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Edit Well: Final Cut Studio Techniques from the Pros
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Edit Well: Final Cut Studio Techniques from the Pros

by Larry Jordan
December 2008
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
7h 57m
English
Peachpit Press
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Part 1. Final Cut Pro Editing

At its heart, Final Cut Pro is a video editor. More specifically, it is a QuickTime movie editor. Even though Final Cut Pro has more bells and whistles than a steam calliope, the reason that hundreds of thousands of editors turn to it every day is because they want to edit their video.

So that seems like a good place to start for us as well.

There is a flow—a process—to editing. It starts with planning what you want to do, followed by editing the story, adding transitions and effects, sweetening the audio, correcting the color, and producing the output. When you’re in the thick of a project, it’s easy to get distracted and waste time. Keeping these steps in mind allows you to focus on the task at hand.

To this end, the ...

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