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Apple Final Cut Pro X Tutorials
Importing / Importing from iMovie
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Importing from iMovie. So here we have iMovie, we're going to pretend like we were just doing the same things we were doing on Final Cut right here. Ironically, the things that people have been saying about how similar they are, are very true, so that's just one of the things that we're going to be talking about. So I want to import just this one time lapse, let's go to Manual, uncheck all, check just this one, Import Checked. It's going to give me this dialog, Create a New Event, sound very familiar? And choose where we want to put it, again very familiar. We're going to leave it full size, Import, and now we're going to see that Progress Bar, creating thumbnails, done. Okay, Import Complete, click Done. Now we have this, and skimming is here just the same, very similar in every way. Let's actually create a quick title on here as well, because, we want to see how this translates over, something like that, and you see here, this is not the project, so it's again a little bit different in some ways, but let's actually select this all, drag it out there. We can invert these I believe, but we're not going to worry about learning this program. I just want to create a situation where we can take this, and then import it in to our other project. So I created a title, et cetera, let's go over to Final Cut, and here we're going to Import iMovie Project. So my first project, apparently that's what's it called. Now we can double click on it, and let's see what came through. And actually, check it out, you can't see the other font there, because it's white on white, but different font ironically, a little different font, but everything else is the same, so it imported in. We can then continue working on it, so this is another option. And actually this is one of the things I think frustrated a lot of people right off the bat, is when they first did this, opened up Final Cut Pro X, and one of the first things that was an option for them, was to import iMovie projects, which is not considered a Pro application. Associating the two together really made a lot of people go, huh, wonder what's going on. Well the real new paradigm is completely different. In a lot of ways, iMovie is now what Final Cut Express used to be, although Final Cut Express, and Final Cut Pro 7 have a totally different feature set. In a lot of ways, there just totally different applications, not even designed for the same end goal at that time. So just a very interesting situation here, that we can import these in, but can import Final Cut Pro 7 into Final Cut Pro X. We've been told they're working on this, by the time you're watching this, that's probably something that will be updated, because that's just something that is going to be very expected. So that's just another option though, so if you have people working on things in iMovie, it's kind of cool, that a lot of people have iMovie, and if they're doing a project, they can bring it to you now, you can bring it into Final Cut Pro X, and continue working on it, without losing any work. Okay, so that's importing iMovie into Final Cut Pro X.
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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