Final Cut Pro X Guru: Creating Speed Changes

Course details

Final Cut X has impressive time remapping features that allow you to bend time: slow things down, speed them up, reverse action, or even freeze frames. Learn how to enhance your storytelling with Final Cut Pro speed changes, and get the best quality renders from your time-remapped footage. Jeff Greenberg introduces the technical and creative possibilities with Final Cut Pro's Custom Speed dialog, automatic adjustments such as Speed Ramp and Instant Replay, the Range and Blade Speed tools, and Apple Motion. Plus, learn how to use high-frame-rate footage for the perfect slo-mo effect.

Learning objectives
Basics of retiming
Freeze-framing a clip
Getting the best playback quality
Understanding the automatic adjustments
Advance speed changes, including range selections

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - Using the exercise files

1. Key Speed Basics

03 - Freeze framing a clip
04 - Hold speed
05 - Retiming a clip via presets
06 - Reversing a clip
07 - Retiming a clip manually
08 - Custom Speed dialog
09 - Changing the speed of speakers

2. Understanding Rendering Quality

10 - Speeds that work well with Normal or Frame Blending quality modes
11 - Optical Flow and getting the best results

3. Automatic Adjustments

12 - Speed Ramp
13 - Instant Replay
14 - Rewind
15 - Jump cuts at markers

4. Advanced Speed Changes

16 - Using the Range tool for partial speed changes
17 - Using the high frame rate (HFR) material natively
18 - Using the Blade Speed to to refine speed changes
19 - Using Motion to build a strobe effect

Conclusion

20 - Next steps