PowerUP Webinar 79: Creating Effects in Final Cut Pro X

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Duration: 47:48

Presented: September 19, 2012

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DESCRIPTION

Looking for ways to create effects in Final Cut Pro X? This video training is chock-full of ’em! From simple text effects and generators, blend modes and blurs, to corner pinning and green-screen keys – you’ll find tons of ideas in this webinar that you can use immediately to improve the look of your own projects.

Watch as host, Larry Jordan, provides step-by-step instructions on creating better titles, formatting fonts, working with generators, blur effects, and much more.

In this video tutorial, you will learn how to:

• Access and modify video generators
• Modify text and text effects
• Use blend modes to enhance a variety of effects
• Soften skin tones
• Corner pin a clip to create an extreme perspective effect
• Create, modify, and improve a green-screen (chroma-key) effect

Audience Level

This webinar is designed for all Final Cut Pro X editors who are looking for ideas on how to improve their effects using just FCP X.

Content Outline

• Agenda
• Helpful 3rd-Party Plug-ins
• Use Blend modes to share textures between clips
• Overview of essential EQ audio filters
• DEMO: Modify a background generator
• DEMO: Apply the Gaussian Blur effect
• DEMO: Add text to a background
• DEMO: Apply blend modes to text
• DEMO: Modify text attributes
• DEMO: Modify text styles
• DEMO: Use the Text Style menu
• DEMO: Animate titles
• DEMO: Apply a grad filter to landscape video
• DEMO: Use blend modes to soften skin
• DEMO: Use Spatial Conform for odd-sized images
• DEMO: Corner pin video to put it on the side of a building
• DEMO: Overview of key audio filters for EQ
• DEMO: Create a chroma-key
• DEMO: Fix problems with poorly lit keys
• DEMO: Get rid of garbage in the frame