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The fundamentals of video editing - Final Cut Pro Tutorial

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The fundamentals of video editing

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- [Instructor] Before we dive even deeper into the essentials of working with Final Cut, it's important for us to take a look at the key stages of the video editing process. We can take these stages, and divide them into three parts. We have ingest, or importing your material into your video editor. We then edit that material, and then we share and export it. While there are three stages, there are always a series of sub stages that go along with each of these sections, and to take a look at how that might play out in Final Cut. I have the following graph. So import, edit and share could revolve around several different things as you see here. With import, we have the ability to archive or clone the source media, and work with that within our editor. We can ingest the material. Work with the raw media or even import versions of clips that are smaller than that, and then the ability to organize. So with Final Cut that's rating, adding ratings, keywords, smart collections and roles to help us with that process. With editing, we have the rough edit, and after we build that rough edit within a project, we then fine-tune that edit. The rough edit involves append, inserting and connecting clips into a timeline. And as soon as we've built the bulk of our story, we then begin to trim it and play with the timing of how one clip comes into another. From there, a number of other stages in that process, including adding effects, titles and transitions as well as finishing mixing our audio, and color correcting our clips all under that edit umbrella. And when we have a final project, we're ready to share that. We'll export a master for us to use as an archive to keep on hand. We'll then have multiple other formats. Some to share on social media, and maybe additional venues through multiple destination shares, and then even the ability to take that process even further by using other apps available to us, such as Compressor, which will expand and even customize our delivery especially when it comes to specific Apple resources. And there you have it, the key stages of video editing. I want you to keep this in mind of when we start the next chapter, and you can see how the tasks that we do fit into this process.

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