
Welcome to your course orientation...let's get comfortable.
A look around Final Cut Pro's interface just to make you feel at home
By the end of this lesson, you will understand the difference between and reason for Final Cut Pro's Libraries, Events, and Projects, plus how this will make you more efficient.
The first thing to do in setting up your workspace is to create your library, events, and projects. In this lesson, you will learn how to do this, plus what not to do.
Good news - We are giving you a special Assets Bundle so you can follow along with us plus access additional content you can use in your videos.
Let's look at how the easiest and most efficient way to add media to your project.
After importing your media, the next step is to move your selected media to your timeline. Here you will learn how to easily do this and some tricks too, like moving just part of a clip to your timeline.
Discover a simple six-step workflow that will guide all your projects
Using a drag-and-drop approach, you will start building your first draft project
There are many powerful editing tools, and in this lesson, we will look at two of them - the select tool and the trim tool and how you can use them in getting your first draft ready
Two more powerful tools to help you create your first draft are the position and range tools...plus a reminder about the most forgiving (and important) tool of all.
Two more tools that will make your life a lot easier when setting up your first draft are the zoom and hand tools. Discover how to use these to make working on your timeline easier.
Getting your clips into the right sequence is important. In this lesson, we will look at how you can use audio to help inform your arrangement.
Learning how and when to use transitions is important to produce professional-looking videos. By the end of this lesson, you will have learned how to do this.
Learn how to make your transitions subtle to make your video more professional
The power of storylines and how you can use them to be more efficient and create a more captivating video
We all want to save time and be efficient, and thankfully Final Cut Pro has some great tools that will help you. In this lesson, we will look at some of these tools.
Your imagination is the only limit on what you can do with Final Cut Pro. In this lesson, we will unleash your imagination by looking at special effect tools.
The Transform tool allows you to do some amazing things to your clips. Let's see what is possible.
The transform tool is extremely powerful, so let’s see how we can utilise its potential.
Not only will this tool save time, but it will also let you change time. It's a real winner!
Besides your video media, you can use Titles and Text also to enhance your story. We will learn how to do this in this lesson.
Share your project with the world - learn how to export, make it smaller (if needed), and more.
Learn how to add and edit audio to enhance your video, plus some pro tips to make sure your video stands out from the rest!
Keyframes allow you to do a whole lot more with your audio - learn how to use them to tweak your order and get amazing results
Clever tools that will enable you to improve and balance your videos' colors
Video isn't always stable and perfect - so how do you fix it? Can you fix it? In this lesson, you will learn how you can stabilise videos.
Learn the magic to remove distracting background noises that are taking attention away from someone speaking
It's the end. It's the beginning. It's the best of times. It's the most exciting of times.
What's the course about?
One hour - One goal - Making you a competent video editor with Final Cut Pro. In just one hour, we will take you on a journey from showing you the basics of Final Cut Pro all the way through to applying some professional-level effects that will transform your videos.
Why this course?
Professional - Powerful - Precise
Professional - Your instructors, have some of the highest-rated courses on Udemy. The reason for this is that we combine years of experience in using Final Cut Pro with the highest qualification possible in online teaching - a PhD in Education Technology.
Powerful - We don't just show you, we guide you in your learning. Using the included Final Cut Pro asset bundle you are able to follow along and create your own amazing videos.
Precise - We have taken our highly-rated long courses and condensed them into this to-the-point, quick-starting, precise course on video editing.
What kind of materials are included?
The course includes everything you need. The lectures are professionally created, as people have come to expect from our courses. We will explain everything to you and give you access to our special Final Cut Pro Asset Bundle. This doesn't only include content you can use to follow along, it has additional bonus content you can use in making your own videos.
Why take this course?
It is quite simply the best short course on Final Cut Pro, covering the key content, in the most engaging way, presented by a most unique teaching team!