Over at Creative Cow, Richard Harrington shows you one of those little tricks that gave me a mixture of an “Ah-hah!” and a “D’oh!” moment the first time I saw it. You can easily keyframe the color correction, just like other parameters. Harrington also goes a little bit into the basics of keyframing if you haven’t done much yet.

Watch the video tutorial here.

Multiple tracks of video can easily be used in Final Cut for some interesting effects. This tutorial from Final Cut King covers some of the basics of this effect, as well as keyframing and cropping.

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For many effects, you’ll want to know how to keyframe. While you can get by in Final Cut without keyframing, you’ll vastly expand what you can do and the effects you can achieve. This tutorial from Final Cut King is a quick overview of keyframes and specifically Basic Motion changes.

Watch the video tutorial here.

You’ve been there- you’ve had a cut ready, and then someone asks you to change something near the beginning. Great, now you have to change all the audio levels you painstakingly keyframed. Alex Gollner shows how to move all your keyframes at once- a real time saver.

Watch the video tutorial here.

Jude Cotter walks you through animating a Frankenstein-esque character in FCP. Read the tutorial here.