Document Outline

• Contents
• Chapter 1:  What’s new in Final Cut Pro?
  • What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.1.2?
  • What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.1?
  • What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.0.6?
  • What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.0.3?
  • What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.0.1?
• Chapter 2:  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
• Chapter 3:  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
• Chapter 4:  Analyze media
  • Analyzing media overview
  • Video and still-image analysis options
  • Audio analysis options
  • Analyze your media
  • View analysis keywords on clips
• Chapter 5:  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, split, and sort 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
    • Colored lines marking event clips
  • 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
• Chapter 6:  Play back and skim media
  • Playback and skimming overview
  • Play back media
  • Skim 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
• Chapter 7:  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
• Chapter 8:  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 voiceovers and other 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
    • Match audio equalization settings
    • Preserve pitch when retiming clips
• Chapter 9:  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
    • Apply preset text styles
    • 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
• Chapter 10:  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 segments
    • 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
• Chapter 11:  Keying and compositing
  • Keying
    • Keying overview
    • Use chroma keys
    • Use luma keys
    • Finalize the key
  • Compositing
    • Compositing overview
    • Use alpha channels
    • Use Compositing settings
• Chapter 12:  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 log processing on or off
  • Measure video levels
    • Video scopes overview
    • Use the video scopes
    • Waveform Monitor display options
    • Vectorscope display options
    • Histogram display options
• Chapter 13:  Share your project
  • Sharing projects overview
  • Share projects, clips, and ranges
  • Supported export formats
  • Create and modify share destinations
  • Modify share attributes
  • Share roles as files
  • Export your project using Compressor
  • View the status of shared projects
• Chapter 14:  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
    • Manage optimized and proxy media files
    • Manage render files
    • View background tasks
  • Manage libraries
    • Managing libraries overview
    • Create a new library
    • Open and close libraries
    • Copy or move items between libraries and hard disks
    • Manage storage locations
  • Create and manage camera archives
  • Solutions to common media management issues
    • Alert icons
    • Common media management issues
• Chapter 15:  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 metadata
    • Display and change clip metadata
    • Modify metadata views
    • Batch rename clips
• Chapter 16:  Keyboard shortcuts and gestures
  • Keyboard shortcuts and Multi-Touch gestures overview
  • Keyboard shortcuts
  • Multi-Touch gestures
  • Customize keyboard shortcuts
    • View keyboard shortcuts in the Command Editor
    • Modify keyboard shortcuts in the Command Editor
    • Export and import command sets in the Command Editor
• Glossary