Final Cut Pro X Guru: Organizing Assets

Organization has always been a key to successful post-production. As video technology evolves, there may be more choices and challenges, but the fundamental organization techniques remain relevant. In Final Cut Pro X Guru: Organizing Assets, professional editor Nick Harauz looks at all of the ways Final Cut helps you organize assets for editing. By the end of this course, you'll be able to find, sort, and select the clips you want faster, start editing sooner, and reactivate archived projects quicker.

Topics include:

• Importing media
  
• Transcoding files
  
• Using keywords and Smart Collections
  
• Creating markers
  
• Working with favorites and rejects
  
• Understanding metadata views and applying custom fields
  
• Working with advanced search functions and criteria
  
• Exporting metadata
  
• Archiving and moving libraries