The Focal easy guide to Final Cut Pro 5 : 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).

Digital video--Editing--Data processing.

Digital video.

Video tapes--Editing--Data processing.

Video tapes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Easy guide to Final Cut Pro 5

Final Cut Pro 5

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Boston : Focal Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Software packages are complex. Shouldn't software books make it easier? Simplify your life with The Focal Easy Guide to Final Cut Pro 5! This short, full-color book lives up to its name by paring down the software to its essentials. It covers only the key features and essential workflow to get you up and running in no time. When time is of the essence, less is more.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

Contents:

Front Cover; The Focal Easy Guide toFinal CutPro 5; Copyright Page; 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; Saving Projects and Accessing the Autosave Vault

CaptureSetting Scratch Disks; Working with Formats other than DV; Methods of Capturing DV Footage; Deck Control; The Capture Window; Capture Clip; Capture Now; Batch Capture; Selectively Capturing using Batch Capture; Setting a Logging Bin; Clearing a Logging Bin; The Clip Settings Tab; Capturing Multi-channels of Audio; Capturing HDV; Getting the Most Out of the Capture Process; Importing Music from CD; Converting Audio Sample Rates; Converting Audio Sample Rates Using QuickTime Pro; Organizing your Footage; Viewing Clips; Playing Video through Firewire; DV Start/Stop Detection

Working with BinsWorking 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' 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; Cut, Copy, Paste; Snapping and Skipping between Shots; The Razorblade Tool; The Magnifier Tool

Bringing Clips Back into SyncCreating 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 Offline; The 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 FiltersTime 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 Keyframes; Adding Audio Cross Fades; Adding Audio Tracks; Mixdown Audio; Output; Print to Video; Other Forms of Distribution; Compressor; Using Compressor in Five Easy Steps; Export Using QuickTime Conversion; Multicam; Working with Multiple Cameras; Mixing Live vs. Cutting in Post; Preparation

Creating Multiclips (Syncing up the Reels)

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786610628728

9781136067587

1136067582

9781280628726

1280628723

9780080461830

0080461832

OCLC:

475999515

Publisher Number:

9780240520155 (pbk.)