Subtitles of the Movie

Alright let's officially kick this thing off by taking a quick tour of the Final Cut Pro interface and to dot hat I'm just going to launch the application very simply and of course there's lots of ways to open up the application. You can visit your applications folder or you can create a shortcut that's on the dock, you can have a shortcut or an icon on the desktop, whatever the case may be, I'll assume that you know how to open up applications and when you do you might see something like this. What's happening is that Final Cut Pro is looking for an external device in order to start importing some data to work with or some movie files to work with. We don't really need that right now, so we're going to click on continue, we can check again of course but again for this lesson we certainly don't need a connection to an external device. Probably a lot of the times you use Final Cut Pro you won't need a connection to an external device, it's just when of course you're importing your footage, your digitizing footage so that Final Cut has something to work with. Now what will happen is that Final Cut on its first launch and if you know Final Cut Pro from before you already know this and your probably skipping over this module anyway, but it will either create a brand new project for you if your launching it for the first time or the default for Final Cut is set to open up the last project you were working with and that's exactly what's happening right here. It's trying to find a file called VTC tutorial. So I'll just click on continue here and again we'll talk about this phenomenon later on, but I'll click on continue. But what I'll start with is what you probably are starting with and that is a brand new project, so I'll go to the file menu, new and then we'll leave this as an untitled project here and notice here that there is a sequence that's already built and it lives in a window called the browser and that's where we'll start off our look around the Final Cut Pro interface. The browser is your bin, if you're thinking about editing physical media it is most representative of a physical bin of film clips. Now we can divide this into folders called bins but I like to think of this thing as just a catch all where you can grab the elements and the clips that you will then use to make your finished project. Now one thing to know about the browser is that the things here aren't really the actual items themselves, Final Cut Pro is a non-destructive editing systems. Which means that you'll have clips here, you'll have pieces of music but the actual files themselves will live elsewhere. So this will get to look much like a finder window but these are really just pointers to the actual media, even if it's a digital media. So we'll work with clips and sequences and so on here, but we're really not manipulating the actual things that we have stored on our hard drive and that's why sometimes you'll open this up, you'll open up Final Cut and you'll see that it'll say these items have gone offline. Well that's nothing to panic about, its just that Final Cut can't find the relationship between the item here and your browser and the physical item that lives on your hard disk. So we'll just continue left to right or clockwise here as we move clockwise, this is the viewer, notice I can make it active with just a click on it and then it changes colors slightly there but there's certainly a visual indicator that this is my active window element here and this is the viewer and this is where I will view my source material that I will grab, well we'll find in the browser. The canvas is just to the right of this; it is another window where I will start to view the finished material. So I'll view my material here, I can mark it and then I can start to make edits and build what will become my sequence down here in the timeline and so the timeline becomes a representation of your finished project or at least portions of your finished project. Here is the result of all of the editing decisions you will make. Now finally to the right hand side of the timeline you will see two little things here and here, this is on the far right hand side, these are your audio meters, these display two meters that will tell you how loud you're particular sound is in sound track and when you think sound track we'll not necessarily thinking about just the music in a particular piece and then just to the left of that is the toolbar, the tool palette and this is where you can grab tools like and if you hover the mouse you'll be able to see what that tool will do or sometimes the shortcut for that tool. We'll deal with this lots later on in the tutorial, but the selection tool, the roll, the ripple roll, the razor tool or the blade tool here, the zoom tool and so on, the pen tool, so all of these will get full explanation through out the course of this tutorial. But this is what we're dealing with, these 5, 5 and maybe a 6th section here. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, the tool and the audio levels certainly come in handy as we monitor our finished project. If you want to further subdivide this and think of it conceptually, these two windows here are potential, the canvas and the timeline is finished result, finished project. So that's a quick tour of the interface and of course we'll deal with this interface through out the next 80, 100, 120 modules or so.