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Final Cut Pro Workflow and Media Management

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This is another in Larry Jordan’s Fundamentals of Final Cut Pro Series. Designed as an introduction to file management and workflow in Final Cut Pro, this session starts with an 11-step "What Should I Be Doing Right Now?" workflow to help you decide how to complete your project most efficiently. Then this showcases many of the file handling, optimizing, managing, and querying features of the program. See the Content Outline, below, for a complete list.

Audience Level
You should have a basic knowledge of Final Cut Pro. Most, but not all, of these techniques apply to both Final Cut version 6 & 7. This tutorial will be especially helpful if you consistently have trouble getting projects done on time, have a hard time getting organized, or want to better understand how Final Cut handles media.

Other Fundamentals of Final Cut Pro Titles
• Match Your Storage to Your Media (Solving Hard Disk Issues)
• Set-up, Optimize, and Trouble-shoot Final Cut Pro.
• Edit and Trim Faster! In Final Cut Pro
• Create Great Effects Inside Final Cut Pro
• Make Things Move: Motion Tab Secrets in Final Cut Pro

Content Outline
• A personal story to explain why working efficiently is so important.
• An 11-step editing workflow that answers the question: "What Should I Be Doing, Right Now?"
• Explain Scratch Disks for both tape, and tapeless, media
• Name, organize, and sort files in the Browser
• Label clips and bins
• Find files in the Browser, Timeline, and Finder
• Manage project files
• Back up the Favorite Effects folder
• Display and change project, clip, and sequence attributes
• Manage render files
• DEMO: Set Scratch Disk folders for tape projects
• DEMO: Set Scratch Disk folders for tapeless projects
• DEMO: Create and name new sequences
• DEMO: Create, name, move, and delete Bins
• DEMO: Sort and rearrange Browser columns
• DEMO: Assign and modify Clip, Bin, and Sequence labels
• DEMO: Find files in the Browser and Timeline
• DEMO: FindiMatch Frames
• DEMO: Find all unused clips in a sequence
• DEMO: Find and rename clips in the Finder from Final Cut Pro
• DEMO: Find related clips and transitions in the Timeline
• DEMO: When and why to use File > Save As.
• DEMO: When and how to use File > Revert Project
• DEMO: When and how to use File > Restore Project
• DEMO: Move an FCP project to an earlier version of FCP
• DEMO: Back-up and restore the Favorites folder
• DEMO: Save filter effects
• DEMO: Display and modify Sequence, Project, and Clip Attributes
• DEMO: Manage render files

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$34.99

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Larry Jordan

Larry Jordan

In today’s world, time and timing are everything.

Deadlines get tighter, budgets lower, client expectations higher, and technology moves on. It’s a recipe for disaster, unless you can find a fast, yet in-depth way to keep your skills sharp.

That’s where Larry Jordan can help.

Larry Jordan is the most highly sought after Apple-Certified Final Cut trainer in the world. With over 30 years experience as a television producer, director and editor with national broadcast and corporate credits, Jordan’s informative and entertaining teaching style provides video editors around the world with unique techniques, methods and resources to increase productivity and enhance their skills. He’s been there – he knows the pressure you are under.

Jordan reveals the hidden tips and tricks you never hear about, and may never find on your own. His presentation style is well organized, succinct and practical. Jordan’s training can save you time, save you money, save your client, and save your sanity, during production and post-production.

Jordan, based in Los Angeles, writes and edits the monthly free Larry Jordan Final Cut Studio Newsletter, with essential information on Final Cut Studio. He is the author of hundreds of hours of online training and five books on Final Cut Studio. He also hosts the weekly interactive internet radio show and podcast, Digital Production BuZZ (http://www.digitalproductionbuZZ.com).

For more information about Larry Jordan, please visit http://www.larryjordan.biz.

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