You're reading from Final Cut Pro Efficient Editing A step-by-step guide to smart video editing with FCP 10.6

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839213243

Length 796 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

FINAL CUT PRO

Concepts

Video Editing

Author (1):

Iain Anderson

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Importing and Organizing

2. Chapter 1: Quick Start: An Introduction to FCP FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Before the Edit: Production Tips

4. Chapter 3: Bring It In: Importing Your Footage

5. Chapter 4: Sort It Out: reviewing and keywording

6. Chapter 5: Choose Your Favorites: Selecting, Rating, and Searching

7. Section 2: Rough Cut to Fine Cut

8. Chapter 6: Build the spine of the story: Quick Assembly

9. Chapter 7: Cover It Up: Connections, Cutaways, and Storylines

10. Chapter 8: Neaten the Edges: Trimming Techniques

11. Chapter 9: Consider Your Options: Multicam, Replacing, and Auditions

12. Chapter 10: Explore a Little: Compound Clips and Timeline Tricks

13. Section 3: Finishing and Exporting

14. Chapter 11: Play with Light: Color Correction and Grading

15. Chapter 12: Refine and Smooth: Video Properties and Effects

16. Chapter 13: Blend and Warp: Video Transitions and Retiming

17. Chapter 14: Boost the Signal: Audio Sweetening

18. Chapter 15: A Few Words: Titles and Generators

19. Chapter 16: You're Done: Exporting Your Edit and Finishing Up

Adjusting video properties

In this section, you'll find out how to control how a clip is presented, by adjusting its blend mode, position, scale, cropping, and corner positions. You'll discover various ways to change these video properties in the Video tab of the Inspector, and in the Viewer directly. Video properties will allow you to zoom in or crop to a particular part of the frame, to shrink a clip down for a picture-in-picture effect, or to let one clip visually interact with the clips below it:

Figure 12.1: The Video tab in the Inspector has many options

There are many reasons to tweak how a clip looks in this way, and you'll find these controls straightforward.

After the previous chapter, Chapter 11, Play with Light: Color Correction and Grading, you're probably used to ⌥-clicking, and the same rules apply here: