The only Apple-certified source for Final Cut Express training.

• Best-selling author is also top trainer, providing authorized instruction in Apple and Adobe products and curriculum development for entertainment-industry technologies.
• Comprehensive course gives even complete editing novices the chops to start creating high-quality videos with Final Cut Express.
• Companion DVD includes everything readers need to complete the books lesson-based projects: lesson files, audio files, video clips, graphics, and more.

Between the covers of this book readers will find a comprehensive course on Apples recently released consumer-level video editing software, Final Cut Express ($299), delivered by the instructor who trains the trainers: Diana Weynand. A self-paced learning tool, as well as the approved curriculum for all Apple-certified trainers on the product, Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Express offers step-by-step instruction in all aspects of the revolutionary app thats bringing professional-level editing to the masses.
Each chapter in this hands-on guide represents a complete lessonwith a project to complete, a review section, and bonus exercises to reinforce the lessons. Weynand takes readers through every aspect of editing with Final Cut Express: working in the timeline and viewer, making and adjusting edits, trimming clips, working with audio, creating transitions and special effects, adding titles, correcting color, and more. Readers can work through the book from cover to cover or they can pick just the sections that interest them most. Either way, theyll find just what they need to begin making movie magic.

Contents

• Getting Started
• Covering the Basics
• Editing DV
• Working with a Project
• Working in the Timeline
• Working in the Viewer
• Making Edits
• Editing to the Timeline
• Other Editing Options
• Trimming an Edit Point
• Fine-Tuning Edit Points
• Master Clips, Subclips, and Markers
• Capturing Digital Video
• Working with Audio
• Applying Audio and Video Transitions
• Working with Filters
• Working with Multiple Tracks
• Creating Motion Effects
• Adding Titles and Other Items
• Finishing Your Project
• Glossary
• Index