- Create Your Own Impulse Responses with Apple's Space Designer and Impulse Response Utility
- Oct 15, 2015
- Creative sound mixing can improve even the dullest recording. You're probably familiar with Space Designer's built-in impulse responses, but did you know you can create your own? David Dvorin, author of Apple Pro Training Series: Logic Pro X Advanced Audio Production: Composing and Producing Professional Audio, shows how to add custom IRs that you can apply anytime, for any sort of sound design you have in mind.
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- Making the First Edit in Final Cut Pro X 10.2
- Jul 30, 2015
- In this chapter from Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro X 10.2: Professional Post-Production, Brendan Boykin walks you through the first edit, or rough cut, of a project.
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- How to Produce a Virtual Drum Track in Logic Pro X 10.1
- Jun 25, 2015
- In this lesson from Apple Pro Training Series: Logic Pro X 10.1: Professional Music Production, you will produce virtual indie-rock, hip-hop, and electro-house drum tracks. After selecting a genre and choosing the best drummer for your project, you will adjust the drummer’s performance, making her play busier patterns or simpler ones, louder or softer, and changing the feel, almost like a producer would communicate with a real drummer in a recording session.
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- The Import Process for Final Cut Pro X 10.1
- Jan 12, 2015
- Learn how to import media from Final Cut Pro X 10.1, including importing from a camera, importing from a volume, and media import options, in this excerpt from Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro X 10.1 Quick-Reference Guide.
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- Editing with Blade Speed in Final Cut Pro X 10.1
- Mar 26, 2014
- The variable speed change applies at least two different playback rates within a single clip. This effect requires dividing the clip into segments, one for each speed rate. Brendan Boykin shows you how in this excerpt from Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro X 10.1: Professional Post-Production.
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- Making the First Edit in Final Cut Pro X 10.1
- Mar 20, 2014
- In this excerpt from Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro X 10.1: Professional Post-Production, learn how to add and rearrange clips within a primary storyline; Ripple, Roll, and Slip trim clips; blade, replace with gap, ripple delete, and join through edit; perform connect edits; create and edit in a connected storyline; adjust audio levels; and share the project to a media file.
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- Building a Rough Cut in Final Cut Pro X
- Mar 13, 2013
- In this lesson you’ll build a rough cut using the source media you’ve imported. To begin, you will create a new project, and mark clips you’ve placed in Keyword Collections. Then, you’ll choose your Favorite clips and edit them into the project to create a primary storyline.
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- Author Talk: Richard Harrington and Robbie Carman on Making Video with Apple Final Cut Studio and Adobe Creative Suite
- Nov 26, 2012
- Richard Harrington and Robbie Carman are both Apple Certified Trainers and have extensive backgrounds in video production. They talk with publisher Nancy Aldrich-Ruenzel about their book Video Made on a Mac: Production and Postproduction Using Apple Final Cut Studio and Adobe Creative Suite, explain who it is written for, and reveal why the Mac is their platform of choice for professional endeavors.
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- Final Cut Pro X Advanced Editing: Working with Sound
- May 29, 2012
- Final Cut Pro X contains an impressive number of ways to improve your video’s sound. It has tools to set the audio levels to a uniform, accurate volume; multiple methods to create audio fades and four fade styles; intuitive controls for panning sound between speakers, in both stereo and surround sound environments; and much more. Learn how to work with sounds in Final Cut Pro X in this chapter from Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro X Advanced Editing.
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- Editing DSLR Video with Final Cut Pro X: Organizing Your Media
- Feb 8, 2012
- Final Cut Pro X has several tools that let you sort, sift, filter, and find the perfect shot. You can use embedded metadata as well as attach powerful keywords to improve your ability to locate the perfect shot. In this chapter you'll learn the many ways to organize your media.
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- Final Cut Pro X: Visual QuickStart Guide: Marking Clips
- Jan 19, 2012
- This chapter will cover different ways of identifying, selecting, and highlighting bits of clips in Final Cut Pro X.
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- Author Interview: Lisa Brenneis and Michael Wohl
- Dec 7, 2011
- Hot on the heels of the release of their new book, Final Cut Pro X Visual QuickStart Guide, expert authors, filmmakers and teachers Lisa Brenneis and Michael Wohl sat down with us to discuss Final Cut Pro and a few more things besides!
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- Apple Pro Video Series: Final Cut Pro X: Import
- Oct 27, 2011
- Steve Martin discusses the three main paths for ingesting media into Final Cut Pro X: importing from a camera (file- and tape-based), importing files, and importing from iMovie.
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- Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro X: Building the Rough Cut
- Oct 20, 2011
- In this lesson you’ll build a rough cut using the source media you’ve imported. To begin, you will create a new project, and mark clips you’ve placed in Keyword Collections. Then, you’ll choose your Favorite clips and edit them into the project to create a primary storyline.
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- iMovie Beyond the Basics
- Jun 21, 2011
- iMovie includes many tools for dealing with special situations, as well as for improving what you've already shot. Jeff Carlson shows you how to use them.
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- Final Cut Pro for Avid Editors: Speed and Motion Effects
- Mar 29, 2011
- By using a hybrid approach to building composites, you will learn how to scale, position, crop, distort an image’s perspective, and even set keyframes, all directly on the sequence clip in the Canvas.
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- Final Cut Pro for Avid Editors: Trimming Clips
- Mar 9, 2011
- Diana Weynand covers the basic Avid approach to trimming and shows how to perform those same functions in Final Cut Pro.
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- Connecting Your TV to the Internet: Peachpit's Guide to Set-Top Boxes
- Nov 29, 2010
- Apple TV? Google TV? Roku? Ryan Faas examines the top options that should be on your list of possibilities for streaming audio and video to your home TV, pointing out the pros and cons of each system.
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- Use iMovie to Share Videos on YouTube, MobileMe Gallery, and iPhone
- Feb 1, 2010
- John Tollett shows how to use iMovie to share your videos with your pals worldwide.
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- Use iMovie's "Snap to Beats" Feature to Make a Music Video
- Jan 11, 2010
- Your Mac's iMovie application provides a fast, easy (and free) way to create music videos out of footage you already have on hand. John Tollett shows how it's done.
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