Final Cut Pro X Tutorial for Beginners

This tutorial is for the course ART100D. It covers the basics of Final Cut Pro X that you will need for your video project, in a from-the-ground-up manner meant for first time users. Table of Contents with times: A. Formatting your external drive for use with Final Cut Pro X 0:00 B. Getting Set Up 2:21 1. Create a new FCPX Library on Your External Drive 2:41 2. Create a new FCPX Project 4:29 C. Importing Video 5:00 From camera/desktop D. Anatomy of Editing Suite Interface 8:41 E. Adding Media to your project 12:31 Compound clips 15:56 F. Basic Editing Tools 17:16 1. Select Tool 17:20 2. Position Tool 17:36 3. Zoom Tool 18:48 4. Blade Tool 20:08 5. Trim Tool 21:01 a. Ripple Edit 21:38 b. Roll Edit 23:04 c. Slip Edit 23:45 d. Slide Edit 24:57 6. Precision Editor 25:57 7. Generating a “Gap” 27:21 8. Transforming, Cropping, and Distorting 30:11 a. Transform 30:45 b. Crop 33:45 c. Distort 34:56 9.Adding Transitions 35:40 a. Cross Dissolve 37:21 b. Fade to Color 39:28 10. Adjusting Opacity 43:01 11. Retiming 46:14 a. Slow Motion and Fast Forward 46:25 b. Reverse 48:44 12. Adding Effects to Clips 49:32 13. Copying effects from one clip to another 53:46 G. Editing Audio 54:56 1. dB (decibels) 55:03 2. Fade Handles 56:14 3. Expand Audio/Video 58:05 4. Importing Audio Clips 1:00:06 5. Detach Audio 1:01:25 6. Range Selection Tool 1:02:10 H. Exporting video to YouTube 1:04:03