Apple Final Cut Pro X 10.1.2 User Guide

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 •To indicate that a to-do item is completed: Select the Completed checkbox.
The marker turns green.
To-Do Item button
Select the Completed checkbox.
 •To make the marker a standard marker: Click the Standard Marker button.
The marker turns blue.
 3 Click Done.
Move or copy a marker
You can move or copy markers with the familiar Mac commands Cut, Copy, and Paste.
 1 Control-click the marker you want to move or copy, and choose an option from the 
shortcut menu.
 •To...

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Manage chapter markers and their thumbnail images
Chapter markers are a standard feature in DVDs, Blu-ray discs, and podcasts. You can add chapter 
markers to your project so that when you share your finished movie, viewers can use the 
markers to quickly jump to those points in the movie. Applications and devices that recognize 
Final Cut Pro chapter markers during playback include iTunes, iPod, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, 
QuickTime Player, DVD Player, and most standard...

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Set the chapter marker thumbnail image
After you set a chapter marker, you can choose an appropriate video frame to represent that 
particular chapter.
 1 Click the chapter marker once in the Timeline to select it.
The marker enlarges slightly to show that it’s selected, and a chapter marker thumbnail pin 
appears to the right of the selected chapter marker. By default, the chapter marker thumbnail pin 
appears 11 frames after the chapter marker. 
Chapter marker...

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Correct excessive shake and rolling shutter issues
You can smooth a clip’s shaky footage by correcting the stabilization, rolling shutter, or both.
The stabilization feature in Final Cut Pro reduces the camera motion in your video so that shaky 
parts can be played back more smoothly. At any time, you can turn off stabilization for any clip so 
that it plays as originally recorded.
Many camcorders and still cameras include CMOS image sensors that expose the picture...

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 •During playback and rendering, Final Cut Pro uses the motion analysis data to apply a 
transform effect to each frame, compensating for camera movement.
Use any of the three independent stabilization parameter sliders in the Video inspector to control 
the steadiness of your shot. When you apply stabilization to a clip, all three parameters are set to an 
average value of 2.5 by default. Each parameter can be set to a value between 0.0 and 5.0. A value 
of 0.0 turns...

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Audio overview
Final Cut Pro has many features designed to make processing and editing audio easier. For 
example, you can analyze and automatically enhance audio to address problems such as noise 
or hum, add effects to your clips, sync video and audio clips automatically, and match audio 
between two clips.
Audio-only clipAudio portion of a video clip
You can make the following changes to clips or to audio components within a clip:
 •Edit multiple audio channels: You can expand the audio portion...

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You use the same tools used for video editing when you edit audio clips in Final Cut Pro. The 
following editing features are covered elsewhere in Final Cut Pro Help:
 •Change edit mode: Set the edit mode for a clip to video only or audio only. See Add clips using 
video-only or audio-only mode
 on page 11 4.
 •Add markers to clips: Add markers to mark specific reference points within an audio clip. See 
Markers overview
 on page 14 8 .
 •Trim audio: Make precision edits to...

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About audio channels and audio components
Audio files can contain a single audio channel or multiple audio channels. Channels usually 
correspond to microphone inputs during recording or to speakers for multichannel output. For 
example, a stereo audio file usually contains left and right channels that match what you hear 
from the left and right speakers during playback.
Final Cut Pro automatically groups channels into audio components according to how the 
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Show expanded audio components
You can expand the audio portion of clips in Final Cut Pro to view and edit audio components.
You can show expanded audio components for synchronized clips, multicam clips, and 
compound clips.
Do one of the following:
 mSelect the clip in the Timeline, and choose Clip > Expand Audio Components (or press 
Control-Option-S).
 mDouble-click the audio portion of the clip in the Timeline while holding down the Option key.
Normal clip view
Audio...

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Show expanded audio and video
You can view audio and video separately in the same clip in the Timeline by expanding clips that 
have both audio and video. This can be useful if you need to zoom in to the audio portion to 
make edits.
Note:  If you create a split edit so that audio portions overlap, you won’t clearly see the 
overlapped waveforms unless you choose to show expanded audio for split clips.
 m To expand a single clip: Double-click the audio waveform of the clip....