Enhance your editing skills with this curated list of top Final Cut Pro tutorials. These include everything from importing & editing to creating stunning animated effects.
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Last updated in January 2024 with new tutorials. Enjoy!
From importing to editing and exporting this tutorial includes it all. We cover how to get clips down to your timeline, refine an edit, add titles, work with colour as well as looking at some of my favourite free plugins for Final Cut Pro.
Clear 100s of GBs on your Mac… just take a look at the video comments! If you are getting the message “The storage device Macintosh HD is almost full” when you are eating in Final Cut Pro then this tutorial will help you clear the space you need to keep on editing.
Learn how to add & control contrast in your Final Cut Pro edits. Understand the different ways you can affect video contrast on the timeline with professional control.
Youtubers! This is your complete pro-Kit for your channels, use it in Final Cut Pro and Apple Motion! We’ve reworked the entire underlying logic so Final Cut Pro-only-users can benefit from this amazing pack in a breeze! Check out The YouTuber Pack 3.0 here.
In this detailed and easy-to-follow Final Cut Pro tutorial you will learn how to create this detailed and beautifully animated parallax version of the Ken Burns effect. We look at how to mask out an image, create transparency, blend, animate and blur to give a sense of depth and movement that will bring your archive or documentary images to life.
Create this classic blend of two videos using essential layer techniques such as shape masks, keys and draw masks. Download the source video files for free blow as we cover the essential skills for creating this style of effect in FCP as well as some awesome refinements that will give your video a slick professional look.
In this easy to follow Final Cut Pro tutorial, you will learn how to create an effect where your video grows onto the screen with the flow of ink or the rise of smoke. The layer compositing techniques you will learn, along with colour correction and use of the Ken Burns effect mean this tutorial is jam-packed with useful tips and tricks.
Learn to place video inside any shape or type as well as how to add multiple outlines to any object. Change the colour, line thickness and much more in this beginner Final Cut Pro tutorial.
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In this tutorial, you will animate a playback bar and use Final Cut Pro’s built-in plugins to create a countdown timer. Through this process, you will learn some awesome shortcuts, how to keyframe animation in FCPX and much more.
In this tutorial we get creative with Final Cut Pro’s new tracking tools to create animated lines with a circle, square, arrow or any shape need. This smart use of FCP’s built-in tools is a great way to get some of those awesome animated effects that you often will only see in snazzy, and often expensive, plugins. Here we set things up for free.
In this tutorial we look at how to add any shape in Final Cut Pro using only the built-in tools. As well as adding outlines you will learn to work solve outline problems and extrude 3D shapes using free plugins.
