Manufacturer's Description
Featuring the same interface as the Emmy Award-winning Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express is a robust, real-time editing solution tailored specifically for the DV format. It captures video from a wide array of DV camcorders and decks, includes professional-level editing, compositing, effects, titling, and Color correction tools, and outputs your project back to tape, DVD, or via QuickTime. Final Cut Express is an innovative combination of power, ease of use, and affordability.Connect your FireWire-equipped DV camcorder to your Mac and use Final Cut Express' Capture window to control a wide range of miniDV, DVCAM, and DVCPRO devices. Then organize, search, and sort your footage within customizable, hierarchical bins in Final Cut Express's browser window. Unlike many DV editing solutions, Final Cut Express lets you work like a pro. You can open and edit multiple projects, containing multiple sequences, at the same time. You can even nest sequences within sequences, making it easier to put together long-form projects.Final Cut Express gives you an impressive set of Non-Linear Editing tools. With Final Cut Express's modeless interface, you can drag and drop clips between the browser, the timeline, the viewer and the canvas without having to learn a specific, restrictive workflow. You can easily Insert, Overwrite, Replace, Fit to Fill or Superimpose clips to your sequence using Final Cut Express' powerful 3-point editing. Use an impressive array of precision tools like razor blade, slip, slide, ripple, roll, extend, and split to perfect your edit. All of your editing decisions are reversible using Final Cut Express' multiple undo features. And because Final Cut Express is a non-destructive editor, your source footage is never affected by your editing.Final Cut Express' top notch editing capabilities are paired with an impressive library of over 200 transitions (dissolves, wipes, fades) and effects (blurs, borders, mattes) to give your project that silky-smooth flow. Put your thoughts into writing with lower 3rds, scrolls, crawls, and other motion titling using Final Cut Express's 2D and 3D tools and the bundled Boris Calligraphy. Combine a virtually unlimited number of video tracks, multi-layered Photoshop files, and titles to build stunning motions graphics with Final Cut Express's integrated compositing.Fire up Final Cut Express' Color Corrector to make shots match, or to enhance the mood of a clip. Adjust the levels of your whites, mids and blacks, change the hue and balance, or apply the broadcast safe filter to make it ready for TV.Final Cut Express lets you mix up to 99 tracks of audio (8 in real time) at the subframe level. Use pans, levels, and the 3-band equalizer for just the right mix. Enhance your audio with transitions and filters like cross fades, reverb, EQ, echo, noise gate, and more. For documentary-style projects, use the VoiceOver tool to record narration into an audio track while your video plays.When your project is perfect, use the Print-to-Tape function to make a tape master of your work, or export your movie to iDVD or DVD Studio Pro, complete with chapter markers, to make a DVD. Make an MPEG-4 based QuickTime movie of your project for emailing or web streaming. Whether you're a digital video enthusiast, a corporate video developer or an event videographer, Apple's new feature-rich DV editing software is designed for you. It's optimized for the DV format and comes with all the high-quality compositing, titling, and effects capabilities that you need for professional-level video.
