Lesson 2:Importing

Apple Pro Training Series

Final Cut Pro XProfessor: Sam

Edsall

Importing Media into FCP

Importing Media into an Event

Import Media into a New Event

If the Event Library is not visible, click the Event Library button beneath the Event Browser.

In the Event Library, hide the APTS FCP X Events if necessary, and then click the Macintosh HD icon to select the internal hard drive as the destination for the new Event.

Choose File > New Event, or press Option-N.

The New Event

Import Media into a New Event

In the name field, enter Fairly Legal, and press Return.

Importing Content

Import Media into a New Event

With Fairly Legal selected in the Event Browser, click the Import Files button.

In the Import dialog in the left sidebar, select the APTS FCP X disk; and navigate to FCPX Book Files > Fairly Legal. Select the first clip, then Shift select the last clip in the folder. (Don’t import them just yet.)

Importing Content

Import OptionsSelect ‘Add to existing Event’ and make sure Fairly Legal on Macintosh HD appears in the Event pop-up menu.

In the Organizing section, make sure that ‘Copy files to Final Cut Events folder’ is selected. Deselect ‘Import folders as Keyword Collections.’ (These options are selected by default.)

To Copy or Not to Copy?

Import Folders as Keyword Collections

More Import OptionsThere are other options before you import like optimizing and analyzing your video and audio.

(These features are nice, but tie up your resources)

For now, only check ‘Copy files…’ and press ‘Import’ on the bottom right.

How Copied Media is Managed

See Your MediaClick the Finder icon and navigate to Movies > Final Cut Events > Fairly Legal

Then click the Original Media folder to see the copied media.

Keyword Collections

How Keyword Collections

are Made

Import Folders as Keyword Collections

In the Event Library, Control-click the Macintosh HD icon and, from the shortcut menu, choose Import Files.

In the Import Files dialog, navigate to the FCPX Book Files > Zero To Hero folder, and click the Interviews folder.

Do not select the files inside this folder.

Import Folders as Keyword Collections

Import dialog section:1. Select ‘Create new

Event’2. Enter Zero to Hero in

the new Event field. Make sure the Save To location is Macintosh HD.

Organizing section:3. ‘Copy files to Final Cut

Events folder’ is selected.

4. ‘Import folders as Keyword Collections’ is selected.

Click Import.

Keyword Collections

Import Another Folder as a Keyword

CollectionControl-click the_Zero to Hero_Event in the Event Library and, from the shortcut menu, choose Import Files.

In the Import dialog, navigate to FCPX Book Files > Zero to Hero > B-Roll, and select that folder.

Import Another Folder as a Keyword

CollectionUse the same settings as last time by adding it to the Zero to Hero Event, copy files, and Import folders as Keyword Collections and Import.

Looking Around

Looking AroundClick on the Zero to Hero Event and each keyword collection to see the different views of clips within the Event Browser.

Analyzing and Correcting

Imported Clips

Analyzing and Correcting

Imported Clips

Analyzing and Correcting

Imported Clips

Import with Auto Analysis

In the Event Library, Control-click the Macintosh HD icon and choose New Event.

Name the new Event I Think

In the Event Browser, click the Import Files button.

Auto AnalysisIn the browser, navigate to FCPX Book Files > I Think, and press Command-A to select all the clips in the I Think folder.

Select ‘Add to existing Event’ to add it to the ‘I Think’ Event on Macintosh HD.

Import OptionsOrganizing:- Copy files to Final Cut Events folder

Video:- Analyze for balance color- Find people and Consolidate- Create Smart Collections after analysis

Press Import

Working in the Background

Blue vs. Purple Lines

The Analysis

AnalysisIn the I Think Event, skim through the extreme cu clip.

-- notice the yellowish tint

-- FCP analyzed the color balance, but it’s not corrected (yet).

AnalysisBelow the Viewer in the toolbar, click the Inspector button. -- Inspector appears to the right of the Viewer.

At the top of the Inspector, click the Video tab.

Enable the color balance effect by selecting the box next to Balance.

Transcoding

Transcoding

Should I do this if I’m editing on my

laptop?

Do I need Proxy Media?

Working with Proxy Media

Switching Back & Forth

Importing from a Camera

Import from Camera

Import From CameraIn the Event Library, create a new Event on Macintosh HD and name it Camera Import.

Select the Event, and in the Event Browser, click the Import From Camera button.

Import from Camera Layout

Import From CameraIn the Camera Import window, Control-click in the left sidebar.

Choose Open Archive

Navigate to FCPX Book Files > Imports, and select 201107 Flowers.dmg disk image.

Click Open.

Import From CameraWhen the files have loaded, select the camera source, and skim through the clips in the Clip Browser.

To play a clip, select it, and press the Spacebar, or use the transport controls beneath the preview area.

Import From CameraIn the Clip Browser, deselect all the clips by clicking in the gray area around the thumbnails-- Shortcut: Command-Shift-A

Select Clip 13 in the browser.

Import From CameraClick the Import Selected button.

In the menu, choose the Camera Import Event.

Deselect any other import options, and click Import, then close the import window.

When Final Cut Pro has imported the clip, it appears in the Event Browser.

Importing from Tape

Camera Archive

Importing from the Finder

Importing from the Finder

Open the Final Cut Pro Preferences window.

At the top of the Preferences window, click the Import button.

Select Copy files to Final Cut Events folder and deselect everything else.

Importing from the Finder

In the Event Library, create a new Event on Macintosh HD and name it Baja.

In a Finder window, navigate to the APTS FCP X > FCPX Book Files > Imports > Baja Whales folder.

Importing from the Finder

Drag the Baja Whales folder into the Baja Event.

When the Event is highlighted with a white outline, and you see the green plus (copy) sign on the pointer, release the mouse button.

Importing from other Applications

Homework Assignment:

1. Create a new Event named Mobileviz Minutes.

2. Import and copy all the Mobileviz Minutes from the APTS FCPX external drive

3. After the import process has completed (including background tasks), delete the two practice Events you created: Camera Import and Baja. • Select it and press

Command-Delete.

Homework Assignment:

4. Select the new Event so the clips can be seen in the Event Browser.

5. Use the Grab utility in the Applications / Utility folder to take a snapshot of your new Events Library and Events Browser.

6. Save the image to the desktop.

7. Send an email to me on Western Online and attach the file.

Shortcuts

Shortcuts

Lesson 2:Importing

Apple Pro Training Series

Final Cut Pro XProfessor: Sam

Edsall