Alright, alright, so what is up creatives? This is Tom welcome back to another video. So I've been editing now on Final Cut Pro
For a little over a year
so I thought I would kind of break down my experiences as a
professional video editor someone who edits video or makes videos for a living
I want to break down why I think the benefits of Final Cut Pro
definitely outweigh the negatives and basically sort of compare it to I guess the other sort of mainstream editor for sort of
Internet videos online content which is of course Adobe Premiere Pro now
I want to make it clear that I'm especially definitely not bashing Premiere Pro. I think that is a fantastic
NLE editor if
That's kind of your bag and also a jabbed fun at the performance obviously in the intro that I just shared there
But I do think it's a fantastic choice a very very powerful
Editor, so if you have the machine to drive it
But as I say personally I am really happy with the move that I made to Final Cut Pro
So I want to share some of my thoughts experiences and also some tips to I guess almost like improve your final cut
Workflow and again, of course this advice comes from a Mac user
This is basically a video if you own a Mac or a mainly editing on a Mac if you're on a Windows machine
Or don't really know why you're watching this video because Final Cut Pro is obviously a map only
System if you're on Windows, probably just go to the Final Cut
Speed and performance is by far and away the most
Important feature for me for Final Cut Pro or it's not a sort of feature per se but just the speed
reliability and just general overall performance of Final Cut compared to Premiere Pro is just leaps and
Bounds ahead for me when I was using Premiere. I was getting constant crashes couldn't work in a
4k
Timeline it was just basically impossible for me to edit 4k video and watch back
My content without using proxies foxes are fine and I end up using proxies sometimes when I'm working with
footage from my Black Magic Pocket Cinema Camera
but on the whole I can drop 4k footage into final cut on my
2016 MacBook Pro and edit content in the timeline
Extremely extremely efficiently again as someone who makes online content and also content for clients for my living
This is basically just so valuable
I can just edit and not have to worry about the performance speeds are just way faster than
Premiere Pro when I was using that as my main editor, so yeah
Basically, I have just yet to use an editor which just matches Final Cut in its performance. It's actually probably worth noting here
I'm not really gonna be talking about DaVinci Resolve
I know that if you are maybe looking for a free editor that is probably a fantastic choice
I just personally haven't played around with it forever
I have heard it is a fantastic choice, especially if you're looking for something free. There we go
That's sort of my main reason everything apart from this is almost like superfluous because that speed and reliability
Is just central to me as a video freelancer
I need to know that my editor is quick powerful and is not going to let me down
Next up on the list is organization now
I never thought that I would be saying this but after a year of using Final Cut
The way that Final Cut sort of handles its files has actually just had me coming around to it
so I like the way that Final Cut does this you have
Libraries at the top you have events and then you have projects so all of those things sit inside each other
It's worth noting here that I do have a tip to make
Basically Final Cut behave a little bit closer to Premiere Pro in the way that it handles media
I don't personally like the way that Final Cut copies
Almost every file inside the library just makes that storage an absolute nightmare, and I just do not recommend that you use this workflow
So to combat that just go into your preferences
Go into these settings change the media handling to leave in place that will basically mean that all of your files are
referenced in the correct place if your organized with your files within your file system, there's no need to
Duplicate everything across and basically create two files for every single shot on your system quite useful if you're editing with multiple people
Involved, but if you're just on your own absolutely no needs to do that. So I do recommend that you do that
But again the way that Final Cut handles these files
I just absolutely love my total default
Configuration is that I create a new library for every single project that I'm working on
then I create events either for multiple days if the projects have had multiple days shoots or
multiple cameras if I've used multiple cameras on those shoots, so it's actually a really
efficient way of organizing your files and of course you create a project in one of those events for your main piece of
Creative again compared to Premiere Pro and the sort of projects and then bins within those projects
I just find that actually the final cut way of organizing it is actually much more logical and again
I didn't think that that was gonna be the case, but after using it for a year or so
I really come round to final cuts organizational system
All right magnetic timeline
Here's another thing that I just did not think I was going to come round to as someone who has edited on Premiere Pro
For sort of seven eight years before switching to Final Cut. I
Wanted to sort of out of order out of chronological
Order I wanted to be able to edit a segment leave it on the side of my timeline and then come back to it
Later, or maybe drag it into the over the other side
However with Final Cut you can't really do that or at least not in the default way. These system is set up
So everything is snaps to the left. It is a magnetic timeline things will sort of
Automatically pull to the left now for a internet video editor. This is fantastic
It saves you so much time. You don't have to sort of go in and delete every single
Additional piece of snippet in between you can get very efficient with how you edit cut delete everything snaps to the left cut
Delete everything snaps to the left again
There are times where sometimes you don't want to edit in this way and you want to just be able to out of chronological
Chronological order you can basically just bump up your whole timeline
Lift it from the storyline and then your editor will behave like Premiere Pro in that sort of out of order
Allowing you to create a bunch of content over to the right and then maybe drag it over to the left
So you basically get a win-win in terms of the magnetic timeline
Then we get to a real bonus for again video freelancers independent creators is that final cut is a
One-time off purchase softly a little bit more expensive than Premiere Pro
But if you sort of spread that out over the cost of a year Premiere Pro is over double in terms of pricing
Final Cut Pro will run you
$299 and again, it is a one-off purchase once you have purchased it. You never have to purchase it again
You will get every single update for free personally
I do not see how Adobe is still in the game of monthly subscription that subscription is expensive
It's one thing for professionals, but for casual users that adds up
I just also want to share a couple of sort of final thoughts around improving final cut as an editor
My first tip is to turn off background render
Unless you want a really really swanky fast Mac background render is going to really slow down your workflow
That's just a really simple change just go into preferences go into rendering and turn off background
Render again your computer will thank you later
It basically just means that you can render your project. Once you're done or selectively render sections of your project if you want to
See them in sort of closer to real-time playback
Just trust me to try editing without background render on and you will thank me later
And the next is a tip that I've been using for a little while now
I used to use it particularly with music because it means you could swap out a music track very easily
But actually I've discovered that it's actually quite useful for video clips as well
that is to create a compound clip for a large piece of content a large clip in your editor and then any
Changes that you make to that compound clip will sort of propagate throughout your entire project if that's color
correction scale or movement of the clip itself
Basically, just creating that compound clip almost like nests it a bit like they use in Final Cut Pro. Excuse me
Premiere Pro and basically all of those changes will just propagate so it's a super quick
Efficient way of making sure that everything in your project is cohesive and you don't miss any clips in terms of color correction
Etc there, we have it guys
Those are just some thoughts in terms of
Final Cut Pro or editing from a Final Cut Pro perspective compared to Premiere Pro now again
I don't want this to be a sort of a hard and fast rule for anyone if you have an editor that you like to
Use absolute go for it
This is just my experience is as someone who used Premiere Pro for a long time and then moved to Final Cut Pro
I've just found that the performance and the experience as a whole is just way more suited to the Mac
Ecosystem and I think it shows if you haven't tried Final Cut definitely check out the trail
There's 14-day trial if you haven't had any experience with it
Give it a download and hopefully you do enjoy if you have any questions just drop a comment down below
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Yo, what's up guys?
So I just realised I was tearing through this edit in Final Cut Pro 10 as you'd expect with such a fast editor
But I realize that hadn't mentioned anything about After Effects integration
so this is quite an important thing for me and obviously for lots of video editors is the integration between
Premiere Pro and After Effects now personally
I'm absolutely fine doing my work in After Effects and then just exporting out importing that clip into Final Cut Pro
I personally haven't transitioned over to motion just because I've been using After Effects for so many years now
I feel very comfortable within that system
However, if you do an absolutely ton of work in After Effects and want that integration with Premiere Pro
Then absolutely you do need to take that into consideration may be staying on premiere is the best solution for you
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