Overview
Visual QuickStart Guide—the quick and easy way to learn!
• Easy visual approach uses pictures to guide you through Final Cut Express and show you what to do.
• Concise steps and explanations let you get up and running in no time.
• Page for page, the best content and value around.
• Lisa Brenneis is the author of all previous editions of this best-selling reference to Final Cut Express, as well as all edition of Final Cut Pro: Visual QuickPro Guide. Her production credits range from interactive digital media to educational films, animation to live action, and documentary to poetic fantasy. Her clients have included Disney, MCA/Universal, the Getty Museum, the Library of Congress, the International Olympic Committee and Mattel, among others. Lisa has just finished her first feature-length video documentary, Eat at Bill's: Life in the Monterey Market.
Synopsis
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.