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Saving useful effect presets in FCP X

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Saving useful effect presets in FCP X

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- [Nick] Hi welcome to Final Cut Pro X Weekly. I'm Nick and Jeff's not here this week. We're gonna take a look at Saving Useful Effect Presets inside of Final Cut Pro X. Some of the topics we're gonna cover are, why more complex presets aren't necessarily always better. We're gonna add some useful effects into Final Cut and tweak their values and we're gonna save a custom preset into Final Cut Pro X for later use by also looking at maintaining the timing of that Keyframed animation. Let's get started. So I'm here inside of Final Cut and while you can stack, 20 to 30 different effects onto a clip and save that as a preset. That is not always the smartest way to work. Meaning I would like to ask you, what you do with the majority of your time as a video editor? If you're a video editor like me, half of the time is doing simple effects like fade-ins, and fade-outs sometimes maybe a Ken Burns move. Sometimes maybe a simple blur transition between two clips, a blur-out and a blur-in…

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