Introduction to Final Cut Pro 5

Series Summary

A working knowledge of Final Cut Pro is essential to any aspiring filmmaker. As the most widely used software program in video and film editing, Apple computer's Final Cut Pro can give a professional appearance to any film project from basic digital video to HD material. Because it's relatively affordable and easy to use, Final Cut Pro has become extremely popular with broadcast stations and independent filmmakers. It offers a wealth of effects and functions, like dissolve, iris, distortion, and ripple, rolling, slipping, sliding and other editing functions, as well as color correction filters and audio filters.

In this free Final Cut Pro tutorial you'll learn the basics of Final Cut Pro. This video series will focus on an overview of the software and offer tips on getting started. Expert video editor CJ South will show you step-by-step how to begin and save a new project with the program, gives you an overview of the layout of the different features, and how to operate some of the basic tools you'll need to navigate around the program. Watch this free online tutorial with our others in this series and start working on your independent film today!

Video Transcript

" Hi this is CJ representing expertvillage.com, and in this clip I'm just going to give you a brief introduction into how this tutorial is going to flow. Now a lot of this information will be the same for earlier versions in the final cut pros as well, so you don't necessarily need version five. If you have version 4.5 or 4 or 3, you can still learn from these tutorials, because editing, the non linear editing, is basically the same across the board. The big difference is in the real time rendering which you would get more in the final cut pro 5 then what you did in 3. Also other preferences and things that you can set up. So you don't even have to have version 5 to get something out of it these tutorials. Now my goal is to get you editing as quickly as possible, which is why I'm not going to go over a lot of technical mumbo jumbo and whatnot. I'm just going to try to put you in there, get you organize, and have you start being creative. "