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I saw this last night and couldn’t stop laughing. If you edit on Final Cut Pro or Final Cut Express, take a moment to watch this “tutorial” where the host does EVERYTHING wrong (intentionally). Make sure you watch it all the way to the end.

FCP Quick Tips – episode #183 from Rob Imbs on Vimeo.

Hilarious! Rob is brilliant.

* Found via Pro Video Coalition.

Last week I asked what topic you wanted to see next, and because the answers were so varied, I decided to start tackling each of them.

This tutorial shows you how to create effects in your videos using basic color correction tools. In fact, I intentionally demonstrate this using the Final Cut Express color correction tool, which is super basic. Naturally, if you have more advanced tools, you can do a lot more.

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This video includes a preview from the Advanced Final Cut Express course I’m working on right now.

What happens when you’ve shot high definition footage, but the final version of your video will be standard definition? Well, there are several different ways to handle this, but one of the things you can do is get creative with all those extra pixels. This video will show you how to fake a zoom in post. It’s similar to the Ken Burns effect, except you apply it to a video clip.

You’ll see me working in Final Cut Express in this video, but you could do a similar technique in most editors that let you put SD and HD footage in the same sequence.

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Sometimes when you try to add a transition in Final Cut Express, it doesn’t work. You might see an error. Or you might not show you an error, but it still doesn’t work. Or you might be able to add a transition, but you can’t increase the duration of it.

Final Cut Express can be tricky with transitions sometimes. If you’re having trouble adding transitions to your sequence in Final Cut Express or Final Cut Pro, this video should help.

I have received this same question from many different viewers, and rather than answer them all individually, I thought it would make sense to make a video that shows you:

• Why does a transition problem happen in Final Cut Express?
• How do you fix the problem?
• How to work around it if it’s not something you CAN fix

This video applies to both Final Cut Express and Final Cut Pro.

I hope you find it helpful.

Make sure you check out my Final Cut Express page to see other tutorials all about Final Cut Express.