Final Cut Pro X - FULL TUTORIAL

hello everyone and welcome to the class this is david a cox with Tech Talk America comm and today we are going over Final Cut Pro for those of you who don't know Final Cut Pro has been one of my favorite pieces of software since it's been out on myself started video editing at the age of 14 years old it totally changed my life and I hope to share some of that with you some of that joy because it is incredible when you can create content and that's what this is it's an amazing tool developed by Apple and just they I love it so this class a couple of things you need to know about this class before you take this class first is that this is part one there is a part two to this class that part two will be coming out in a few months it's been fixed in time for me to work on it and part two is going to be once you kind of master the basics which is what we're going over today part two is where we get to really take things up a notch and I'm five seven so I have to jump to anyway so that's we're going to be dealing with things like special effects we're going to be dealing with plugins all sorts of the little tools that takes Final Cut Pro from a good piece of software to an amazing piece of software so I strongly recommend that you check it out no matter what kind of video you're shooting I promise you there's something for everyone in that class too this class was originally going to be a premium class meaning we were going to originally charge $10 to watch it we decided to go against that and instead what we're going to do is in between the major segments we are going to have a very quick commercial break just want you all to know that that's the reason why it's free if you prefer to download this class or have it without any commercials you can still buy it as a premium class it'll be $5 you can get it right through Tech Talk America comm it's going to be premium classes button there what things I would like to mention in my classes on this topic is the date because things can change very quickly today's date is January 24th of 2017 happy new year so if you're watching this class in all seriousness and it's more than a year and a half into the future you may want to consider seeing we've come out with another class since then finally all boats are not quite finally but almost finally one of the things we are going to do to help you all out and I strongly recommend it is we are creating a PDF guide which is free for everyone so if you go into the notes section of this video for watching us on YouTube there's a little button switch like show more info and get us it'll be in there there's going to be a link to the PDF guide and it's going to have a couple of different things that'll make this process much much easier because it is complicated software first we're going to include a list of all the most important shortcuts I've said this before you know you can go to Barnes & Noble you can buy a book on Final Cut Pro it's about this thick or you can download our PDF guide which is like three pages long so I tend to just give you what I think most people need okay it's just the most digestible like cliff notes for Final Cut Pro if you will so that will have shortcuts it's also going to give you links to a lot of the products that I recommend if you're looking to get into production work some of you may or may not know this but on the side beyond Tech Talk America I have a second brand that I developed it's kind of more than anything for fun and I shoot these short films and a lot of the equipment that I use is my iPhone and I have these little accessories that go with it they just kind of take it up a notch so a lot of that you know equipment links to all that you'll find that all in the guide as well so I hope you enjoy that so without any further ado here it is Final Cut Pro 2017 coming up next on Tech Talk america.com [Music] you our folks I think we are about ready to begin in the first place that I would like to start today has to do with just very quickly going over preferences located within Final Cut Pro so let's start there we're going to go up to where it says Final Cut Pro at the top left and go into preferences which is the second item down and really here I just want to make sure that we're all on the same page okay so there's just a couple of very quick things we're going to go over here under editing these two bottom items here still images this is just basically when you import an image into your project if you're going to do something like the Ken Burns effect how long do you want that image to be by default you can change this of course but by default what you want that to be also transitions when you're going from one shot to the next how long do you want to take it to transition if you're going to be doing something like a cross-dissolve my advice is one second here under playback okay this is really important this is one of the areas of Final Cut Pro that has dramatically changed over the years back in the day I've been editing for about 14 years now whenever you would make a little teeny tiny change you had to manually tell the computer to process that change and it just it took forever to get anything done so now what it does is it will start to render things in the background and for those of you who are already confused on terminology let me just go over this real quickly so what what is rendering rendering is processing okay it's putting together what is that image an example excuse me I just coughed in that sounded like a gas an example of this would be let's say i want to make my footage of black and white okay i could apply a filter to it and that's going to have to process it's going to have to render that another example would be if i speed up or if i slowed down my footage if i color correct it if i add transitions there's a whole bunch of different things that fall into this category but my advice is that you have it start this process as quickly as possible so you can see here i taked i waste no time 0.3 seconds FYI you cannot use these little arrows to hit that number you have to actually click into it and you can manually punch in 0.3 okay then we have the last item that I want to go over here in preferences this is really critical folks right here files there are two different ways that you can store files in Final Cut Pro you can either tell it to copy the footage the files okay to the library for the library file or you can tell to leave them in place the reason why this first option here is dangerous is because if you start this process and you end up really using the software like you really get into Final Cut Pro the problem here is that you are going to incredibly quickly bloat the size of that file is going to take up a giant portion of your hard drive and moving all of your files from like a local library to an external library it is not such an easy process so my advice is leave the files in place and create your own file structure and I'm going to show you actually how I use mine let's let's go over that real quick okay we're back on my desktop now this right here is my external hard drive now if you're really not going to be doing a lot of video editing you will find examples of the hard drives that I tend to recommend in the PDF guy that we're going to give you please note there is one brand that I tend to kind of warn people about just because they Singh have an incredibly incredibly high fail rate which are lists see the brand list see it's not the actual drive that fails it's the internal components I found I used to have a client mine had 15 of them that failed incredible I'm like why did you buy 15 of them oh well anyways so if you're looking for an external hard drive you'll find a few of the recommendations that I tend to make in the PDF guide but if you are looking to really get into this stuff okay like at the level that I'm at or more then you might want to consider going something a little bit more heavy-duty this is what I use this called the Drobo and if you would like some free consulting about AD robo provided you're willing to use my little link when you go to buy it I'm happy to do it for you you can shoot me an email DAC at Tok America com just make the subject line Drobo consultation and make sure you include your phone number email address and kind of a general idea of what your needs are and I'll do my best to get back to you as quickly as I can so what is my drive look like well I keep all of my various projects in folders located within footage Drive okay so these are examples of some of the projects that I've worked on over the years okay they're all here these are by the way some of you may be wondering what are these things I actually have a second brand that I've developed over the last couple of years called droning Provincetown and basically I fly an aerial drone I've been doing it for a couple of years now and I make these very elaborate videos of the various themed weeks where I live which is a very very tip of Cape Cod so the footage that we're going to be using today is actually from one of these so what I do is I create a folder for each individual project okay and then I go into each of that and I import all of the footage okay any photos music and I just make sure that all of that stuff is in one location okay so provided that you do something similar to that and you tell it to leave the files in place you will be all good to go that is preferences so from here what we're going to do is we're going to start to go through the process of creating a video and so the first thing we're going to do is we're going to create a library then an event and then a project and then we're going to import okay so we're going to go here to file and new we're going to create a new library and I'm just going to call this demo okay you can tell that I've actually done this a couple of times actually no I have one already opens the list let's actually open up the library instead called dummy this is not take one of this project folks so when you are within your library this over here is your library within your library you're going to have things called an event and within an event you're gonna have something called a project I'd like to go over brief terminology here just because I'm sure a few of you your heads just exploded so I'd like to put Humpty Dumpty Dumpty back together again okay what is an event an event is basically a fancy word for seeing a folder okay so let's say I am creating a movie okay an event could be Act one Scene one okay and then another another scene would would be another event the project though that this is the project okay that is the actual edit so that would be the movie itself presuming it's going to be all in one file okay so just want to go over that definition real quickly with you so we're going to create a new event we're going to go to file new event I'm going to call it winter you can ask you where is this the events going to be stored it's going to be within the library of dummy and if you want with just one check box right here which I believe by default it is set to be that you can have create a new project at the same time which makes sense now for the settings for your video you can either have it be automatic based on the first clip that you go to use or you can customize it so example with custom settings you know you can switch it you know between 4k 1080p whatever you want you can choose your frame rate just kind of a good thing to know about frame rate okay the slower the frame rate the more cinematic it's going to look the higher the frame rate the more smooth it's going to look so this is the example that I've always given over the years if you look at television okay a movie looks different than a soap opera okay so typically with a soap opera it's very very very warm it's very very flowy I don't know if that's a word but that's what I'm going to say okay so you'd think higher number better right well actually the opposite usually the prop the different projects I'm creating I do all in 24p and depending on what it is I'm working with the resolution I'll put it in this case we're dealing with 4k footage today so I'm going to leave it at 4k but the slower the frame rate the more cinematic it's going to end up looking in the end okay and for your audio just say usually keep that as automatic unless you know what you're doing and then hit OK okay so winter right here winter is the event untitled project that is the project now let's start to import our footage and there's a few different ways you can do this you can actually just drag and drop it in if you like or you can go to right here this little arrow pointed down or command I or file import really whatever you want so I have created a little folder here with some default footage one of these files here is corrupted so don't be surprised when it gives me some sort of an error window and notice over here once again just to reiterate files leave in place do not import them do not move them into the library so I thought one of those videos was corrupted I guess not so here I have my various pieces of footage that's by the way really as easy it is to import footage now if you have things like music or photos you want to bring in if the music and photos are in iTunes or photos you don't actually need to import them because you can do it right through Final Cut you don't need to go through the import process like we just did there's another way to do it okay so for example if you want to bring in something like music let's go over here to this icon right here okay this is going to switch it up and now we can access whatever photos are in these photos library whatever music is in iTunes also if you are more musically talented than I which would probably be most of you you can access GarageBand projects or sound effects okay this can take a minute for your computer to load your computer does come with a ton of sound effects believe it or not these going to actually take up a decent amount of space but if you ever need a sound effect it's worth your time to kind of go through here and just check out the list and if you want what I would recommend you do is that you sort this by genre okay so Foley Foley would be example 2 sound effect okay like bubbles but then also they have jingles let me just say something about jingles that they can be really really cheesy okay and these tend to be overused a lot so if you want your project to stand out there's an alternative that I'm going to bring up now so what I wanted to do is just take a moment to throw a recommendation your way and just kind of clarify something and please understand I'm not a lawyer okay so you proceed at this point from your at your own risk I want to talk about the legality of using music okay if you are not making money from your project whatever it is and let's say you're going to post it on something like YouTube or Facebook okay the odds of the artists coming after you for doing that which is technically not legal are very very slim okay they want to go after the big dogs if you're getting paid to make a project something like that in that case you do need rights to that particular piece of music now if you are looking for music that you can use legally for whatever project it is there is a website that I really strongly recommend I use it all the time for my various projects and I'm just going to say a very quick request all right this class you're taking for free okay you're not paying anything to take this I would greatly appreciate if you do use my link it is an affiliate link so I get a small small kickback if you do use this but that being said I would never recommend anything to you that I don't actually use myself so there's a website called audio jungle and they have tons of music that's available for a lot of the various drone projects that I have created over the years sometimes I will go through literally 800 pieces of music to find the perfect song and one of the things that I have discovered is that there's a lot more excuse the language crap out there than good stuff so there's one musician in particular and I just I've used this guy's music time after time he's really really talented um and if you would like to check him out his name is Adi goldstein and his name under audio jungle was at a gold or whatever Audie gold whatever but I'll give you a direct link in the PDF guide to his stuff and he makes music for all different genres so if you're looking to do a project and put it online and you don't want to worry about that stuff you can buy rights to that music and it's pretty damn cheap compared to what it would cost if you're going to go through like a record label the next thing we're going to be doing now is importing the footage from the event that we just created into this down here we'll go over this in a moment so we're going to click over here this little icon just so we can get back to our event and if you want what you can actually do at this point because all of our footage is in this one event you can actually click this again and just really utilize the entire screen see how it kind of hides everything there okay so what we're going to do is we're going to go through our footage and we're going to just kind of pick out the best moments and we're going to start to bring this in down here now this box right here and please forgive me I always screw up the language here okay this is this whole area is referred to as the timeline I believe and this black bar is the story line the terminology is not important in this case let me just give an example where it you know might be important you just kind of understand the difference between where you're placing footage here this black bar here okay let's say I'm doing some sort of a you know how they do like a weather report and then though you know show footage of trees falling down and hail following that kinda thing so this would be the actual reporter this would be me on camera saying things have gotten hell here in Provincetown Massachusetts it's snowing and then the clips that I place above it these would be your b-roll okay that's what they call that kind of footage so beat footage of snow falling hail whatever it may be okay anything below the storyline this is where your audio is going to go so it could be for example extracted audio from the clip itself it could be music it could be sound effects but all of your audio is going to go on down here below the border alright so let's start the process of going over and importing the footage into the actual storyline and the timeline okay so the way that I like to do this and once again there are many many ways to do it okay is I like to just kind of go through roughly and pick out my where I want the shot to approximately start where I want it to approximately end you don't have to get it dead-on because you can always correct it later and I just kind of start to assemble very very basic stuff right off that this is a horrible metaphor warning okay the way that I described the edit process would be like slaughtering the cow okay you do the initial hack right and then you start to trim it down you trim it down you trim it down you refine it and you get it to the point where it's that perfect filet mignon okay I'm sure the people at Peter you know helps you losing their crap over that but that's how I like to describe the process now you'll notice as I move my cursor over this footage okay it's giving me a preview over here and that's what this is called this is the preview window we'll go over these other windows when we get there okay so don't worry about so what I like to do is I'm going to give you a shortcut at this point okay and we're going to first talk about setting your end points and setting your out points so an end point would be the approximate moment that you want the clip to start and the out point you guessed it is where you want it to end this is where shortcuts are really really helpful so just think in and out I and oh so when you see that approximate moment where you want the clip to start like let's do let's do right there okay this is a couple weeks ago I'm going to tap on the letter I and you'll notice that when I do that so you have this little yellow box around it see how it changed right there okay so it's time to computer this is approximately where the clip is going to start now anytime I want to just play the video and see how it's looking what I can do is I can tap on the spacebar and you see this so this is the little red line that's kind of following along okay that that is basically the playhead and the play this is actually the playhead here okay but this is as I move through I can skim through the footage and see what it looks like at different moments in time okay so let me just kind of hit play and see approximately where this shot up going to end and when I do want it to end I'm going to tap the okie alright so we're playing we're going up okay by the way if you would like to see the how this video actually looks when it's done I'll put a link to that as well in the in the description of the video and the PDF guide so that looks like a good moment for where this clip can and so I'm going to tap the okie and you can see right there now that yellow box is right there now what we're going to do is we're going to bring it from here down to here and there's a couple of different ways you can do it you can drag it and drop it if you like to do that absolutely go for it drag it and drop it but I would like to give you my favorite shortcut key to do this which is the letter e now what the letter e is going to do is it's going to put it at the end of the project okay so I just tapped it there and there it is so as I go through here let's find a few other little shop here okay so let's do there's a shot here where I move forward right here so I'm going to hit my I key just set the end point we're going to play by tapping the spacebar that PDF guide is going to be really helpful for these shortcuts I promise you okay that looks nice and pretty I'm going to pause by tapping the spacebar again hit the O key set another out point and once again hit the letter e and that puts it at the end of the project so currently this goes from this shot if I play it and it's just going to cut okay it's going to go from that shot cut we have that shot there too okay by the way a lot of the shortcut keys I'm going to give you today also work in iMovie not all of them but the quite a few of them do now there are a couple of other ways that you can import footage into your timeline storylines whatever okay so I want to go over those real quickly there are total of four different keys that you can use I'm just going to tell you upfront so that you don't freak out e is usually what I end up doing okay but I just feel like it's important to go over the others okay the next one we're going to talk about real quickly I'm just going to move the playhead at this moment I'm going to move it in between these two shots okay the next one we're going to be talking about is Q and technically Q means connect to primary storyline so let me just find an example here okay let's do let's do let's see we got a shot which is kind of a long shot just here through town so I'm gonna hit the I key play and when we're done we're going to tap oh okay and now queue so you can see what that does so what this has done is it is essentially added this shot as b-roll that's that's the equivalent of what it's doing so it's just going to put it above this clip here now you'll notice anytime you have something above a clip this clip is not going to get seen okay it's the same thing as basically cutting it but when you're editing you don't have to be necessarily clean with your edit doesn't have to be one perfect line here okay can look as messy as you want many of my projects are will look to the naked eyes being very very messy but it just means that I'm not using this shot at this time so that's what queue does okay let me just delete it so I can show you the with that same shot let me show you what the other options are here okay the next one is W and what W is going to do is it's going to insert it where the playhead is okay to watch this so you can see what it did is this this used to be one clip these two shots were one clip and because the playhead was in the middle it cut it is essentially created a splice okay so that now that clip is in between those two shots I don't find that person to be that helpful that's why I don't ever use it and then we have D so D is going to is a little d NW are very very similar okay but what D is going to do is it's going to override this footage all together okay so watch this when I hit D I'm sorry I put my playhead here D so see it didn't create any splice it just wrote over it that's what that does so that those are your key commands that you need to know just as far as bringing footage into your project this is officially going to be probably the shortest segment ever in any of my classes just really important to go over if you make a mistake you will you need to know how to go back in time undo is command Z as it is with virtually almost every single app on the Mac and to go forward in time like let's say I go back a few changes oops I need to go forward okay command shift be is redo and the more times you tap it the more steps you'll go forward in time what I'm going to do at this point I'm going to just very quickly throw together a few more shots so we have a little bit more to work with here and then we'll go over more of the principles of basic editing so now you can see I've just kind of thrown together a couple of extra Clips here so we have a little bit more to work with and I want to go over a few other principles of editing first one I want to talk about is how to trim clips and there are once again a couple of different ways to do this now what I'm going to do is I'm going to zoom into my project here it's hard to kind of describe this to you so I'm going to do the best I can I'm using a laptop right now a lot of you at home probably are as well or maybe up the Magic Trackpad so to zoom into your project what you're going to do is you're going to do the same thing you do on Safari okay you start two fingers on your trackpad in the middle together and then you're going to spread them apart and when you do that's going to zoom in okay so just basically what this is going to do is we're doing into time so the amount of time from here to here you know is only not even a second okay whereas if I pull backwards the other way okay now you know this whole this little movement this right here is you know about a minute okay so I'm going to I'm going to zoom into my project here a little bit okay and just we can start to go over the other things so this shot here okay currently ends this way I'm gonna hit the played spacebar so you can see two ends right there what if I wanted to end a little bit sooner there are two different ways that you can do this the first is to use the blade tool the second is to just simply drag it back so the blade tool actually looks like a blade and the way you can trigger it is you can tap the letter B as in boy now the other way to get it is right here okay this is one way you can switch between the different tools here so we're going to go we're going over blade and trim which I just went over an opposite or blade trim okay so with blade I can click OK and what it just did is it just separated these into two different clips now one thing I need to be aware of is that if you go to use the blade tool you need to know how to switch back to an arrow because otherwise you're just going to keep cutting arrow is a so tap a see how my cursor goes from a blade to an arrow so now this is - this is two different clips right now okay so now theoretically I could hit delete and it's gone I'm going to undo that so I can show you the other weapon method though the other method is to simply trim it and the way you can do that is you can click on your clip and if I put my cursor here at the very end see how it changes just like that what I can do now is I can click and I can drag it back and you'll see as I start to drag it see how it gives me the time above okay so the first number is the total length of that particular clip it's 12 seconds 12 frames and the second number there is I'm shortening it by one second and three frames okay so just by doing that by the way the other way that you can zoom in for those viewer and like a desktop and don't have a Magic Trackpad which I do recommend is to use the Z key and you can click okay so you can click and it'll zoom in okay just like that let's get out of that and go back to a okay the next thing I want to do is go over how do you disable a clip so let's say I'm going to temporarily move this clip above okay and let's say I'm currently going from this shot to this shot but you know what I want to see what it would look like if it just goes from here to this shot instead one of the things that you need to know how to do in editing is how to disable so you're basically creating you're making it transparent essentially so that the computer is going to skip over this shot right here the way that you can disable any clip and this applies to both video and audio is to just tap the V key so you can see when I do that it kind of Gray's it out like that so it's as if that clip doesn't exist the reason why you would use disabled instead of delete is you're still kind of playing with things you want to see how it's going to work this way and it's ultimately when I'm done if you know this it just looks better going from this shot to this shot I don't even need this one you know at that point I could just delete it but it doesn't harm to just believe that they are disabled so the V key will in Abell or disable any clip audio or video the next one I want to go over is snapping so snapping you'll notice here that as I kind of move my cursor see how the playhead is going to ultimately is going to kind of snap to certain locations like in between shots okay that's a feature that I really like but not everyone does so for example if I want to you know insert this I want to make this start right there see how what you kind of boom it just goes right there it's like a magnet okay that is this right here it's this right here or you can use the N key if you like so you'll see here if I disable it okay and I go to move it it's anything goes I can get it closed but I may not get it dead-on okay so that is snapping which I would recommend you just simply turn on the next little technique that I wanted to show you is something that I use a lot in my videos I don't know honestly how many of you are going to use this but I figure enough of you that it's worth going over which is how to set marks and basically all the mark is it's a notation to the editor that this is a moment at checkout okay then you can use this with video or you can use it with audio personally I only really use it with audio so what I'm gonna do is I'm just going to get out of full screen here because actually have it hidden on a window beneath it so what I'm talking about there's multiple ways to import stuff this is the file that we're going to be using and I'm just going to literally drag it and drop it drag it and drop it right here in the Final Cut Pro it imports it all done okay so this green bar represents the audio by the way this is the guy who was chatting about earlier and so what I'm going to do is I'm just going to go through and I'm going to play it just to see how it sounds and every single time I hear like one of those little moments works like this this could be a good moment to transition to a different shot I'm going to tap the M key you're going to see these little blue markers appear on the on the green bar there so let's see do this okay [Music] that should be enough right and the thing is you don't have to use these but it's just kind of a good thing if you're going to be doing some sort of a music type video the next thing I want to do is I want to show you something about just dealing with audio levels in general now this we don't have any dialogue here but what I'm going to show you applies to dialogue as well okay so we're going to zoom into the screen at this point so you can really see this so there is a bar that is going through each clip okay so that's in line it's right there on that clip it's right there on that clip and it says 0 dB if I hear that's 0 decibel so it's just that's the audio the way it is out of the can now you can boost or reduce the audio if you like and you can do that by simply putting your cursor on that little bar and click and drag up as many as 12 decibels or down to mute if you like there's another way to do mute if you like but whatever you want one of the things to look out for is you see for example over here see how there's some red in there okay you don't want red you don't you know really don't want much yellow some yellows okay just you'd really don't want to get into the you know orange or red state because at that point it's just going to distort on you know whoever is watching it on their speakers it's not going to sound good the other thing that you can do here is I want to show you how to fade okay now there's two different ways to fade it you I'm going to show you first how to fade it from the beginning or ending and then actually later on I'm going to show you how to transition so that let's say if it's a whole piece of music you know there might be a section that needs to come down a bit I want to show you how to kind of create custom points where you can make it you know go up a little bit or go down a little bit so if you wanted to fade in okay if you look over here right towards the beginning of that clip I'm gonna have to zoom way way and when I'm editing this okay see that little green circle dot thing there okay you're going to grab that and if you drag it to the right in this case see how it now says plus five : 13 so that means it's going to take five seconds and thirteen frames to go from mute to the volume that I have it set at okay so you can make this as short or as long as you want typically you know you want to be brief but you don't want to be too too fast or too too low depending on what you're dealing with here okay and you will find those dots at the beginning and end of every single clip when you put your cursor over it see if I put my cursor over here it's right there clip doesn't have audio so it's not going to do anything but I just want you to see that you can fade in or fade out by grabbing that dot and just dragging it left or right one things I want to show you how to do is how to detach audio from a clip this isn't going to apply much to this project but you may very well have a project where this is very important so sometimes when you're dealing with a video you want just the audio you don't want you don't doesn't matter if you have or don't have the video but you want to separate the two so that they're not linked together the way you do this on any clip is you're just going to simply click on it and then you're going to secondary click on it so if some of you know that is a right-click but it's right here detach audio even if there is no audio it'll still do it just there is none okay so now this is exclusively video this is exclusively audio the next thing I want to go over is how to move around shots this is something that will absolutely drive some of you crazy if you don't master this right off the bat there are two different ways that you can essentially move a clip okay and I'm going to give you an example right now so this shot that I've got right here okay I want to put this back somewhere into my storyline so what I'm going to do is I'm going to drag it I'm going to drop it right in between these two shots and you'll notice that when I do that it pushed over all of these other shots to make room here's the thing you're not always going to want that for example let's say for example I'm just reset this let's say that I have these shots synced to the beat of the music okay I don't want them to move and when you're doing with a lot of shots it can be very easy to accidentally do this okay so there are they're two different ways to do this if you tap the a key on your keyboard okay it will do what I just showed you is going to move things it's going to shift things back so that you can put in your clip the other way is program mode okay and to do that it's the letter P as in Paul and so when I do that watch what happens okay these clips aren't going to move it's going to just override it see just like that so if I had these all sing to the beat they're going to stay synced I don't have to worry about it next thing we're going over is transitions transitions is this window here at the bottom right now if you don't see it here it's this little bowtie okay so if I click on the bowtie it goes away if I click on it it comes back so we have all sorts of different types of transitions here by the way you will notice on my computer you will see some that you probably don't have on your computer this is not my primary editing computer okay but so on my real computer I have a lot more but you will see some that look a little bit different so the most common transition used is the first one here which is cross dissolve okay so it's going to go from Shaddai this shoppi you'll notice that if I could even drag my cursor over it kind of gives me a general idea of what it's going to essentially do so to add a cross dissolve to two shots I'm going to just simply drag it and drop it in between two shots now you don't have to do it in this form either you can also do it at the beginning so for example right now the video just opened and it's just boom is just playing right off the bat well a lot of people wanted to fade in so I can add a cross dissolve there here's an interesting thing cross dissolve is also fade up from or fade to black if there's nothing else there if there's no other clips below it that's what it's going to do so now when I play so just did that nice took one second to do the transition okay and now we're into our project now there are this is scrollable of course we have tons of different types of transitions the one little piece of advice if I may give you is don't go too crazy folks I know kids for example love to go crazy and have a different transition for every single shot it's really easy to overuse this stuff so I would keep to the more simple ones like cross I was called cross cross fade cross dissolve I sometimes will use Gaussian blur which is down here below flash is really handy for any of you who might get into doing some sort of YouTube videos flashes are really really good because they allow you to just very quickly go white and then you can cut and move around you know do whatever you need say to color is also very good if you for example if you do have other Clips there and you need to put in a layer of black or white for example if you want to fade to white this would be another way to do it to just drag this in at the end for example to do that now when you want to make that kind of change that's where this window up here come into play this is the inspector okay the inspector is this icon right here see it right here at the top right okay so this is going to change based on whatever whatever it is your clicked on in this case I am clicked on a transition so it's saying what color do you want to you know fate is so if I wouldn't want to do black maybe I want to do white okay I can pick out white here and now voila we hit play you can see it went to white it then went to black afterwards because I didn't have anything after it but that would be an example of a type of fade to color you there are set to come with your Mac if you want to seriously kick things up a notch and if you really really want your projects to look insanely amazing I'm going to strongly recommend you check out part two of this class okay because that's where we're going to really get into this stuff and I'm going to show you some third-party ones that just make all the difference between your footage looking potentially amateur and really really professional so effects are right here next to the bowtie okay and it just takes over the same window we have two different types of effects we have video and we have audio so examples of audio would be like an echo or changing the modulation levels that kind of thing but here under video you know we have different ones like for example again these are just the basic basic ones that come with your Mac you know things like a bad TV so if I want to see how this looks I just get it set up here okay I can actually notice if I put the playhead over a clip and then I just roll my cursor it can kind of give me an idea of what it's going to look like it kind of gives it that wobble look and then same things look locking light okay this is one way to go black and white you don't have to do it through that method and we have a whole bunch of other ones here and like I said some of them are great but if you want really really good ones there's better way to do it and that's in part two one things I like to do for all of my videos is I like to do just a little bit of color correction and it basically just kind of makes up for you know what nature didn't capture or didn't exist in the first place so this is where you can start to change it so that it looks just a little bit better okay and that might mean increasing you know making the colors a little bit more vibrant this is one way to make it black and white so I want to show you how to do that so what you're going to do is you're going to pick your clip and in my case while winter is not the best time to color correct is it okay let's do one with a lot of sky let's do this shot here okay so I'm going to click on the clip that I'm going to color correct okay put the play out there and what I'm going to do is I'm going to start to go over slowly piece by piece these three items right here starting with this right here so this is we're going to get into your color options we have balanced color which is sort of like a smart you just try to figure out what's the best thing for it match color in which case you can make it look like another clip in your project in which case I'll just have you you know kind of show it what you want it to mimic or color board this is true color correction you can see here if you want to do the shortcut it's command six so let's go to color board okay and we have three tabs up here color saturation and exposure personally I don't do a lot here in color this is where you can basically just kind of tweak certain aspects of it so if I want to give it like a really freakish blue tint you know I can make it that actually doesn't look like s that bad but this will give it as you can see there a blue tint okay I can move it around I can see how it looks with you know red tint terrible okay this is a good point to use undo where we're going to really kind of hang out are these two right here the saturation and exposure so within each of these you'll see that we have these dots right here and let me just going to go over what these are this one here on the left is global settings okay so this is actually going to affect all three of these at the same time I don't really use this a lot because usually I find that it's better to fine-tune it individually and then we have the black gray and white what do you stand for this is your shadows so for example in exposure which is a better example for this okay you can see here if I kind of bring it down it's going to take those dark points it's going to make them really dark let's put up it's going to make them really really light so a lot of times here it's just kind of about slightly fine-tuning this a little bit you'll see it from me I'm gun by five percent just a little bit next one is your mid-tones okay do you want those to look you know a little bit brighter a little less so you're either your Gray's in your image okay and then over here we have your highlights so these are your brightest parts see how like the clouds there they really distort as I go up okay so I'm going to just kind of keep it actually looks pretty good right there and then here under saturation sorry no we skipped around there a little bit okay similar deal okay so with this what I find tends to make pretty much every shot look just a little bit better it's just to slightly improve all of these by bringing these up just a little bit and understand with saturation with any of these if you drag them down you are desaturating what do you get when you desaturate you ultimately get black and white that's the other way to get black and white okay so with this let me just kind of bring it to what I tend to use which is really more than anything I tend to improve the shadows more than items we just get that you know blue sky you know where we have color we want to try to you know show it off there okay and we're done with that now I want to show you a trick that I accidentally left out of the last time I taught this class the amount of time that it took to you know do that for one shot okay well that's not so bad but if you've got a lot of shots this can take forever so I want to show you a really simple way to take any effect and apply it to multiple clips at the same time so what we're going to do in this case is I'm actually for something let me take this clip here and just move it back in I'm going to take because these are all shot pretty much the same location essentially same time so you would not always do this I'm going to take all of the effects from here and just mass apply to everything so the way that you do this is you're going to click on the clip that you've already corrected or added effects to whatever it may be and you're going to copy it the way you would copy anything command C okay so that copies it and now what we're going to do is we're going to highlight just by clicking and dragging over these other clips and we're going to do a little bits a little bit of a twist on paste okay it's similar it's command option V so now if I kind of go back and skim you'll see these all just got a lot brighter a little bit more vibrant you saw how quickly I was able to do that too let's do it for this shot too okay that's your before let's apply it after pretty cool right there's a very noticeable difference that we only had to you know correct once and then we could just kind of apply it to every shot now if you you know if you're going to be a Hollywood filmmaker you'd probably correct you know these a little bit more you refine it a little bit but if you just want to make something and make it look good relatively quickly this would be a better way to do it next thing we're going to be talking about folks is how to speed up or slow down footage so to do this we're going to click on whatever clip it is we want to alter and we're going to go up here to this little gear icon looks a little bit like a speedometer okay these are your speed options and as you can see here it's pretty straight forward you can slow it down you can make it faster you can set it to normal if you've already tweaked it you can hold it also this is where you can go to reverse the clip so if I want you know lets him taking off like for this clip here okay if I want to write with this clip I'm taking off from the ground so I want to make it look like I'm landing for whatever reason okay I could just click on that clip go over here and hit reverse and now it looks like I'm landing the drone which looks a little weird because you can see people in the background walking in Reverse one thing that's important to understand about reverse make sure there's no cars in the background because that's kind of a dead giveaway at that point let's undo that okay so if I want to make it let's say let's say I want to make it faster okay there's some default options here two times faster four times eight twenty what if you want something in the middle no worries let's just go with two in this case okay what I can do is I can zoom into this shot here and it's too much too much zoom okay see this purple bar here I can grab that purple bar at the right and if I move it to the left what I think that's going to do that's going to make it faster see how it's now changing ly timing it's now so now it's you know eight hundred percent faster or if I stretch it the other way we zoom out a little bit so I have room to do that it's going to slow down you'll notice that when you're slow it's orange when you're fast it's kind of purplish okay so that's how you tweak the speed next thing I want to go over our cropping options so there's a couple of different ways that you can tweak your shots and I want to show you an example of one so what I've done is I just extended this clip so you could see there's actually a mistake that I made here so let me play for you what this clip actually looks like okay so we're flying along and then what happened was I stopped and when I stopped the leg see that over the at the left hand side that's the leg of my drone okay got into the shot as I was pulling back okay so this is probably not the best example but I want to show you how you couldn't see what if we get rid of that okay and one way is to crop it so we're going to click on the clip and we're going to go over here this is where you going to find these options and there are basically three different ways to do it it's actually a little bit more than that we have transition crop and distort and these can be a bit confusing so I'm going to try to go through them what is transform transform is basically you're going to you're going to stretch it okay so you're going to do something with it now if I click on one of these middle dots here see how we have these blue dots now at all the corners okay if I grab the similar one it's going to distort it okay so it's going to do that so usually you're not going to typically deal with the middle one but if I grab one of the corner ones let me actually get rid of the inspector here so we can really see what we're doing here I can drag it down sorry about that student from down here here and see how it stays in proportion so one way that I could theoretically deal with this is I can just basically scale it up so that it's just a little bit bigger see how I can just make the leg disappear off screen there so it's just kind of a little cropped in like that that is the first option you see here which is transform the next one I undo everything we did okay the next one here is crop what is crop well basically you're going to see now we have these dashed lines okay and so what we're going to do is we just cutting out the top so let's say I want to make this ultra wide screen okay this is one way I could theoretically do this okay thumbs in cinema vision or whatever they're calling it now cinema scope is that it I don't know so this is one way that I could do it okay the other option let's go back in time is crop see how we have three options are here so we have that was trimmed the next one is crop so what crop is going to do let me just give an example here is I'm going to move this box so there's just that space there so yeah I can readjust it when I hit done watch what happens see how it did that it just got rid of everything and it made it take up the entire screen undo the last one there under crop is Ken burnt okay Ken Burns it means the exact same thing that it does in iMovie so Ken Burns is more traditionally used in photos and what you're going to do is you're going to start it like one part of the photo and you're going to slowly move to another let me actually let me just grab a photo real quick here folks so I can show you a better examples of photos we go into this is just one particular album okay let's go into this one here I'll just use this shot right here okay so I'm going to go into it prop Ken Burns okay so what I'm going to do is I have two boxes here the green box that you see here the throne kind of see the right hand side that is stark and red is end now you can move either of these boxes okay so and you can also adjust you know how tight they are so I'm going to for this I'm going to start the shot relatively close to the church and I'm going to do that by grabbing the corner I'm just going to drag I'm just kind of repositioning it so I have my shot okay like there and then from my end shot I'm going to click out here in the red box I'm going to shrink this a little bit and one of the key things to make the Ken Burns effect to look good is you don't want it to be too too dramatic okay it really doesn't take much for you to get the effect so go just maybe a tad more that might even actually be a little bit too dramatic now here's the thing if you want this to be less dramatic you there's two ways to do to change this up you can either make the you know difference between these two boxes less or you can increase the time of the shot okay so for example if I hit done keep in mind what if we set our default to be five seconds right so it takes five seconds to go from here let's hit play now it's a little bit blurry because it hasn't rendered it yet and that's the end okay but the other way that we could make this work is we can simply drag out that clip member we're going to click inside the clip grab right here we're going to drag to the right okay so now can take even longer to go from here to here so watch what happens when I played now okay I know it is a little blurry by the way on that note one thing you will notice if you're dealing with 4k footage is that when you're editing and you're playing it's going to be a little blurry but that's just so that it can move quickly and keep up with you when you're done it'll look you know crystal clear so that's the Ken Burns effect now the other option we have here is distort okay let me give an example where I use distort which is when doing the Tech Talk America videos if you've seen me on camera and there's like a monitor behind me there's no actual monitor behind me what we've done is we place a graphic there of a monitor and then we place another image inside of it that image is not you know the look of that monitor is not necessarily a perfect rectangle okay so what you can do with this is you can kind of adjust it a little bit okay you create these little distortions and you can grab any corner that you want and so you can kind of imagine here what I'm what I'm you know envisioning so if I want it to look like a you know monitor in the background and you just scaled was probably down first you know this could ultimately be see what it's doing here it actually even looks like you're dealing with three dimensions you're not but it looks like it so if I was on camera right here this is a monitor behind me so it kind of you don't really think about it but that's not a perfect rectangle okay it just looks like it does it is because it's inside of a monitor and we associate it that way one of the things that you'll find as you're going through and creating your video is you may have some footage that is not so stable and could use a little bit of balancing there is a free way to do this and there's a much better way to do this which involves a special piece of software which is going to be covered in the advanced class which comes out in April of 2017 so if you just need some basic stabilization I know the shot is actually okay but work with me folks okay you're going to click on your clip go over here to the inspector and you'll see right here we have one check box just click it and it will stabilize it this does take a little bit of time for your computer to processes because it's got to analyze it first and then it's got to apply it and render it so it'll take a you know potentially a minute or two depending on how fast your computer is the next thing I want to show you folks is how to record a voiceover and for those of you are curious the microphones that I'm using right now which by the way for this particular clip may sound a bit off but it's the same microphone I've used for the rest of this class this is the blue snowball the audio company is called blue the name of the product is called the snowball they do make different models of it now so the very specific one that I recommend same ones that I use you will find a link to that in that PDF guide so in order to record a voiceover all you need to do is go up here into the window menu and we're going to go into record voiceover so from here we get a little pop-up window you can see my voice showing up there hello hello okay popping up there the little red button here is going to obviously record it if you would like to name your audio clip you can call it whatever you want I'll just call it voiceover okay and these settings here are going to change based on if you are using headphones and my advice is I would use headphones because most people who are doing voiceover work tend to better work on their modulation when they can hear themselves through headphones so if you're going to do that I would you know the settings will will match that okay so you'd want your monitor actually bought your monitor to be on but I'm not going to do that right now because it's going to sound really really weird you're going to countdown to record that just means it's going to give you a three to one before you record you'd probably want to uncheck this if you are wearing headphones okay and what you're going to do is you're going to basically sorry I should stop moving my cursor you're going to move the playhead to the part of the project where you want it to actually record when you hit record it's going to rewind three seconds and then you can start your voice over and just to show you very quickly how it looks up up and away Oh stupid I know so now if I play it back you'll hear you'll see but with the files right here this is a file for voiceover no so you couldn't really hear that well because the music is a little bit too loud which brings us to the next part next part I want to show you folks is how to basically make tweaks to the audio because you don't want to you know have it just suddenly jump up and down you want it to smoothly transition okay so what I'm going to do is I'm actually much speakers right now because this is going to get to be very very hard to edit later on so I'm going to just basically make this part of the clip let's zoom in a little bit I'm going to make it see how it kind of crescendos here I'm going to make it go down a little bit okay is it decrescendo I believe this much if I remember my terminology so what we're going to do is we are going to basically tell the computer over a course of so many frames to make this kind of a transition and the way we do this is we use keyframes so what we're going to do is we're going to start off with the point where it's going to start to change so let's just choose right here okay so we're going to click on the clip okay and you'll notice that right now over here at the top right corner I have the inspector open and here at the very top it says volume see this little diamond shaped icon that is a keyframe so currently we're three decibels so we're going to mark that moment in time now what we're going to do is we're going to fast forward how long do we want to take to to transition from its current volume to its new volume so let me just kind of go usually with audio you're going to do something like a couple of seconds okay so we'll do right there okay so now we're going to click inside once again and we're going to hit a another keyframe but what we're going to do now is we're going to take this little lever right here and we're going to lower it and if you look at the timeline you'll see that we're creating a curve okay see right there see how it's now slanted down or if I cleaned up okay so this is just what you can do is as you go through your project as you're trying to kind of normalize everything you can find those key moments where you need to give it a little bit of a boost or lower it and you're just going to go through and keyframe the whole thing so you just the process is keyframe move to where you want it to end hit keyframe again and then transition the volume there are basically two different ways that you can add titles to your project and I'm going to show you the basically the real simple ones that come with Final Cut once again if you want to get into like really amazing 3d graphic text that's where part two of this class is going to be it was going to come in handy so to get into titles um we're going to go over here to the top left and it's right here okay so here we have titles and there's also another thing here called generators it may look like this if you have the arrows here that are not opened episodes open up titles you'll see here we have all these different types of categories we do have 3d ones these are the basic 3d ones that come with your Mac so you can do or come with Final Cut rather I should say so if I play these you can kind of see a little bit of what they look like so if I hit spacebar okay tumble then it tumbles out okay that'd be an example of one and these you know if you've never seen this stuff this is probably pretty cool to you but there are ways to take this to a significantly more professional level that's part two so I'm going to go but I'm going to go right here to build and build out these are the real simple ones and you can apply these two different ways you can either apply them to footage or you can apply them to like a black background something like that so let's say for example let's say it for the opening here I'm going to put the date okay I'm going to have it maybe put it at the bottom or let's say at the top right corner okay so for this what I would probably do is I would go in here and I would just grab I usually tend to grab custom something like that it's very very simple and you can drag it from here on top of your clip and it's represented by that purple bar now you guessed it if you want to make this longer or shorter you can grab either side you can drag it out to make it longer pull it in to make it shorter whatever you want okay so now as you is I can click on that text okay and now if I want to change what text you can't really see it the bit is extra there in the middle we need to go into the inspector which we closed just a minute ago once again right up here okay so now we can type in put in whatever text we want if I remember quickly this was on January 6 2017 okay and all my different options here for font color all that stuff those are all going to be below this is scrollable by the way so if you're going to make changes to your font and we make sure it's highlighted and we can change it from horrible Helvetica to something a little bit more interesting by the way if you're going to be putting text into your project if I may give a slight recommendation we have a free very short class on how to get extra fonts for your Mac you might want to consider checking that out I'll try to remember to put a link to that in the PDF guide okay so I'll just use this one here June Ghul and you can't really see it because it's white right so we're going to make some adjustments to that but before we do that first thing we want to figure out is the size so sighs if we drag it to the right it gets larger left smaller that looks about right there okay these are just kind of your spacing options and you can actually move this so you can move it anywhere you want this is one of the very very big differences between iMovie and Final Cut Pro with iMovie it's like if you want to put your text in the top right corner good lock it's very very limited with Final Cut Pro you can totally customize this actually let me just show you how to do it right now so what you're going to do is you're going to click right here and you're going to drag it up to the top right the other way that you can do this if you want is you can actually access transform right over here and do the exact same thing because the text is essentially a layer so you can see I can move this text wherever I want it okay so I'm going to move it right up there towards the top right now we're going to scroll down a little bit more we're going to deal with the color the color is called the face and so we have a checked because you can see it we're going to go over here to the right where it says show voila there is our color so let's change it over to black okay or actually the other thing we can do instead if we want leave it white and let's just scroll down a little bit more here and let's just add a drop shadow so that just kind of adds this little makes a little bit easier to read now if you want to tweak that shadow make it a little bit easier to read okay we can once again just put the cursor to the right here and click on show and we can change the bead distance so the more distance you have a little bit easier it's going to be to read that okay just like that now the only way that you can add text is you can also add it over either like a black background or whatever other layer that you want so I want to show you how to do that too so to do that let's do something a little bit more interesting not really interesting just a little different let's use this four corners one here okay so you can put your cursor over any kind of get an idea of how it's going to look okay so if you want to do this and not have it be over footage when you go to bring it into your project instead of bring it up top you can bring it into your storyline and so now it's here it's over a black background what if you don't want a black background what if you want something a little bit different okay there's another way to do it too so right underneath here where we have titles we have something called generators these are the ones that come with your Mac okay or come with keeps in it come with Final Cut so we have some interesting ones here like clouds and Counting curtains okay whatever you want so you can also by the way just drag in an image if you for what color or whatever you want so if you go through generators here you'll see we have some that are kind of animated like underwater I just call this the Finding Nemo lair okay let's just do that for fun but you can also just do basic colors and you can change result you can change them around using the inspector okay so let's do underwater under the scene we're going to drag that and drop it into our storyline because this is going to be the overall footage and then if we want our text to go over that we just simply where did it go we were using and let's just use where did it go we were under building that's why they're just for quarters so now we can take that we can drop it on top of that and you'll see now we have a layer okay just like that now if you are looking for a little bit more interesting layers and would come with Final Cut Pro there is a nother place it's part of the same company that is behind audio jungle that I'll give you a link to as well and these are just kind of once again these just kind of backgrounds that you can use they're pretty handy to have on your computer if you really get into editing now when you're done with your project there's several different things you can do with it of course what I would tend to recommend that you do is no matter where you're sending this whether you're sending to YouTube or Facebook export one master copy at full resolution just so that if you ever need it you've got it so to export you can go to file and it's right here under share sorry I would say export that's what they always used to call it now it's share so here we do have a way to go straight to a DVD we're not going to go over that i if you want to put on DVD my advice is probably you know consider checking out third-party software like toast we have a class on it I'll put a link in the description and the PDF rather master file though here's what I would recommend that you do and hits the thing you can always go from a master file to Facebook YouTube or Vimeo okay it's just probably the better way to do it so from here we're going to create name of our project so this is going to be the name of the file when you're done a little trick for those we are going to be putting this on Facebook or on YouTube make sure you put in a good title you want to make sure that the title matches the project settings okay so this is where you can change the kind of codec that you're using for the most of you I just say use the source one whatever that is okay and when you're done hit next one thing I will tell you by the way see this it thinks there's going to be ten point three gigabytes this is never ever correct ever it's usually a fraction of that if you ever need to shrink down your video there's a free piece of software it's called handbrake and the website address is handbrake dot F are very very handy for that kind of operation if you need to make your video smaller that is one way to do it and hit next and you're going to basically just point it to where you want it to send your footage and you are done well folks that about does it for us for today I hope you've enjoyed this 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Length: 70min 26sec (4226 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 17 2017