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Apple updated Final Cut Pro, Motion and Compressor last week with significant new features. In this session, Larry Jordan illustrates some of the more interesting – and important – ones.

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Last week, Adobe released the new 2021 versions of Premiere Pro, After Effects, Audition, Media Encoder, and the rest of their audio and video applications. In this session, host Larry Jordan takes a closer look at some of the key features in this release.

What better way to end the year than with a session that covers just about anything? Well, at least the things you are interested in! Host Larry Jordan organized this session into seven categories covering different aspects of Apple Final Cut Pro, Motion and Compressor.

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  Note: Play video full screen to read screen text more clearly DETAILS Chapter: Metadata Software: Final Cut Pro X v 10.3 Next Movie: Metadata: Metadata and Views

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  Note: Play video full screen to read screen text more clearly DETAILS Chapter: Metadata Software: Final Cut Pro X v 10.3 Next Movie: Metadata: Analyze Clips

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  Note: Play video full screen to read screen text more clearly DETAILS Chapter: Metadata Software: Final Cut Pro X v 10.3 Next Movie: Metadata: Smart Collections

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  Note: Play video full screen to read screen text more clearly DETAILS Chapter: Metadata Software: Final Cut Pro X v 10.3

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  Note: Play video full screen to read screen text more clearly DETAILS Chapter: Metadata Software: Final Cut Pro X v 10.3 Next Movie: Metadata: Ratings and Favorites

The best way to learn something is to get started. And, if Motion is something you want to learn, this webinar is a great way to start. In this introductory webinar, we begin at the beginning – using Motion to create custom animated lower-thirds for your Final Cut Pro X projects.

Chapter 3 Video 8 of Final Cut Pro 10.2 Effects Training

Chapter 3 Video 7 of Final Cut Pro 10.2 Effects Training

Chapter 3 Video 5 of Final Cut Pro 10.2 Effects Training

Chapter 3 Video 4 of Final Cut Pro 10.2 Effects Training

Join host, Larry Jordan, as he shows you how to improve the look of your text, starting with importing Photoshop graphics into Premiere, then creating simple titles, text on a curve, adding graphics, then more complex titles and templates. Then, Larry wraps up with presentation of what fonts to use, and which fonts to avoid, when creating text for video. These font tips alone are worth the entire webinar.

FCP X 10.1 Effects Training Chapter 3: Video 6

FCP X 10.1 Effects Training Chapter 3: Video 5

FCP X 10.1 Effects Training Chapter 3: Video 4

FCP X 10.1 Effects Training Chapter 3: Video 3

FCP X 10.1 Effects Training Chapter 3: Video 2

FCP X 10.1 Effects Training Chapter 3: Video 1

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This intermediate-level webinar is designed for Final Cut Pro X editors who want to improve the look of their titles, customize existing titles, or understand how to integrate Motion effects with Final Cut Pro X.

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New Features in Final Cut Pro X 10.0.6.

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New Features in Final Cut Pro X 10.0.6.

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New Features in Final Cut Pro X 10.0.6.

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In this session, Larry shows you how to create great looking graphics – 2D and 3D, with and without animation – quickly and easily; without being a creative genius. Learn how to use pre-defined styles and animations as starting points to create your own titles.

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In this video training session, join host Larry Jordan as he explains the new way to do titles in Final Cut Pro X.

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Final Cut Pro X: Effects Chapter 4 In this video, you will learn:
Show how to display Action and Title Safe
Show how to position text inside these safe zones
Show how to open and use the Timeline Index
Show how to find text in a project
Show how to replace specific text in a single title
Show how to replace specific text in multiple titles

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Final Cut Pro X: Effects Chapter 4 In this video, you will learn:
Show how to use the Inspector to modify a title
Select a title
Open the Inspector and make changes to the title
Illustrate a variety of titles to show what’s possible

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Final Cut Pro X: Effects Chapter 4 In this video, you will learn:
Preview a title
Add a title as a connected clip
Add a title to the Primary Storyline
Change the content of a title
Change the duration of a title
Change the position of a title
Add a transition to a title
Turn on, and off, built-in title animation
Remove a title

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Final Cut Pro X: Effects Chapter 4 Titles are animated text clips which can be added either full-screen, or composited into other footage. This chapter in Larry Jordan’s Final Cut Pro X – Effects training series provides step-by-step tutorials demonstrating how to add, modify and remove titles, use the Inspector to modify titles as well as find and replace text in titles.

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This webinar, which was sponsored by Boris FX, shows you how to use the titling software bundled with Final Cut Pro, then how to extend it when you add the power of Boris Continuum Complete version 7 to supercharge your text effects.

You may not have discovered them yet, but LiveType has dozens of great templates.

LiveType is designed to give your text life. In fact, it contains hundreds of pre-built effects.

The text animation features in Final Cut Pro are, to put it politely, lame.

The problem with creating scrolling credits in Final Cut is that you have very limited styling options and you can’t pause the scroll at the end. Both of those limitations don’t exist in LiveType.

In this session, Larry Jordan shows you step-by-step techniques to create good looking keys using Final Cut Pro.