866-266-7496 mediacommons@psu.edu Home About Locations Storytelling Faculty Free Media Library Support Community Final Cut Pro Trial Extended For those of you working on Final Cut Pro projects who will not have access to Media Commons workstations, Apple has extended the trial period for the app to 90 days. Users will be able to download Final Cut Pro to their own Mac and use the software free of charge through the end of Spring term. Learn More + Download Final Cut Pro Tutorials Backing Up iMovie/Final Cut Projects to Cloud Storage from a Media Commons iMac Migration of the University’s Box data began in October 2020, and Box cloud storage will be retired at Penn State in September 2021. Student, faculty, and staff files will be migrated to Microsoft Office 365 over the coming months. This move will help save on expenses... Importing Still Images for Stop Motion Animation With Final Cut Pro X This tutorial will show you how to import a number of sequential image files so you can create animations at various frame rates. Download Workshop Files (135 MB) Video normally plays at 29.97 or 30 fps (frames per second) frame rate. Each individual frame or still is... Final Cut Pro: Using Video Transitions There are a wide variety of transitions you can choose to use between clips in your video. For an academic or professional video, you will primarily want to use the Cross Dissolve and Fade to Color transitions most of the time. Other transitions tend to be distracting... Final Cut Pro: Exporting Your Finished Movie Exporting your finished movie is one of the last steps of the editing process. This turns all of your edits into a new movie file. This can be uploaded to YouTube, or embedded into a website or presentation, or burned to a DVD. When you are ready to export your... Backing Up & Restoring Your iMovie or Final Cut Project When working on a Media Commons iMac, you will have to back up your project when you are not actively working on it. This is because all of Penn State's iMacs get refreshed every day so everything gets deleted. Additionally, you will not be able to access your work... Final Cut Pro: Importing Media and Starting a New Project Importing Media Files into Events The first thing you will need to do to begin working in Final Cut Pro X (FCPX) is to import or capture media files into Events. Events are essentially folders of files within FCPX used to organize your different footage, music, and... Final Cut Pro: Titles and Text Open up the Titles browser by clicking on the T (Titles) button. Hover over the different choices to preview how they animate. Some of them are still and will not move when you hover over them. Click to select the one you would like to use. Click and drag it to the... Backing Up an iMovie Project to Flash/External Hard Drive from a Media Commons iMac This tutorial will show you how to backup and save your iMovie project to a flash drive or hard drive. The process for backing up a Final Cut project is the same. Movie Library iMovie will autosave all of its data and assets (video, images, audio) into a library file... Final Cut Pro: Basic Editing This tutorial assumes that you have imported video or other media and created a new project and are now beginning to assemble your project. Viewing and Selecting Your Clips Choosing the footage that will be used in your project. The “interview” clip is going to be the... Final Cut Pro: Using Green Screen Footage Shooting in front of a green screen gives you the ability to replace the green background with any background of your choice. Start by selecting the part of your green screen footage that you want to use in your assembled video. Drag it into the Timeline or use the W... Immersive Experiences Lab No Results Found The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post. Copyright 2021 © The Pennsylvania State University Privacy Non-Discrimination Equal Opportunity Accessibility Legal