(upbeat music) - Hey, it's Ben Halsall here
and here in Final Cut Pro, we're gonna do a complete
intro to Final Cut Pro, now we're gonna be looking
at everything you need to start working with Final Cut Pro. So we're gonna be looking
at where you can download some free video to start
playing around with, where we can download some free audio or kind of backing tracks and stuff like that. So before you start even
shooting your own footage, I mean you can dive into Final Cut Pro, go to the kind of websites that I recommend and really get started with working from video to audio. We're also gonna have a look at some of my favorite
free plugins as well. That are definitely worth checking out and definitely the things
that you will find useful as you start out with Final Cut Pro 10. So before we dive in here, I just wanna thank FxFactory
for sponsoring this video and our FxFactory is a
store for buying plugins from different plugin makers. They have a whole range of
creators who are creating plugins for Final Cut Pro 10. So everything from cleaning up your audio to creating transitions, working with tight to
some very cool plugins like the notes plugin to creating this kind of 3D animated nodes and all that long as
you have on FxFactory, you can try out for free. So definitely go and check that out. But without further ado, let's dive in and have a look at how we start out with Final Cut Pro 10 with a whistle-stop tour
first of all of the interface and setting up a brand new library. So we're gonna dive in
and create a new library. So whenever you start a new
piece of work in Final Cut Pro, the first thing you
wanna do is go to File, New and library. And basically the library is the location where all your footage
is by default stored and also where all your
edits are stored as well. So we'll create a new library, it's gonna ask us where we wanna save it. Now by default, new
libraries will be created in your movies folder here
on the left hand side, but I'm gonna create it
on an external hard drive. You can see here, I'm actually creating it
in my tutorials folder, my final cut pro 10 tutorials folder, and then in this FxFactory folder, but you can create it either
on an external hard drive or on your internal hard drive although I recommend
once you start working on bigger projects, it's
definitely worthwhile investing in a good external hard drive
and kind of backup set up to work within Final Cut Pro because the files will
get big quite quickly. So we'll call this intro to Final Cut Pro. And basically once we save that, we have our library set up and we can see a few
different things here. So we can see across
on the left hand side, we have our library. And then we also have our
photo and audio browser, our titles and generators
browser across here at the top left. In this area, when we import footage, this is where we're gonna see it or we're gonna see our footage, our audio, and all that kind of stuff in
the import media window here. In the viewer here in the middle, we're gonna see our final edit. So basically, the viewer
in the middle here and our timeline or
project timeline down here is where we see the
video that we're editing. So basically once we
start to drop stuff down to the timeline, we'll see our video coming together here and then up on the top
right we have our inspector, now this is super useful,
when we're adding effects or making modifications to our video, we'll see a lot of information
up in the inspector for different parameters
for those types things so for everything from scale
to if we're adding blur to a video, we'll see all
that information up here. So the first thing we're gonna do is gonna look at where
we can grab some footage to work with. So I'm gonna jump into
my web browser here. And basically I have
downloaded a bunch of footage from the website pixels. And you can see here, they
have a video search bar here, we can search for lots and
lots of very cool footage on here, and it all is free to use. So if we come to this video here, you'll see the free download
option up at the top right, and for this particular video, we're looking either for the 4K footage or for the full HD footage, and we can select either one of those and then download it for free. If you're just starting
out with Final Cut Pro 10, I would recommend downloading Full HD, it's gonna make your
editing a lot quicker. So first thing to do jump onto pixels and just search for a
few different videos. And what I've done with these videos. If I right click at the
top once it opens up in QuickTime and go to downloads, is I have taken these videos from pixels. If I right click here, I can copy this. And in the folder that I'm working on, so I go to Santa Catalina will
jump into my tutorials folder into Final Cut Pro 10 tutorials. And then in here you can
see a few of the tutorials I've previously made. And in this folder is where
we're storing the footage. Now I've got kind of a long
directory to my footage there. But basically, what we're gonna do is I've set up three folders in there, one for my audio, one
for my audio to sync up and one for my basic footage and I'm gonna gather all
my footage into one place and it's really important to manage your original
footage really well and to make sure you know
where you're saving stuff. So you can see a couple
of the other things that we're gonna look at in this video. So we have some music that we're gonna add as an audio backdrop. I also have some audio to sync up so I recorded this video of
myself doing one of my intros for my tutorials and
basically I recorded sound on a separate device, I
got a better quality sound. And we're gonna look at
how we sync up these two in Final Cut Pro 10. And then obviously, the footage that we just
kind of dropped in there. So we'll have a look at how
we can work with video footage and then also have a look at some images that we can drop onto
the timeline as well. So grab half a dozen
or a dozen video clips that you can work with. And then also, you'll want some
audio to work with as well. So the best place to find
free audio to work with if you're gonna be
uploading things to YouTube is in the YouTube Audio Library. So if we go to YouTube, and
click at the top right here, we'll find our YouTube studio. So when you create an account
to publish to on YouTube, you'll see this across on the right. And then if we look to the left, down to the bottom left here, we have the audio library. And it's in here that we can
find a whole bunch of tracks. So you can search by genre, by mood. You can search for words in the music, the duration of the music, and we can find both audio
tracks here and sound effects. So what you wanna do is Look for a track. So we can kind of preview
and play it here on the left. (soft music) And then once we're
ready, we like that track, we can click download, and that audio track will download. So once it's downloaded up
here, we can zoom to it. (soft music) And it's opened up in music,
so I'm gonna quit out of that. And basically, once we've got here, we can use Command C
or right click and copy and come to our audio
and we will right click and paste that item in there or Command V. So I've got a few audio tracks
that we're gonna work with. But that YouTube Audio Library is definitely a good place
to kind of grab things from. So we're gonna grab a couple
of other free items later on. But the first thing we need
is our audio and our video to begin editing in Final Cut Pro 10. So we'll jump into Final Cut Pro now. And basically what we're gonna do is import our video tracks. So what will normally happen
in Final Cut Pro 10 by default is if we go to Final
Cut Pro and preferences, you'll see that under the Import Options, Final Cut Pro for you guys
will probably be copying to the library storage location. Now this is really handy if
you wanna keep everything within that library, but I tend to like to
store my video in place. So basically I've kind of got
my folder organization there for my audio, my audio and video to sync and then my video folder. And so I'm gonna leave
everything in place there. But if you're starting out and you wanna kind of keep things simple, then copy your library items
to the storage location, and that will keep everything
all in one place for you. If you move your library around, then everything you need
will be in that library. This option will save a bit of space. So if you're importing your video footage rather than Final Cut Pro
10 making a copy of it, it's leaving those original
video files in place, which means you need to be a bit more on top of your file management. But basically it will mean that
you use half the disk space on your drives, which
especially if you're working on the internal drive on your
computer is a good thing. So let's close up that. So now I'm gonna go to my
library across here on the left, and we're gonna set up a couple things. So I've got my first event here. And I like to organize my events either by the part of the shoot that I'm working on or by video and audio, which is what we're gonna do here. So I'm gonna have a video category here. And then I'm gonna go
to File, New and Event. And we'll create an audio category. And we'll go to File New, Event. And we'll create a timelines category. So basically, this means that
we can kind of keep things a bit more organized in here as well. So if I come to my video folder, I can go to file and import and media and essentially what I can do
here is navigate to the folder where I have everything stored, which is on my hard drive Santa Catalina. So I can scroll down here to my folder and we will grab the footage folder, and I can look inside the folder and kind of review the
individual files in there. But I'm just gonna grab this whole folder, we will import selected, it's gonna leave the files in place. And it's gonna put it into the video event that we can see here. So it's gonna keep things
nice and organized. So you can see I've got
all my videos listed there. They're currently organized by the date the content was created. I am gonna turn that off to none. Okay, and so basically I've got a list of the different videos there. And you can see straightaway as I start to hover over these videos, we start to scrub through the footage and see what we've got here. So once we've got our
video footage imported, we wanna import our audio. So I'm gonna look at another
way of importing things here. So basically for my audio here, I'm gonna import the audio
and the audio to sync as well. We're gonna drop those
both into the audio folder. And you can see we can drag
it right across into the event in Final Cut Pro 10. So now I have those
different files in there, I've got my audio, I'm
gonna sync with the video. And then I've got my music
tracks in there as well. And you can see, because I
have created folders here to audio and audio to sync, it's actually listed
those as keywords there in Final Cut Pro 10. So then we'll come to the timelines event. So basically, in this event,
I'm gonna create my timelines. And you don't need to
organize things like this. It just kind of helps sometimes
to kind of keep things in those separate events. So we're gonna go to File and New. We're gonna create a new project. So I like to control the
frame rate of my projects. And really what you wanna do is match that to the original video footage that you're gonna be working with. So if your camera is shooting
at 24 frames per second, you wanna edit 24 frames per second, or if your camera is shooting
at 29.97 frames per second, then you wanna edit
that frame rate as well. We're gonna edit this at 29.97. I think we're using a mixture of footage so it's not really gonna matter too much. And we'll call this intro to FCP X 01. So revision one is gonna be
our first kind of quick edit. And the audio can stay the same here, the rendering can be Apple ProRes, that's all fine. We can use the automatic settings, but I prefer to set things
up as I plan to export them. So I always tend to come to this window. So check, use custom settings, where we can then enter those
values and kind of make sure that we're exporting
things out in the format that we want to. So if we click OK there, our interface will change
a little bit again. So basically, I've got my edits up here. If we highlight that in the inspector, we can see some information
about it up at the top right and then we can also see this timeline with a dark grey bar in the middle, and then the lighter
grey above and below it. So basically, in this timeline now, as we scrub through, and if you're not seeing the
red line as you scrub through, then basically you just need
to click this little button across on the right, that will toggle on and off
the scrubbing in Final Cut Pro. What we can see here is as
we move the timecode here in the middle changes, so we're looking at one minute
15 seconds and one frame. And then as we kind of move it around, you'll see that changing so
now 43 seconds and 27 frames, and then as I get to wards 30 here if I use the right cursor, you'll see when I hit 30
it goes to the next second. So let's have a look at how
we drop some footage down into the timeline. So if we come to our video, we've got our video clips here we'll just drag one of
these pixels videos down. We now have our kind of
first clip on the timeline. So basically this primary
storyline or main storyline that we see in the middle is where we initially drop clips down to kind of edit our main story. So normally your video footage here, and then when we add audio, it will add below your video. So when I drag that down, you can see it kind of
snaps to the bottom there with a little green line attaching it to the primary storyline. So that's our first edit. Now we can do a few things here, we can trim down our clip from the end, so we can shorten it. And we can trim down our
clip from the beginning. And you can see I've lost a
little bit of the audio there. When that happens, that's normal, we just need to drag that back. But basically, we can trim our clip, lengthen it or shorten it, and then we can begin
to add other clips down to the timeline. So if we come back up to our video, you can see there's some other clips here that we can drag down. So once we see the hand
here in the middle, we can drag a clip down. And now we have a single edit from one clip to another on our timeline. And again, we can trim those
clips down on the timeline, and we can play it through
by tapping the space bar, or by tapping the L key on the keyboard. (soft music) Okay, we can decide maybe we wanna change where the edit happens. (soft music) So as you're listening to your first edit, you'll find that you
find points in the song where you want to make a cut. We'll drag another clip
down the timeline here. And you'll see we can kind
of trim that down as well. These video tracks don't
have any audio on them so basically works quite nicely with the music track in the background. So we can begin to drag down clips. If we wanna zoom in on our timeline, there's a couple different
ways we can do that. We can come across to the
little toolbar across here and we can zoom in to our timeline, it will kind of center on the playhead. We'll get a scroll bar down at the bottom, when we move down there. And then also if you're
using a track pad or a mouse, you can use that normally to
scroll left and right as well. So we're zoomed in a bit
more on our timeline here. One useful shortcut here is shift and Z, and that will zoom you
out of your timeline to kind of see your whole edit. But actually, we wanna zoom in and I'm gonna use a shortcut
command and plus to zoom in, and then we can kind of move
through and see our edits. So we can shorten things down. And because we have
this magnetic timeline, when we shorten things it
doesn't leave any gaps there between our video and our audio. So what's nice about being zoomed in here is that we can see the audio track and if you don't see the same
kind of track layout as I do, then if you come to
those same options here for the timeline, you can see we can modify the height of the video and audio
as well, in here as well. So we can kind of change
what we see on the timeline by toggling through these, I'll leave it at the default
one that I had selected here. And we can also zoom in on the timeline, as well as being able to increase and decrease the clip height. Just scroll back here, so you can see this
second slider increases and decreases the clip height. So if we're zoomed in, we
can grab a clip up here, drag it down to the
timeline, play through. (soft music) Okay, and then we can start to get quite precise with our edits. So I'm just moving the playhead here. And I wanna find that moment where he's moving across
the right and edit to that particular point in time. (soft music) And then if I have a clip here
that I wanna trim down to, so if I wanna actually trim here, there's a couple of different
ways I can do that as well. One is to grab the blade tool, and then we can use the blade tool there, jump back to the selection tool, a shortcut for those B and A, and then we can delete that second clip. The other way of doing it, which is much quicker is
to position our playhead in a location. And then not always, but sometimes you'll
need to select the clip, and then we can use Alt and
the right square bracket, and that will trim our clip
down to where the playhead is. So we don't need to zoom
out and then zoom back in to kind of trim things. So you can see now we
can kind of find spots where we can match that movement, keeping an eye on the audio, and then we can cut between
some different clips. So I'll cut this and then
I'm gonna come across here and use Alt and the right
square bracket to trim it down. So basically, we're beginning
to build up our edit here and I'm gonna use Command and minus to zoom out a little bit
there to see our edit. (soft music) So you drag some clips
down to the timeline, we have changed the duration of them at the beginning and end. We can also shuffle them as well. So if I want my surfer at the beginning, I can bring my clip back to the beginning, and it will drop in there
and it will make a space. (soft music) Okay, so basically, we
can shuffle our clips, like a deck of cards. Just looking for that solid blue line as to where that clip is gonna go. And then the timeline
should kind of open up and tell you where it's gonna slot in. So again, when we're dragging
clips from the top here, we can drag it to the end, or we can drag it between
two clips as well, so we can basically trim down this. I'm looking for the kind of
beats in the music to edit to and finding those spots where
we get a nice little change. If we have clips down the
timeline that we wanna delete, we can highlight them and delete them. We can also just undo
that, so Command and Z, use Command and X or edit cut, and then find another spot in the track. And I'm deliberately snapping
between two clips there to then do Command and V or edit paste to paste in that clip. So we can copy and paste clips
around the timeline as well. Now one thing you might wanna do is you might wanna kind
of move the edit point without changing the
duration of your edits. So basically, you can see here when I shorten or lengthen my clips, I'm changing where that clip
ends in terms of the song. Now one thing you can do
is use the trim tool here, and that will change the edit
point of both of these clips. So when I drag here,
it's changing the output of the first clip and the
end point of the next clip so that you can see, I'm not actually adjusting
the overall duration of my timeline, so I can basically look
for a different beat here and then edit to that point. (soft music) We'll come back to the selection tool. And it's definitely worth
remembering or gradually starting to remember these different shortcuts so A, T and P will come to, and then the range
selection tool is useful and the blade tool is useful but these different shortcuts when you kind of get more
used to Final Cut Pro 10 will be useful. So when we click away here
will be select that edit point. So we've added clips to the timeline, we've had a look at how
we can trim them down, how we can get them to match
those beats of the song, and then also how to kind
of shuffle them around on the timeline. We can also add transitions between clips. So we have our clips up
here at the top left. And then if we come across to the right, we have our effects and our transitions. So with our transitions, we have a whole bunch
of transitions there. But the classic one to use
is the Dissolve transition. The Cross Dissolve, where you can drag it
onto two edit points. And we can stretch that out as well, make it shorter or longer depending on the duration of your clips. And then it will fade
between those two clips, let's just make it nice and long. (soft music) So we can add those nice dissolves between two different clips. We can also have a blur
transition here as well. So if we look at that, you can see it's blurring
it through the transition. (soft music) Okay, so it sort of looks
like you're pulling focus almost between those two clips. So with the transitions, as you saw, we can kind of change
the duration of them. We also can change with
this icon in the middle where that cut is happening. Okay, and then with these
two bars at either side, we can change the duration
of either clip on either side by basically dragging out to make the clip before longer or the clip
after longer or shorter, so we've got a nice level of control over where those transitions sit. So that's how to add clips
down to the timeline, how we add transitions. If we wanted to add effects to our clips, then we can come to our effects. And we'll just have a quick
look a simple color effect. So let's come to the city
at the beginning here. So colorize is a good one. If we drag this on, you can see we get this
nice tint for that effect. And once you start adding effects, then you'll need to be looking
up towards the inspector to kind of see the
properties for those effects. So if I go to my video tab here, you can see I'm remapping my
blacks to this darker red, I can remap them to a different color. And then I'm remapping my whites to red. So basically we can select
a different color there, and we can modify the
intensity of that as well. So if we change this up, we're gonna get kind of jus
atone image of that city, so we can have less or more depending on what you're looking for. So we'll leave the colorize on there. And then we'll have a look
at how we add a title there. So if we come up to our titles up here, we have two things
here, one is our titles, and one is our generators. And we'll have a look at one of each. So, we'll come to our
bumper opener titles. And we'll just add the basic title on here to look at how this works. We'll drop it over the
beginning of our clip here. And we can trim this down just
the same as any video clip. And then when it's highlighted. You can see here when we
come across the top right, we have options under our text for different kind of text options. So rather than dragging this out, if I double click at the
top bar of this Inspector, it will stretch it down
the whole right hand side which is super useful. So now we can type in a new title. We can highlight that text, we can pull up here to choose
some of the default styles that we have. Okay, either 2D styles, or if we come here we've
got some 3D styles, we can choose, and we can obviously modify
the size of the text as well, and then we can change the
kind of font options down here at the bottom too. So we can choose any font we want, and it will kind of develop
that style that we've chosen as the default up at the top. If we come down to the bottom here, we'll actually jump back to
our basic 2D style first. Let's go for the bold one. And if we come down the bottom here, you can see we have options for the font so we can change our
font as we saw before, we can change the size of the font, we can change the line spacing. So for instance, if we just
right into our next line. Then with these two lines selected, we can change the line spacing so we can increase the distance
or decrease the distance between those two lines, we can also if we
highlight a line of text, scroll down here, come to the face. And then we can also change
the color in here too, so we can pick a different
color for each line of our edit. So we'll go for a bit
of a lighter blue there. We can change your pasty of our text, and a variety of other kind
of different things here, such as adding as 3D text,
adding an outline to our text. So that's a quick overview
of how we work with text in Final Cut Pro 10. I'm gonna double click
here to minimize this. So the next thing we'll add
here will be a generator. So we've got our titles up here, we'll just click the little
arrow to the left of titles here to minimize that. And then we'll come into our generator. So now in our generators, there's a lot of really kind
of useful things like textures, which we can use to kind
of create backgrounds or to overlay over the top for our images. We also have these really useful ones which the solids as well, I normally go for the custom one where you can select your own color. So actually we'll drag
this down to our timeline. And again, with the generators, you'll see options up in the inspector for everything you need to kind of modify with the generator you selected. So here you can see, we can
select the color we wanna use for that particular generator. We can also use the red,
green and blue sliders here to kind of change the
color or click on the box to type in our own RGB values. So from zero to 255 if you have values which you need to use. So we'll just stick with the
kind of color picker here. And I'm gonna select a
nice magenta color here. Now one of the really
useful things you can do with these generators, in particular the kind of color block is we can put it behind our text. So if I just drag this to the left and kind of find that spot
between my two layers here, we'll stretch this up a
little bit then you can see, I've got my generator
and my title above it. So one thing I can do here is
if I come to the video tab, so I'm in my generators
tab is on number two, I come to my video tab, I can use this very cool feature, which is the crop so I can
crop this from the left. I can crop this from the right. And then I can crop it
from the top and bottom. So basically, we can create a
backdrop for our type as well to kind of have behind the type to kind of help with stand
out from that background. So I use generators in
a lot of different ways. We can also if we kind of stretch this out a little bit more, we shall zoom into the timeline here, so just come on and
plus and if we set this to just before the title comes on. (soft music) Okay, then we can use a
simple either cross dissolve, so if we come to our transitions here, or even a movement, so if we come to our movements
here we'll use a slide, I'm gonna add a slide to the
beginning of my clip there, I'm gonna take it away from the end. Basically, you can see that will slide on, and then we can get the
text to do the same. So I'm gonna grab my slide transition and add it up to the text layer too, then we'll place it from the end, it doesn't quite work at
the end in the same way. So we're not gonna troubleshoot that but we'll just kind of look
at how it works nicely. So we'll just tweak the duration
of these and the position. And then we'll come back and play it back. (soft music) And then at the end here, I'll just add a little cross dissolve. (soft music) Okay, so nice, so you can see how we can use those
kind of custom generators to do a variety of different things. We've added a title on the generator. The textures are super nice as well. So if I grabbed this grunge texture, we just look at something
a bit more advanced here, I'm just gonna use Alt and
the right square bracket to trim that down. I'm gonna stretch this
across this entire clip. So with the textures, like
the grunge textures and stuff, you'll have options up here
for different kind of textures you can add, so you can
see we've got all these kind of different textures. I'm gonna select this texture 11 so this is kind of concrete wall. Now if I come to my video options here, one real nice thing we
can do with the textures is use these different
kind of color options, to actually add some
texture to the video behind and if we take this a step
further and come to our effects, and our masks, we'll drag a mask on. And you can see we can add texture to a specific part of that video. Now I'm actually gonna
come to my shape mask in the inspector and just invert that and then base controls up here, I'm just gonna use this white,
one to make it a bit rounder, and then this outside red bar allows to kind of thin that out. So you can see we can
add this nice vignette, to that video. And then one other thing
we might wanna do sometimes is change the kind of brightness
or contrast of our videos. So if we come to this video three, we'll come to our color options here. And you can see in the color options here, we have some different options
for making color corrections. And we can also access these up at the top in the color corrections option here and if you see this color board first, and basically in the exposure
tab that we see here, we can do things like
increasing the blacks, changing the whites, and then a variety of
other different techniques for improving and kind
of working on your color. If your image is too dark
and you can lighten it up. So this is the overall
brightness of the entire image and then this is the different levels of brightness and contrast
for the darker the image, the mid tones and then the
highlights of the image, so we can kind of moderate
these different parts of the image. When you're working with color correction, one thing you might also
wanna do is learn a little bit about the video scopes as well. But that's for another tutorial. So we've had a look at how
we can add type to an image, how we can add our clips to the timeline, and then also how we can do some very basic color correction. So a couple of plugins
now that are super useful for Final Cut Pro 10. And we're gonna kind of touch on these, and we want to run through all the details about how to install plugins. But these are three plugins
I would definitely recommend going and having a look at. So the first one is
text plugin from Tapsa, or Tapio Haaja from Finland. And basically, is this text
with a background on it which is super useful. So there isn't a built
in text with background in Final Cut Pro 10. But I'll leave a link
below to Tapio's video. And you can download the plugin from there and it has some instructions on using it. But basically this plugin
in Final Cut Pro 10 allows you to add text to the timeline, I'll just move ahead
here with a background. So basically we can have
text with a background here, we can come in and modify it. And we can also apply kind of any of the normal 2D styles
that we have, to that text, we can change the size of the text, we can change the line spacing, and it just gives that nice
kind of background to your text which you don't have in
some of the free plugins. That's definitely a plugin I'd
recommend taking a look at, you can also use transitions
on a text layer as well. So if we come back to our transitions, some of the movements are super nice. So if we go for instance for the slide, we can track that onto our clip. And it will slide in,
at the beginning there, will make that happen over
a longer period of time. And then at the end, the slide out always does
a bit of a weird thing. So I tend to always use my cross dissolve on clips like that. So basically I'm just gonna
turn my music off at the moment, so you can see that slides
in and then fades out. And we can modify the
position of this as well. So we can change the position of our type under the published
parameters for this plugin. Okay, so we can pop this down there. And so yeah, take a look at this. I've done some tutorials on
this multi line background, and it's a super useful type plugin to have in Final Cut Pro 10. So we've had a look at
how we can add text, how we can modify some
colors and color correction and add these types of tints and also how we can kind of
move clips around the timeline in a few different ways. So one other thing that
I wanna have a look at is one plugin that I definitely recommend, guessing when you're beginning to work with Final Cut Pro 10, and
that is an adjustment layer. Now, I use the adjustment layer
from ripple tools complete, which is available from FxFactory. So if you jump onto FxFactory
and search for ripple, you'll find a whole bunch of
really useful tools there, but the ripple tool is complete, contains a whole bunch of plugins that allows you to add
an adjustment layer, which we'll look at in a second, we can track type in there, we can also track blur in
there and that type of stuff, but this adjustment layer
is what I wanna look at. And if you need a free adjustment layer, they are available. Alex 4D has created one
and I'll leave a link below to the adjustment layer. But basically with these adjustment layer, we'll use the ripple
tools to complete one. The really cool thing
is that if we drag this over multiple clips where
we made color adjustment on one clip, we can basically
add it to multiple clips. So if I take an effect, we'll come into our effects
and go to our color effects. Then if we add colorize to this, then it's gonna add it to all those clips. So you can see now if I
come to my effect up here and change the color, we're not just changing one clip anymore, we're adding that change. Let's change this to something else, we're adding that change
to all of the clips. So basically, if we increase
the intensity of that, you can see now we're less. we're modifying all of
these different images so we can map our blacks to this orange. And we'll pick something
that's a bit brighter here for our main colors,
increase the intensity, and now you can see, rather
than just modifying one clip, we've modified them all, which is super useful if
you're doing a longer edit, and you've got color adjustments
to make to multiple clips, you can kind of use this adjustment layer over the top of your clips. So let's take In this colorized one, if we come to our color adjustments here, you can see we can also work on things like the saturation with this as well. So we can make all of those
clips below black and white. And we can also do kind of
basic color correction here as well, where we can modify the color and obviously, it's gonna modify the color of all of those clips, that's definitely in terms
of color corrections, something for another
tutorial, but you can see how the adjustment layer
works really well there. And one final thing that you can do with the adjustment layers here is actually also modify the scale, so just look at the
original adjustment layers, we'll be using with a color and we'll drag a new one down here. And basically, when we work
with adjustment layer here, we looked at how we can modify the color. But if we come to our video properties, we can change the scale of that and that will also change
the scale of the clip in the background. So you can see we're
zooming into this clip here, but also into multiple clips
so we can basically zoom in. And once we get into kind
of animating that zoom, we can animate that as well. So for instance, we zoom out of this, and we grab some some basic type and we'll just use the basic title here. I'm gonna drop it on top of
the adjustment layer here. And we'll just type in. So with our adjustment layer there, basically it's zooming in
on the clips behind it. So at this moment, it's zooming in on the image behind there, but if I drop the title below here, is zooming in on that title as well. Now what this means is that if
I select my adjustment layer, and I add a key frame for the scale here, and I just come to the
beginning of that video there, will come ahead in time and
I will zoom in a little more. She will go back and just change zoom out
a bit closer to 100%. We'll just disable the audio here first, you can see that as we zoom in there, now we're zooming into
the text and the image. So basically, we're controlling zoom for both those elements, as we kind of have it over the top. So if you have multiple text elements, for instance, you don't
need to animate them all, we can just animate them one at a time. So you can see I've got two layers there, I've got the video in the background. And with the adjustment layer, animating, it's actually animating
all of those layers. So I don't need to go in and
animate these two text layers, all the video background separately. That's a really nice kind of feature of the adjustment layer as well as being able to do the color adjustment. One final plugin that's
definitely kind of worth a look at is from Brett effects, and
that is the snap zoom plugin. So we'll come to our dance here and we're gonna use the
Brett effect snaps zoom. We'll drag this over the top here. And basically what's gonna happen is now just trim down this clip. So it's just affecting this one clip. So on the right square
bracket is it's gonna zoom in on a particular part of our image. So if we come back here, we'll zoom in. And we'll come to our
published options here. Basically, we can change the position that we're zooming into here. So basically, we'll zoom in up here, and we'll change the scale a bit, so not quite so much of a zoom. So we'll go into 250%. And so this is super useful
if you're doing tutorials or something like that. And you wanna zoom in on a
certain part of the screen, you can see we zoom in, and then zoom out, and then we have the blurred
transition afterwards. So for a lot of the
tutorials I'm working on, I will use this kind of snap zoom to zoom in on a particular
part of timeline. So I'm just gonna do
Shift, Control and three, to rather quick screenshot of my screen and we can drag that
right from the screenshot onto the timeline. So with something like
the snaps zoom here, If we're talking about particular part of the Final Cut Pro 10 timeline here, then it will zoom in, and
we can moderate the zoom. So we'll zoom out a little bit. And then if we nudge across. So basically, you can
see where this snap zoom was zooming in on a very
specific part of the screen. And then once we're done,
we are gonna zoom out, so we'll just get this to the right spot. Okay, so we're just showing this off. So if we play this through,
you'll see we'll zoom in, and then zoom out, and
it will kind of punch us into a particular part of the screen and we can kind of use this to snap zoom into different parts of our screen. So I'm gonna turn my
music back on here now and we'll have a look at one
last thing in Final Cut Pro 10. So that is synchronizing audio and video. So in my audio event here, I've got these two tracks here that are basically one track
of video which has audio from the built in camera
and then one audio track that's recorded from a microphone. Now if we select these two
tracks and right click, you can see we've got this option to synchronize the two clips. So this isn't a multicam sequence, we're just synchronizing audio with video. So basically now we can synchronize those. It's gonna use the audio
for synchronization. And it's gonna disable the
audio component from the video, and just keep the audio
from the microphone there. So we'll click OK. And so now we've got a little
bit of a different icon here, I'm just gonna use Shift
and Z up in my event there so you can see that's my original clip, and then this is my synchronized clip. So I'm gonna drag this
down to the timeline. And we'll just trim this down to here and use all the right square bracket. And so basically, we have this clip, we might need to tidy up
the audio a bit later, but what I wanted to demonstrate here, how to clip the audio for the music here. So basically, if I come to my tools here and grab my range selection
tool I can stretch this out. And then with that range
selected on the audio, I can come to my audio levels
here and drag that down. Okay, so basically now, my audio for my music will drop down and then my voice can kick in. And one thing we wanna
make sure we keep an eye on with audio, I'm just going to
jump back to my Select Tool is and disable this is
that my audio is mixed around minus 12 to minus six. So if I click my audio levels here, they'll pop up on the
right hand side there, I'm gonna hide my effects. And when I play this through, you can see things are a bit low, so they're hovering between
minus 20 and minus 12. So we might wanna increase
this a little bit. So I'm just dragging the
audio levels up there, right in the timeline, maybe by six or seven
decibels and that is too loud. So I'm gonna hold down the
command key as I drag this down and it will allow me to moderate
it slightly, more slightly. So we're hovering between that
minus 12 and minus six there, as we're working on this. So when we have the audio music back in, so tapping the V key to re enable that. So I have my voice there
nicely mixed with the music in the background. And we can kind of work
on that a bit more, that audio dipping is super useful. And you can see how when we
use the range selection tool, it's allowing us to kind
of dip certain parts of that audio really easily. So let's trim the audio down here. We've got our kind of
mishmash edit here now. And now we wanna export
it to upload to YouTube. Now, most of the time, I will export out as a master file. So I'm gonna select my timeline here. Make sure I have nothing selected. If I do have something
selected like a clip like this or my clip below here, with
the range selection tool, then it will actually
only select that area, so I kind of wanna make sure that I got everything deselected just by clicking in the grey area here. And then if I come to my
share button at the top right, I can come to share master file. And then under settings here, I'm just gonna check
we've got video and audio. That's right, and we're
gonna export our H264, which is normally for me fine
quality and 1920 by 1080, that's not gonna change. If you are uploading to Instagram then you might wanna
change this to computer and it will export out an MPEG4 for you. But we're gonna stick
with video and audio here that's fine for an upload
to YouTube will hit next and we will export this out. And a short clip like
this one minute long, should export pretty quickly. We don't have a lot of effects on there. So basically once that's exported out that video we'll be ready to
upload to YouTube to Facebook and you're good to go. One thing I would do is make sure that you review your
final video and make sure that it is playing back perfectly. And hopefully you found
this tutorial useful, it really kind of tried
to cram a lot in there in Final Cut Pro 10 and
I know a lot of people are trying to learn Final Cut Pro 10 now, so I wanted to make a new tutorial that covered some of the things
that I'm doing every day. So everything from adding
clips to the timeline, deleting clips, shuffling clips around using some of the
transitions, adding titles, and then also mixing audio. And we've tried to kind of cram this into this quick tutorial. So hopefully this is a useful tutorial for everyone who's beginning
to learn Final Cut Pro 10. I'll leave all the links to the plugins I've mentioned below. And if you have any questions
about Final Cut Pro 10 then please leave a comment below. Otherwise, I look forward to seeing you on the next tutorial.
Cool thank you! Iām getting back into editing after a 5ish year hiatus of looking at this software so this is super helpful!