Editing with Final Cut Pro

Editing with Final Cut Pro has been a great experience. Most of my linear editing experience lies with Adobe's Premiere Pro. I have also used Sony Vegas. These two are amongst the most popular video editors on Windows. I feel that I got to grips with Final Cut Pro quickly, and the workflow seems much tighter on a Mac with so many integral, Apple authored applications.

Work-In-Progress

Problem solving

Some research has shown me that I can stabilize my PoV (Point-of-View) shot that I took in the moving car. Without stabilizing the footage, it will be a very jerky scene.

Final Cut Pro comes with a filter called SmoothCam which takes a piece of footage and analyses it for camera movement. It can take a while to do this, and it's recommened that you trim the clip before doing so.

Above: SmoothCam analysis on my footage. (Click to enlarge)

The outcome can be tweaked, but I found that, that's generally not needed as the output is generally steady - something you would expect from using tripod in a static shot.