Final Cut Pro 7 200: Comprehensive Study

Day 1

• Starting a project

• Importing and navigating clips

• Marking and editing clips

• Organising project elements

• Saving, Hiding and Quitting

• Building the rough cut

• Editing a rough cut

• Making overwrite edits

• Managing Timeline tracks

• Making insert edits

• Editing audio clips

• Creating a new version

• Drag-and-drop editing 

• Changing the volume of clips

• Finishing the rough cut

• Adding cutaways

• Editing to narration, music, copying, cutting, pasting clips

• Screening & sharing a sequence

Day 2

• Trimming clip duration

• Rippling edit points

• Trimming clips on the V2 track

• Refining edit points

• Trimming two edit points

• Slipping one clip

• Rolling two edit points

• Sliding clips to refine position

• Dragging clips to new locations 

• Keeping linked clips in sync

• Refining the editing process

• Labelling project elements

• Creating subclips

• Adding markers to clips

• Using markers to align actions

• Using storyboard editing

• Performing replace edits

• Editing multicam footage

Day 3

• Reconnecting media

• Mixed format sequences

• Working with master clips

• Logging information

• Finding project items

• Customising shortcut keys

• Button bars

• Saving and loading layouts 

• Optimising user preferences

• Capturing & transferring footage

• Connecting sources for capture

• Choosing pre-set format settings

• Previewing & marking your source

• Logging clips

• Choosing settings and options

• Setting capture preferences

• Transfer from tapeless sources

• Applying and editing transitions

• Using the transition editor

• Previewing and rendering effects

Day 4

• Mixing audio tracks

• Organising & editing audio effects

• Using transitions to fade volume

• Use keyframes to change volume

• Using the audio mixer

• Recording a narration track

• Importing audio files

• Working with video generators

• Adding a lower third

• Applying a Boris title

• Adding mattes

• Effects and still images

• Creating a credit roll 

• Using master templates

• Entering speed changes

• Creating a freeze frame

• Changing motion parameters

• Animating motion parameters

Day 5

• Applying and viewing video filters

• Modifying filter parameters

• Applying audio filters

• Using a colour correction filter and animating filters

• Finishing and outputting

• Detecting audio peaks

• Video levels for broadcast

• Using export options

• Backing up projects