Final Cut Pro X - In Just 1 Hour
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“Great Course, It got me from knowing very little to a lot. Totally would recommend it if you are interested in knowing the fundamentals of FCP and lots of tips” (John)
“This class is well worth the money! I have learned and advanced my Final Cut Pro abilities well past the beginner level” (Gregory)
“ottima quello che mi serviva per iniziare” – “Excellent, what I needed to get started” (Paolo)
What’s the course about?
One hour – One goal – Making you a competent video editor with Final Cut Pro. In just one hour, we will take you on a journey from showing you the basics of Final Cut Pro all the way through to applying some professional-level effects that will transform your videos.
Why this course?
Professional – Powerful – Precise
Professional – Your instructors, have some of the highest-rated courses on Udemy. The reason for this is that we combine years of experience in using Final Cut Pro with the highest qualification possible in online teaching – a PhD in Education Technology.
Powerful – We don’t just show you, we guide you in your learning. Using the included Final Cut Pro asset bundle you are able to follow along and create your own amazing videos.
Precise – We have taken our highly-rated long courses and condensed them into this to-the-point, quick-starting, precise course on video editing.
What kind of materials are included?
The course includes everything you need. The lectures are professionally created, as people have come to expect from our courses. We will explain everything to you and give you access to our special Final Cut Pro Asset Bundle. This doesn’t only include content you can use to follow along, it has additional bonus content you can use in making your own videos.
How long will the course take to complete?
One hour, of course! Well, let’s be realistic now. The course is one hour in duration, however, we have included many exercises where we encourage you to copy what we are doing. And so, it is likely to take you longer as you try things for yourself….but it will feel like one hour you will be enjoying it so much!
Why take this course?
It is quite simply the best short course on Final Cut Pro, covering the key content, in the most engaging way, presented by a most unique teaching team!
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WelcomeWelcome to your course orientation...let's get comfortable.
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Exploring the Interface
A look around Final Cut Pro's interface just to make you feel at home
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Making sense of Libraries, Events, and Projects
By the end of this lesson, you will understand the difference between and reason for Final Cut Pro's Libraries, Events, and Projects, plus how this will make you more efficient.
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Creating your Libraries, Events, and Projects
The first thing to do in setting up your workspace is to create your library, events, and projects. In this lesson, you will learn how to do this, plus what not to do.
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Getting your Assets Bundle
Good news - We are giving you a special Assets Bundle so you can follow along with us plus access additional content you can use in your videos.
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Instructions to Download Media
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Importing your media
Let's look at how the easiest and most efficient way to add media to your project.
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Adding media to your timeline
After importing your media, the next step is to move your selected media to your timeline. Here you will learn how to easily do this and some tricks too, like moving just part of a clip to your timeline.
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The Simple Six-Step Workflow
Discover a simple six-step workflow that will guide all your projects
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Setting up your first draft
Using a drag-and-drop approach, you will start building your first draft project
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Select & Trim Tools
There are many powerful editing tools, and in this lesson, we will look at two of them - the select tool and the trim tool and how you can use them in getting your first draft ready
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Position & Range Tools
Two more powerful tools to help you create your first draft are the position and range tools...plus a reminder about the most forgiving (and important) tool of all.
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Zoom & Hand Tools
Two more tools that will make your life a lot easier when setting up your first draft are the zoom and hand tools. Discover how to use these to make working on your timeline easier.
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Adding Transitions
Learning how and when to use transitions is important to produce professional-looking videos. By the end of this lesson, you will have learned how to do this.
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Making your Transitions subtle
Learn how to make your transitions subtle to make your video more professional
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Understanding Storylines
The power of storylines and how you can use them to be more efficient and create a more captivating video
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Time-saving Tools
We all want to save time and be efficient, and thankfully Final Cut Pro has some great tools that will help you. In this lesson, we will look at some of these tools.
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Special Effects
Your imagination is the only limit on what you can do with Final Cut Pro. In this lesson, we will unleash your imagination by looking at special effect tools.
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Transform Tool power
The Transform tool allows you to do some amazing things to your clips. Let's see what is possible.
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Transform Tool (extra) power
The transform tool is extremely powerful, so let’s see how we can utilise its potential.
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Retiming Clips
Not only will this tool save time, but it will also let you change time. It's a real winner!
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Titles & Text
Besides your video media, you can use Titles and Text also to enhance your story. We will learn how to do this in this lesson.
