Product Description

Go beyond the mechanics of Final Cut Express 4--learn how to edit with it! More than a button-pushing manual--this workshop give you firsthand experience with the art and technique of editing. You develop a working knowledge with nineteen tutorials that cover each and every essential, including:
* setting up your system and understanding the interface
* ingesting and organizing your material including drive-based and disc-based camera data
* slicing, dicing, and organizing clips
* editing to build and trim a sequence of shots
* adding transitions
* using sound to refine your edit
* titling with FCE and Photoshop
* animating images to create engaging scenes
* adding special effects filters
* compositing to enhance your projects
* outputting your material
The companion DVD contains project media, demo software, and free plug-ins for your use.


* Nineteen tutorial lessons give you firsthand experience with the art and technique of editing
* Covers every essential activity from system set-up to outputting your material
* The companion DVD contains project media files, demo software and plug-ins

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #32621 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

Review
About the previous edition:
"you can only learn to edit by editing. That is what sets this book apart from others..." --Michael Horton, president, Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group
"Tom helps you make the leap from iMovie to Final Cut Express, and teaches you the art of editing."--Jim Heid, Avondale Media

About the Author
Tom Wolsky is an honors graduate of the London School of Film Technique with nearly 40 years of professional experience spanning film, tape, and digital production. Tom operates an independent studio, South Coast Productions. He also teaches for Apple Computer and for the Digital Media Academy and serves as a forum leader on creativecow.net

Customer Reviews

You need this book!
If you are new to Final Cut then this is the book to get. Very clearly written, it's pretty much a must-have. It neither treats you like a complete computer newbie nor presumes a PHD in computer science, it is obviously aimed at the enthusiast and will get you from whatever level you are at to being a competent user through a number of very clearly set out tutorials, within a matter of only a few weeks. It is obviously written by someone who has a massive knowledge of the application, but who teaches the important bits of that knowledge in a clear, concise and factual way. I cannot recommend this book enough, anything else is a compromise!

Excellent
excellent book for newcomers to the software, a great way to brush up on the hotkeys and learn new workflows for those who are already pretty good at it. I recommend this book!

Learning Final Cut Express 4
Although quite good at movie editing programmes, I still like to have a book to fall back on when learning a new product and this book does it well. I think you need some sort of knowledge of video editing though but the exercises are very good