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Here's a short tutorial for creating the Pleasantville Effect for Final Cut Pro.  This tutorial will also show you how to isolate more than one color at a time.

You can also create the Pleasantville effect using the 3 Way Color Corrector in Final Cut Pro.

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A great addition to your Final Cut Pro workflow is to start using a keyboard shortcut to move from one tab to another. I recently added this to my workflow, and can't believe how often I use it. Becoming efficient at Final Cut Pro is all about little time savers like this one.

Here's a short tutorial for creating a glass bug using Photoshop. This video also contains closed captioning.  Photoshop for video lessons are now included as part of our Avid Media Composer and Final Cut Pro training courses.

This tutorial was created on a Macintosh, but the steps are almost indentical if you are using a PC. For Avid Media Composer users, you may need invert the alpha channel in order for the glass bug to import correctly.

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In Final Cut Pro there are often instances when we need to view a clip on a lower track that is covered by a clip in a higher track. A typical amateur solution is to move the clip out of the way for a moment. This is not efficient, because you then must move it back. If you do not need to do anything but view the clip below, you could simply delete the clip, and then undo your delete. When you need to do some work while the visibility of the clip is off then you have a couple options.

In Final Cut Pro it can be very useful to not show the audio track names. Because the audio track name goes right over top of the waveform when you have them active, they can make seeing the waveform difficult. Especially at an edit where the name of the outgoing clip is right next to the name of the incoming clip. Depending on how zoomed in on the timeline you are this can make a significant amount of the waveform difficult to see. When you are trying to blend two pieces of music together, having the track names displayed can be very annoying.

A great tool that will save you time and headaches in Final Cut Pro is the Ripple tool.  The Ripple Tool is found in the Tool Palette and is also right next to the Roll Tool.  The keyboard shortcut to the Ripple tool is RR. The Ripple Tool allows you to manipulate edit points within the timeline by allowing you to trim the in or the out of a clip forward or back depending on the media limits.  The ripple tool only allows for the edit of one side of the clip at a time, either the in or the out. The ripple tool automatically trims the clip, while closing the gap.  This saves you from having to delete the cut portion and then close the gap.  Ripple does it all in one step.

If you're like me, and you have a lot of HI-8 tapes from the 90's laying around, collecting dust, it's really easy to capture and store that media with Log & Capture in Final Cut Pro. If you are playing the HI-8 tape from a HI-8 camera you will need to run the analog signal through a transcoder of some sort to convert it to a digital signal. Canopus makes a great inexpensive converter. An easy way to accomplish this is by using a Digital8 camera. A Digital8 camera will play the HI-8 tape, and do the conversion automatically. You can also use the same Digital8 camera to convert your digital signal to analog for monitoring.

Once you have a digital signal going into your Mac, you can launch Final Cut Pro.  Go to the File menu and click on Log & Capture; you can also use the shortcut CMD+8.  This will open the Capture window.  Be sure to note how much free space you have available and how many minutes you have to capture.

Let's face it, the older we get, the shakier our hands and arms get. If you don't have the luxury of a handheld camera support or stablizer, no worries; just use SmoothCam.

SmoothCam is a filter that intelligently reduces unwanted camera movement from your shots. You can apply the SmoothCam filter directly in the Browser or to clips in the timeline. The SmoothCam filter, like all filters, in Final Cut Pro can be found in both the Effects menu and Effects tab of the Browser. Select the clip in the timeline, then choose Video Filters >Video> SmoothCam.

The zoom function allows you to zoom in and out of a sequence, the viewer, or the canvas. There is more than one way to do this. First of all there is a Zoom slider bar at the bottom of the Timeline; then you have the Zoom Tool found on the tool palette which can be turned on by pressing the Z key to zoom in and out of a sequence. But, I find the easiest zoom function comes from another one of those great keyboard shortcuts, Command plus(+) and Command minus(-). To become an efficient editor adding keyboard commands to your workflow is a must. Getting into the habit of using Command + or - will then free up your Z key to map another function you use time after time, such as, mapping the Open Playhead function to your Z key.

The snapping feature in Final Cut Pro produces a sort-of magnetic property, for example when dragging clips from the browser down into the timeline, the clips automatically snap to other clips in the sequence.  The N key toggles snapping on & off as well as the snapping button above the timeline.  You can tell if the snapping is on by looking at the snapping button in the timeline button well; when the button is green, snapping is on.

Knowing durations in Final Cut Pro is a common necessity.  From clips, to graphics, to transitions, we often need to know how long something is.  By highlighting something in the timeline and using the keyboard combination of CTRL+D, you will display the duration of the highlighted item.  To close the duration viewer, just hit return, whether you changed the duration or not.

Other ways to go about getting a duration, are to right-click and choose duration, perform a match frame to display the duration in the Viewer, or mark the item, and display the duration in the Canvas.  In most cases it will be most effective to use the keyboard combination.

If you find these training tutorial useful, consider taking our Final Cut Pro training class.  We also offer a flat fee for Final Cut Pro onsite training.

Here you can access over 2 hours of some of the best Free Final Cut Pro tutorials available.  They are all original, and they are all free!  Trust us, there's no fluff or BS here.

You'll also so see free tutorials on Apple Motion, SoundTrack Pro, DVD Studio Pro, and Compressor.

Feel free to link to this page for reference.

Final Cut Pro Tutorials for effects
Camera Flash effect with freeze frame Part 1
Photo Flash Frame Effect Part 2
Camera Flash Freeze effect using Apple Motion Part 3
Pleasantville tutorial
Wind Blur tutorial
Blur Face in Final Cut Pro
Transport Beam tutorial
Light Zoom filter tutorial
Ken Burns effect
Creating a Moving Filmstrip
Creating customized wipes in Final Cut Pro
Creating a running timer or counter in Final Cut Pro
Luma Key Effect
Speed Ramp Effect with curves in Final Cut Pro
Play a clip backwards in Final Cut Pro
Alpha Wipe Transition Effect
Rotated Motion Path in Final Cut Pro

Final Cut Pro Tutorials for editing
Using the Add-Edit tool versus the Blade tool in Final Cut Pro
Re-formatting 4:3 Media for a 16:9 Hi Def Sequence in Final Cut Pro
Importing AVCHD - H264 Media into Final Cut Pro
Multi-camera Editing tutorial for Final Cut Pro
Learn to use modifier keys with Final Cut Pro
Exporting (WMV) Windows Media Files from Final Cut Pro
Trimming Clips in Final Cut Pro
Importing Image Sequences or using Stop Motion in Final Cut Pro
Using Media Manager in Final Cut Pro
Reformatting 4x3 Media for Hi def in Final Cut Pro

Final Cut Pro / Boris 3D Tutorials
Creating 3D text using Boris Title 3D
Title Crawl effect with glow
Title 3D type on effect
Title 3D effect using the tracking parameter
Creating Glass text effect with Boris Title 3D

Apple Motion Tutorials
Cloning or Repairing an image using Apple Motion
Creating 3D extruded text in Apple Motion
Tracking a Mask in Apple Motion for Color Correction
Using Masks to re-fill a tequila bottle in Apple Motion
Creating a glowing title in Apple Motion
Human Torch effect in Apple Motion
3D reflection in water with Apple Motion
Creating Text on a Path with Apple Motion
Fogwriter effect with Apple Motion
Image stabilization with Apple Motion
Using Apple Motion Audio Behaviors
Using lights with Ken Burns effect
Creating Particles on a Path
Light Streak effect using Apple Motion
Wrapping text around an object in Apple Motion
Flying Stars using Character Map with Motion
Animated Masks and Tracking with Apple Motion (jump through fire)
Four Point tracking in Apple Motion (replacing television image)
Hold Out Matte using Final Cut Pro and Motion (glowing football player)
Exploding Text effect
3D lighting in Apple Motion
Sequencing Text effect in Apple Motion

Apple Color Tutorials
Creating the Pleasantville effect in Apple Color
Introduction to Color Interface
Using Tracking Data in Apple Color for Color Correction
Configuring Preferences in Apple Color
Using Secondary Color Correction to fix a bad shot in Apple Color

SoundTrack Pro Tutorials
Removing audio noise with FCP and SoundTrack Pro
Removing audio pops using SoundTrack Pro and Final Cut Pro
Time shift effect using SoundTrack Pro and Final Cut Pro

Compressor / DVD Studio Pro Tutorials
FCP to DVD Studio Pro workflow tutorial
Creating Droplets with Apple Compressor

Photoshop for Final Cut Pro Video Tutorials
Creating a glass bug with Photoshop
Using photoshop filters on video clip

If you find these training tutorial useful, consider taking our Final Cut Pro training class.  We also offer a flat fee for Final Cut Pro onsite training.

Here you can access over 2 hours of some of the best Free Final Cut Pro tutorials available.  They are all original, and they are all free!  Trust us, there's no fluff or BS here.

You'll also so see free tutorials on Apple Motion, SoundTrack Pro, DVD Studio Pro, and Compressor.

Feel free to link to this page for reference.

Final Cut Pro Tutorials for effects
Camera Flash effect with freeze frame Part 1
Photo Flash Frame Effect Part 2
Camera Flash Freeze effect using Apple Motion Part 3
Pleasantville tutorial
Wind Blur tutorial
Blur Face in Final Cut Pro
Transport Beam tutorial
Light Zoom filter tutorial
Ken Burns effect
Creating a Moving Filmstrip
Creating customized wipes in Final Cut Pro
Creating a running timer or counter in Final Cut Pro
Luma Key Effect
Speed Ramp Effect with curves in Final Cut Pro
Play a clip backwards in Final Cut Pro
Alpha Wipe Transition Effect
Rotated Motion Path in Final Cut Pro

Final Cut Pro Tutorials for editing
Using the Add-Edit tool versus the Blade tool in Final Cut Pro
Re-formatting 4:3 Media for a 16:9 Hi Def Sequence in Final Cut Pro
Importing AVCHD - H264 Media into Final Cut Pro
Multi-camera Editing tutorial for Final Cut Pro
Learn to use modifier keys with Final Cut Pro
Exporting (WMV) Windows Media Files from Final Cut Pro
Trimming Clips in Final Cut Pro
Importing Image Sequences or using Stop Motion in Final Cut Pro
Using Media Manager in Final Cut Pro
Reformatting 4x3 Media for Hi def in Final Cut Pro

Final Cut Pro / Boris 3D Tutorials
Creating 3D text using Boris Title 3D
Title Crawl effect with glow
Title 3D type on effect
Title 3D effect using the tracking parameter
Creating Glass text effect with Boris Title 3D

Apple Motion Tutorials
Cloning or Repairing an image using Apple Motion
Creating 3D extruded text in Apple Motion
Tracking a Mask in Apple Motion for Color Correction
Using Masks to re-fill a tequila bottle in Apple Motion
Creating a glowing title in Apple Motion
Human Torch effect in Apple Motion
3D reflection in water with Apple Motion
Creating Text on a Path with Apple Motion
Fogwriter effect with Apple Motion
Image stabilization with Apple Motion
Using Apple Motion Audio Behaviors
Using lights with Ken Burns effect
Creating Particles on a Path
Light Streak effect using Apple Motion
Wrapping text around an object in Apple Motion
Flying Stars using Character Map with Motion
Animated Masks and Tracking with Apple Motion (jump through fire)
Four Point tracking in Apple Motion (replacing television image)
Hold Out Matte using Final Cut Pro and Motion (glowing football player)
Exploding Text effect
3D lighting in Apple Motion
Sequencing Text effect in Apple Motion

Apple Color Tutorials
Creating the Pleasantville effect in Apple Color
Introduction to Color Interface
Using Tracking Data in Apple Color for Color Correction
Configuring Preferences in Apple Color
Using Secondary Color Correction to fix a bad shot in Apple Color

SoundTrack Pro Tutorials
Removing audio noise with FCP and SoundTrack Pro
Removing audio pops using SoundTrack Pro and Final Cut Pro
Time shift effect using SoundTrack Pro and Final Cut Pro

Compressor / DVD Studio Pro Tutorials
FCP to DVD Studio Pro workflow tutorial
Creating Droplets with Apple Compressor

Photoshop for Final Cut Pro Video Tutorials
Creating a glass bug with Photoshop
Using photoshop filters on video clip

Here is a short tutorial on how to use basic compositing techniques to create a 'glass title' using Final Cut Pro and Boris - Title 3D.  QOJU97vVQKg,WfMY6RpDWHA,KoI5jwyM0sM,hMdH1loEQk0,kSax88PsYzk,LJ7OfHctDgw,tB8b5doNkl0, EOT; $something = substr($something,2); ?>

Learn the 'basics' in setting up a multi-camera edit for Final Cut Pro.   tLb1rQba9bY,-dpRNH4pgUM,vfJlsfNIu5E,_Dj_aAkCRkA,XmftyTSRnOU,YRPJ1ChqHkg,-197u7AnB_8, EOT; $something = substr($something,2); ?>

Check out this video tutorial for creating a transporter effect using Final Cut Pro in conjunction with Apple Motion. The concept is quite simple. 6-Ndjge1XCw,7MQik02YMw4,vfJlsfNIu5E,nneeJzR2gu8,QEe1iPjqLIg,dKD6Vy3dyCk,riY9ECptlTw, EOT; $something = substr($something,2); ?>

Avid Media Composer 5.0 implements some new editing features.  These features are very similar to the editing features within Final Cut Pro.