After you have your interview selects in the timeline in Final Cut Pro X, you can now enhance it with adding B-roll. How do you find the best B-roll shots for your project in Final Cut Pro X? In this video, author Nick Harauz walks you through how to make your project pop by adding B-roll to it.
- To enhance our project, let's start to select…some B-roll footage and place that on top…and in between our interview clips.…If you're just starting to follow along right now,…what you can see is there's an addition…for a Chapter 2 folder, and inside that Chapter 2 folder…is a 2.3 keyword collection.…Otherwise, you can follow along with the project…that you restructured from the last movie.…Keep in mind we're going to continue to populate…keyword collections as we go along through this project…and make changes.…Okay, here I am in the project.…I've rearranged it as I saw fit in terms…of the interview clips,…and now I want to start to place some B-roll.…
Let's take a look at the first clip in our project.…I'm going to play that back.…A quick way to get to the beginning of our project…is to hit function, left arrow.…That's on my Mac laptop.…If you hit the Home key on an extended keyboard,…you'll go to the beginning of the project.…Now I'm going to hit the spacebar to play back the first clip.…- A World of Stories is a series of three cross-cultural…
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- Organizing project assets and creating libraries
- Using Keyword Collections and Smart Collections
- Creating a storyboard edit from favorites
- Making placeholders for graphics
- Adding to-do markers to make notes
- Using the Timeline Index
- Refining with the Trim tool
- Adding motion effects, fades, and transitions
- Applying color looks to compound clips
- Animating graphics and lower thirds
- Fixing sound problems
- Creating split edits
- Maximizing keywords for export
- Exporting a video to YouTube or Vimeo
Skill Level Intermediate
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Introduction
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Welcome42s
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1. Knowing and Organizing Your Footage
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Importing your files6m 17s
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2. Assembling the Rough Cut
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3. Refining the Cut
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4. Adding Titles and Effects
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Applying motion effects6m 47s
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Adjusting clip speed3m 36s
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5. Fine-Tuning Audio
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Creating split edits5m 37s
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6. Exporting Your Video
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Conclusion
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Goodbye36s
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Video: Enhancing the scene with additional B-roll: Part 1