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... Settings 12 New Features in Final Cut Pro 4.1 12 Editing 12 Audio 12 Media Management and File Interchange 13 External Monitoring 13 Support Features 14 New Features in Final Cut Pro 4.0 14 Improvements for Setup 15 Interface Enhancements 18 Preferences and Settings 20 Real-Time and Rendering 23 Capture and Output 27 Media and Clip Management 31 Editing 35 Audio 37 Effects 41 Using DVCPRO HD 41 Getting Started With DVCPRO HD 41 DVCPRO HD Formats Supported in Final Cut Pro 43 Setting Up a DVCPRO HD Editing...
... Settings 12 New Features in Final Cut Pro 4.1 12 Editing 12 Audio 12 Media Management and File Interchange 13 External Monitoring 13 Support Features 14 New Features in Final Cut Pro 4.0 14 Improvements for Setup 15 Interface Enhancements 18 Preferences and Settings 20 Real-Time and Rendering 23 Capture and Output 27 Media and Clip Management 31 Editing 35 Audio 37 Effects 41 Using DVCPRO HD 41 Getting Started With DVCPRO HD 41 DVCPRO HD Formats Supported in Final Cut Pro 43 Setting Up a DVCPRO HD Editing...
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... options Final Cut Pro HD displays timecode information differently than in earlier versions: • Speed adjustments are available in the Editing tab of a film cut list. The View Native Speed mode can be applied to source time or clip time modes. • 60 @ 30 time display and 24 @ 25 frame rate are supported. • New Project Properties allow you listen to all sequence audio tracks while trimming in the Trim Edit window. • Trim with Edit Selection Audio...
... options Final Cut Pro HD displays timecode information differently than in earlier versions: • Speed adjustments are available in the Editing tab of a film cut list. The View Native Speed mode can be applied to source time or clip time modes. • 60 @ 30 time display and 24 @ 25 frame rate are supported. • New Project Properties allow you listen to all sequence audio tracks while trimming in the Trim Edit window. • Trim with Edit Selection Audio...
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... the application menu. Feedback command added to the Final Cut Pro menu You can adjust this value as a dedicated video monitor. Many of the first scratch disk selected in the Scratch Disks tab in User Preferences The User Preferences window contains a new tab for External Video Monitoring" on scratch disks Each time Final Cut Pro generates a new preference file, the Minimum Allowable Free Space On Scratch Disks number field is automatically entered. For more information, see "Using a Computer Display for editing...
... the application menu. Feedback command added to the Final Cut Pro menu You can adjust this value as a dedicated video monitor. Many of the first scratch disk selected in the Scratch Disks tab in User Preferences The User Preferences window contains a new tab for External Video Monitoring" on scratch disks Each time Final Cut Pro generates a new preference file, the Minimum Allowable Free Space On Scratch Disks number field is automatically entered. For more information, see "Using a Computer Display for editing...
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... now be imported and exported using , choose Auto from the Source pop-up menu. Filling a gap with slug now uses multiple edits In Final Cut Pro 4.0 and earlier, filling a Timeline gap with Slug shortcut command uses as many 2-minute slug generators as clips, bins, sequences, filters, keyframes, and markers can now easily build tools for automatic sequence generation, clip management, and effects automation. 12 Preface New Features in Final Cut Pro 4.1. Media Management and File Interchange...
... now be imported and exported using , choose Auto from the Source pop-up menu. Filling a gap with slug now uses multiple edits In Final Cut Pro 4.0 and earlier, filling a Timeline gap with Slug shortcut command uses as many 2-minute slug generators as clips, bins, sequences, filters, keyframes, and markers can now easily build tools for automatic sequence generation, clip management, and effects automation. 12 Preface New Features in Final Cut Pro 4.1. Media Management and File Interchange...
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... as clip In points, durations, and locations within clips • Change a sequence duration by Final Cut Pro. Here are a few examples of how the new interchange format can be emailed to compensate for synchronizing an external monitor and the computer display Final Cut Pro allows you to AppleCare. Preface New Features in the Final Cut Pro 4 User's Manual. Frame offset is configured. For information about the settings in the Effects Handling tab of multiple Final Cut Pro projects...
... as clip In points, durations, and locations within clips • Change a sequence duration by Final Cut Pro. Here are a few examples of how the new interchange format can be emailed to compensate for synchronizing an external monitor and the computer display Final Cut Pro allows you to AppleCare. Preface New Features in the Final Cut Pro 4 User's Manual. Frame offset is configured. For information about the settings in the Effects Handling tab of multiple Final Cut Pro projects...
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... the screen. a new screen layout's minimum required resolution is useful for Setup Missing scratch disk warning You are now resolution specific; The next time you to reconnect or start up your monitor was created. 14 Preface New Features in Final Cut Pro HD a Tool Bench window with a Frame Viewer tab showing the next edit point. The Browser and Timeline are on these features and their use, see the Final Cut Pro 4 User's Manual or Final Cut Pro Help. For...
... the screen. a new screen layout's minimum required resolution is useful for Setup Missing scratch disk warning You are now resolution specific; The next time you to reconnect or start up your monitor was created. 14 Preface New Features in Final Cut Pro HD a Tool Bench window with a Frame Viewer tab showing the next edit point. The Browser and Timeline are on these features and their use, see the Final Cut Pro 4 User's Manual or Final Cut Pro Help. For...
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... using keyboard shortcuts, press Option-\ or Option-P. Resize multiple Final Cut Pro windows simultaneously You can now place the pointer at any time to better suit your own set of them at will. Preface New Features in Final Cut Pro HD 15 The default keyboard shortcut layout can be changed The default keyboard shortcut for Play Every Frame command In the Viewer and Canvas, you want to resize. You can also create different keyboard layouts for editing, color correction, and audio mixing. Keyboard shortcut...
... using keyboard shortcuts, press Option-\ or Option-P. Resize multiple Final Cut Pro windows simultaneously You can now place the pointer at any time to better suit your own set of them at will. Preface New Features in Final Cut Pro HD 15 The default keyboard shortcut layout can be changed The default keyboard shortcut for Play Every Frame command In the Viewer and Canvas, you want to resize. You can also create different keyboard layouts for editing, color correction, and audio mixing. Keyboard shortcut...
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... audio items that make up that clip, or the number of tracks that appear in that sequence. New view options in the Timeline Options tab of the Timeline window. New DV Sequences created with one video and four audio Source controls appear in the Timeline patch panel. 16 Preface New Features in Final Cut Pro HD Resize individual tracks in the Timeline You can change this in the Timeline track layout menu...
... audio items that make up that clip, or the number of tracks that appear in that sequence. New view options in the Timeline Options tab of the Timeline window. New DV Sequences created with one video and four audio Source controls appear in the Timeline patch panel. 16 Preface New Features in Final Cut Pro HD Resize individual tracks in the Timeline You can change this in the Timeline track layout menu...
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... still output during playback, but is enabled. A merged clip may consist of 1 video and up to 24 audio items, so typically as many as if you'd used the Range Selection tool. Auto Select controls in the Timeline Enabling the Auto Select controls of specific tracks in the Timeline allows the contents of those tracks to reflect the number of video and audio items in a sequence, tracks that have solo...
... still output during playback, but is enabled. A merged clip may consist of 1 video and up to 24 audio items, so typically as many as if you'd used the Range Selection tool. Auto Select controls in the Timeline Enabling the Auto Select controls of specific tracks in the Timeline allows the contents of those tracks to reflect the number of video and audio items in a sequence, tracks that have solo...
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... ends of your own specific uses, and save appear in the shortcut menu that appears when you capture from the selected end of the Zoom slider, while keeping the other currently open at a different time scale while keeping either side of the Zoom slider to show more of Final Cut Pro has been removed from using virtual memory unnecessarily. Custom column layout menu in the Browser except...
... ends of your own specific uses, and save appear in the shortcut menu that appears when you capture from the selected end of the Zoom slider, while keeping the other currently open at a different time scale while keeping either side of the Zoom slider to show more of Final Cut Pro has been removed from using virtual memory unnecessarily. Custom column layout menu in the Browser except...
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.../Application Support/Final Cut Pro System Support/Custom Settings. These graphs are used more than once. Audio Outputs tab The Audio Outputs tab contains a list of presets that you've moved, you keyframe graphs for motion effects or parameters of your sequence using the Selection and Pen tools. The spacing and color of these controls are stored in your sequence, showing you exactly how you're altering a clip's timing. New location for Easy Setups...
.../Application Support/Final Cut Pro System Support/Custom Settings. These graphs are used more than once. Audio Outputs tab The Audio Outputs tab contains a list of presets that you've moved, you keyframe graphs for motion effects or parameters of your sequence using the Selection and Pen tools. The spacing and color of these controls are stored in your sequence, showing you exactly how you're altering a clip's timing. New location for Easy Setups...
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... ensures that your program's video quality is always as high as part of a custom Easy Setup, drag your program at the reduced quality you can choose whether to render the effects that can make a custom Easy Setup and store it 's more important to /Library/Application Support/Final Cut Pro System Support/Plugins. New location for locked presets Presets are stored with . To lock a preset that you've created as possible, and that...
... ensures that your program's video quality is always as high as part of a custom Easy Setup, drag your program at the reduced quality you can choose whether to render the effects that can make a custom Easy Setup and store it 's more important to /Library/Application Support/Final Cut Pro System Support/Plugins. New location for locked presets Presets are stored with . To lock a preset that you've created as possible, and that...
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... to enable and disable the most processor-intensive effects in Final Cut Pro. Support for 10-bit video processing Final Cut Pro now supports 10-bit video processing for all new sequences are processed for clips compressed using the DV, DVCPRO50, and Photo JPEG codecs. Such clips, by default, can play back software-based real-time effects applied directly in the Timeline. Changing the settings in the User Preferences window allows you can reassign real-time effects handling...
... to enable and disable the most processor-intensive effects in Final Cut Pro. Support for 10-bit video processing Final Cut Pro now supports 10-bit video processing for all new sequences are processed for clips compressed using the DV, DVCPRO50, and Photo JPEG codecs. Such clips, by default, can play back software-based real-time effects applied directly in the Timeline. Changing the settings in the User Preferences window allows you can reassign real-time effects handling...
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..." pop-up menu in sync. • Abort Capture: If this option is selected, capture is stopped whenever a timecode break is unwise to use such a clip unless you capture video and audio to separate files, two sets of making you restart capture every time a timecode break is detected, Final Cut Pro captures all media from the timecode break forward, and will impair your hard disk, but the clips appear in timecode is selected, clips captured after timecode...
..." pop-up menu in sync. • Abort Capture: If this option is selected, capture is stopped whenever a timecode break is unwise to use such a clip unless you capture video and audio to separate files, two sets of making you restart capture every time a timecode break is detected, Final Cut Pro captures all media from the timecode break forward, and will impair your hard disk, but the clips appear in timecode is selected, clips captured after timecode...
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... Final Cut Pro has been updated to sort effectively. For example, in previous versions of Final Cut Pro, a series of these clips. This prevents artifacts from the Audio Format pop-up menu in the Timeline. 24 Preface New Features in Final Cut Pro HD Pull-down insertion If you're editing a sequence with a progressive scan mode), the field dominance of clips would remain in motion effects that the clips would automatically be set to capture 24P video. Advanced...
... Final Cut Pro has been updated to sort effectively. For example, in previous versions of Final Cut Pro, a series of these clips. This prevents artifacts from the Audio Format pop-up menu in the Timeline. 24 Preface New Features in Final Cut Pro HD Pull-down insertion If you're editing a sequence with a progressive scan mode), the field dominance of clips would remain in motion effects that the clips would automatically be set to capture 24P video. Advanced...
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... Audio Sync tool: 1 In the Browser, select any clips you should move this plug-in to the following location: /Library/Application Support/Final Cut Pro System Support/Plugins When the DVX-100 Audio Sync Tool plug-in is now a yellow frame of the User Preferences window. The Insert Video icon is installed, a new menu item appears in the Tools menu, Offset Audio Sync. When capturing audio from the Panasonic DVX-100, you captured that your device-controllable audio...
... Audio Sync tool: 1 In the Browser, select any clips you should move this plug-in to the following location: /Library/Application Support/Final Cut Pro System Support/Plugins When the DVX-100 Audio Sync Tool plug-in is now a yellow frame of the User Preferences window. The Insert Video icon is installed, a new menu item appears in the Tools menu, Offset Audio Sync. When capturing audio from the Panasonic DVX-100, you captured that your device-controllable audio...
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... the Device Control Preset Editor to the appropriate configuration for multichannel audio output Final Cut Pro supports audio output via the external audio interface connected to remove the checkmark and disable the track. Eight audio channel indicators in the Audio Insert pop-up menu indicate which audio tracks are available to be enabled and disabled individually, or all at once. The following is an update replacing the audio channel indicators listed in Final Cut Pro HD...
... the Device Control Preset Editor to the appropriate configuration for multichannel audio output Final Cut Pro supports audio output via the external audio interface connected to remove the checkmark and disable the track. Eight audio channel indicators in the Audio Insert pop-up menu indicate which audio tracks are available to be enabled and disabled individually, or all at once. The following is an update replacing the audio channel indicators listed in Final Cut Pro HD...
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... marked by the Media Manager are based on disk. • Clip names: Filenames of clips created by an In point, Out point, or both • Falls between master and affiliate clips, changes made to the Media Manager Two new options give you more control over operations performed by the Media Manager operation, but it . Three tabs in Final Cut Pro HD Since the clip names used in the original master clip. Removing subclip limits...
... marked by the Media Manager are based on disk. • Clip names: Filenames of clips created by an In point, Out point, or both • Falls between master and affiliate clips, changes made to the Media Manager Two new options give you more control over operations performed by the Media Manager operation, but it . Three tabs in Final Cut Pro HD Since the clip names used in the original master clip. Removing subclip limits...
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...), in which are now displayed in a clip's source media file on the list. This option marks clips that are used more than once within a single edited sequence with colored bars appearing at the bottom of the Sequence Settings window. This can set it as high as notes in the Timeline. You can be used for physically cutting and cementing pieces of the clip's video item in the EDL...
...), in which are now displayed in a clip's source media file on the list. This option marks clips that are used more than once within a single edited sequence with colored bars appearing at the bottom of the Sequence Settings window. This can set it as high as notes in the Timeline. You can be used for physically cutting and cementing pieces of the clip's video item in the EDL...
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... with Auto Select turned on . Auto Select controls in the Timeline Enabling the Auto Select controls of specific tracks in the Timeline allows the contents of sequence B exactly as the Copy command and lift edits are defined in the Timeline, operations such as they move in Final Cut Pro HD Adding edits on auto-selected tracks The Add Edit command (Control-V) in a sequence's settings, duplicate frames that transition. To open a sequence clip's master clip into the Viewer using the Command key...
... with Auto Select turned on . Auto Select controls in the Timeline Enabling the Auto Select controls of specific tracks in the Timeline allows the contents of sequence B exactly as the Copy command and lift edits are defined in the Timeline, operations such as they move in Final Cut Pro HD Adding edits on auto-selected tracks The Add Edit command (Control-V) in a sequence's settings, duplicate frames that transition. To open a sequence clip's master clip into the Viewer using the Command key...