In this article, I want to talk about what happens when you make a color or exposure adjustment to a clip; and illustrate this with screen shots.
One of the great new features with multiclips in Final Cut Pro X is how easy it is to add and sync new clips into an existing multicam master. Here’s a video tutorial that shows you how.
There are two ways to create movies using custom image sizes: one in Motion and one in Compressor. This illustrates both methods.
Here’s a step-by-step technique that shows you how to create chapter markers manually or automatically in Compressor.
Audio slowly drifting out of sync is often caused by mismatched sample rates, or trying to edit MP3 audio. This explains how to convert MP3 to AIF.
Final Cut Pro X contains the built-in ability to check grammar and spelling in title text. This short video tutorial shows you how it works.
Often, we need to organize our clips manually as we figure out the organization we need to make sense of a project. Keywords are perfect for this – and very fast, both to apply and to use.
Here’s a technique that explains what and how to import and organize your files in Final Cut Pro X.
Here’s a great technique to match the sound of your audio between clips using Final Cut Pro X. Best of all, its fast!
There’s a new feature in Final Cut Pro X 10.0.3 called “clip skimming.” This technique explains how to use it.
Editing a montage of still or moving images to music is a typical editing activity. In this tutorial, I want to show you a technique you can use for your own projects.
Adobe Story can help you write, plan, collaborate, and schedule your next production. This video tutorial shows you how to get started. You can access Story from anywhere via a web browser, or as part of the Adobe Production Premium suite.
Photoshop is legendary for fixing image problems. But the Extended version can also retouch video, as this video tutorial illustrates.
Sometimes, you need to edit a clip into the FCP X Timeline based upon the Out, not the In — think sports highlight. This type of edit is called a “back-time edit;” because it edits from the “back” of a clip. This technique shows you how.
The open secret of Final Cut Pro X is that all its effects are Motion 5 projects. This means that you can use Motion to create custom effects for use in Final Cut. This video tutorial shows you how this works.
Compressor scares a lot of people. However, if all you want to do is compress a video for YouTube, Compressor makes the process very easy. This technique shows you how.
This article explains how Final Cut Pro X handles Events and Projects. It explains where they are stored and how you can make them active, or inactive.
With the release of FCP X: 10.0.3, Apple made a subtle change to both transitions and preferences. In this tutorial, I show you what the changes are, and how they affect the way we apply transitions.
Although Adobe Audition and Premiere Pro are designed to work smoothly together, that doesn’t mean you are limited to only using Premiere Pro with Audition. In fact, there is a very nice, very fast way to move projects between Final Cut Pro 7 and Audition, which I want to show you here.
In this tutorial, we look at multitrack editing in Adobe Audition. Starting with how to create new projects and import files, to how to edit them in the Timeline, this step-by-step training explains what you need to know.