Focal Easy Guide to Final Cut Pro 4
For new users and professionals
Published on 23. December 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-240-51925-8 (ISBN)
Description
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 Final Cut Pro, fast!
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 Final Cut Pro, fast!
Reviews / Votes
Review of this edition:"Whether you are a newcomer to Final Cut Pro 4, LiveType and Soundtrack or an experienced Final Cut Pro editor this little book will benefit you hugely. For the newcomer it is so easy to follow and understand and for the professional it will act as a quick refresher course whilst bringing you up to speed on Final Cut Pro 4's new features."
Monroe Video Productions, www.monroevideo.co.uk
"This book will get you off to a flying start, whether you are a professional moving to the Final Cut Pro system, or a complete novice...a must-have book." - Focus magazine
"The colour screen shots of the FCP4 interface are a breath of fresh air, many other publishers opt for black & white images to keep the printing costs down and although this benefits the publisher it certainly doesn't benefit the person reading the book who is trying to learn the programme, after all computer screens are colour right? This is just one more carefully thought out plan that the author has got right, well done Rick."
Monroe Video Productions, www.monroevideo.co.uk
Reviews of previous edition:
"The Easy Guide to Final Cut Pro 3 is very much a 'handbook', a 'primer' if you will. Short, clear and to the point. It provides an excellent quick introduction into FCP editing. It will get you up and running on FCP in short order."
Ken Stone (www.kenstone.net), Los Angeles FCP user group
"... this book is a must... for the advanced user and novice editor alike."
Peter Hall, Editor of Media 100
"Your book is terrific! I've read it from cover to cover and only wished I had bought it before I attempted anything on FCP."
Peter Demetris, television director
"It's made Final Cut Pro so much easier"
Gary Williams, Video Producer
"It's like a bible that sits on top of my G4"
George Robertson, Independent filmmaker
"I bought a number of books on using Final Cut Pro and found this book to be the clearest, best-written of them all. When I have questions, I always turn to this book first. It's a fairly short book, but it's all great info with very good images."
Online bookshop customer
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Serious editors new to editing video on Final Cut Pro 4; students on introductory DV/Video production/editing/filmmaking courses; professional video editors; producers and independent filmmakers; wedding videographers; corporate video producers and film producers; amateur users working on low/no-budget productions.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-240-51925-8 (9780240519258)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
10/2012
Routledge
€20.99
Available for download
Person
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 series The Focal Easy Guides to Final Cut Pro.
Content
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 Footage
Deck 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' 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 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 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 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 Keyframes
Adding 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
Index
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 Footage
Deck 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' 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 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 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 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 Keyframes
Adding 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
Index