Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro 7 [With DVD] (Apple Pro Training)

Completely revised for Final Cut Pro 7 and featuring new footage from TNT’s hit show Leverage and the international music creation event Playing For Change: Peace Through Music, 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 professional 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 adding titles, creating transitions and motion effects, applying filters, and working with multi-format and multi-camera footage. The book covers Final Cut Pro’s exciting new features, including iChat Theater support, the redesigned speed tools, and sharing projects on a Blu-ray disc.

•  DVD-ROM includes lesson and media files for over 40 hours of training

•  Focused lessons take you step-by-step through professional, real-world projects

•  Accessible writing style puts an expert instructor at your side

•  Ample illustrations and keyboard shortcuts help you master techniques fast

•  Lesson goals and time estimates help you plan your time

•  Chapter review questions summarize what you’ve learned and prepare you for the Apple Certified Pro Exam

Note from the publisher:

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Divided into well-defined tasks that lead from rough cut through final product, each chapter of this excellent guide teaches how to carry out the task, with detailed practical step-by-step instructions. The chapters are full of screen shots and indented notes and tips to guide the reader through the lesson. The lessons are hands-on, using sample video on the DVD, including commercial footage from cable television and other sources. Each chapter concludes with a lesson review and list of keyboard shortcuts. Thorough and clearly organized, the book will remain useful as a reference even after readers have worked through all 14 lessons. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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.

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 RealWorld. She is the author of five best-selling books on Final CutPro (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.

Getting Started

Creating a Rough Cut

Lesson 1 Editing in Final Cut Pro

Lesson 2 Building the Rough Cut

Lesson 3 Finishing the Rough Cut

Refining the Rough Cut

Lesson 4 Trimming Clip Duration

Lesson 5 Refining Edit Points

Lesson 6 Refining the Editing Process

Customizing and Capturing

Lesson 7 Customizing Final Cut Pro

Lesson 8 Capturing and Transferring Footage

Completing the Cut

Lesson 9 Applying Transitions

Lesson 10 Mixing Audio Tracks

Lesson 11 Creating Titles

Adding Effects and Finishing

Lesson 12 Changing Motion Properties

Lesson 13 Applying Filters

Lesson 14 Finishing and Outputting

Glossary

Index