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During the tutorial I'd recommend that you didn't have any music playing at all, it can be distracting to your audience and even sometimes annoying for somebody who is trying to follow what you are saying. I would however suggest that you use music in your intro and outro at the beginning and end of the tutorial respectively. There are loads of great Apple ...

I think the traditional knowledge is that if you want to be an editor, then you should know how to drive all 3 of the major programs (Avid, Final Cut Studio, and Premiere), and maybe some of the less mainstream broadcast editing and finishing systems (e.g. Smoke). You should probably know a handful of specialized audio programs too. Lucky for you, the ...

If you're not impressed with X then I'd suggest going back to version 7. Learning your way around a new program will be a pain in the arse. I'm not sure how professionally you work but if you can be bothered, Avid is a great program once you get to know it. Otherwise, man, I'd probably just get used to FCPX.

Educational screencasts (tutorials) shouldn't have any background music when instructor speaks. Commercial clips on the other hand should. Please note that no standard exist for these items. Rather, there are some de-facto conventions and patterns which people follow. See Youtube, Vimeo, or other video sharing sites and search for many tutorials. You ...

"I copy pasted Final Cut Events and Final Cut Projects folders to my external HD but I don't know how to restore it into project in FC. Any help is appreciated." It's better to perform this type of operation from within FCPX, instead of the Finder via copy/paste. With the project selected in the Project Library, choose File->Move Project... As long as you ...

As with many things, it's a tradeoff. On the one hand, doing everything in post offers the most flexibility - you can compress and gate after the fact, and if you don't like the result you can change the settings around and try again without having to re-record. You can also cherry-pick individual regions to process differently if you like. On the other ...

If that's a cut within the same clip, you can move the right edge of the first clip to the end of the second clip, to restore the formerly length. If you want to combine different clips to make some pivotal changes or append centrical effects. You have to create a compound clip. If it was a cut within one clip, you can simply undo it. But i hope you know ...

A hardware compressor/limiter, when setup correctly, will prevent your signal from overloading your audio interface and distorting. This is very different from creative compression to change the loudness of the signal. If you are recording at 24bit, then you may be able to record such that you never peak close to 0 dB. But if you do cross 0, you will get ...

You can try to convert the defunct video to a different codec. Use something Lossless like ProRes, if you can, or Motion JPEG. Then put the clip back into your project. I had this problem once in FCP7 for about a week. It didn't go away until I re-recorded that video (which was painful, but in my case, doable). I wouldn't suggest such a radical solution in ...

This is just a guess, but when the projects and events folders are on an external drive, they need to be at the drive's root level for FCPX to see them. So, when you had them on your external drive, the file path would need to be: External_Drive/Final Cut Events/YourEvent and External_Drive/Final Cut Projects/YourProject. They will not show up any other ...

If you're talking a special, unique transition that you can't find in the effect browser, you have to use Motion to create the transition yourself, and publish it to FCPX. If you're just looking for a slow dissolve, there's already a dissolve transition available. Just drag it from the effects browser to your edit. Edit: Here's one I created in Motion. ...

You have to create the effect in Motion. I'm not sure what the iMovie effect looks like, but I use this technique on a daily basis. In my setup, there are actually six separate effects; left_panel_in, left_panel_static_, left_panel_out, right_panel_in, right_panel_static, right_panel_out. This allows me to go between a 1-up and 2-up configuration at any ...

Unfortunately you can't create a project of any size. Larry Jordan posted a workaround, which doesn't solve you're problem. There was a tutorial that showed how you can have sequence of any size in FCPX (and thus removing black bars), but I can't find it at the moment. (EDIT: I found it! Creative Cow) I remember what you need to do though: Go to the event ...

Use "Total Adjustment" it works like a photshop-layer. You simply can duplicate it for reuse with other clips. How to: Install Total Adjustment. Open the effect-library in Final Cut Pro X. Select the titles. Drag the "Total Adjustment"-title to your project. Copy all effects you need to this title-clip. Place it above a new videoclip. Every video-clip ...

I would recommend to use JKL to scrub in the Viewer, directly in the Event Library. Press L to play forward at 1x. Press another time to play at 2x and so forth. Press K to stop playback. L plays backwards. Multiple invocations result in faster playback. Hold down K and press L to go one frame forward, K + J to go one frame backward. Maybe you can give it a ...

There's no really good workflow, I think, yet. The best way I found is to export the video out of FCPX and import it into Motion. Apple thinks that you don't need to work in Motion solely, you only go there to create an effect, title, whatever and then put that thing right on top of a clip in Final Cut. The problem there is that sometimes you'd rather want ...

In general I would recommend Final Cut Pro X, because Final Cut Studio has been discontinued. If there are compatibility reasons I would recommend Final Cut Studio. But only to be compatible with external or ongoing projects. A more suitable recommendation depends on the answer of the question: What's the reason for the update? EDIT: The learning curve ...

FCPX, I've heard, is much easier but different. Its like a combination of FCPS and iMove: Simple, Elegant, Powerful, but overall different and in that sense incompatible with other FC project files. Its like OSX was at its time, or iMoive 8: "It breaks the line". If it's for good or not depends on you: how used you are to your workflow/plugins/etc. ...