The Focal easy guide to Final Cut Express / Rick Young.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Young, Rick, 1967-

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 (165 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Final Cut Express

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; London : Focal Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This highly illustrated, full color book tells you all you need to know to get up and running quickly using Apple's new digital video editing application - Final Cut Express. Rick Young shares his professional insight to ensure you get the most out of all the pro-level tools, offered at a very affordable price by Express. All the essential areas are covered: set-up; capture; editing; multi-channel sound mixing; effects creation and print to video, web or DVD, enhanced throughout by important workflow tips. This is an ideal first read, whatever you want to edit i

Contents:

Front Cover; Focal Easy Guide to Final Cut Express; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; For New Users; The Old and the New; The Digital Laboratory; Inside Your Mac; Hardware and Software Requirements; How Much Hard Drive Space?; Decks and Cameras; Firewire; A World of Different Standards; Television Aspect Ratio; HandsOn; Loading the Software; Initial Setup; The Interface; Arranging the Interface; Learning a Custom Layout; Building a Film Structure; Important Details About the Interface; Saving Projects; Setup and Capture; DVAudio; Easy Setup; Setting Scratch Disks

Working with Formatsother Than DVMethods of Capturing DVFootage; Deck Control; The Capture Window; Capture Clip; Capture Now; Working Around the Lack of Batch Capture; Getting the Most Out of the Capture Process; Dealing with Timecode Breaks; Importing Music from CD; Converting Audio Sample Rates; Sorting Through Your Footage; Viewing Clips; Playing Video Through Firewire; Setting Poster Frames; DV Start/Stop Detection; Working with Bins; Working in List Mode; Searching for Clips; The Cutting Room; Insert and Overwrite Editing; Getting Started with Editing

Distinguishing Between Insert and OverwriteThree Point Editing; Other Editing Options; Modifying 'In' and 'Out'Points; Directing 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; Edit Like Using a Word Processor; Snapping and Skipping Between Shots; The Razorblade Tool; Magnifier Tool; Bringing Clips Back into Sync; Creating New Sequences; Slow/Fast Motion; Rendering; Using the Real-Time Effects; Subclips; Freeze Frame; Match Frame Editing

Split EditsDrag and Drop Editing; Extending/Reducing Clips by Dragging; Effects; Single and Multi-Layered 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 and Wireframe; Titlesafe; Working with Multi-Layers; Keyframing Images; Multi-Layered Dissolves; Copy and Pasting Attributes; Titling; Working with Audio; Setting Correct Audio Levels; Getting the Most Out of Your Audio; Converting Clips into Stereo Pairs; Adjusting Audio Levels

Adding Sound FadesAdding Audio Cross Fades; Adding Audio Tracks; Mixdown Audio; Output; Playing itSafe; Print to Video; Other Forms of Distribution; Final Cut Pro 4; Final Cut Pro vs Final Cut Express; Epilog; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786611012625

9781136069987

1136069984

9781281012623

1281012629

9780080494593

0080494595

OCLC:

476070785