Final Cut Pro 7 level 1 beginner class

Final Cut Pro 7 level 1 beginner class
Course Description:

This course teaches students to perform basic editing functions while becoming familiar with the Final Cut Pro user interface. Start with basic video editing techniques and work all the way through Final Cut Pro's powerful advanced features. Learn to mark and edit clips, mix sound, add titles, create transitions, apply filters, and more. Topics include basic setup, customizing preferences and settings, capturing video and audio, various editing and trimming techniques, Ripple, Roll, Slip, and Slide tools, audio editing and audio creation, finishing and final output.

Course Topics:

• Working with the Browser and Bins
• Marking clips and using Insert and Overwrite edits
• Drag-and-drop editing
• Marking and deleting clips in the Timeline
• Trimming Edit points
• Using Ripple, Roll and Extend edits
• Using the Slip and Slide tools
• Audio editing and audio creation
• Finishing and final output

Final Cut Pro 7 level 1 beginner class
Course Details:

Lesson 1: Screening and Marking in the Final Cut Pro Interface

• Launching Final Cut Pro
• Final Cut Pro Interface
• Following a Workflow
• Working with Projects
• Organizing Elements
• Playing Clips in the Viewer
• Navigating Clips
• Project Tasks
• Navigating a Sequence
• Marking Clips
• Quitting and Hiding Final Cut Pro

Lesson 2: Editing Clips in the Timeline Managing Project Elements

• Editing a Rough Cut
• Making Overwrite Edits
• Managing Timeline Tracks
• Making Insert Edits
• Adding Audio Clips
• Moving Clips in the Timeline
• Drag-and-Drop Editing
• Editing Complex Scenes
• Changing Volume of Edited Clips

Lesson 3: Finishing the Rough Cut Adding Cutaways

• Editing to Narration
• Editing to Music
• Copying
• Cutting
• Pasting and Positioning Clips

Lesson 4: Trimming to Refine Clip Duration Preparing a Project for Trimming

• Trimming Overview
• Rippling Edit Points
• Rippling in the Viewer and by Numbers
• Trimming on the V2 Track
• Trimming One Track of a Linked Clip

Lesson 5: Trimming to Refine a Sequence

• Preparing Your Sequence
• Adjusting Two Edit Points
• Slipping One Clip
• Slipping Sequence Clips
• Rolling Two Edit Points
• Sliding Clips to Refine Position
• Dragging Clips to New Locations
• Keeping Linked Clips in Sync

Lesson 6: Refining the Edit Process

• Creating Subclips
• Adding Markers to Clips
• Storyboard Editing
• Replacing Edits
• Editing Multicamera

Lesson 7: Supporting the Editing Process

• Reconnecting Media
• Playing Multiple Formats
• Working with Master Clips
• Logging Information in Browser Columns
• Finding and Labeling Project Items
• Customizing Shortcut Keys and Buttons
• Saving and Loading Layouts
• Optimizing User Preferences

Lesson 8: Capturing Footage

• Connecting Sources for Capture
• Creating a New Project for Capturing
• Previewing and Marking Your Source
• Logging Clips
• Choosing Clip Settings
• Choosing Capture Settings
• Choosing Capturing Options
• Setting Capture Preferences
• Acquiring Other Media

Lesson 9: Applying Transitions

• Evaluating Project Needs
• Understanding Transitions
• Viewing Transition Options
• Applying Transitions
• Modifying and Copying Transitions
• Using the Transition Editor
• Changing Transition Parameters
• Previewing and Rendering Effects

Lesson 10: Mixing Audio Tracks

• Preparing the Project
• Organizing and Editing Audio Tracks
• Monitoring and Adjusting Audio Levels
• Applying Transitions to Fade Volume
• Setting Keyframes to Change Volume
• Using the Audio Mixer
• Recording a Narration Track
• Importing CD Tracks

Lesson 11: Creating Titles

• Working with Video Generators
• Adding a Lower Third
• Applying a Boris Title
• Creating a Credit Roll
• Adding Mattes and Other Generated Items
• Building a Composite Opening Title
• Using Master Templates
• Working with Graphics

Lesson 12: Changing Motion Properties

• Changing Speed Properties
• Creating a Freeze-Frame
• Changing Clip Size and Position
• Building a Split Screen
• Animating Motion Parameters

Lesson 13: Applying Filters

• Applying and Viewing Filters
• Viewing and Modifying Filter Parameters
• Applying Audio Filters
• Using a Color Correction Filter
• Animating Filters

Lesson 14: Finishing and Outputting

• Detecting Audio Peaks
• Adjusting Video Levels for Broadcast
• Understanding File Formats
• Exporting QuickTime Files
• Outputting to Tape
• Backing up Projects

Our outlines are a guide to the content covered on a typical class. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular class.

Final Cut Pro 7 level 2 advanced class

Final Cut Pro 7 level 2 advanced class
Course Description:

This class is designed for those who have mastered basic editing skills and want to get more out of Final Cut Pro. This class focuses on effects and graphics, as well as some advanced editing techniques. This is not an editing class, but a class designed to get you past editing and using many of Final Cut Pro's more advanced effects. In particular, working with keyframes for motion and filter effects is emphasized. Students also work with lots of layered sequences, create motion and filter favorites, and get a better understanding of layering and composting with Final Cut Pro.

Final Cut Pro 5 level 2 advanced class
Course Details:

Motion Tab

• Understanding how Final Cut Pro tracks clip location
• Positioning clips using direct numeric entry
• Using Basic Motion attributes to modify a clip
• Resetting Motion parameters

Animating and Keyframes

• Creating Keyframes in the Viewer window
• Moving a clip using Center keyframes
• Navigating in the Viewer window while creating and modifying Keyframes
• Using Image+Wireframe mode to create Keyframes

Keyframe Interpolation

• Understanding Spatial and Temporal Interpolation
• Linear and Bezier animation curves
• Modifying Spatial Interpolation of motion paths
• Adding Ease In and Ease Out to animations
• Smoothing Animation Curves

Other Motion Tab Attributes

• Cropping clips using the Motion Tab and the Crop tool
• Scale, Rotation, and Anchor Point
• Understanding Motion Blur
• Adding Drop Shadows

Favorites

• Creating Motion Favorites from existing animations
• Applying Motion Favorites
• Organizing Favorites

Clip Playback Speed

• Creating Slow Motion effects
• Using Frame Blending
• Ripple and Non-Ripple clip speed changes
• Creating and using Still Frames
• Using the De-Interlace filter

Filters

• Applying filters
• Modifying filter parameters
• Animating filters
• Using filters to create transitions

Color Correction

• Understanding the Waveform Monitor and Vectorscope
• Using the Three-Way Color Corrector filter
• Using the Frame Viewer to perform Scene-to-Scene color matching
• Understanding Broadcast Safe
• Using the Broadcast Safe filter
• Enabling Range Check

Nesting Sequences

• Understanding Nested Sequences
• Applying a Timecode Generator to a nested sequence
• Using nested sequences to create specific output looks
• Editing a nested sequence
• Layered Photoshop files as nested sequences

Multi-Camera Editing

• Understanding Multicam editing
• Creating a Multi-Clip
• Setting Audio and Video for editing
• Switching angles interactively during playback
• Timeline switching

Trim-Edit Window

• Understanding the Trim Edit window
• Performing Ripple and Roll edits using the Trim Edit window
• Keyboard shortcuts for the Trim Edit window

Our outlines are a guide to the content covered on a typical class. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular class.