Product Description

Here to ensure that users start taking advantage of Final Cut Express 4's powerful editing capabilities immediately is a thoroughly updated task-based guide to the program from best-selling author and digital video expert Lisa Brenneis. Users who are eager to make effective, compelling videos but don't want to invest heavily in training or equipment will welcome Lisa's simple step-by-step instructions, strong visual approach, and sound professional advice. In short order, they'll find themselves editing video; applying special effects and transitions; mastering the program's compositing, titling, and audio tools; and outputting their finished work. Readers will also learn about all that's new in this major upgrade: importing iMovie 08 projects, open format Timeline, built-in AVCHD and more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #39473 in Books
• Published on: 2008-03-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 624 pages

From the Back Cover
Here to ensure that users start taking advantage of Final Cut Express 4's powerful editing capabilities immediately is a thoroughly updated task-based guide to the program from best-selling author and digital video expert Lisa Brenneis. Users who are eager to make effective, compelling videos but don't want to invest heavily in training or equipment will welcome Lisa's simple step-by-step instructions, strong visual approach, and sound professional advice. In short order, they'll find themselves editing video; applying special effects and transitions; mastering the program's compositing, titling, and audio tools; and outputting their finished work. Readers will also learn about all that's new in this major upgrade: importing iMovie 08 projects, open format Timeline, built-in AVCHD and more.

Customer Reviews

Final Cut Express
If, like me, you are moving from imovie, you will find this book an essential tool. You can dip in and out as required & find the relevant information easily.

Not much help for beginners
So FCE is complex, I know, but I was looking for a 'dummies guide' and this is not it. Having started into it, I'll stay with i Photo 09 as it will do 95% of the editing I want from my Canon HF100 HD camcorder and give FCE a miss for a while. I suppose it is really that FCE is just more than I want or need at present.
Update, October 09, I've found a book which is slightly out of date - 'Final cut solutions by Teague and Teague but is much better. I can find my way around it and it actually works. I am now starting to use FCE. Brenneis's book is just badly put together . In addition, when it comes to adding titles with Live Type it simply refers you to the FCE online manual, not much help really. I'd recommend the online Apple tutorials and the Teague and Teague book for people trying to move from iMovie 09 to FCE. It's working for me.
I'd downrate to 2 stars if I could

Definitely not a quickstart guide!
I don't know why this is advertised as a "quickstart guide". It's just another 500 page technical manual. It's going straight down to the charity shop. I wish I could find a proper quickstart guide. Very disappointed.