Apple Final Cut Pro 6 User Manual

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Step 6:

Adding effects

Creating effects tends to be more time-consuming than cuts-only editing, so it’s good
to focus on basic edits first and work on effects when the timing of your project is
finalized. Effects are any enhancements you want to make to your footage, such as
color correction, special transitions, animation, still or motion graphics, multilayered
images (compositing), and titles. Final Cut Pro has a wide variety of video and audio
filters, each with parameters that you can keyframe to adjust over time in your
sequence, as described below.

Step 7:

Outputting

Once editing is finished, effects are added, and the final audio mix is complete, you can
output your movie to videotape or film. You can also export to a QuickTime format for
web delivery or use in a DVD-authoring application, such as DVD Studio Pro.

If you need to finish your project on a different editing workstation, you can export your
project to an interchange file format such as EDL or Final Cut Pro XML Interchange
Format. You may need to output on another system if you work with uncompressed
video, do lots of real-time effects processing, or require specialized video monitoring. For
more information, see Volume IV, Chapter 11, “Using Final Cut Pro XML and QuickTime
Metadata.” You can also refer to Volume IV, Chapter 5, “Offline and Online Editing.”