Final Cut Pro 6 Video Tutorial – Editing Basics 01

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Final Cut Pro 6 Video Tutorial – Editing Basics 01: System Setup






Over the next several days, we are going to release several or up to a dozen video tutorials for Apple’s Final Cut Pro 6. This series is intended for those who have just started using Final Cut Pro 6 without prior experience in digital video editing and need some guidance. We, MacHouse, edit more than 200 videos each year, using Apple Final Cut Pro. So we can help you.

This Final Cut Pro 6 video tutorial series is for offline editing. That is, we assume that all video clips are stored on a hard disk drive. So we don’t import videos from video cameras.

The first video of this Final Cut Pro 6 video tutorial series discusses how to set up the application. More precisely, we will work on User Preferences, System Settings and Audio/Video Settings. We do not cover every single system setting. The following is a list of settings that we explain in this video tutorial.

Keywords: Levels of Undo, Autosave Vault, Auto Render, Still/Freeze Duration, NTSC Default Timecode, Drop, Non-Drop, Timeline Options, Starting timecode, Default Number of Tracks, Scratch Disks, Video Render, Audio Render, Minimum Allowable Free Space On Scratch Disks, Memory & Cache, Memory Usage, Application Still Cache, Playback Control, RT, Safe, Unlimited, Frame Rate, Dynamic, Full, Quarter, Pulldown Pattern, Beep When Playing Unredered Audio, Sequence Preset, Frame Size, Pixel Aspect Ratio, Editing Timebase, QuickTime Video Settings, Compressor, Audio Settings, Duplicate, Capture Preset, QuickTime Audio Settings, Device





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  • Apple Final Cut Pro Version: 6.0.2
  • VTC version: 1.0
  • Video length: 9 minutes 59 seconds
  • Video file size: 19.4 MB
  • Video format: QuickTime
  • Video compression: H.264
  • Pixel size: 900 x 675
  • Audio effects: Enabled
  • Audio commentary: Enabled





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