Product Description

Cut a scene from the USA Network television series Monk, create a promo for Seaworld’s Belief documentary,  and master filters and effects as you edit a segment of  BBC Motion Gallery's Living Colour documentary. Completely revised for Final Cut Pro 6 and featuring all-new footage, this best-selling, Apple-certified guide provides a strong foundation in all aspects of video editing. Renowned author Diana Weynand starts with basic video editing techniques and takes you all the way through Final Cut Pro’s powerful advanced features. Each chapter presents a complete lesson in an aspect of video editing and finishing, using actual broadcast footage. After marking and editing clips to create a rough cut, you’ll learn how to trim and refine the cut before moving on to complex tasks such as mixing sound, adding titles, creating transitions and motion effects, applying filters, real-time color correcting, and working with multi-format and multi-camera footage.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #56002 in Books
• Published on: 2007-05-31
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 648 pages

From the Back Cover
Cut a scene from the USA Network television series Monk, create a promo for Seaworld’s Belief documentary,  and master filters and effects as you edit a segment of  BBC Motion Gallery's Living Colour documentary. Completely revised for Final Cut Pro 6 and featuring all-new footage, this best-selling, Apple-certified guide provides a strong foundation in all aspects of video editing. Renowned author Diana Weynand starts with basic video editing techniques and takes you all the way through Final Cut Pro’s powerful advanced features. Each chapter presents a complete lesson in an aspect of video editing and finishing, using actual broadcast footage. After marking and editing clips to create a rough cut, you’ll learn how to trim and refine the cut before moving on to complex tasks such as mixing sound, adding titles, creating transitions and motion effects, applying filters, real-time color correcting, and working with multi-format and multi-camera footage.

About the Author
Diana Weynand is an award-winning producer, director, editor, and co-founder of Weynand Training International (www.weynand.com), an Apple Authorized Training Center and a leader in training and curriculum development for emerging technologies. Diana was supervising editor for The Barbara Walters Special, director and co-producer of the Emmy nominated PBS series, Cinematic Eye, and online editor for Real World. She is the author of four best-selling books on Final Cut Pro (including Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro for Avid Editors and Final Cut Express HD), and the co-author of Secrets of Videoblogging and How Video Works. A well-known columnist, she also writes on High Definition production.

Customer Reviews

New DVD works
To add to my original Review - I have had a replacement from Amazon and the corrupted files are now all working. I can only assume that as between myself and my colleague getting through 3 faulty DVD's that the first run must have been faulty.
It seems I cannot change my original star rating within the amazon review system - so I would now give it 4 as this DVD now works.

Easy to follow instructions and the best in the market to learn FCP
If you are serious about learning FCP, then Adobe training series book are definitely the best in the market - well, since they create the software, they should be damn well good at teaching it.

It gives you clear instructions and at the end of each chapter it offers a question/answer sheet, which will help you to revise the topic further -especially when you are learning the short keys.

I strongly recommend this book and all other Adobe series book depending on the area you want to study because, compared to others, it works with you from basics to advance to extreme professional level.

Very useful book
This is an excellent and invaluable book, and is equally suited to those learning either FCP or the Express (consumer) version. It's also really handy to have around as a quick reference tool. My only criticism is that the supplied video content is somewhat cheasy - but then it originates in the US after all! No problems with the DVD itself for me.