If you are not familiar with Adjustment Layers when editing in Final Cut Pro, you are in for a treat! When I first learned about using Adjustment Layers I not only was able to speed up my editing but I was able to have a bit more control of effects Read more…
The Audition feature in Final Cut Pro X that not a lot of editors or video educators talk about. Usually it is a part of a “quick tip” series and not really discussed. Audition is accentually pretty simple but it is something that if used often can save you tons Read more…
Using GIFs are a fun way to spice up your social media posts and even use them in your videos. Did you know you could create any GIF you can think of simply by using Final Cut Pro X and Compressor? It is very easy to do and if you Read more…
If you are in the photography or videography industry, you know or at-least have heard of the Ken Burns effect. Basically it is a gradual zoom in or zoom out effect for your videos. Alot of amateur editors like to use it for picture slideshow moves and it defiantly gives Read more…
Using a secondary display in Final Cut Pro is not just an optional feature but in my opinion, it is a necessity! No matter how many times I customize and change my FCPX workspace, I tend to get frustrated with the size of the viewer window. The viewer window is Read more…
Final Cut Pro is a fantastic product right out of the box but it is always good to know how to optimize it to make your editing faster and save time. In this article, we cover 5 easy ways to speed up your Final Cut Pro and edit faster. Change Read more…
If you can’t tell, I absolutely love editing in Final Cut Pro. I mean, this whole site is filled with tutorials on many different aspects of that software however one thing does bug me when it comes to using LUTs. Currently, you are unable to preview a LUT file without Read more…
Let me start off by stating that this is not going to be a ground-breaking technique to learn but it can come in handy if you want to speed up your workflow. This is especially useful if you are always adding the same types of content to your videos. In Read more…
One main feature that has always been missing from Final Cut Pro X is Object/Motion Tracking. Other programs such as Adobe Premiere have had this feature baked in for a while and the only way to do it in FCPX was to purchase a third-party plugin from sites such as Read more…
In this super quick and easy Final Cut Pro X tutorial, I’ll show you how you can take pretty much any scene and quickly add fireworks bursting in the sky. This tutorial was centered around the U.S. Fourth of July Holiday but obviously you can use the technique for any Read more…