Final Cut Pro Tutorial: Complete Beginners Guide to Editing

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📒 Show Notes 📒

1️⃣ (Video) 10 Editing Secrets from Famous YouTubers

2️⃣ How to Fix Background Noise in Your Videos

⏰ Timecodes ⏰
0:00 Final Cut Pro Masterclass
1:18 How to Start Overview
22:12 How to Edit Audio to Sound Great
41:36 Best Keyboard Shortcuts
47:30 How to Edit Faster
1:03:25 10 Best Effects for YouTube
1:24:48 How to Color Grade for Beginners
1:41:48 Best Tips for Editing Better Videos
1:51:08 How to Save Space on Your Computer

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In this full final cut pro tutorial, Nolan shares everything you need to know when it comes to editing on Final Cut Pro. This Beginners Complete Tutorial will cover everything in editing a beginner will face. Learn all the secrets to knowing how to use final cut pro in this tutorial.

[andyabajo]

Uhm what?! a 2-hour long step-by-step guide to use FCPX for beginners and its all for free? Thank you! 🙏🏽

[aSimpleChat]

Your passion for what you’re instructing shows immediately. I had no idea how approachable FCPX was as it always seemed to be so complex just to get started. Now that I have it, I feel more confident in starting my journey to create and edit videos for an upcoming YouTube channel. You’re a great teacher! Glad I found this channel and more than happy to subscribe!

[matthewcollinsangler]

This has to be one of the best "how-to" videos about a piece of software ever created. I learnt so much and the pacing was spot on. I was able to follow along and create my own test project with ease. I didn't get lost once. Keep up the fantastic work and I look forward to watching more of your excellent content. Thanks, Matt.

[CamCarr]

This video has been a game changer for me. I've been using FCP for about 7 months, but i became ready to expand my editing capacity. I learned a ton in this video, and cant wait for the advanced version to come out! Thanks guys, this is awesome.

[danroy]

Wow. Awesome. I watched this entire guide in one sitting. You packed everything I need to know from beginning editing in FCP to exporting the final project, and you gave me great tips for efficiency and compatibility and you even decreased the intimidation of colour correction. Thanks so much, Nolan. I'm now a subscriber.

[LisaMonique]

This is the best Final Cut Pro video I’ve ever watched and it is going to save me so much time, and I have watched a lot of videos. Now I’m not an absolute beginner, I have been using Final Cut for two years but just basic blade/jump cuts and I just started editing my audio last month. Shortcuts tips have been invaluable. Thank you!

[lidzlights]

For months I've been dreading how to edit, film, cut and everything else that needs to be done to make a good video. It's been doing my head in until I found you🙏🙏🙏I absolutely know nothing, but now I can learn from your tutorials. Thank you Nolan👍

[tobynicol]

Just want to thank you. I bought final cut months ago and barely learned to use it. I’ve been watching the video and trying the techniques while in isolation with covid. It’s helped me through the week 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[sumitgovil]

I don’t even have words to praise this video, to be honest. Love your dedication and passion. Definitely the best guide ever created. The extras you threw in really made my day. I hope one day you create another video with advanced topics. Or maybe a complete workflow. Would love to pay for that.

[InsightImagingPhoto]

Dude, thank you. Haven’t touched Final Cut Pro in 5 years after suffering a brain injury, and when I went back to it, I lost all knowledge how to use it. I am now very much a visual learning, and your videos have been a huge help. Thank you.

[keithbrueton]

What can I Best FCPX video for beginners ever !!!! Period! You deserve sooo!! much credit for the time spent making this.

[intansyuhada]

You don't know how grateful I am for this video. 🥺Been putting off FCP for a few months because of how overwhelmed it is for a complete beginner like me to learn it by myself. Now I even know how to improve my audio in just one tutorial😭 You're the GOAT!

[MrTorrit]

This is exactly what I needed. I've been using FCPX casually for years to do photo slide shows but I now have a real video project to do. The section on audio and the key framing was perfect for me and has solved a problem. This has been such a big help.

[MarksmanSpecialist]

wooow this just blew my mind, i was about go to those general slice of example to learn how to use fcp, but after i went thru with this video instead, i learned alot and i realized best way to learn is to get immersive in it and just relax and watch the teacher go through the motion instead of the typical step 1 step 2 step 3. The way you discuss and focus on key area blew my mind and i was more focused on how to integrate each idea rather than step by step, i feel very confident in this learning style now and i should apply this method and be more aware from now on.

[TopherMorrison]

This was the best instructional video I have ever seen, and I coach people for a living on live & camera presentation skills. Absolutely blown away at not just your editing skills, but your delivery as well. Thanks for this amazing content. Subscribed and liked. :) Also, for those reading this comment, WATCH ALL THE COMMERCIALS! This is how YouTubers make money and if you skip all the ads, it takes away from your favorite content creator's compensation... and this guy deserves to get paid!!!

[manavtyagi]

I just started my channel 3 months back and I am soon opening a new channel. I started with iMovie and now moving to Final cut pro, this is the best tutorial to understand and it is not at all boring. Thanks Think Media for doing this.
I also listen your PodCasts, they are just awesome :)

[kentsgodfrey]

This covers a ton of information and moves very fast. It took me several hours to watch because I had to repeat things, try them myself, and do a little research so that I could understand everything. It is very dense. The host is very knowledgable and likeable.

[keziaiykyk]

This was SO helpful! I have been so confused editing with FCPX, basics editing only, but since I found your video, it CHANGED my entire editing flow 💕🙏 so THANKYOU SO MUCH for making this, and it's unbelievable how a 2-hour-long-quality like this is free! THANKYOU THANKYOU 🙏

[officialjstw]

This is my first time watching Final Cut Pro tutorials and you've made it to where I feel like without even going in myself, that I know how to use everything in there. Thank you guys for always making content that is useful and beneficial for the community!

[nathanstatham]

Already at 15 minutes and I now know more than I learned after an entire day of messing around with it on my own. Time to grab some popcorn and sit back for the rest of the hour and a half. Thanks for all the information man. Great content!