- Reference 4.1 Understanding a Project
- Exercise 4.1.1 Creating a Project
- Reference 4.2 Defining the Primary Storyline
- Exercise 4.2.1 Appending the Primary Storyline
- Exercise 4.2.2 Rearranging Clips in the Primary Storyline
- Reference 4.3 Modifying Clips in the Primary Storyline
- Exercise 4.3.1 Performing Insert Edits
- Exercise 4.3.2 Rippling the Primary Storyline
- Reference 4.4 Timing the Primary Storyline
- Exercise 4.4.1 Inserting a Gap Clip
- Exercise 4.4.2 Blading and Deleting
- Exercise 4.4.3 Joining a Through Edit
- Exercise 4.4.4 Refining Some Sound Bite Edits
- Reference 4.5 Editing Above the Primary Storyline
- Exercise 4.5.1 Adding and Trimming Connected B-roll
- Exercise 4.5.2 Understanding Connected Clip Sync and Trimming Behaviors
- Reference 4.6 Creating a Connected Storyline
- Exercise 4.6.1 Converting Connected Clips into a Connected Storyline
- Exercise 4.6.2 Appending Clips to a Connected Storyline
- Reference 4.7 Editing Below the Primary Storyline
- Exercise 4.7.1 Connecting a Music Clip
- Reference 4.8 Finessing the Rough Cut
- Exercise 4.8.1 Adjusting the Edits
- Exercise 4.8.2 Adjusting Clip Volume Levels
- Exercise 4.8.3 Connecting Two Additional B-Roll Clips
- Exercise 4.8.4 Refining Edits Using Cross Dissolves and Fade Handles
- Reference 4.9 Sharing Your Progress
- Exercise 4.9.1 Sharing an iOS-Compatible File
- Lesson Review
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This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Exercise 4.9.1 Sharing an iOS-Compatible File
You’ve done a lot in this first edit of Lifted Vignette. In this and the previous lessons, you’ve gone through a typical post-production workflow using Final Cut Pro. Although it’s not perfect, this rough cut must be shown to the client, the producer, or your colleagues attending an upcoming lunch meeting. The following exercise briefly describes exporting your project to a media file that is playable on a Mac, PC, smartphone, or tablet. Such media files are also acceptable for upload to most popular online video-hosting services.
With the Lifted Vignette project open, ensure that no clip or range is selected in the project by pressing Command-Shift-A.
This keyboard shortcut deselects any selected items and clears any marked ranges, which is important because Final Cut Pro will share a range if one is selected instead of the entire Timeline.
In the toolbar, click the Share button.
The Share Project pop-up menu appears with a list of preset destinations. Most of these presets focus on delivering high-definition content to online hosting sites or to desktop, portable, and handheld devices. For this exercise, let’s create a file that we can AirPlay to the conference room’s projector by way of an Apple TV.
From the list of destinations, choose Apple Devices 720p.
The Share dialog that appears contains four main elements: a skimmable preview area to verify the content for export, Info and Settings panes, and a File inspector that summarizes the exporting file’s settings.
The Info pane displays the metadata that will be embedded into the file. This metadata will be visible in the exported media file’s Info inspector when it is opened in QuickTime Player.
Set the following metadata information:
Title: Lifted-Rough Cut
Description: A helicopter pilot and cinematographer describes his passion for sharing aerial cinematography.
Creator: [insert your name]
Tags: aerial cinematography, helicopters, aviation
After entering the metadata, click the Settings tab to modify the file’s delivery options.
By default, the selected destination preset automatically saves the file to your iTunes Library. You may alter this behavior in the “Add to playlist” pop-up menu.
From the “Add to playlist” pop-up menu, choose “Open with QuickTime Player.”
In the Settings pane, verify the “Add to playlist” line has converted to “Open with QuickTime Player.”
Click Next.
In the Save As dialog, enter Lifted-Rough Cut, if necessary, and from the Where pop-up menu, choose Desktop. Click Save.
The Background Tasks button displays the progress of the share.
When the file has been shared, the file automatically opens into QuickTime Player and a macOS notification appears.
Play the movie file in QuickTime Player.
If the file looks and sounds as expected, you’re ready to AirPlay to an Apple TV.
To the right of the QuickTime Player transport controls, click the AirPlay pop-up menu.
From the list that appears, select the networked Apple TV to begin broadcasting the shared file to the Apple TV–connected display/projector.
In addition to streaming to an Apple TV, a shared file may be uploaded to cloud-based services such as iCloud, Dropbox, Frame.io, or YouTube. Many distribution options are available within Final Cut Pro and even more are available in Compressor and macOS.
Congratulations on completing the first edit of the Lifted Vignette project. You have gone from nothing to a rough edit in a brief period of time. You created a project and learned the various edit commands of append, insert, and connect to get clips into a project. Rearranging clips in the primary storyline introduced you to the magnetic properties of a storyline. For the B-roll, you created connected storylines; and then used a variety of tools for trimming clips, softening the edits, and adjusting the audio levels. Finally, you discovered some ways to share the project out of Final Cut Pro. No matter which projects you will edit in the future, you will edit every one of them using this same import, edit, and share workflow.
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