The Focal easy guide to Final Cut Pro 4 : for new users and professionals / Rick Young.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Young, Rick, 1967- author.

Series:

Focal easy guide series.

The Focal easy guide series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Final cut (Electronic resource).

Video tapes--Editing--Data processing.

Video tapes.

Digital video--Editing--Data processing.

Digital video.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Easy guide to Final Cut Pro 4

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England ; Boston : Focal Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In this highly visual, color book Rick Young covers all the essential areas: the interface, set-up and capture, editing, rendering, effects, audio and output, as well as a unique, invaluable introduction to the power LiveType and Soundtrack add to Final Cut in this upgrade. With this book you can start cutting immediately, whatever you edit, whatever the format. This is an ideal introduction whether you are a professional moving over to Final Cut Pro from another package or system, a new user, or a real-world film maker who wants to get the best results from Fin

Contents:

THE FOCAL EASY GUIDE TO FINAL CUT PRO 4; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Getting Started; The Digital Laboratory; Hardware and Software Requirements; Inside your Mac; How Much Hard Drive Space?; Firewire; Before and After Firewire; Video Formats; Television Aspect Ratio; Loading the Software; Initial Setup; Easy Setup; DV Audio; Creating a DV 32 kHz Easy Setup; The Interface; Arranging the Interface; Learning a Custom Layout; Important Details about the Interface; Button Bars; Customizing the Keyboard Layout; Capture; Setting Scratch Disks; Working with Formats other than DV

Methods of Capturing DV FootageDeck Control; The Capture Window; Capture Clip; Capture Now; Batch Capture; Selectively Capturing using Batch Capture; Getting the Most Out of the Capture Process; Importing Music from CD; Converting Audio Sample Rates; Organizing your Footage; Viewing Clips; Playing Video through Firewire; DV Start/Stop Detection; Working with Bins; Working in Icon View; Setting Poster Frames; Searching for Clips; Editing; Insert and Overwrite Editing; Getting Started with Editing; Distinguishing between Insert/Overwrite; Three Point Editing; Other Editing Options

Modifying 'In' and 'Out' PointsDirecting the Flow of Audio/Video; Locking Tracks; Adding and Deleting Tracks; Essential Editing Tools; Undo/Redo; Linked/Unlinked Selection; Moving Edits in the Timeline; Selecting Multiple Items in the Timeline; Cut, Copy, Paste; Snapping and Skipping between Shots; The Razorblade Tool; The Magnifier Tool; Bringing Clips Back into Sync; Creating New Sequences; Subclips; Freeze Frame; Match Frame Editing; Slow/Fast Motion; Split Edits; Drag and Drop Editing; Extending/Reducing Clips by Dragging; Rendering; The Render Settings; Media Management

Making Clips OfflineThe Render Manager; Effects; The Concept of Media Limit (Handles); Applying Transitions; Changing Transition Durations; Applying Filters; Compositing; Methods of Creating Multiple Tracks; The Motion Tab; Using the Motion Tab; Image + Wireframe; Titlesafe; Working with Multi-Layers; Keyframing Images; Multi-Layered Dissolves; Keyframing Filters; Time Remapping; Copy and Pasting Attributes; Titling; Audio; Setting Correct Audio Levels; Getting the Most Out of your Audio; Converting Clips into Stereo Pairs; Adjusting Audio Levels; Adding Sound Fades; The Audio Mixer

Adjusting and Recording Audio KeyframesAdding Audio Cross Fades; Adding Audio Tracks; Mixdown Audio; Output; Print to Video; Other Forms of Distribution; Export Using Compressor; Export Using QuickTime Conversion; LiveType; LiveType Templates; Replacing Text in the Templates; Replacing Video in the Templates; Working Inside LiveType; Media Browser; Creating Results Manually in LiveType; Output from LiveType; Soundtrack; IMPORTANT: before you begin; Exporting for Soundtrack from Final Cut Pro; The Soundtrack Workflow; Importing a Movie into Soundtrack; Building your Mix; Exporting the Mix

Epilog

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786611012595

9781136070389

1136070389

9781281012593

1281012599

9780080494944

0080494943

OCLC:

476070774