Final Cut Pro Tips 2021 | New Features

hey guys i'm rob and i'm a filmmaker videographer and youtuber and i share video tips tricks and secrets to make you better now today you're gonna learn about seven final cut pro tricks and tips that are sure to ease your workflow and in some cases blow your mind but before we get started take a quick second to give me a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel guys this is a lot of good free content i don't want you to miss it and it also helps me to keep on producing these kinds of videos for you to make you better now let's get off to a strong start with trick number one the vertical or social media crop okay here's an example of a youtube video that we just completed if you want to see it it's the last video on my channel before this one and now you want to export it to instagram but instagram is a vertical format so what do we do right click the project select duplicate as here you're gonna see where it says video scroll down to vertical click smart conform and then rename it to instagram because that's where we're gonna play it next click ok and boom there we go there's the instagram vertical timeline as you can see now it's in a vertical format and the computer did a pretty good job at centering the attention on what we needed to be on now there might be a few instances where the center of attention or face might not be in the middle of the screen so all you do is click the transform button and then you're gonna see this button up here on the right click that go to the beginning of the clip hit the keyframe button and then move the clip where you want it so it can be positioned in the middle of the vertical clip social media has become such a big part of our lives that we use it every day and now it's being integrated into final cut pro now to trick number two optical flow sometimes we forget to shoot in 120 frames per second or we have a camera that isn't able to shoot in slow motion so what do we do this is where optical flow comes into play okay so check out this video clip it's already recorded at 120 frames per second but it's not slow enough for me so what i'm gonna do is click the clip click the speed button i'm gonna slow it down to about 25 once that's done you can see it really looks good nice and smooth it's a really good looking shot what if i want to go a little slower at 10 okay now it's slower it's kind of jittery okay what if i want to go down to 5 that's really really slow it's it's getting kind of choppy now it's in slow motion but it's not that natural motion blur that we would like so what do you do click the speed button go down the video quality click optical flow the computer analyzes the clip it might take a while depending on the length of the clip but it's gonna get done now this is the result now it's not going to be as smooth and sharp as if you had done it correctly the first time by shooting in 120 or 240 but it can pass and if you don't keep it up on screen too long no one will really notice if you're enjoying this video give it a thumbs up and subscribe and if you want to see more in-depth editing videos on final cut pro tricks and tips check out this video right here you're sure to love it and it's really gonna help you all right let's get back to the tips saved presets if you aren't able to afford luts or you just don't like the way that they look on your work you can basically create your own luck or look to put on your video so that it looks the same way every time you shoot and add it to that video clip here's what i mean go over to the effects window scroll down to color presets choose one that you like and now go up to the color board and reduce the strength of the color preset until it is what you want to look like it's as simple as that when you're satisfied click save effects preset underneath the inspector window rename the preset we'll name it right and vivid choose a category to put it in we'll put it in let's see color presets because that's where everything else is right click save and now when you go over to the inspector window inside of the color presets tab your bright and vivid color preset is there and you can drop it on your video and you'll always get the same uniform look every time you use this color preset as long as you're in the same setting with the same lighting tip number four color coding your timeline now if you've ever been shooting for a big project you know how hectic it can be and sometimes in order to see exactly what's going on where the sound effect starts and where it ends and where this audio clip begins and where this video clip ends and begins you have to expand your timeline then you have to sift through all the assets on the timeline well now final cut pro has made it easy where you can color code the different assets so now you can pinpoint which assets is which now this is one of my favorite tricks or shortcuts or tips if you look at this timeline everything is one color it's blue you got the dialogue you have the music tracks all of them are the same color so let's say you want to assign some rules let's take the music track we right click that go over to assign rules and then we can change the color of the audio track what about this voice track well first you want to detach the audio right click assign audio rules and then click dialog it's already blue so let's give it another color assign all your rules edit rules and now when we go to the dialog we can click expand on this color wheel and there you go you can choose the color that you want the dialog to be click apply and now all of the dialogue on this timeline will be purple let's say you want to add in a sound effect so we grab a sound effect from the sound effects library or wherever you get your side effects place it on the timeline right click it assign audio roles edit rules and now you can go to sound effects or effects click the color wheel and select the color that you want and by the time you get done assigning all of these audio and video roles you have a beautiful looking timeline that you can pinpoint where each sound effect or video asset is without having to open up the timeline too much and then close it back to continue editing tip number five and it's kind of a helpful one it's the shift b shortcut okay here we go with the shift b shortcut or as i like to call it the double blade now let's just stack these clips up on top of each other as if we had a lot of clips in the timeline if we click just this one clip only that clip is spliced not the other two if you want to splice all the clips press b for the shortcut blade and then hold down shift and look at what happens you get a double blade hence the name double blade and now if you select all of these clips they all have been spliced and you can move them and you can click option w to create a space and add whatever you need to put in the middle of there so it's a great shortcut tip when you need to splice multiple clips that are layered on top of each other tip number six is sure to ease your headache when editing and it's expanding the space on your timeline especially when you only have one monitor okay sometimes you might be using a computer you may have a small laptop screen it may only be 11 or 12 inches and you really need as much space to see what's going on as possible now you can move these windows around but it still doesn't give you adequate space on the actual timeline because the audio meter is in the way and the effects browser is in the way so what do you do you can click the audio meter and it goes to this position underneath the viewer window now you won't be able to see the actual decibel levels but at least it'll be out of the way and you can always check it later and what you want to do is if you want to expand the timeline and have as much space as possible go up above the inspector window and double click and voila it truncates the inspector window giving you more space on the bottom of the screen to see your full timeline making your workflow that much easier it's only right that i saved this one for the last and it's batch exporting now sometimes you may have three or four projects or timelines that you have to export to make up an entire series or an episode but now final cut pro has made productivity a priority okay that's exporting sometimes you have multiple timelines that you need to export in order to complete your project so instead of exploring them one at a time click one hold down shift and then select as many as you need to right click share three projects in this instance master file and then export them to the destination folder of your choice and now all three of the timelines will be exported without you having to go over them one at a time and now you can go find something else to do in the meantime however pro tip make sure the destination folder where you're sending the videos has enough space if you like the video give it a thumbs up subscribe make sure to share this video to all your friends who you know can benefit from these kinds of tips and tricks i'm rob and i'm gonna see you in the next video

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Length: 10min 46sec (646 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 06 2021