ABSTRACT
The hard, technical part of nonlinear editing is at the beginning, setting up and setting preferences, importing, organizing, adding metadata; the fun part in the middle, hopefully, is the editing; and the easy part is the outputting at the end. In this chapter, the author utilizes a library called FCPX11. The FCPX11 library has a single event with a project. The author discusses some export features in FCP. The options for sharing from FCP are similar to those from iMovie; there are just more of them, with one exception. With the exception of the XML export function and the Send to Compressor function, which are only in the File menu, all of FCP's other outputting options are in the Share submenu or more commonly accessed from the Share button at the far right end of the top bar. Compressor offers far more options and control over filmmakers' recompression process than is available in FCP.
