Depending on your editing style, you may end up with a timeline full of gaps. Clicking and dragging each individual clip to close those gaps is time consuming and potentially messy. Final Cut King has a tutorial on how to find and fix those gaps cleanly.

Watch the video tutorial here.

Sometimes it’s neccessary to bring attention to one person in a crowd of faces, perhaps in documentaries or family memory videos. Final Cut King shows one way of putting a spotlight on something. You’ll learn about masks along the way.

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To create some quick animation to bring attention to one area, the Boris Vector Shape Generator may just do the trick. It’s a pretty flexible tool, as Final Cut King shows you how to create that animation and use the tool in this video tutorial.

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If you’re looking for an interesting way to display several different tracks of video, perhaps for a more scrapbooky effect, this tutorial from Captain Mench may be what you’re looking for. You’ll learn a bit about basic motion parameters and mattes.

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Often, to get that look you like, you’ll use more than one filter. And while there is a way to save favorite filters in FCP, it only saves one. CaptMench demonstrates a way to save that look, and make applying it to another clip extremely easy.

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Films like Sin City have made the Pleasantville effect even more popular. Having one color pop with everything else black and white, is eye catching and looks great. CaptMench shows you how in this video tutorial. It’s a bit outdated, so I would encourage you to take the concepts, but use the 3 way Color Corrector instead of the Color Corrector.

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If it hasn’t happened to you yet, I promise you: it will. You go out and shoot a couple of tapes, and when you digitize it, you find that some of the tapes are anamorphic, and some aren’t. Or maybe you’re using 4:3 stock footage in a 16:9 timeline. CaptMench has some tricks on dealing with this problem and gives you some options on what to do.

Watch the video tutorial here.