File organization is one of the most looked after skills for any video editor and it starts at the system level. Learn some ways that you can organize clips and assets on your Mac OS before bringing them into FCPX.
- [Instructor] At some point … during your video editing journey, … you're going to need to become familiar … with the material that you're working with … and you have options to organize this material both … inside Final Cut Pro X … and on your macOS operating system. … In this movie, we're going to take a look … at all about how to keep it clean … on your OS system as well as do a few certain tasks … which are going to then be picked up by Final Cut … when we bring in certain folders … as well as tags as keyword collections. … So in order to see some … of the lesson files we're working with, … I'm going to head to the Finder … and if you have access to the lesson files, … just head to where you've saved them. … I'm on my desktop … and inside the Exercise Files 10.4.7 Essential Training, … inside the Exercise Folders, … let's take a look at certain assets … within the Chocolaster Caliperson project. … And if we head into this folder, … you'll see that this project, … which involves interviews, music, …
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8/28/2020Released
1/7/2019- Ingesting and organizing your assets
- Editing and refining footage
- Using the trim tools
- Transforming clips with fades, cropping, and more
- Changing the speed of clips
- Basic audio editing
- Multicam editing
- Working with effects, titles, and graphics
- Basic color correction
- Project and media management
- Sharing and exporting
- Integrating Apple Motion and Compressor
Skill Level Beginner
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Introduction
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What you should know5m 25s
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Relinking exercise files2m 44s
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New features in FCPX 10.4.910m 39s
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1. Getting to Know the Editing Environment
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2. Ingesting Assets
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3. Organizing Assets
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Performing searches2m 4s
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4. Basic Editing: Laying the Foundation
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Navigating and marking footage10m 43s
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Using Edit > Insert5m 49s
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Using the timeline index4m 10s
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5. Refining the Edit Using the Trim Tools
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Marking clips3m 26s
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Roll trim6m 19s
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Slip and slide trimming5m 48s
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6. Working with Speed and Transforming Clips
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Using speed presets4m 6s
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7. Basic Audio Editing
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Audio post-production basics7m 40s
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Monitoring audio4m 37s
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Fixing audio automatically4m 43s
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Syncing your audio and video3m 38s
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8. Multicam Editing and 360 Video
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Syncing a multicam clip6m 11s
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Performing a multicam edit5m 11s
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Refining a multicam edit4m 46s
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Creating a 360 project2m 56s
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Viewing 360 clips5m 39s
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Effects for 360 clips2m 13s
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9. Working with Effects
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Keyframing video over time5m 22s
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Auditioning effects3m 50s
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Creating effect presets5m 32s
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10. Working with Titles and Graphics
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Creating a title7m 14s
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Adding a lower third4m 8s
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11. Basic Color Correction
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Applying color looks3m 32s
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Adding style to your shots6m 42s
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Working with color masks5m 1s
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Working with shape masks5m 18s
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A word on HDR3m 18s
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Working with ProRes RAW2m 37s
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12. Project and Media Management
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Customizing a workspace4m 20s
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Customizing a keyboard4m 41s
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13. Sharing and Exporting
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Exporting a still image3m 54s
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Exporting a hi-res movie5m 24s
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Exporting part of a project3m 57s
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Exporting audio rolls5m 15s
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Exporting closed captions3m 41s
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Exporting an XML2m 17s
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14. Five Things to Know About Compressor
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Why use Compressor?3m 53s
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15. Five Things to Know About Motion
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The FCP X motion connection4m 11s
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Free motion content4m 30s
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Exploring motion templates3m 26s
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Exploring title behaviors6m 46s
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Conclusion
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