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today's video is made possible by Hulu Plus for a free extended two-week trial head over to Hulu Plus comm slash TLD hey guys johnathan here with TLD hope you guys are having an awesome weekend I am back with surprisingly a video that I don't think I've ever officially done before that is a what is on my Mac video now the reason I decided to do this video is because lately there are two specific questions that I've been getting asked super often that is one what is the monitor tool that you use to check all the information on your Mac which you guys are looking at right here and the second is what program do you use to edit your videos so I will cover those two questions and also show you a few other applications that I use to help me with my workflow so kicking out the video what I use to monitor all the information on my Mac is called I stat menus for I'll have a link down below you can actually try it for free for 14 days on their website this is the fourth edition it cost 16 bucks to buy to me it's worth every penny but if you're kind of skeptical it's a little bit too pricey you can't try it out for 14 days like I mentioned so this will give you a breakdown from everything from these system temperatures to your network and pho to your memory to your hard drive and even your CPU for example if we head over to the sensor tab not only will it tell us how hot the actual computers running but it'll give us a breakdown of every single part within the Mac Pro so we've got information on both GPUs the SSD the fan not only for the current speeds but actually for the last hour 24 hours and even 7 days jumping over to the memory tab you can see right here it'll tell us how much is allotted to each program for the hard drive that says the stock boot SSD in the Mac Pro and you can see I got to make some space pretty soon because I got that sucker pretty full you can also see external drive so for example here is my G or a thunderbolt drive and hop it over to the CPU section this will show you how much each program is taxing your computer so I am recording this with ScreenFlow and you can see it's actually a pretty light program it's not taking too much out of the computer processing now this being a 6 core Mac Pro if you look right here there's actually 12 cores that show up 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 that is because each core has 2 threads so the OS will actually see and utilize it as a 12 core machine there's also information on the video card as well so you can see we are rockin twin fire Prodi hundreds again this is ice that menus for you do have a 14-day free trial if you guys want to check it out I will have it linked down below so jumping over to the next question of what program do I use Ted in my videos not of course is Final Cut Pro 10 so we're gonna open it up got it down in the dock right here I don't know a lot of people seem to have jumped ship to Adobe Premiere Pro I've actually been with Final Cut since Final Cut Pro 7 jumped on to 10 as soon as it came out and I'm stuck with it ever since honestly it's gotten better with each update every single time now ultimately it really comes down to what you are comfortable with and what makes you most productive and efficient and for me that has Final Cut Pro 10 so what you're looking at is a project of the Mac Pro box and I did recently if you guys happen to missed it I will have it linked down below I just want to show you a few tools that I use on a regular basis that help me with my style so I'm gonna take you through one clip right here and this is actually all handheld there's no rig there's no stabilization aside from the actual lens there's actually a few tricks that help me obtain this shot so if i zoom in a little closer we're gonna press command R that's gonna actually show that I slowed it down to 75 percent as opposed to hundred percent and I actually also have stabilization and optical flow turned on so if we turn all that off and we actually look at that clip again let's go ahead and put it back to 100% normal play it again and you will notice it's not terrible but it's definitely not as smooth as the previous one so we'll go to in command Z then get back to the original state turn stabilization on play it one more time and you can see right there that is a much much nicer shot and that is all built within Final Cut Pro 10 now another aspect of Final Cut Pro 10 that I really enjoy is the magnetic timeline and just to give you an idea of how that works let me go to the zoom out to give you a broader perspective of the project and say I delete this clip right here everything's actually gonna shift over as opposed to leaving a blank gap right there so you can see everything jumps over put it back take it out in and jumps back over so some people like this some people don't I actually preferred and it helps me with my workflow and I'm also comfortable with the color tools within Final Cut Pro 10 color correction is a completely different beast compared to editing so nowhere where I want to be but I'm definitely having fun learning and always looking to improve it just to give you guys another example of what you can do we're gonna go back to this clip again and if you notice I actually have two layers of color correction so it's going to turn the entire thing off so it's a little dull not as vibrant as if we turn it back on and actually have two layers like I talked about so what I did was actually applied a little mask to the grass right there so you can use this little dropper tool right here pull out all the green and then from there we can tweak that without actually changing the entire picture so if we head over to the color correction tab what I did was pull up the global levels for the green and now obviously if we're gonna go red it's gonna add some red but since this is grass it's green we're gonna pull up the green levels and you can see what happens if we pull it down brings all that color out it's a lot doler and we bring it back to life by pulling that up ever so slightly we could also crank up the saturation just a little bit and we can also bring down these shadows just a little bit to make it a little more enhanced so obviously this isn't a Final Cut Pro 10 tutorial but hopefully you'll learn a trick or two and also got a little more insights on how I edit my videos so next up we're gonna take a look at a utility that I've been using recently that is called a better snap tool which is $1.99 in the Mac App Store I'll have link to that and everything else that I covered in this video down below now this demo is also going to give you a closer look at keynote which I use all the freaking time I use it for my comparisons from our benchmarks for my chart it's a really simple and easy to navigate program and you can see you get some really clean and classy looking slides so I would wholeheartedly recommend this application now getting back to the better snap tool I'm actually gonna hop up to the Preferences tab this will actually give you a visualization of how it works you have different corner so you can snap to the top of left to the top to the right etc so if you notice down here it will actually ask you if you're using better snap tool with spaces or Mission Control if we click that it'll actually give us a custom line that we can paste into terminal that'll create a two-second delay that way doesn't interfere with that so if we command C copy that and actually open up terminal I actually already have this enabled so what I'm gonna do now is reverse it just to show you what problem that might happen if you didn't do this command V for paste and right there is two seconds right now so I'm actually gonna get that down to zero seconds just to show you what happens if you don't have this enabled this is zero enter notifications going on and now for example if we grab this right here and we drag it over it's not gonna let me do it it just jumps right back and forth so that is a problem I am having a heck of a time getting it back there so again I'm gonna copy the original text right here open up terminal again paste that in enter and now we have a two-second delay so now if we do that snap it and we are good to go now if you notice this might not be the most optimal setup for me with keynote so let me go ahead and close out of this guy and this guy and maybe I want a little bit more space right here so let's go and drag this over you can actually create custom windows for this so that looks about right for me what I'm gonna do is head up to the tab again snap areas which is an advanced feature and create a new snap area it'll actually show you the outline of the desired position you want if that is right to go ahead and click on it you can actually choose where you want to move the engagement window so for this maybe I want to put it right here you can actually title it as you notice I have Safari to the right of that I'm gonna call this keynote exit out there and we can press command W to exit that has loud loud noises and if I drag it up here now so let's go ahead and actually just mess this up BAM and now that is the perfect window layout for me with keynote I can take this over here check to the top left BAM and that is not optimal so it's going to do the same thing with that line it up like so same thing we did there snap areas we're gonna go to a new snap area again that is the perfect layout for me so we're gonna go and click on it go ahead and pick our area again let's go to make this the right-hand side right here we can go to make this smaller command W loud noises again I apologize for that so again if this were messed up at all funky I can drag that over to this section and bam it is perfect so hopefully you guys enjoy this video hopefully it gave you a little deeper look at the programs that I use on a day to day basis that helped me with my workflow this video was a little more focused on Final Cut Pro 10 simply because I 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