>>Video Solutions>>FCP X OverviewFinal Cut Pro X is one stop solution to all video editing and trimming requirements. It is exceptionally easy to use, and its user-friendly interface is designed very clean to offer the very best user experience. It offers very smooth and swift workflow with superior quality through every part of the post-production process. It is ultra fast on the new Mac Pro and gives an incredible real-time performance with Dual-GPU support when working with multiple streams and layered effects of 4K video. Final Cut Pro X uses both GPUs to increase the speed of background rendering and speed up the demanding tasks like optical flow analysis.
Final Cut Pro X has been updated to meet the next-gen architecture with the new Mac Pro. It gives the user outstanding performance with brilliant output while editing and monitoring videos. Final Cut Pro is optimized in an extraordinary way that lets you create stunning videos faster than ever. Its user interface is designed in a way that working with complex graphics and effects is now fun.
"Final Cut Pro X lets you edit the videos and deliver the quality like never before!"
Part1. FCP X Top 15 Key Features Part2. Introduce the UI of FCP X
Part3. Tech Specs of Final Cut Pro X Part4. File Formats of FCPX
"Range-based keywords" is a brilliant feature of Final Cut Pro X. With Final Cut Pro X, simply select a range of time in your footage and then assign one or more keywords to it. You can also create multiple overlapping ranges on the same clip itself. You can use keyboard shortcuts to work more fast and quick. At the time, when you assign a keyword to the range, Final Cut Pro automatically sets up a Keyword Collection. In the keyword collections, it places the shot inside, and it's ready for use. Find function lets you combine the keywords with other metadata to locate important shots easily. This feature makes your work whole lot easier.
Filmstrip & List Views is again a brilliant feature added to Final Cut Pro X to ease the users. Screen your media become very easy with filmstrip view in the Browse because you can immediately see and have an access to what you're looking for. List view includes small filmstrips that facilitate you to combine the power of a visual reference with rich metadata for the purpose of sorting and searching.
Grouping clips feature of Final Cut Pro X uses the power of metadata to organize related media instantly in the Browser. Grouping can be based on media drive, duration, reel, scene, file type etc. You can quickly arrange your media after grouping it inside the group using camera metadata such as name, duration, take, and timestamp.
This feature preserves range selections when moving between clips in the Browser. Along with this, it even creates multiple selections on a single clip that is just perfect for working with long files to live performances like sports where live performances are recorded.
Timeline Index is a feature used to navigate the timeline by jumping directly to clips, markers, keywords, and to-do items. Information is filtered with a click, so the users see only the items they care about while stepping through a complicated project. Use the built-in search tool to filter the clips you want to use.
Media re-link is a very nice feature added to Final Cut Pro X. With this users can re-connect media and exchange files with third-party applications using a robust re-link interface. Then easily re-link files to your Final Cut Pro X library.
The Magnetic Timeline feature eliminates the restrictions of traditional, track-based timelines. So you will never be slowed down out-of-sync problems or by clip collisions as you're working under pressure to assemble your story. The Magnetic Timeline tracks clip relationships as you trim, rearrange, or add clips, and this lets you easily make changes in even if there are most complex sequences automatically.
Multicam edits projects very smoothly and at a fast speed than ever before. With a collection of innovative features, use Multicam to Select videos and photos, and then create a Multicam Clip by automatically syncing different angles based on time of day, time-code, markers, or audio waveforms. Change, add, or delete camera angles any time, work with different frame sizes, frame rates and formats without conversion. On the time to cut your Multicam project, simply click in the Angle Viewer or you can also use keyboard shortcuts to switch between video and audio on the fly. You can also combine audio channels from multiple cameras with a simple click.
Compound clip is a great feature to group clips in your timeline or library. You can consolidate them into a Compound Clip easily. Include any media such as video, audio, or graphics to apply an effect or simplify your project like a speed change, to multiple clips at once. If you want to work with the individual element simply step into any Compound Clip or break it apart right in the timeline. Compound Clips are saved back to the Browser automatically. It is easy to reuse them in other projects. Compound Clips work exactly like Multicam Clips, so whatever changes you make in the Browser instantly ripple across your projects.
Inline Precision Editor helps you fine-tune the timing of an edit. Simply double-click any edit point to reveal the Inline Precision Editor.
Skimming is the most responsive way to view vast amounts of media. In the Filmstrip view, Skimming lets you fly through keyword and allows selecting the best takes. For ultrafast navigation and editing, combine the Skimmer with the familiar Playhead. Skim to any point in your timeline and then use the Space bar to play the video instantly.
With Clip Collections, Now it is easy to position titles, music, and sound effects, with direct links to reference clips in the timeline. Users can easily establish a new connection with a simple keystroke and change the connection point at any time to sync clips accurately.
Auditions is an excellent feature added to Final Cut Pro X. Users can benefit themselves by using Auditions to try out different shots in a faster way. In the timeline, collect multiple clips within one Audition clip and then play them back in context to see which one works best. Auditions can be used to the same clip with different effects applied. Also used to try different performances of the same line. As each shot is tried, the Magnetic Timeline adjusts to reflect the clip length instantly, keeping everything in sync.
Dual Viewer is an advanced feature of Final Cut Pro. It allows you to enable a second viewer to display the source media you select, skim, and play in your Browser. Choose Dual Viewer to show video scopes for both viewers, and it makes easy to grade and match footage. With this, you can even position scopes below each viewer to maximize screen real estate.
With Timeline Trimming, you can adjust your clips in the timeline for the fastest and easiest way to directly make timing changes. Use the "Trimming tool" for standard trimming functions as ripple, slip, slide, roll, and extend.
The Final Cut Pro X interface was designed with traditional editing work-flows. It comprised of four main windows that are designed with tried-and-trusted methods of viewing, organizing, and editing physical tapes or film media.
The Browser: Source media files (clips) are listed in the browser uses the editor's traditional film 'bins' or stacks of videotapes.
The Viewer: Individual media files can be previewed and trimmed here; it uses the source monitor of old tape based systems.
The Canvas: The Canvas uses the 'program' monitor in such systems and the edited material is viewed here.
The Timeline: Here, the media are cut or assembled together into a sequence; uses the same style of the master tape of earlier systems or physically edited film.
Let's understand in detail about Browser, Viewer, Timeline and Canvas.
The Browser is not an interface to computer's file-system in most digital non-linear editing applications. It is a virtual space in which references to clips are placed and arranged in folders called 'bins' to facilitate easy access. They references to clips on the media drive of the computer are just references not source files. Therefore, moving or deleting the source file on the media hard drive leads to destroying the link between the actual media and the entry in the Browser and this result in a "media offline" situation. In that case, the media must be 'reconnected'. Final Cut Pro itself searches for the media and even the user can do this manually too. If, at the same time, all multiple clips are offline, Final Cut can reconnect all the offline media clips that belong to relative directory path. Video transitions and filters can be easily browsed and dragged between clips with 'effects' tab in the browser.
The contents of the Timeline give output in the Canvas. To add clips to the Timeline, instead of directly dragging them there, to drag clips from the Browser or Viewer onto the Canvas is possible, whereupon the 'edit overlay' appears. The edit overlay consists of 7 drop zones within which clips can be easily dragged to perform the different edits. The default is the 'overwrite' edit that overwrites the space occupied after the playhead with the incoming clip. There is an 'insert' edit that slots a clip into the sequence at the playhead's position or at in point keeping the remaining video intact, but keep moving it all aside so the new clip fits.
There are drop zones to have the application insert transitions automatically. The 'replace' in the Final Cut Pro X replaces a clip with an incoming clip in the Timeline. There is 'fit to fill' edit that does exactly the same thing, but at the same time it also adjusts the playback speed of the incoming clip in order to ensure that all of it will fit into the required space.
There is the 'superimpose' edit in the application. The Superimpose edit automatically places the dropped clip on the track above the existing clip in the Timeline and that too with duration equal to the clip below it. Unless the in or out point are set by the user, all edits occur from the position of the played in the Timeline.
In Canvas, Using the wireframe view, the clip can be directly manipulated by dragging it around in the canvas to change its position. For these things, precise adjustment controls are in the viewer.
The viewer consists of tab for each channel of the selected clip's audio, where the waveform for the audio can be viewed, scrubbed, and its volume can be key framed. Effects for the clip appear in the filter tab, and their parameters can be adjusted and key framed in the filter tab.
If the clip selected is a generator, a control tab changes its geometrical properties. The viewer contains motion tab that consists of tools to adjust the scale, cropping, rotation, opacity, distortion, motion blur, drop shadow, and time remapping properties of a clip. Mini-timelines to the right of each parameter allows the property to be key framed.
Timeline offer numerous features to the users. The Timeline in Final Cut Pro facilitates 99 video tracks that can be layered on top of each other. In the timeline, Clips can be edited together called sequences. One sequence can be nested inside other sequence and with this filter or transition can be applied to the grouped clips. In the timeline, If a clip is higher than another, whatever is below it is obscured. Video clip size can be altered with ease, and the clips can also be cropped. There are many other settings that can be changed to benefit the user in a greater way.
Timeline offers feature to alter the Opacity levels. Final Cut Pro X comprises of more than a dozen common compositing modes to apply to clips, such as Add, Subtract, Overlay, Screen, Multiply, etc. The compositing mode for a clip can be changed by right-clicking on the clip and selecting it from the contextual menu. It can also be done by selecting the mode from the 'modify' menu of Final Cut Pro X.
For more advanced compositing, Final Cut Pro X is compatible with Apple's Shake (now discontinued) and Apple Motion software.
A set of hot-keys is used by Final Cut Pro X to select the tools. There are almost 400 keyboard commands that facilitate the user with increased speed of edits that is combined with the nonlinear approach of digital editing. It provides Final Cut Pro users with several editing options. Users are also free to set their own customizable keyboard preferences too as per their usage and ease.
Minimum System Requirements of Final Cut Pro X include:
√ OS X v10.9.2 or later
√ 4GB of RAM (8GB recommended for 4K)
√ Open CL-capable graphics card or Intel HD Graphics 3000 or later
√ 256MB of VRAM (1GB recommended for 4K)
√ 3.5GB of disk space
Technically, Final Cut Pro X consists of different files as:
· Project File
· Media Source Files
· Render Files, Cache Files
Final Cut Pro can be configured to store Media and Render/Cache Files as the location for Media, and the Render/Cache Files is not standardized and can be configured by the user. Some users keep a central directory to store all their Source/Render/Cache files but some set those file paths to specific project directory to keep all project files at one place. Once the project is finished, users can erase everything other than the project file. This is to save the disk space. Final Cut Pro can re-capture and re-link all source data at a later time. It can also recalculate all render and cache data only if it can access all linked sources.
The initial versions of Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express used a binary file. Binary file contained all information such as time-code information, clips in & out points, size/crop/position, filter settings, composition nesting, automation data etc. Before Final Cut Pro X, most recent editions of Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express used the file extension ".fcp". The latest version of Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Pro X uses new file extension ".fcpx". Apple has faced criticism for not supporting its old ".fcp" project files while it supports importing iMovie projects (.imovieproj files).
Media source files are captured from tape or loaded/imported from the file system.
The files that are generated by Final Cut Pro X, these include audio waveform display, filter effects etc.
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