A Final Cut Pro User’s Guide for Professional Editing Tasks and Best Practice

This Tutorial Area of my website was created for an Independent Study class at William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ, as part of completing my BA degree in Communications – Radio/TV.  I had attended WPU from 1988-1991, but left when I was offered a job as an editor at an advertising agency in NYC.  In 2008, I returned to WPU to complete the final few classes to earn my degree, finally completed my BA in 2009. I am currently a graduate student at Syracuse University, School of Education/Instructional Design, Development & Evaluation.

The information here is the culmination of my creative and professional experience from 1988 to the present. I have served clients in television advertising, web content, fine arts, music, corporate, broadcast and promotional areas, primarily in New York City.

Included among the 26,000+ words are some live screencapture demos on the following:

FCP project setup
Cloning clip data to other camera ISO recordings for batch capture
Versioning edits so they make sense
Making the sequence and EDL for telecine prep
Making the sequence and exporting an OMF for an audio mix session
Media Manage for online re-capture
Legalizing your master sequence
FCP setup for 4-channel audio output

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