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Digital Video Editing with Final Cut Express: The Real-World Guide to Set Up and Workflow

Charles Roberts

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Editorial Review:

Suitable for those new to nonlinear editing as well as experienced editors new to Final Cut Express, this book is an introduction to Apple's editing software package and the digital video format in general. You will come away with not only an in-depth knowledge of how to use Final Cut Express, but also a deeper understanding of the craft of editing and the underlying technical processes that will serve you well in future projects.

Workflow, editing techniques, compositing, special effects, audio tools, and output are explained in clear, jargon-free terms. The book's emphasis is always on using Final Cut Express in the real world, and as such it is the only book to go beyond the interface to address crucial issues like proper setup, system configuration, hardware, the Mac operating system, what equipment to purchase, and troubleshooting common problems. Armed with this information, you will sidestep problems and complete projects of exceptional quality.

*Learn how to use Final Cut Express in the real world
*Offers a clear overview of the digital video format
*Suitable for new editors or experienced editors new to Final Cut Express

Final Cut Pro 6 Essential Editing

Larry Jordan

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Starting with his system for getting organized and ending with final output, Apple Certified Trainer Larry Jordan covers all the details of creating and editing with Final Cut Pro 6 Essential Editing. He provides an in-depth overview of the application and its interface, and demonstrates how to plan, create, edit, and export professional digital video projects. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.

Topics Include:

• Getting organized for editing
• Understanding the interface
• Adjusting user settings and preferences
• Capturing footage
• Understanding time code
• Editing
• Trimming
• Understanding and using subclips
• Creating and editing with markers
• Using keyboard shortcuts
• Editing multiple cameras with multiclips
• Applying and changing transitions
• Editing and mixing audio
• Importing, exporting, and outputting

Duration: 10.75 hours
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Making Movies with Final Cut Express

Michael Rubin

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If you're making the move to Final Cut Express (or thinking about why you should) and want an expert personal trainer--you're in luck. In Making Movies with Final Cut Express, Hollywood veteran and fun guy Michael Rubin—-a pioneer in the editing field—-comes to you!

In these 336 pages, Rubin lays out everything you need to know to start producing entertaining and informative videos with Apple's new Final Cut Express. Offering loads of illustrations and a friendly writing style, this handy book makes it easy for even complete novices to become skilled and comfortable at digital video editing. And if you're already editing home movies with Apple's iMovie software, you'll quickly learn the ways Final Cut Express can dramatically raise the sophistication of your projects.

Rubin carefully and methodically works through Final Cut Express's important tools and fancy features using specially prepared video that is included on the book's companion DVD. In no time you'll be using the timeline,inserting and adjusting shots, and working with picture and sound separately to create professional results. Once you've mastered the basics, Rubin goes on to explain how to add music, titles, and special effects to your video and encourages you to think of new ways you can apply this powerful software to your personal and business projects. It's the perfect first book for someone just getting into Final Cut Express.

Apple Pro Training Series: Getting Started with Final Cut Studio (Apple Pro Training)

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Announced by Apple at NAB in April 2005 to near universal acclaim, Final Cut Studio is the ultimate Digital video/audio production suite featuring Final Cut Pro 5, a major upgrade to the Emmy award-winning editing software. Final Cut Studio also includes Soundtrack Pro, for audio editing and sound design, Motion 2, for real-time motion graphics and DVD Studio Pro 4, for authoring high definition DVDs to the latest HD DVD specification. Written by Apple experts Mary Plummer, Damian Allen, Klark Perez and Matthew Geller - the lessons in this book-DVD combo are the official Apple Pro Training Final Cut Studio tutorials, and are available in printed form for the first time! The Interactive DVD Tutorial takes you through the applications interfaces and primary features, including a narrated tour of important new features. This hands-on teaching tool includes lesson files and media on the DVD, so you can work through real-world projects as you learn. The Final Cut Studio Tutorials are step-by-step, project-based lessons - the equivalent of about 8 hours of training. You’ll edit two video projects, create motion graphics for a 10-second promo and a ‘coming up next’ TV bumper, edit and mix audio files, and author two complete DVD menus. Accompanying project and media files are located on the book’s second DVD. (Please note: these tutorials are also available in PDF format on two DVDs that are included in the box with the Final Cut Studio software).

Final Cut Pro HD Hands-On Training

Larry Jordan

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As the first volume in Lynda Weinman's acclaimed HOT (Hands-On Training) series to cover Apple's video editing powerhouse, this is the guide you've been waiting for! In these pages, you'll find a series of hands-on tutorials that guide you through all stages of editing video with Final Cut Pro HD. As you follow the book's step-by-step instructions (using the lesson files included on the accompanying CD), you'll quickly progress through Final Cut Pro basics and on to more advanced topics like creating transitions and motion effects, correcting color, and choosing among filter and rendering options. In the process, you'll learn about all of the program's most important features, including those new to HD: the revolutionary ability to edit HD video over FireWire (no extra cables required!); real-time color correction; the ability to toggle between full-resolution, high-quality playback and preview mode; and more! Fun, project-based lessons; an engaging writing style; and a DVD packed with lesson files make quick work of Final Cut Pro HD.

Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro 4 (Apple Pro Training)

Diana Weynand

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If you¿re ready to get serious about editing video, you¿ll want Final Cut Pro, and this self-paced, Apple-authorized guide is the best place to start learning it. In Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro 4, master teacher Diana Weynand delivers a comprehensive course on Apple¿s high-end video editing software. Each chapter represents a complete lesson in some aspect of Final Cut Pro¿with a project for you to complete, a review section to test your knowledge, and bonus exercises to reinforce the lessons.

After getting acquainted with the software¿s interface, you¿ll dive into chapters on marking and editing, inserting and adjusting edits, working with clips on the timeline, and more before moving on to advanced topics like creating transitions and motion effects, and filter and rendering options. All of Final Cut Pro 4¿s powerful new features are covered, including real-time color correction and effects, video signal analysis, and improved previews. The accompanying DVD includes all of the lesson files and materials needed to complete the book¿s projects.

Creative Titling with Final Cut Pro

Diannah Morgan

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A Creative Let-Down 2 out of 5 stars.
18 of 21 people found this review helpful.

Some of us in the business, like to pick up some skills when using a tool like Final Cut Pro 4 by looking to an experienced third-party for input, instead of the blah help files or gargantuan hard copy manuals. I bought this book for just that reason.

I have no doubt that Diannah Morgan knows her stuff. Ms. Morgan has the experience and the chops to be listed as an "expert". As I started exploring the book, I was rather impressed. I REALLY wanted to like this book. However, the longer I lived with the book, the more I longed for the opportunity to try out some of the "tips". Unfortunately, there are a couple of problems. The first is, there aren't any "tips", per se. The book is another presentation of the help file that comes with FCP or the PDF manual for LiveType. There is nothing in the book that made me go, "Ahh, so that's the way to do it".

And even if you wanted to try out some of the examples, there is nothing included with the book to allow you to do that. It would have been nice to have a DVD or CD ROM containing the referenced clips and video. That way, the prospective student can follow along with the exercises. As it is, the reader is doing nothing more than watching over Ms. Morgan's shoulder, while just getting a look at her impressive creative portfolio. While she is a very capable communicator, reading her book is like standing outside the window of the Apple Store and watching someone else edit with FCP.

As is typical with other CMP books, the quality of the printing and layout is first-rate. You'd think, however, that with a cover price of $44.95 for less than 200 pages, including the index, there'd be a little profit wiggle-room for some clips and graphics.

I hope the publishers will rethink the packaging for this book and include some clips and graphics for the examples in the second edition. If you're looking for an instructional tome that will help you get that edge on the competition, this isn't it.

Editorial Review:

Final Cut Pro has revolutionized the world of desktop video editing. Now it's set to do the same for title sequences.

Packed with four-color illustrations, explanations, instructions, and step-by-step tutorials, Creative Titling with Final Cut Pro teaches and inspires experienced editors to create successful and compelling title sequences with Final Cut Pro.

Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro

Kevin Monahan

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Total reviews: 7 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

A bit disappointed 2 out of 5 stars.
35 of 48 people found this review helpful.

I purchased this book based on the numerous great reviews here, but I have to say I am quite disappointed.

I am proficient in softwares such as Photoshop and After Effects, but I am new to Final Cut Pro. I was hoping to learn from this book techniques that can only be done in FCP. However half way through the book all I got were very basic things such as moving/scaling layers around, faking 3D effects or playing with type, which can be done 10 times better in After Effects. The author only touched briefly on the more unique concepts in FCP (such as roll tools and slip tools). I had to find information on those via Final Cut Pro Help.

I am also disappointed at the exercises on the DVD that comes with the book. The exercise sequences were very simple and wasn't designed well, and I often found myself following the book and producing an effect that I would never want to make (such as squashing a movie clip into awkward dimensions and making them fly around the screen), or it would be an effect that can be produced much better in After Effects. At first I was hoping to see and learn from examples similar to hollywood movie trailers/title sequences, but I have seen none of that so far.

I also find the organization of this book a bit confusing. For instance, in the first few chapters of the book it will show an example using various techniques, such as nesting and masking, but it wouldn't show you right away how these techniques are done until the later parts of the book (and it wouldn't even tell you if these techniques would be covered in the book at all!). Also, personally i think a new user should read the first 5 chapters before doing the bonus exercise in chapter 1 in order to know what's going on.

However, this book did point out things that I would have overlooked if I were to experiment with Final Cut Pro myself.

Editorial Review:

Feeling overwhelmed by the sheer depth of Apple's mammoth video editing software Final Cut Pro? In Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro, video effects expert and instructor Kevin Monahan helps narrow your focus by tackling the software purely from the perspective of its motion graphics and special effects capabilities. His style is passionate yet approachable, and he provides plenty of hands-on tutorials to get you started actually using the software. Along the way, you'll learn the most essential and efficient concepts and techniques--many undocumented elsewhere. A DVD with trial plug-ins, sample project files, and QuickTime movies accompanies this richly illustrated, four-color book--required reading for anyone interested in creating spectacular effects and motion graphics with Final Cut Pro.

Final Cut Pro 3 for Dummies

Helmut Kobler, Zed Saeed

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Teaches new and inexperienced users of Final Cut Pro how to capture, import, and edit digital video. This book will include coverage on rendering, compositing, transitions, adding titles, audio and video filters, advanced effects, and much more. This book will also provide the reader with basic digital video editing information where applicable

Provides practical, real-world solutions to managing media and incorporating various special effects into unique video/film productions - with special attention given to the Timeline, Browser, and Media Manager features of Final Cut Pro. This book will also cover the new rendering, G4 realtime effects, and color capabilities of Final Cut Pro 3.

Includes coverage on how to output the final product to a number of different media sources such as videotape, DVD, CD-ROM, or even onto the Web.

Final Cut Pro 3 For Dummies will be one of the first books available to include coverage of the highly anticipated and recently released version of Final Cut Pro.

Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro HD (Apple Pro Training)

Diana Weynand

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If you're ready to get serious about editing video, this best-selling, Apple-certified guide to Final Cut Pro is the best place to start. Master trainer Diana Weynand starts with basic video editing techniques and takes you all the way through Final Cut Pro's powerful advanced features, delivering comprehensive training--the equivalent of a five-day course--in one project-based book. Each chapter presents a complete lesson in an aspect of video editing and finishing, with hands-on projects for you to complete as you go. All the files you need are on the DVD-ROM. After getting acquainted with the software's interface, you'll learn how to mark and edit clips, insert and adjust edits, and work with clips on the timeline, before moving on to complex topics like creating transitions and motion effects, real-time color correcting, and titling techniques. Previously published as Final Cut Pro 4, this revision has been updated for the HD interface.

Publisher¿s Note If you previously purchased Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro 4, there is no need to purchase this revision: All the project files and exercises in the previous edition can be used with Final Cut Pro HD.