Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Final Cut Pro Workshop

1. Set a scratch disk (where all the source clips are stored) Home > Documents > Final Cut Pro Documents

2. Final Cut Pro Windows: Browser, Canvas, Viewer, Timeline/Sequence

3. Log and Transfer all clips from SD card to the browser window

4. Scrub through clips to find in and out points

5. Conform the clips to match the sequence settings

6. Video format should be 1920x1080 in 1080p in 25p (PAL)

7. Compression: Apple ProRes 422

8. File > Save Project

9. Activate Autosave Vault

10. Make sure all of the source clips are on the computer that you are editing on