Final Cut Pro X User Guide

• Welcome
• What’s new
  • What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.4.9
  • What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.4.7
  • What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.4.6
  • What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.4.4
  • What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.4.1
  • What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.4
  • What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.3
  • What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.2
  • What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.1.2
  • What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.1
  • What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.0.6
  • What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.0.3
  • What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.0.1
• Final Cut Pro basics
  • What is Final Cut Pro?
  • What are libraries?
  • Final Cut Pro workflow
  • Final Cut Pro interface
  • Media files and clips
• Import and analyze media
  • Intro to importing media
  • If it’s your first import
  • Import from connected cameras
    • Import from file-based cameras
    • Import spanned clips
    • Import from iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
    • Import from digital still cameras
    • Import from tape-based cameras
    • If your camera isn’t recognized
  • Import from devices
    • Import from your Mac or storage device
    • Import from an archive or disk image
  • Organize files during import
  • Import from other apps
    • Import from iMovie for macOS
    • Import from iMovie for iOS or iPadOS
    • Import from Photos
    • Import from Music
    • Import from Motion
    • Import from GarageBand and Logic Pro
    • Import using workflow extensions
  • Record into Final Cut Pro
  • Memory cards and cables
  • Supported media formats
  • Adjust ProRes RAW camera settings
  • Import REDCODE RAW files
  • Analyze media
    • Intro to analyzing media
    • Video analysis options
    • Audio analysis options
    • Analyze your media
    • View analysis keywords
• Play back and organize media
  • Play back and skim media
    • Intro to playback
    • Play media
    • Skim media
    • Play media in the event viewer
    • Compare two video frames
    • Play media on an external display
    • Control playback quality
    • Show overlays in the viewer
    • Background rendering
    • Play back slow-motion clips
  • Organize your library
    • Intro to libraries
    • Organize your projects, events, and media
      • Create a new event
      • Rename items
      • View and sort items
      • Merge and split events
      • Move items between events
      • Duplicate projects and clips
      • Delete items from libraries
    • Organize clips
      • Rate clips
      • Add keywords
      • Add clip and project notes
      • Organize clips by roles
      • Colored lines on event clips
    • Find items using search, keywords, and Smart Collections
      • Find clips and projects
      • Create Smart Collections
      • Organize Smart Collections
    • Restore a library
• Edit your project
  • Intro to editing
  • Create and manage projects
    • Create a new project
    • Open and close projects
    • Modify a project’s settings
    • Create square or vertical versions of a project
    • Final Cut Pro project settings
    • Save and back up projects
    • Copy a project to another Mac
  • Select clips and ranges
    • Selections and filmstrips
    • Select clips
    • Select ranges
    • Set multiple ranges in the browser
  • Add and remove clips
    • Intro to adding clips
    • Drag clips to the timeline
    • Append clips to your project
    • Insert clips
    • Connect clips
    • Overwrite clips
    • Replace clips
    • Add still images
    • Create freeze frames
    • Add only a clip’s video or audio
    • Remove clips from projects
    • Solo or disable clips
    • Find a project clip’s source clip
  • Make three-point edits
    • Intro to three-point editing
    • Three-point editing guidelines
    • Three-point edit examples
  • Arrange clips in the timeline
  • Cut and trim clips
    • Intro to trimming
    • Cut clips in two
    • Extend or shorten clips
    • Make roll edits
    • Make slip edits
    • Make slide edits
    • Create split edits
    • Show trimming details in the viewer
  • View and navigate
    • Zoom and scroll in the timeline
    • Adjust timeline clip appearance
    • Snap to items in the timeline
    • Navigate within your project
    • Navigate using timecode
    • View source and project timecode
    • Show a list-based view of your project
  • Work with markers
    • Intro to markers
    • Add and remove markers
    • Edit and move markers
    • Add chapter markers
  • Correct shaky video
• Edit audio
  • Intro to audio
  • Audio editing basics
    • Audio waveforms
    • Audio channels and components
    • Ways to view audio clips
    • Zoom in to audio waveforms
    • View and change audio levels
    • Solo and mute audio clips
  • Add audio
    • Add music and sound
    • Record voiceovers
    • Access external audio files
  • Edit audio clips or audio components
    • Intro to audio editing
    • Configure audio channels
    • Adjust volume
    • Fade audio in and out
    • Crossfade audio in Final Cut Pro
    • Pan audio
    • Multichannel audio editing examples
  • Add and adjust audio effects
    • Add audio effects
    • Remove audio effects
    • Add the default audio effect
    • Adjust audio effects
    • Save audio effects presets
    • Keyframe audio effects
  • Audio tools and techniques
    • Enhance audio
    • Sync audio and video
    • Match audio
    • Preserve pitch in retimed clips
• Add titles
  • Add and adjust titles
    • Intro to titles
    • Add titles
    • Add the default title
    • Adjust titles
    • Text inspector controls
    • Apply preset text styles
    • Modify titles in Motion
    • Find and replace text
  • Add and adjust 3D titles
    • Intro to 3D titles
    • 3D titles workflow
    • Add 3D titles to a project
      • Add 3D titles
      • Convert text to 3D text
    • Rotate and move 3D titles
      • Rotate titles in 3D space
      • Move titles in 3D space
    • Modify basic 3D text attributes
      • Adjust basic 3D text settings
      • Modify depth and edges
      • 3D Text controls
    • Modify surface appearance
      • Intro to materials
      • Add preset materials
      • Modify materials
      • Work with material layers
      • Add a light-emitting material
      • Save modified materials
      • Add materials to 3D text facets
    • Material controls
      • Intro to Material controls
      • Substance controls
      • Paint controls
      • Finish controls
      • Distress controls
      • Emit controls
      • Placement controls
    • Change lighting style
      • Intro to 3D text lighting
      • Adjust 3D text lighting
      • Change the lighting environment
      • Lighting controls
    • Add glows or shadows
• Add effects
  • Intro to effects
  • Add and adjust transitions
    • Intro to transitions
    • How transitions are created
    • Add transitions
    • Set the default transition
    • Delete transitions
    • Adjust transitions in the timeline
    • Adjust transitions in the inspector and viewer
    • Merge jump cuts with the Flow transition
    • Adjust transitions with multiple images
    • Modify transitions in Motion
  • Adjust built-in effects
    • Intro to built-in effects
    • Resize, move, and rotate clips
    • Adjust framing with Smart Conform
    • Trim the edges of the video frame
    • Crop clips
    • Pan and zoom clips
    • Skew a clip’s perspective
    • Work with built-in effects
    • Remove built-in effects
  • Add and adjust clip effects
    • Intro to clip effects
    • Add video effects
    • Add the default video effect
    • Adjust effects
    • Use masks to define the shape of a video effect
      • Intro to effect masking
      • Add a shape mask to a video effect
      • Add a color mask to a video effect
      • Combine multiple effect masks
      • Invert effect masks
      • Animate an effect shape mask
    • Change clip effect order
    • Copy effects between clips
    • Save video effects presets
    • Copy and paste keyframes
    • Reduce video noise
    • Remove or turn off effects
    • Modify effects in Motion
  • Add generators
    • Intro to generators
    • Add placeholders
    • Add the default generator
    • Add timecode counters
    • Add shapes
    • Add backgrounds
    • Modify generators in Motion
  • Use onscreen controls
    • Intro to onscreen controls
    • Show onscreen controls
    • Onscreen control examples
  • Animate video effects
    • Intro to video keyframing
    • Add video effect keyframes
    • Modify groups of keyframes
    • Adjust effect curves
• Advanced editing
  • Use roles to manage clips and organize the timeline
    • Intro to roles
    • Guidelines for using roles
    • View and reassign roles
    • Create custom roles
    • Assign audio roles during import
    • Change role colors or names
    • Organize the timeline with roles and subroles
      • Organize the timeline with audio lanes
      • Edit components in audio lanes
      • Focus the timeline on a role
      • Reorder audio roles
      • Turn roles on or off
      • Work with audio roles in compound clips
    • Export roles
  • Add, adjust, and share captions
    • Intro to captions
    • Captions workflow
    • Create captions
    • Import captions
    • Show or hide captions
    • Edit caption text
    • Adjust and arrange captions
    • Format caption text
    • Create multilingual captions
    • Convert captions to another format
    • Export captions
  • Group clips with compound clips
    • Intro to compound clips
    • Create compound clips
    • Edit compound clips
  • Edit with multicam clips
    • Intro to multicam editing
    • Multicam editing workflow
    • Import media for multicam edits
    • Add camera names and angles
    • Create multicam clips
    • Cut and switch camera angles
    • Sync and adjust camera angles
    • Edit multicam clips
    • Multicam editing tips
  • Add storylines
  • Use the precision editor
  • Try out clips using auditions
    • Intro to auditions
    • Create auditions
    • Add clips to auditions
    • Review clips in auditions
  • Retime clips to create speed effects
    • Intro to retiming clips
    • Change clip speed
    • Create variable speed effects
    • Add speed transitions
    • Reverse or rewind clips
    • Create instant replays
    • Speed up a clip with jump cuts
    • Create hold segments
    • Reset speed changes
  • Conform frame sizes and rates
  • Use XML to transfer projects
  • Edit 360-degree video
    • Intro to 360-degree video
    • Import 360-degree video
    • 360-degree video settings
    • Create 360-degree projects
    • View and navigate 360-degree video
    • Edit a 360-degree project
      • Reorient 360-degree video
      • Add 360-degree video effects
      • Add 360-degree titles and generators
      • Add standard clips to 360-degree projects
    • Add 360-degree clips to standard projects
    • Add the 360-degree Patch effect
    • Add the Tiny Planet effect
    • Share 360-degree clips and projects
    • 360-degree video tips
• Keying, masking, and compositing
  • Keying
    • Intro to keying
    • Use chroma keys
    • Use luma keys
    • Finalize a key
  • Masking
    • Intro to masking
    • Create simple shape masks
    • Create complex masks
      • Intro to complex masks
      • Create complex masks
      • Use multiple masks
    • Edit complex masks
      • Intro to editing complex masks
      • Add control points
      • Lock and disable control points
      • Move control points
      • Edit Bezier control points
      • Edit B-Spline control points
    • Animate a mask
    • Mask controls
  • Compositing
    • Intro to compositing
    • Use alpha channels
    • Use Compositing settings
• Color correction
  • Intro to color correction
  • Quickly balance and match color
    • Intro to balancing color
    • Analyze a clip for color
    • Balance a clip’s colors
    • Manually white-balance clips
    • Match color between clips
  • Make advanced color corrections with color correction effects
    • Intro to color correction effects
    • Manual color correction workflow
    • Add color corrections
    • Remove color corrections
    • Use the Color Board
    • Use color wheels
    • Use color curves
    • Use hue and saturation curves
  • Add color masks and shape masks
    • Add a color mask
    • Edit a color mask
    • Ways to view masks
    • Add a shape mask
    • Add shape masks to a color mask
    • Remove a color or shape mask
  • Wide color gamut and HDR
    • Intro to wide color gamut and HDR
    • Use wide-gamut HDR color processing
    • Color correct HDR video with Pro Display XDR
    • View HDR video
    • Convert or adjust HDR clips
    • Export HDR master files
    • Wide-gamut HDR tips
    • Color correct ProRes RAW
  • Apply LUTs
  • Color correction tools and techniques
    • Keyframe color corrections
    • Add transitions between color corrections
    • Save color correction presets
    • Compare color corrections
    • Measure video levels
      • Intro to measuring video
      • Display video scopes
      • Waveform monitor display options
      • Vectorscope display options
      • Histogram display options
      • Detect out-of-gamut colors
    • Turn iMovie adjustments on or off
• Share your project
  • Intro to sharing projects
  • Share on the web
  • Share to Apple devices
  • Export files
    • Export master files
    • Export MXF files
    • Export still images
    • Export image sequences
    • Export live-streaming files
    • Share roles as files
    • Supported export formats
  • Create optical discs and disk images
  • Share in email
  • Batch sharing
  • Share using Compressor
  • Create share destinations
  • Change metadata for shared items
  • View the status of shared items
• Manage media, libraries, and archives
  • Intro to media management
  • Manage your media files
    • View a clip’s information
    • Override a clip’s metadata
    • Locate source media files
    • Relink clips to media files
    • Consolidate projects and libraries
    • Back up projects and libraries
    • Create optimized and proxy files
    • Create a proxy-only project
    • Manage render files
    • View background tasks
    • Convert incompatible media
  • Manage libraries
    • Intro to managing libraries
    • Create a new library
    • Open and close libraries
    • Move items between libraries
    • Transfer a library to another Mac
    • Set storage locations
    • Manage Motion content
  • Create camera archives
  • Common media management issues
    • Alert icons
    • Solutions to media management issues
• Work smarter
  • Final Cut Pro preferences
    • Intro to Final Cut Pro preferences
    • Change preference settings
    • General preferences
    • Editing preferences
    • Playback preferences
    • Import preferences
    • Destinations preferences
      • Intro to Destinations preferences
      • DVD and Blu-ray destinations
      • Email destination
      • YouTube and Vimeo destinations
      • Prepare for Facebook destination
      • Still-image destinations
      • Export File destination
      • Compressor Settings destination
      • HTTP Live Streaming destination
      • Bundle destination
  • Keyboard shortcuts and gestures
    • Intro to shortcuts and gestures
    • Keyboard shortcuts
    • Multi-Touch trackpad gestures
    • Touch Bar shortcuts
    • Customize keyboard shortcuts
      • Intro to the Command Editor
      • View keyboard shortcuts
      • Modify keyboard shortcuts
      • Export or import keyboard shortcuts
  • Customize the Final Cut Pro interface
    • Arrange the main window
    • Use a second display
    • Change the workspace layout
    • Use workflow extensions
  • Work with metadata
    • Intro to metadata
    • View and change clip metadata
    • Modify metadata views
    • Batch rename clips
  • Use color and gradient controls
    • Intro to color and gradient controls
    • Color controls
      • Basic color controls
      • Use the pop-up color palette
      • Use the Colors window
      • Use expanded color controls
    • Gradient controls
      • Intro to the gradient editor
      • Change gradient colors
      • Reverse gradient direction
      • Move and copy gradient tags
      • Basic gradient controls
      • Gradient editor controls
  • Download sound effects and Pro Video Formats
• Glossary
• Copyright