Final Cut Pro basics and editing

The Black Oil · 13-10-2014 9:52pm #1

Hey,

I've been slowly getting a handle on FCPX, but don't know much. I've imported some old video 8 tapes, trimmed a few seconds here and there - that's about the height of it. Most of what I've learned is from Youtube tutorials.

More recently, I've some footage I took with a more modern camera, on SD card. I've imported this and FCP organises it by date. I'm not sure how to organise this in the timeline, I can edit a little, but getting it all into one video, erm, how? When I try (compound clip - maybe this is wrong), it puts the most recent date (Sept 18th) first and the oldest (Sept 11th) last. It's not going to be a large video, just a few minutes of holiday footage.

Does anyone know of any good tutorials, or guides? Thanks.

ZENER · 13-10-2014 10:34pm

There's plenty of tutorials about, some good some meh, trick is finding ones that suit your learning curve.

Have a look at these and see if they suit, or just type FCP tutorials into Google. Most are video based which makes sense as it's more a visual thing

http://www.izzyvideo.com/final-cut-pro-x-tutorial/

http://www.fcp.co/final-cut-pro/tutorials/1507-six-basic-final-cut-pro-x-editing-tutorials-from-wolfang-digital

http://www.larryjordan.biz/editing-resource-library/

Ken

The Black Oil · 31-10-2014 9:46am

Thanks, Ken. I figured out how to get the segments in order. Inserting a little audio is the next task.

Final Cut Pro basics and editing

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