Final Cut Pro basics

• What is Final Cut Pro?
• What are libraries?
• Final Cut Pro workflow overview
• Final Cut Pro interface overview
• Media files and clips

Import media

• Importing overview
• If it’s your first import
• Import from connected cameras
• Import from file-based cameras
• Import spanned clips
• Import from iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
• Import from a digital still camera
• Import from tape-based cameras
• If your camera or device isn’t recognized
• Import from other applications
• Import from iMovie
• Import from iPhoto and Aperture
• Import from iTunes
• Import from Motion
• Import from devices
• Import from a hard disk
• Access media on an archive or disk image
• Organize files while importing
• Import while recording
• About memory cards and cables
• Supported media formats
• Import and adjust REDCODE RAW video files

Analyze media

• Analyzing media overview
• Video and still-image analysis options
• Audio analysis options
• Analyze your media
• View analysis keywords on clips

Organize your library

• Organizing libraries overview
• Organize your projects, events, and media
• Create a new event
• Rename clips, events, and projects
• View and sort clips and projects
• Merge or split events
• Copy or move clips and projects between events in the same library
• Duplicate projects and clips
• Delete clips, events, and projects
• Organize clips
• Rate clips as Favorite or Rejected
• Add keywords to clips
• Add or edit clip and project notes
• Organize clips by roles
• Find items using search, keywords, and Smart Collections
• Find clips and projects in events
• Save searches as Smart Collections
• Organize Keyword and Smart Collections
• Restore a library from automatic backups

Play back and skim media

• Playback and skimming overview
• Play back media
• Sims media
• Play back and skim media in the Event Viewer
• View playback on a second display
• View playback on an external video monitor
• Control playback quality and performance
• About background rendering

Edit your project

• Editing overview
• Create and manage projects
• Create a new project
• Open an existing project
• Modify a project’s settings
• Save, back up, and make versions of your projects
• Select clips and ranges
• About selections and filmstrips
• Select one or more clips
• Select a range
• Manage multiple range selections in event clips
• Add and remove clips
• Adding clips overview
• Drag clips to the Timeline
• Append clips to your project
• Insert clips in your project
• Connect clips to add cutaway shots, titles, and synchronized sound effects
• Overwrite parts of your project
• Replace a clip in your project with another clip
• Add and edit still images
• Create freeze frames
• Add clips using video-only or audio-only mode
• Remove clips from your project
• Solo, disable, and enable clips
• Find a Timeline clip’s source clip
• Arrange clips in the Timeline
• Cut and trim clips
• Trimming overview
• Cut clips with the Blade tool
• Extend or shorten a clip
• Make roll edits with the Trim tool
• Make slip edits with the Trim tool
• Make slide edits with the Trim tool
• Show detailed trimming feedback
• View and navigate
• Zoom and scroll in the Timeline
• Adjust Timeline settings
• Navigate within your project
• Navigate using timecode
• Use the Timeline Index to view, navigate, and search your project
• Work with markers
• Markers overview
• Add and remove markers
• Edit, move, and navigate to markers
• Manage chapter markers and their thumbnail images
• Correct excessive shake and rolling shutter issues

Edit audio

• Audio overview
• Audio editing basics
• About audio waveforms
• About audio channels and audio components
• Ways to view audio clips
• View audio waveforms at the audio sample level
• View and correct audio levels
• Solo and mute audio clips
• Add audio
• Add music and sound
• Record audio
• Edit audio clips or audio components
• Audio editing overview
• Configure audio channels
• Adjust volume
• Fade audio in or out
• Pan audio
• Multichannel audio editing examples
• Use roles to organize clips and export audio files
• Add and adjust audio effects
• Add audio effects
• Adjust audio effects
• Adjust audio effects using keyframes
• Audio tools and techniques
• Enhance audio
• Sync audio and video automatically
• Match audio equalization settings
• Preserve pitch when retiming clips

Add transitions, titles, effects, and generators

• Transitions, titles, effects, and generators overview
• Add and adjust transitions
• Transitions overview
• How transitions are created
• Set transition defaults
• Add transitions to your project
• Delete transitions from your project
• Adjust transitions in the Timeline
• Adjust transitions in the Transition inspector and Viewer
• Adjust transitions with multiple images
• Create specialized versions of transitions in Motion
• Add and adjust titles
• Titles overview
• Add titles to your project
• Adjust titles
• Remove titles from your project
• Find and replace text in your project
• Adjust built-in effects
• Built-in effects overview
• Resize, move, and rotate clips
• Trim clips
• Crop clips
• Pan and zoom clips with the Ken Burns effect
• Skew a clip’s perspective
• Work with built-in effects
• Add and adjust clip effects
• Clip effects overview
• Add effects to your project
• Adjust effects in Final Cut Pro
• Change clip effect order
• Copy effects and attributes between clips
• Copy and paste keyframes
• Turn off or remove an effect from a clip
• Create specialized versions of the video effects in Motion
• Add generators
• Generators overview
• Use a placeholder
• Use a timecode counter
• Use a shape
• Use a background
• Create specialized versions of the generators in Motion
• About themes
• Use onscreen controls
• Onscreen controls overview
• Show or hide onscreen controls
• Onscreen control examples
• Use the Video Animation Editor
• Video animation overview
• Adjust video effects using keyframes
• Modify groups of keyframes
• Adjust effect curves using fade handles or keyframe animation

Advanced editing

• Group clips with compound clips
• Compound clips overview
• Create and break apart compound clips
• Manage compound clips
• Add storylines
• Fine-tune edits with the Precision Editor
• Create split edits
• Make three-point edits
• Three-point editing overview
• Three-point edit examples
• Try out clips using auditions
• Auditions overview
• Create auditions to try out clips
• Add and remove clips in auditions
• Use auditions to try out clips in your project
• Retime clips to create speed effects
• Retiming clips overview
• Change clip speed
• Create variable speed effects
• Add transitions between speed segment
• Reverse or rewind clips
• Create instant replays
• Create jump cuts at specified frames
• Create a hold segment
• Reset retimed clips to play at normal speeds
• Conform frame sizes and frame rates
• Use roles to manage clips
• Roles overview
• View and reassign roles
• Create custom roles and subroles
• View clips by role in the Timeline
• Use roles to export media stems
• Use XML to transfer projects and events
• Edit with multicam clips
• Multicam editing overview
• Multicam editing workflow
• Import media for a multicam edit
• Assign camera names and multicam angles
• Create multicam clips in the Browser
• Cut and switch angles in the Angle Viewer
• Sync and adjust angles and clips in the Angle Editor
• Edit multicam clips in the Timeline and the Inspector
• Multicam editing tips and tricks

Keying and compositing

• Keying
• Keying overview
• Use chroma keys
• Use luma keys
• Finalize the key
• Compositing
• Compositing overview
• Use alpha channels
• Use Compositing settings
• Choose a blend mode

Color correction

• Color correction overview
• Analyze and balance color automatically
• Color balance overview
• Analyze a clip for color balance
• Balance a clip’s colors
• Match color between clips automatically
• Adjust color manually
• Manual color correction overview
• Color correct the whole image
• Target a specific color using a color mask
• Target specific areas using shape masks
• Add shape masks to a color mask
• Apply multiple color corrections
• Add a transition between color corrections
• Save and apply color correction presets
• Turn iMovie adjustments on or off
• Turn ARRI Log C processing on or off
• Measure video levels
• Video scopes overview
• Use the video scopes
• Waveform Monitor display options
• Vector scope display options
• Histogram display options

Share your project

• Sharing projects overview
• Share projects, clips, and ranges
• Modify share attributes
• Export your project using Compressor
• View the status of shared projects

Manage media, libraries, and archives

• Media management overview
• Update your projects and events to Final Cut Pro 10.1
• Manage your media files
• View a clip’s information
• Locate source media files
• Relink clips to media files
• Consolidate projects, events, and libraries
• Back up projects, events, and libraries
• Transcode media files
• View background tasks
• Delete render files to free up disk space
• Manage multiple libraries
• Multiple libraries overview
• Create a new library
• Open and close libraries
• Copy or move items between libraries and hard disks
• Create and manage camera archives
• Solutions to common media management issues
• Alert icons
• Common media management issues

Preferences and metadata

• Preferences and metadata overview
• Final Cut Pro preferences
• Change preference settings
• General preferences
• Editing preferences
• Playback preferences
• Import preferences
• Destinations preferences
• Work with destinations
• Work with metadata
• Display and change clip metadata
• Modify metadata views
• Batch rename clips

LIVE TYPE

• Creating Title animation
• Creating Title graphics
• Work with live type

PROJECT

• A movie trailer
• Title work
• Textile Ad