Final Cut Pro For Beginners 2024 - Getting Started Tutorial

00:00 Intro
00:44 PART 1: Setting Up Your Project
02:33 Importing Files
02:59 Organising Your Project
04:12 PART 2: Understanding Your Workspace
04:20 Sidebar
05:23 Event Viewer
05:31 Preview Window
06:01 Inspector
07:40 Timeline
10:16 PART 3: Assembling Your Video
13:13 Adding Music
14:16 Effects & Transitions
16:19 PART 4: Exporting

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[MicahTek]

Just switched from fcp for iPad to fcpx I’m glad I found this video

[nonamebrojones]

I only miss the V1 A1 A2 A3 A4 labels since I mix 8 tracks of audio with all my projects. Other than that, I love the new FCP!

[fahim]

Thank you Nick. It was really helpful. Nice, easy and on point.

[ismaelarriaga]

Beginner here 🙋🏻‍♂️ I love your tutorial, very easy to follow along and natural. Thank you!

[nigelandsueadventures]

thanks so much Nick, this is a great starter tutorial. And from a fellow Aussie! Cheers.

[Neazzy]

Super useful! thank you so much! I am currently transitioning from Da vinci resolve to FCP and this helped a ton! Subscribed :)

[benjaminpastrana]

More than excellent tutorial, peaceful voice🙌

[MikeBarnhill]

Great video thanks!! Can you crop horizontal movies into vertical clips to use for Instagram or TikTok?

[uyftgee]

great tutorial Nick, i love it and it really help me as a beginner. greetings from Indonesia.

[hahahorse-svmr]

I just wanna say thank u and It helps a lot

[InTodaysVideo]

Thanks Nick for this video. What is the best third party source for Final Cut Pro effects, titles and transitions?

[rec]

FCP is so clunky and user unfriendly.
Great tutorial. Thanks.

[dutchguy]

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?

[ItsEzlan]

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 😊

[marknorfolk]

Hi Nick, I'm moving from FCP7 to FCPX and am concentrating hard on your tutorial. Any tips in how to change the layout using an additional monitor?

[AlwaysBolttheBird]

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

[videogal]

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?

[RoxanneDisla]

How do you add your face to the clips that show the software?

[rogerhummel]

I noticed that you are using a stand for your MacBook. What is the name of the particular stand you are using and where do I get one?

[hottamaletallahassee]

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.