From the course: Final Cut Pro X Weekly

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Square video

Square video

- [Jeff] Welcome to Final Cut Pro X Weekly. I'm Jeff, Nick's not here, and this week we're going to talk about square video, memes, and animated GIFs. That's right, I said it with a hard G, GIFs. We're going to create square video. We're going to talk about memes and the Impact font, and then we're going to see how we can use, with nothing other than Compressor, we're going to make animated GIFs. So, here we are inside of Final Cut Pro, and this is where we're going. Welcome to Final Cut Pro Weekly. This is Jeff, Nick's not here, man. And we're going to turn that into an animated GIF. Let's talk a moment about square video. Yeah, it offends me at every level. I also don't like vertical video but the truth is, I don't care as long as my audience sees it. Square video's advantage for Facebook, for Instagram, for Pinterest is no matter how you turn your phone or your tablet, everything is the same. It's still going to look the same proportions. And larger is generally better, up to 1024…

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