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Hi. This is Larry Jordan. The following is an excerpt of a recent
PowerUp webinar
taking a look at new features inside Final Cut Pro 10
version 10.1. In this excerpt,
we look at a new interface.
This is the new interface for Final Cut Pro 10
and it looks very, very similar to the old interface
but there are some small things that have changed throughout the application.
The most obvious is down here
in the low left corner we're no longer able to click on the project library
that whole Command-0 is gone.
Projects are now available to us up here in the browser.
This used to be called Events it's now called Library so if I grab this
vertical line that separates the two,
give ourselves some room to work, notice that I have
events inside the library. The library is the collection of
everything associated: projects, clips, media,
events, everything. Then each of these individual folders
is an event folder. In this particular case, I decided to put projects both in the
event itself and in the Projects folder.
Now you can store projects wherever you want inside the library.
Everything gets stored inside an event. Again, think of it as a
containing folder for stuff but the library itself
is listed on the left hand side. Notice also that hard disks are no longer
listed and that's because
libraries can be stored anywhere. You could store library on a thumbdrive,
a sparse image, optical media, as well as a raid or a hard disk.
Keep in mind that if you were to store it to a DVD or
store it to a thumb-drive, you'd be able to store it there but
it wouldn't have the performance you need to be able to play stuff back.
Libraries can be stored anywhere that you can mount
to the desktop and named any file name that you want to give it.
So that whole Final Cut Events, Final Cut Projects folder structure that we
had to work with,
is now gone. Well if we look over here
inside the the viewer, couple of other really cool features,
notice that this is our typical two-viewer display
if I go up to the Window menu I can say hide the libraries and notice the library
display is gone. This gives me more
ability, more room, to see clips. We could turn it on and off with this button down here
but what's new is when I go back to the Window menu I can also hide the browser
this allows me to see just the Viewer
and if I click on the Inspector, I've got room for the Inspector
and, I could, also display scopes, I can make the
clips disappear to give myself room to see scopes
and to see the image and to see the inspector.
Much, much more helpful when I'm done doing all of my
editing clips down to the timeline and now I want to do color grading or I wanna do
effects or I wanna do trimming.
Being able to have the browser be bigger makes a big difference.
Again we'll just hide scopes. Command-4 to hide the Inspector. Keyboard shortcut
for scopes by the way is Command-7
and we can increase or decrease the size allowed for the browser by grabbing this
horizontal line
and dragging up or down and as we had with the earlier version, we could
display it to a second monitor
if we had, there it is, if we had a second display attached to our computer.
Another thing that's worth noting, let's see, let's put our browser back here,
show the browser and show libraries,
go down to here, in the past we would set optimized or proxy files using a
preference setting and we would change the performance versus quality
also as a preference. Those have now moved to this switch
in the top right corner of the viewer. Better quality
gives us a pixel for pixel accurate display of the image but requires more CPU
horsepower. Better performance scales the pixels that are being displayed, makes text
look a little moth eaten
but its giving us much faster playback with less rendering.
Whatever of these two we choose, our output will
always be the highest quality. This affects playback during editing
only and this is how we're able to select whether we want to display proxy files,
which I have not created for this project,
or optimized or camera native files. Both
of these settings for quality and media used to be a preference setting,
they're now moved to a switch inside the viewer.
This has been an excerpt of a recent PowerUp webinar taking a look at the
new features inside Final Cut Pro 10
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