Product Description

• Presents 50 fast, easy, and powerful effects that creative professionals and amateurs alike can achieve almost instantly with Apple′s hot new Final Cut Express video editing software
• Proven step–by–step format, lavishly illustrated with "before" and "after" scenes from professional clips
• Includes masking techniques, creative use of colors and special effects, professional titling and rolling credit techniques, size deceptions, film–grain simulations, and much more
• Features in–depth discussions of features and techniques that help readers make the necessary adjustments for their own videos
• Reasonably priced Final Cut Express software is sophisticated enough for the professional, yet basic enough for the editing beginner or hobbyist
• CD–ROM is packed with all video clips from the book and valuable utilities

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #173774 in Books
• Published on: 2003-08-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

From the Back Cover
"If you are looking to maximize Final Cut Express, you won’t find

a better guide than Tim Meehan."
—Dan Jahn, President, The Raven Group

Whether creating dynamite digital videos is your profession or just your obsession, Final Cut Express can enhance your projects. In this richly illustrated volume, computer graphics pro Tim Meehan shows you step by step how to use 50 terrific techniques to add that extra dimension of style and pizzazz. You’ll learn them quickly, apply them easily, and discover you’re amazed–and delighted–by the results you can achieve.

Your guide to amazing results with Final Cut Express

• Save time and gain focus with storyboards and shot lists
• Capture viewers’ attention with creative use of colors, special effects, and size deceptions
• Enhance your video pictures with film–grain simulations, contrast correction, and soft–focus effects
• Add polish with rolling credits and professional titling techniques
• Improve communication with time and speed effects, superimposition, and text tricks
• Create "wow" with whimsical people and animals, matte windows in objects, doorways to the unknown, and more

CD–ROM includes demonstrations of the techniques explained in the book, full resolution video clips from Artbeats, and more

About the Author
Tim Meehan is a computer graphics professional who conducts classes, demonstrations, and workshops on a variety of digital video products. He is a longtime member of the Apple Consultants Network, and has served Apple Computer in various consulting and promotional capacities since 1984.

Customer Reviews

Easy to follow
Great guide for beginners to pick up the basics of final cut express. May be a bit simple for users wishing to do more advanced things. A great starting point tho!

Plainly useless
This book contains nothing more than the obvious. I can't see how hints like "the speed value of 500 tells FCE to play the clip back at 500 percent, or five time the original speed" be considered "terrific technique" as advertised.

You can read everything in the original manual, with more depth and less wasted words. The clips in the DVD are of very low quality, and you can shot something better even if you are an absolute beginner.

Paolo T. - Italy

Stick to surfing
A waste of money for me. I culd find 50 much better tips on YouTube within 5 minutes - and they would be explained better. I wish I had sent it back straight away.