Final Cut Pro Tutorials and Resources
VIDEO PRODUCTION
MOTION CONTROL TIMELAPSE ON A BUDGET
Tom Guilmette takes his Kessler Pocket Dolly camping and puts it through it's paces.
Tom Guilmette Kessler Dolly Tutorial
FINAL CUT PRO7 AND FCS
9 Final Cut Pro 7 Effects Tutorials in 40 minutes
40 minutes. 9 tutorials. FCP 7. Go!
REMOVING HUM WITH SOUNDTRACK PRO
Need to rermove hum or hiss from your video? Here's a handy little tutorial to do just that. A tip of the hat to our member Roger King who was kind enough to give us a demo on this technique at one of our meetings this last year.
Removing background noise with Soundtrack Pro
USING MATCH HUE IN THE 3-WAY COLOR CORRECTOR
From rippletraining.com we have this tutorial on how to use Final Cut Pro's powerful Match Hue feature to match the color between two different shots.
SAVE TIME WITH QMASTER IN COMPRESSOR 3
Never used Qmaster? Don't even know what it is? Well, then you've been missing out on an easy way to significantly speed up comporessor. This video, courtesy of creativecow.net will show you how.
10 THINGS I WISH I KNEW THE FIRST TIME I OPENED FCP
This list comes from the good folks at LAFCPUG. It's good for both beginers and experts.
10 MORE THINGS I WISH I KNEW THE FIRST TIME I OPENED FCP
Part 2 from the good folks at LAFCPUG.
FINAL CUT PRO X
TWO AND HALF HOURS OF FCP X TUTORIALS AND DEMO MEDIA FOR FREE!
IzzyVideo.com has just released a 26 part FCP X video tutorial for FREE. In addition to the two and a half hours of tutorials they have also included demo media to use in the tutorials. If you are considering on line tutorials for FCP X you may want to start here.
UPDATE! Due to bandwidth issues IzzyVideo.com has removed the practice media for download. They hope to have the media back up soon.
RED AND FCP X
In this titorial from creativecow.net director/editor David Battistell shows the best way to integrate Red footage into FCP X.
HOW TO RUN FCP 7 and FCP X and SNOW LEOPARD and LION SIMULTANEOUSLY. http://library.creativecow.net/weiss_roth_david/FCP-10-MAC-Lion/1
FCP X SUPPORT http://www.apple.com/support/finalcutpro/
FCP X "manual" http://help.apple.com/finalcutpro/mac/10.0/
Third party walkthroughs
macProVideo.com FCP X Video Tutorials by Michael Wohl: (first 45 minute overview is free)
http://www.macprovideo.com/tutorials...ut+pro+x-suite
First look walkthrough article by Steve Martin.
Important differences. It's not a "Capture Scratch" it's now an "Event".
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage...ok_martin.html
ipad epub version of article:
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage...rtin_ePub.html
Ripple Training. ($)
http://www.rippletraining.com/catego...-training.html
Interview with Michael Wohl (one of the first designers involved with the original FCP) - talks about FCP X development and its future:
http://www.macprovideo.com/hub/inter...inal-cut-pro-x
MPV Hub Review of FCP X:
http://www.macprovideo.com/hub/final...rface-features
MPV Hub Review of Motion 5:
http://www.macprovideo.com/hub/final...p-new-features
MPV Hub Review of Compressor 4:
http://www.macprovideo.com/hub/final...r-improvements
MOTION 5
http://www.apple.com/support/motion/