | And basically if I Mouse-Click on
this button, I can select all kinds of
| | 05:30 | different options here, Low Quality,
Medium Quality, High Quality, that's
| | 05:34 | really all you need to do. Mouse-
click on OK, select the destination as to
| | 05:39 | where it's going to go, type in a name,
look there is the extension .flv, and
| | 05:45 | then Mouse-Click on Save, and you can
export it out to that Flash File format
| | 05:50 | and hand that to your customer, okay.
| | 05:53 | Well, let's talk about a few others. I
am going to backup here. I am going to
| | 05:56 | go back to this Format button, I will
Mouse-Click on this and I am going to
| | 05:59 | select QuickTime Movie, good old
fashioned, QuickTime Movie, finally this is an
| | 06:02 | option that you will see,
in your Export options.
| | 06:06 | Now this option will allow you to
export out to a MOV file format. And when you
| | 06:12 | click on this Options button,
unfortunately, you got to dig a little deeper,
| | 06:15 | you have to go through at
least a few more buttons.
| | 06:17 | If you Mouse-Click on Video Settings,
make sure Video is checked and Sound is
| | 06:20 | checked if you want video and sound,
which I am going to suggest you probably
| | 06:23 | should. Anyway, you Mouse-Click on
Settings you will be ask to select a format,
| | 06:32 | okay. So if you Mouse-Click on this,
there are all kinds of formats here. Lots
| | 06:35 | and lots and lots of them. I would
probably leave it on H.264 if I were you and
| | 06:39 | select Key Frames Automatic,
and Data Rate Automatically.
| | 06:42 | H.264 is going to create a really
nice, very well file format that will
| | 06:48 | playback on any Apple computer, or at
least any Apple computer that's three
| | 06:53 | years or newer. Okay? You really
don't need to do anything else here, you
| | 06:58 | Mouse-Click on OK and I do recommend
you click on the Size button though, and
| | 07:03 | then decide what size you want, okay.
There are all kinds here. You can go with
| | 07:06 | HD 1280x72, 16:9 or 720x486.
| | 07:12 | You can select Standard Definition,
actually I like this one right here,
| | 07:15 | 1280x720 that is a very good one, that
looks great on Apple computer screens,
| | 07:21 | or any computer screen that's hooked
up to an Apple computer basically. Let's
| | 07:25 | say you want to select something like
this VGA which is 640x480, if you do, if
| | 07:30 | you do, if you are select a non HD or
a non 16:9 option here, let's say you
| | 07:35 | select this one here, I suggest you
click on Preserve aspect ratio, because the
| | 07:40 | Aspect Ratio of 16:9 doesn't
natively fit in this resolution.
| | 07:43 | So this is okay. It will just especially,
if you have Letterbox selected which
| | 07:47 | I recommend you do, it will have a
black bar at the top, and a black bar at the
| | 07:50 | bottom. So once it's done, it will
actually look fine, it will just have a
| | 07:55 | Letterbox applied to it.
| | 07:56 | So then you Mouse-Click on OK. As far
as sound is concerned leave it at 44.1
| | 08:01 | kilohertz, if it doesn't say 44.1
Mouse-Click on Settings and select 44.1 by
| | 08:06 | clicking on this up and down arrow, and
select 44.1, select OK. You don't need
| | 08:10 | to change anything else. Other than
that, if you feel like it, you want to
| | 08:13 | Prepare for internet streaming, Fast
Start, check that and select OK, give it a
| | 08:18 | name, and you will see the .mov
extension, and then select Save.
| | 08:22 | One other quick bit of information I
want to pass your way, if you Mouse-Click
| | 08:26 | on this button, one more time you
will see that there is an iPhone option;
| | 08:30 | there are two actually, but that is
also very popular for delivering to your
| | 08:35 | client as well. I can't tell you how
many brides would be more than happy to
| | 08:38 | show their wedding to all their
friends on their iPhone or their iPod or iTouch.
| | 08:44 | Okay, so with that said, I am going to
back out of this entirely. Let's talk
| | 08:47 | about what I think you are probably
more than likely going to deliver your
| | 08:50 | finish video and which is DVD. So you
really have two options that are native
| | 08:55 | to this whole training series.
| | 08:57 | You can use DVD Studio Pro which is
an entirely separate set of training
| | 09:02 | lessons, or you can use iDVD which
is also an entirely different set of
| | 09:08 | training lessons. But out of those two,
I can tell you that iDVD is a little bit easier.
| | 09:13 | So let's talk about iDVD. And it's
not that I don't want to talk about DVD
| | 09:16 | Studio Pro but we would spend another
eight hours just on DVD Studio Pro which
| | 09:19 | by the way is something I would just
you learn because DVD Studio Pro just
| | 09:24 | gives you so many more options, it's
unbelievable. It's almost like comparing
| | 09:28 | Final Cut Pro to iMovie.
| | 09:29 | There is nothing wrong with iMovie, but
Final Cut Pro blows the doors away, as
| | 09:34 | far as ease of use and capabilities,
and remember we just touch the surface. We
| | 09:40 | are scratching the surface of
capabilities of Final Cut Pro as far as the
| | 09:44 | lessons that we've covered in this
training series. Now we have covered a lot
| | 09:48 | of ground though with Final Cut Pro,
but if you do decide to go to DVD Studio
| | 09:52 | Pro, I highly recommend you do that.
| | 09:54 | Now, let's talk about iDVD which is
actually pretty easy. What if I wanted to
| | 09:58 | output this real quick to a DVD and
I want to go to iDVD? Well it's very
| | 10:03 | simple. You can navigate up to the
Word file here at the top, Mouse-Click and
| | 10:06 | select Export, QuickTime Movie. Select
the destination drive, Project Folder,
| | 10:13 | and leave everything Current Settings
as you see on my screen and make sure
| | 10:17 | Make movie self-contained is unchecked.
Then in the top here, type in Ref movie wedding.
| | 10:24 | As long as you have the word reference
in here, this is all that's really going
| | 10:29 | to happen. You are really making a
reference movie, it's a small file that
| | 10:32 | points back to your sequence within
Final Cut Pro, that's all it does. Then you
| | 10:36 | select Save and depending on the
length of you movie, my movie is just under
| | 10:40 | two minutes so the file is
going to be relatively small.
| | 10:43 | So I am going to hide Final Cut Pro by
pushing Command+H there we go, and I am
| | 10:47 | going to go into my Project drive,
into my Project Folder and there is my Ref
| | 10:52 | movie wedding. There it is. I am going
to open up iDVD, click on this, and I
| | 10:59 | just basically selected the first theme
that came up. This is the menu, but now
| | 11:04 | all I have to do is take my Ref movie
that I made, and drag it into the menu,
| | 11:09 | don't drag it into a drop zone, drag it
into the open menu area and let it go.
| | 11:13 | That is now a button, that is linked
to the sequence in Final Cut Pro that is
| | 11:20 | linked to the media on my Project drive,
and if I decide to burn this now, I
| | 11:25 | would actually burn a DVD. I mean it's
that simple, of course I want to make
| | 11:27 | some changes, I do want to type in an
appropriate name for this button like
| | 11:32 | Play a Movie, and then I would type in on
this title here, I would type in anything.
| | 11:39 | I wouldn't leave Revolution Main there,
of course I would type in maybe the
| | 11:43 | bride and groom's name or the
company's name, or whatever was appropriate of
| | 11:46 | course. And then I would go through
and drop still images or video into these
| | 11:50 | drop zones and all these menus. And
if you had a chance to go through these
| | 11:53 | menus in IDVD there are a lot of
creative once here, that require that you drop
| | 11:58 | things in drop zones like videos or stills.
| | 12:00 | So once you have done all that then I
suggest you preview your movie and burn it.
| | 12:04 | So how do you preview the movie?
You Mouse-Click on this Play button which
| | 12:07 | really allows you to preview the DVD to
get to the movie. So you Mouse-Click on
| | 12:11 | this Play button, the preview of
course appears, this is the main menu of our
| | 12:16 | DVD and there it is. Play a Movie, if
I Mouse-Click on that it will play the
| | 12:21 | movie that's linked to my sequence in
Final Cut Pro. How cool is that? There it is.
| | 12:28 | Now I am not going to make you watch
this whole thing, but that is it. If I
| | 12:31 | Mouse-Click on the Start button here
on this remote, it goes back to the main
| | 12:34 | menu. I simply Mouse-Click on the Burn
button here. Now I haven't finished this
| | 12:39 | entire DVD so this is a warning that's
telling me, hey, you haven't finished
| | 12:41 | everything, be careful.
| | 12:43 | But of course, I would go back and
finish everything, I would stuff in the drop
| | 12:46 | zone and this and that. But then I
would hit Continue burning and when I do
| | 12:51 | that, it's going to ask me to place a
blank DVD into my computer system, there
| | 12:55 | it is, so it can burn a DVD, and it
does the encoding for me and it creates the
| | 12:59 | disc and once the burning is complete,
the disc will eject and I can then
| | 13:04 | deliver that to my customer.
| | 13:07 | Well we have cover lot of grounds in
this lesson, I am going to go back into
| | 13:10 | Final Cut Pro by pushing Command+Tab
on my keyboard. So congratulations, you
| | 13:14 | have come to the end of this training
series. We have covered a lot of ground
| | 13:17 | and I would suggest that you go back
and watch some of the lessons to practice,
| | 13:22 | and the more you practice
the better you will get.
| | 13:23 | And I do plan on coming out with an
intermediate, and advanced training for
| | 13:29 | footage that is generated from any
Canon camera that can create HD video. So
| | 13:34 | happy editing, and I appreciate
you watching this training series.
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