Final Cut Pro Guidance

Final Cut Pro BEFORE OPENING FINAL CUT • Connect camera and turn onto VCR function if you are logging and capturing OPEN FINAL CUT • To save the project select ‘File – Save As’ CAPURING • To begin capturing select ‘File – Log and Capture’ • ‘VTR ok’ at the bottom of the capture window shows that the camera can be controlled via the computer • To capture a single clip, play DV tape and click on ‘Now’ in the log and capture window • Press escape to stop capture and your clip will appear in the browser as an icon • Click once on clip title in the browser to rename it Or To begin logging multiple clips select ‘File – Log and Capture’ • Play DV tape and mark in by pressing ‘I’ on the keyboard at the start • of each clip and mark out at the end by pressing ‘o’ Log each clip by clicking ‘Log Clip’ after marking out • When all clips are logged click ‘Batch Capture’ • VIEWER • Watch, mark and manipulate clips from the browser CANVAS • View sequences from the timeline TIMELINE • Drag clips into the timeline for editing. • Another way to add clips to the timeline is to drag them from the viewer to the canvas. The clip will be added at the edit line. TRANSITIONS • To select a transition click the ‘Effects’ tab in the browser once, then click on folder ‘Video Transitions’ once to open the list of transitions. • Choose the type of transition required i.e. dissolve, zoom, wipe etc then drag the selected transition into the timeline and place at the point where the edit is to occur (between two clips or at the beginning or end of a clip.) TITLES • Basic text titles can be created by clicking the ‘Effects’ tab and clicking ‘text’ in ‘Video Generators’ folder. • In the viewer, use the ‘Controls’ tab to alter text

Final Cut Pro Guidance

by rikhudson on Mar 17, 2009

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