Lisa Brenneis's Final Cut Express Hd For Mac

Amazon.com: Final Cut Express 2 for Mac OS X (Visual QuickStart Guide) (929): Lisa Brenneis: Books. Final Cut Express HD for Mac OS X. Lisa Brenneis has served as a teacher, author, panelist, and film production manager.

1. Lisa Brenneis Final Cut Express Hd For Mac

Click to expand.but what I keep finding out is that video editing apps on the mac have the edge - premier elements is fine but it was my thinking final cut express was a good place to start with a professional upgrade path. At the min I am using elements and ulead dvd workshop and want to invest time in learning apps that the pros actually use. This is for a school project we are in - and we are still finding our feet in terms of video formats for the web and apps to use - we started off with moviemaker and have progressed David. Click to expand.Why? - Do you never want to reuse footage months or even years later? CatDV gets round two problems for me: (a) FCP doesn't get the date-of-filming timestamp. (b) iMove can't recapture, 'tho it's still handy for Q&D projects.

Lisa Brenneis Final Cut Express Hd For Mac

(c) Ok - three - I.like. having an iPhoto-style db for movies.

I can easily spare the disk space for OfflineRT of almost every MiniDV I shoot. I've got three months to finish the edit of $SON'S First Year - including (as a DVD Bonus Feature) the Standard8-VHS-DV dub of Alan's First Year, so I'm tending to take a long-term view of this kind of thing;-) Incidently. Drag-n-drop from iPhoto to FCP Just Works(tm). Rgds, Alan 1 Hence avoiding the desire^Wneed for a Firestore - OK there's no need to capture at FullRes, but MiniDV tapes remain the best way to archive, err, MiniDV footage. Studio photogs now jacking live proofs to art directors laptops.

It's the year of High Definition video, and Final Cut Express is ready with a brand-new HD version chockfull of advanced titling and soundtrack creation tools. Here to ensure that users start taking advantage of Final Cut Express HD's real-time HD 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: LiveType for creating HD-quality animated text and graphics, Soundtrack for producing custom musical scores, direct timeline file placement from Motion, Digital Cinema Desktop, direct import of iMovie projects, and much more.