ABSTRACT

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 in Final Cut Express, at whatever level, as this powerful package is the answer to all your digital video needs, presenting a complete, easy to use digital laboratory for your movie creation.

Rick Young (www.digitalproduction.net) is Director and Founding Member of the UK Final Cut Pro User Group and an Apple Solutions Expert. A freelance television director and editor with many years of broadcast experience, including work for the BBC, Sky, ITN, CNBC and Reuters. Also a Final Cut Pro Consultant, Rick has attended numerous UK and US exhibitions, is a liaison to the US FCP user groups, and author of the best-selling, 'The Easy Guide to Final Cut Pro'.

chapter |9 pages

The Old and the New

chapter |4 pages

Hands On

chapter |10 pages

The Interface

chapter |17 pages

Setup and Capture

chapter |12 pages

Sorting Through Your Footage

chapter |44 pages

The Cutting Room

chapter |29 pages

Effects

chapter |10 pages

Working with Audio

chapter |8 pages

Output

chapter |4 pages

Final Cut Pro 4

chapter |1 pages

Epilog