Apple Final Cut Pro 5 User Manual download pdf (Page 22)

2 Video Formats and Timecode

Before you begin editing, you need to decide what video

format you will capture, edit, and output. The format you

choose determines your postproduction workflow.

This chapter covers the following:

Â About Nonlinear and Nondestructive Editing (p. 21)

Â Video Formats Compatible With Final Cut Pro (p. 22)

Â Audio Formats Compatible With Final Cut Pro (p. 23)

Â Video Format Basics (p. 23)

Â About Timecode (p. 25)

About Nonlinear and Nondestructive Editing

In the past, video editing was a time-consuming process. With linear editing, video

editors had to edit everything onto a tape sequentially, one shot after another, from

the beginning to the end. If you wanted to insert a series of shots in the middle of your

edit, you had to reedit everything forward from that point.

Final Cut Pro lets you do nonlinear, nondestructive editing. Unlike traditional tape-to-

tape editing, Final Cut Pro stores all of your footage on a hard disk, allowing you to

access any frame of your footage instantaneously. Without the constraints of linear

editing, you are free to combine shots in different orders and change their durations

until you arrive at the exact sequence you want. Video and audio effects, such as

scaling, position, rotation, speed changes, and multiple layers can also be applied and

played back in real time. No matter how you process your footage, the underlying

media is never touched. This is known as nondestructive editing, because all of the

changes and effects you apply to your footage never affect the media itself.

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