From the course: Effective Storytelling with Final Cut Pro X v10.0.9

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Putting story threads in order

Putting story threads in order - Final Cut Pro Tutorial

From the course: Effective Storytelling with Final Cut Pro X v10.0.9

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Putting story threads in order

Once you've edited your favorite clips, your pearls, into a project, it's time to string those pearls together into a rough story form with a beginning, middle, and end. Sometimes the shape of the story is clear and pops right out at you, other times you need to string and then restring the pearls in different ways to create that beautiful necklace. And for this process, you will be happy Final Cut Pro has a magnetic timeline. In the Project Library you will see that there are three projects that we are going to work with. Let's start with the Coffee project. This project contains all of the clips, the favorite portions of the clip that we edited into a single project. And screening these clips before, we know that there is a process to the coffee; there is growing the coffee, there is making it, grinding it, processing it, and then there is drinking it. So we already can anticipate a little bit of what the beginning, middle, and the end would be for this project. So let's go find the…

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