| Duration | Two days |
| Public scheduled course | £450 plus VAT |
| Individual tuition | £840 plus VAT |
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Final Cut Pro 7 for Avid Editors (FCP 250)
Course Overview
As more and more Avid editors migrate to using Final Cut Pro, this Apple authorised course is designed to make that transition as smooth and efficient as possible. This is a two day practical course which introduces the primary feature set of Final Cut Pro using Avid terminology and references as stepping stones to transfer your existing editing talents to Final Cut Pro.
The course covers Final Cut editing operations; capturing footage, sound editing, creating bins and sequences as well as exploring Final Cut's extensive effects and real-time colour correction tools. The course is run by experienced editors who will pass on professional Final Cut tips and tricks.
Course content
DAY ONE
Projects and interface
• Creating bins and sequences
• Viewing your source material
• Viewing your sequences
• Working in the timeline
• Working with tools and meters
• Using keyboard shortcuts
Translating basic editing skills
• Using Play and Mark commands
• Performing over-write and insert edits
• Snapping to cut points
• Controlling the timeline
• Zooming and positioning the timeline
• Creating subclips
• Lifting and extracting
• Performing L-cut and split edits
Settings and preferences
• ProRes workflows
• Audio and video settings
• Performing storyboard editing
Trimming and moving
• Using the trim window
• Performing dual-roller and single-roller trimming
• Trimming in the timeline
Advanced editing
• Performing drag-and-drop editing
• Segment mode edits
• Slipping and sliding clips
Editing sound
• Patching and editing audio tracks
• Changing audio levels
• Adding voiceover
Transitions and effects
• Adding dissolve transitions
• Using the Transition Editor
• Creating effects templates
• Keyframing effects
Motion effects
• Speed and freeze-frame effects
• Sizing and positioning an image
• Editing with Fit to Fill
• Creating a motion path
Title tool and generators
• Scrolling and crawling text
• Preprogrammed text options
• Creating 3D text
• Mattes and gradients
Questions and answers
DAY TWO
Finishing your project
• Detecting audio peaks
• Checking video levels
• Correcting video levels
Logging and capturing
• Viewing and marking the source
• Selecting capture settings
• Logging clips
• Batch capturing
Multiple projects, multiple sequences and nesting
• Working with multiple projects
• Sequence settings
• Nesting sequences
Collaboration tools
• Overview of iChat Theater
Modifying clips and using Generators
• Modify menu options
Graphic interfaces for effects
• Numeric interface
• Visual interface
• Motion effects
• Wireframe mode
Composite modes
• Superimpose edits
• Compositing
• FCP composite modes
• Travel mattes
Importing
• Importing EDLs and batch lists
• Importing graphics
• Using Alpha channels
Exporting
• Final Cut Pro movies
• Quicktime movies
• Batch exporting media
• Using Easy Export
• Exporting OMF files
• Exporting EDLs
• Automatic Duck for FCP export to Avid - an overview
• Exporting to DVD or Blu-ray
• Print to video
• Mastering options
Questions and answers