Apple Final Cut Pro X Tutorials
Importing / Importing from Camera
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Importing from Camera. So we're going to look at how to get some footage of a camera, and also because it's a similar type situation, of your iPhone, or iPad. Now there's a number of different things going on here. You're going to have a number of different cameras which will work with Final Cut Pro, not every single one of them does, so you're going to need to really explore your own options for this. But there's a few things that we need to talk about. So first of all, let's just actually just go to the dialog here, we can get there by pushing this button, Command I is the keyboard shortcut for that. So you can see we have a number of clips of this handheld, and as we're doing this, we're going to be able to take these clips and bring them into our Final Cut Pro Events. So really we have two different areas here. We're really bringing things into Events right now, which then we can bring into our Projects, another point. So you can see I've got two things attached right now. This is the camera, and then I've also got the iPad. So as we're doing this, we're just going to go over the basics of importing right now, we're going to talk about the Preferences, which really affect the import of these clips in a separate place. We're also going to talk about Archives, but we're going talk about that in the next tutorial, where we talk about importing files, although this really does apply to the camera side of things as well, because when you're importing things into Final Cut Pro, if you don't want to do all the things that go along with importing, you can often just do an Archive straight from the camera. So we'll talk about that in a little different place. Okay, so first of all, we can click on the one we want to bring media in from. You can see a number of different home video style things for this, because that's really what's on these particular cameras we're going to be pulling off of. And we can choose which ones we want, so I can simply just make a selection here. As soon as we've got all the clips we want to import, we can choose the Import Selected Button. If we have none of them selected, I just deselected by clicking in an area that wasn't a clip, I can Import All. So those are really the options here. We can change the view a little bit, so I'm just doing one thumbnail for the entire project, and I can skim through to see what's inside. We can also look at the additional options here for clip height, and also show wave forms, if we want to see the audio. Actually, that's a nice option, just to see what audio there is, if there is any at all. We can make these a little bit smaller to fit more on the screen, and then we can also hide imported clips. So if we just are importing a few, we can come back and see which ones we haven't already imported. So then we can also go to the iPad, same thing. So these are videos that were shot straight on the iPad, and we can now pull these off as well. You can see the functionality of skimming here, so we can actually go through each of these clips before they're imported, and actually see what's on them. This is the first time I've hooked up the iPad, it's not like these were already imported, and so Final Cut Pro had a cache on the hard drive someplace, these were actually analyzed and taken, when I hooked it up. Now both of these situations are file based in the sense that they don't have tape, they're just coming off of storage on these cameras, the iPads like that. The video that's stored is a file, the same with this particular camera, and so if you have a tape based camera, you're going to have a very similar situation, but you're going to be able to choose where you're going to be importing from. You can actually go through the media and have it choose that point, start recording, and then you can stop it manually. So a little different situation, you can also capture live feed off certain tape based cameras, so if you have that set up, you can roll live, and record straight into Final Cut, but not every camera allows you to do that. And this camera that I've hooked up right now, does not in fact allow you to do that. So just some different variances going through there. You'll have to figure out exactly what works for you in your situation. The good news is, or maybe the bad news as well, you have very few options. So you're not going to do a lot of offline or online type things, you're not going to be able to capture one resolution, and batch capture everything at a higher resolution. It doesn't work like that in Final Cut X at all. So it's really, you see what you get, and you get what you see. So very simplistic approach to this, and some people are really going to like this, and some people are not. Let's go on in the next tutorial, where we're going to talk about importing files in, and also we're going to talk about some of the Archiving issues as well.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Apple Final Cut Pro X |
| Author: | Sam McGuire |
| SKU: | 34254 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61866-007-7 |
| Release Date: | 2011-08-22 |
| Duration: | 8 hrs / 96 lessons |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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