This three-day hands-on course teaches students to perform basic editing functions, while becoming familiar with the interface of Final Cut Pro. In this course, you will edit a scene from the television series "Leverage", create a promo for Seaworld's documentary "Believe", as well as learn how to master filters and effects by editing a section from "Playing for Change - the international music creating initiative.
You start with basic video editing techniques and work all the way through to Final Cut Pro's powerful advanced features. Along the way, you will learn how to select and edit video, mix audio, adding titles, creating transitions, applying filters and much more. Steps include basic settings, custom settings, capturing video and audio, various editing and trimming techniques, Ripple, Roll, Slip and Slide tools, audio editing and post-processing and export. This course is designed for anyone who wants to learn how to edit professionally with Final Cut Pro, through hands-on excercises and interactive learning.