Jo Nick! I have been using Premiere for over 20 years. Now was the time to switch to Final Cut and your video was basically the first I watched. I can't say how helpful this was coming from Premiere. Thanks a lot and keep up the good work!
Great video! Extremely helpful how you explain your entire workflow and give analogies. I like Final Cut and I’ve been using it for a few years but I never got a solid understanding of if.
watching for refresher to see if i missed anything, but this is SO refreshing seeing the ease of use of the FCPX interface vs the ridiculously convoluted davinci resolve nle that is impossible to use without a masters degree in physics.
Wow! This was an excellent tutorial. I wish the cheatsheet didn't have a black background because I wanted to print it....but not bad enough to blackout some paper with ink. Loved the information!
Soooooo Helpful!! I have been using imovie and have been struggling with final cut. I kept going back to imovie but this video has cleared up a lot of my confusion. TYSM!
Thank you for the refresher. I haven't used FCPX in a while since Apple upgraded me out of most of their products with the M1 chip. Anyway, I'm back up and running thanks to Open Core Legacy Patcher. I'll ride that until the wheels fall off and hopefully a have a new MacBook Pro by then. Thanks for sharing.
Greetings from Wales:.... Superb Nick,... I like your relaxed style of presentation. The speed of delivery is good for me and the number of basic topics you present are just right to assist newbies like me as I endeavour to migrate from iMove to FCP. Thank you.
Thanks for this, I just needed some good simple pointers , I've recently just got my M3 Macbook Pro, I've been using DR on my windows system but found a torrent for FCP, so thought I'd give a try 😊
Thanks for illustrating that I'm not the illogical lunatic. Who designed the FCPX Library/Event/Project idiocy? Good lord. Totally illogical. Just like whoever designed Apple Photos. Thanks for the video - useful.
My personal favourite setup with a second monitor is to full screen my preview window on one and have my timeline and controls on the other. There should be a button in the top right when you connect the second screen to be able to do this!
@@NickKendall Thank you I'll give that a go. Is there a way to include the timeline as well? I sometimes like to get right inside the audio waveform cutting music. Thank you.
hey Nick!! Thanks for this video. Can U please tell us how did you connect your macbook to that large curved Monitor?? If you can make a video on that it would be nice Please. I have a macbook pro and Im thinkin to buy a monitor screen.
Thanks for great audio man, I am concerned about upgrading my mac to Big Sur because I shoot AVCHD. What operating system are you using on your mac? Can you us AVCHD files?
awesome tutorial thank you. one question. when you import media into the library does it copy the video files into the library or keep them in the original location
Great question; if you go to the menu bar and select Final Cut Pro > Settings > Import, there is an option at the top to either copy files into the library or leave files in place. I personally leave them in place so it doesn't double up my storage. :)
I like your style much better than the other FCP tutorials I have tried, but you also talk way too fast (I play your clips at 50% speed). And the screens you are showing do not match the ones I am seeing on my screen, even though we are using the same version! You make it look simple, but it is impossible for me to follow along. I repeatedly scored >140 on IQ tests, so (according to most people) I should be able to figure stuff out, but I am 62 years old and until I retired last year, the university where I worked provided assistance to old farts like me who are not fully IT-literate. Can you please create a "geriatric" version of your tutorials?
Yes, you can! I might make another video about this. Just right click your project and then hit 'duplicate project as' and then select the vertical video format. Make sure 'smart conform' is selected and it will automatically resize everything!
Hi Nick, I found as I followed your tutorial that when i got to the Transform section all the options for all the headings dont open up for me to adjust at all. I'm trying to problem shoot this however not sure if this has to do with when I imported the footage thats 4K at the beginning of the project (first time i've used final cut as an imovie baby so just did it all oon auto pilot instead of how you did it). Any suggestions?
please do not label this "for beginners" - i am not a rank beginner, i have been using iMovie for years , but FCP is brand new to me. By the time I got to around 3 minutes in to your video, i was thoroughly confused about what the heck all those folders, collections, events, etc. were, could not figure out how to "select all" my content and move it into the event as you did, i went over this section many many times, but no matter what ...I simply could not get past about 3 and a half minutes without being totally lost. I am a retired accounting instructor, and i know something about teaching, and I can tell you, this video is not designed for beginners. you assume the viewer knows way too much stuff from the beginning because it is all second nature to you, but it is ground zero to a real beginner.
I am a a super beginner, I am not seeing this to be beginner friendly, you go so fast at the most importatn parts. !!!! I dont want to put my video on social media I want it on my computer where I can access it for multiple things. I have not seen where I can do this in your video. I did not find this helpful for what I need.
It is difficult to learn from this video as he speeds through things he seems to think are irrelevant like creating the folders and the "event" thing and the steps after that. I guess he assumes people know how to do this
