Final Cut Pro basics and editing

The Black Oil

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

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

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