Final Cut Pro User Guide for Mac

• Welcome
• What’s new
• Get started
  • What is Final Cut Pro?
  • Intro to the Magnetic Timeline
  • What are libraries?
  • Final Cut Pro workflow
  • Final Cut Pro interface
  • Subscribe to Apple Creator Studio
    • What is Apple Creator Studio?
    • Subscribe
    • Download new content
  • Download a demo project
• Import and analyze media
  • Intro to importing media
  • If it’s your first import
  • Import from connected cameras
    • Import from file-based cameras
    • Import spanned clips
    • Import from iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
    • Import from digital still cameras
    • If your camera isn’t recognized
  • Import from devices
    • Import from your Mac or storage device
    • Import from an archive or disk image
  • Organize files during import
  • Import from other apps
    • Import from Image Playground
    • Import from iMovie for macOS
    • Import from iMovie for iOS or iPadOS
    • Import from Final Cut Pro for iPad
    • Import from Final Cut Camera
    • Import from Photos
    • Import from Music
    • Import from Apple TV
    • Import from Motion
    • Import from GarageBand and Logic Pro
    • Import using workflow extensions
  • Record into Final Cut Pro
  • Memory cards and cables
  • Supported media formats
  • Import third-party formats with media extensions
    • Import using media extensions
    • Import Sony X-OCN files
  • Import and adjust RAW media
    • Adjust ProRes RAW camera settings
    • Import REDCODE RAW files
    • Import Canon Cinema RAW Light files
  • Analyze media
    • Intro to analyzing media
    • Video analysis options
    • Audio analysis options
    • Analyze your media
    • View analysis keywords
• Play back and organize media
  • Play back and skim media
    • Intro to playback
    • Play media
    • Skim media
    • Play media in the event viewer
    • Compare two video frames
    • Play media on an external display
    • Zoom in to the viewer
    • Control playback quality
    • Use overlays in the viewer
    • Background rendering
    • Play back slow-motion clips
  • Organize your library
    • Intro to libraries
    • Organize your projects, events, and media
      • Create a new event
      • Rename items
      • Merge and split events
      • Move items between events
      • Duplicate projects and clips
      • Delete items from libraries
    • View and sort items in the browser
      • Intro to browser views
      • Customize browser views
      • Sort and group items in the browser
      • Hide clips in the browser
      • Create and share column sets
    • Organize clips
      • Rate clips
      • Add keywords
      • Add clip and project notes
      • Organize clips by roles
      • Lines marking event clips
    • Find items using search, keywords, and Smart Collections
      • Find clips and projects
      • Create Smart Collections
      • Organize Smart Collections
    • Restore a library
• Edit your project
  • Intro to editing
  • Create and manage projects
    • Create a new project
    • Open and close projects
    • Modify a project’s settings
    • Create square or vertical versions of a project
    • Final Cut Pro project settings
    • Save and back up projects
    • Copy a project to another Mac
  • Select clips and ranges
    • Selections and filmstrips
    • Select clips
    • Select ranges
    • Set multiple ranges in the browser
  • Add and remove clips
    • Intro to adding clips
    • Drag clips to the timeline
    • Append clips to your project
    • Insert clips
    • Connect clips
    • Overwrite clips
    • Replace clips
    • Add still images
    • Create freeze frames
    • Add only a clip’s video or audio
    • Remove clips from projects
    • Solo or disable clips
    • Find a project clip’s source clip
  • Make three-point edits
    • Intro to three-point editing
    • Three-point editing guidelines
    • Three-point edit examples
  • Arrange clips in the timeline
  • Cut and trim clips
    • Intro to trimming
    • Cut clips in two
    • Extend or shorten clips
    • Make roll edits
    • Make slip edits
    • Make slide edits
    • Create split edits
    • Show trimming details in the viewer
  • View and navigate
    • Scroll in the timeline
    • Zoom in to and out of the timeline
    • Adjust timeline clip appearance
    • Snap to items in the timeline
    • Navigate your project
    • Navigate using timecode
    • View source and project timecode
    • View your project in the timeline index
    • Show clips with duplicate ranges
  • Work with markers
    • Intro to markers
    • Add and remove markers
    • Edit and move markers
    • Add chapter markers
  • Edit to the beat
  • Correct shaky video
• Edit audio
  • Intro to audio
  • Audio editing basics
    • Audio waveforms
    • Audio channels and components
    • Ways to view audio clips
    • Zoom in to audio waveforms
    • View and change audio levels
    • Solo and mute audio clips
  • Add audio
    • Add music and sound
    • Record voiceovers
    • Access external audio files
  • Edit audio clips or audio components
    • Intro to audio editing
    • Configure audio channels
    • Adjust volume
    • Fade audio in and out
    • Crossfade audio
    • Pan audio
    • Multichannel audio editing examples
  • Add and adjust audio effects
    • Add audio effects
    • Remove audio effects
    • Add the default audio effect
    • Adjust audio effects
    • Save audio effects presets
    • Keyframe audio effects
  • Audio tools and techniques
    • Enhance audio
    • Sync audio and video
    • Match audio
    • Preserve pitch in retimed clips
    • Monitor mono or dual mono audio
• Add titles
  • Add and adjust titles
    • Intro to titles
    • Add titles
    • Add the default title
    • Adjust titles
    • Position and animate titles in Final Cut Pro for Mac
    • Text inspector controls
    • Apply preset text styles
    • Modify titles in Motion
    • Find and replace text
  • Add and adjust 3D titles
    • Intro to 3D titles
    • 3D titles workflow
    • Add 3D titles to a project
      • Add 3D titles
      • Convert text to 3D text
    • Rotate and move 3D titles
      • Rotate titles in 3D space
      • Move titles in 3D space
    • Modify basic 3D text attributes
      • Adjust basic 3D text settings
      • Modify depth and edges
      • 3D Text controls
    • Modify surface appearance
      • Intro to materials
      • Add preset materials
      • Modify materials
      • Work with material layers
      • Add a light-emitting material
      • Save modified materials
      • Add materials to 3D text facets
    • Material controls
      • Intro to Material controls
      • Substance controls
      • Paint controls
      • Finish controls
      • Distress controls
      • Emit controls
      • Placement controls
    • Change lighting style
      • Intro to 3D text lighting
      • Adjust 3D text lighting
      • Change the lighting environment
      • Lighting controls
    • Add glows or shadows
• Add effects
  • Intro to effects
  • Add and adjust transitions
    • Intro to transitions
    • How transitions are created
    • Add transitions and fades
    • Quickly add a transition with a keyboard shortcut
    • Set the default duration for transitions
    • Delete transitions
    • Adjust transitions in the timeline
    • Adjust transitions in the inspector and viewer
    • Merge jump cuts with the Flow transition
    • Adjust transitions with multiple images
    • Modify transitions in Motion
  • Adjust built-in effects
    • Intro to built-in effects
    • Resize, move, and rotate clips
    • Adjust framing with Smart Conform
    • Trim the edges of the video frame
    • Crop clips
    • Pan and zoom clips
    • Skew a clip’s perspective
    • Work with built-in effects
    • Remove built-in effects
  • Add and adjust clip effects
    • Intro to clip effects
    • Add video effects
    • Add the default video effect
    • Adjust effects
    • Use masks to define the shape of a video effect
      • Intro to effect masking
      • Add a Magnetic Mask to a video effect
      • Add a shape mask to a video effect