Final Cut Pro X Creative Summit
And now we're on 10.3!
This event is special to me - it's one of the friendliest conferences I get to go to.
Speaking of which - I have *NO PHOTOS* of me speaking. If you happen to have one, I'd love to have it.
My sessions
Color Correction Basics
This 5 hour class laid the groundwork for some good practices for CC. See the Advanced Class info.
Compression Made Easy
Among other things - I built a preset for clients - CBR, a little crunchy + a watermark. You'll have it too when you download my notes.
Just drag it into Compressors Setting window.
Advanced Color Correction
I included the complex color board with a Primary, Secondary for faces (a combination of a keyer and a shape), and a third color board as a Vignette.
Just double click it to add it to your system.
To get my notes:
Sign up here (which is a very low friction, low contact list) and at the end of the signup, you'll get a link to all of my notes & presets.
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Bonus
Here's the 30 in 30 list
- Shift T (Transform), Shift C (crop), Optional D (distort)
- Audition in the Browser
- Controlling the Video (Ctrl V) for the video animation
- Using click/shift click to adjust the timing of an animation on the timeline
- Shift 1,2,3 to modify adding clips to the timeline
- Spatial conform of multiple stills via the Bottom of the Video tab of the inspector. Don't miss "Fill" vs. "Fit"
- Holding down the tool key (like Z) and using it...to release and have it snap back to the Arrow.
- X to mark the spot. Q to add a clip exactly to that duration.
- X to mark the spot, CMD-Opt-W to add a lower third perfectly on a clip.
- Optional R - Replace from Start.
- Adding a Freeze Frame from the Browser (opt F) adds it as a connected clip - and doesn't disturb your timing
- Quickest montage.
- Add Music under a Gap
- CMD B tap while playing back
- Opt R replace as you go.
- The Optional Control of Loudness is absolute - perfect for quickly setting music to not blast your years
- Bonus: Opt click the green dot to maximize OS X windows w/o going full screen.
- Bonus: Three finger swipe down in OS X to show recent documents.
Event Waveforms (Apple)
You should change the default view of FCPX's event browser to add waveforms to the clips.
With this tiny switch on, you can suddenly scrub through footage and 'see' what the person is saying while you scrub.
DMDC: Mastering the Magnetic Timeline
FCPX has some great features - it's timeline is really worth looking at.
I didn't get as far through this talk as I would have liked, but I am always more interested in the audience and where their needs are (than my need to get through 30+ slides.)
Meanwhile, here are the notes.
Mastering the Magnetic Timeline in FCPX
FCPX reinvented the way we edit - either you hate it or are willing to embrace it. This session covered some of features of base editorial - where it's nearly impossible to go out of sync and you have to rethink the concept of 'tracks.'
I didn't get to cover some of the deeper topics here (such as trimming), but they're in my notes - feel free to ask questions if you have any!