This guide is for anyone who has a DV camera, Final Cut Express, a Macintosh and an idea for a digital film. Your idea could be anything: a short documentary about your community, a home video, even a film that you need to make for school. Whatever it is, this book aims to help you make that idea a reality. Rather than simply providing a technical guide to the basic procedures and tools of Final Cut Express, this book is a creative, process-oriented tutorial on editing. It guides your project from the shoot all the way to the final tape mastering of your film. As you work through the tutorials, you'll find creative advice alongside technical considerations to help you add more editorial flourish to your film. The book also includes interviews with professional filmmakers discussing their first small-scale, independent films and revealing their secrets and mistakes. By learning what they did right and wrong, you should gain new insights for your own filmmaking.
This guide is for anyone who has a DV camera, Final Cut Express, a Macintosh and an idea for a digital film. Your idea could be anything: a short documentary about your community, a home video, even a film that you need to make for school. Whatever it is, this book aims to help you make that idea a reality. Rather than simply providing a technical guide to the basic procedures and tools of Final Cut Express, this book is a creative, process-oriented tutorial on editing. It guides your project from the shoot all the way to the final tape mastering of your film. As you work through the tutorials, you'll find creative advice alongside technical considerations to help you add more editorial flourish to your film. The book also includes interviews with professional filmmakers discussing their first small-scale, independent films and revealing their secrets and mistakes. By learning what they did right and wrong, you should gain new insights for your own filmmaking.
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
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Höhe: 246 mm
Breite: 189 mm
Dicke: 20 mm
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978-1-58450-260-9 (9781584502609)
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Introduction: my first film; who is this book for?; editing history in a nutshell; how this book is organized; technical notes (Final Cut Express, iMovie, Final Cut Pro compared). Part 1 Pre-production and production: using the DC camera for maximum editorial effect; optimizing your Mac; calibrating Final Cut Express preferences; organizing the browser bin; working the capture window; viewing clips and layout out the rough cut; the functions of the timeline and canvas; the functions of the tools palette; editing styles (technical and creative approaches). Part 2 Getting it in/ assistant editing: tweaking the audio; calibrating colours for broadcast; inserting titles. Part 3 Making the cut/ the editorial process: placing video and graphics in traditional and non-traditional ways; aesthetic image manipulation, keying filters (luminosity, colour keys). Part 4 Getting it out/ delivering the production: media management; exporting the film; encoding the film; further resources on Final Cut Express and compatible software.
