Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop

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Nonlinear, or digital, editing involves the manipulation of digitized video. Software applications permit the editor to cut, splice, make transitions, and edit film more precisely than was ever possible with conventional film editing techniques. Final Cut Express 2 is an inexpensive version of Apple's Final Cut Pro software, the leading nonlinear editing program for the Mac platform. In its first year, Final ...

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Overview

Nonlinear, or digital, editing involves the manipulation of digitized video. Software applications permit the editor to cut, splice, make transitions, and edit film more precisely than was ever possible with conventional film editing techniques. Final Cut Express 2 is an inexpensive version of Apple's Final Cut Pro software, the leading nonlinear editing program for the Mac platform. In its first year, Final Cut Express proved to be a compelling alternative for hobbyists, students, and professionals who had formerly been limited to iMovie.


Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop is a classroom-in-a-book that teaches readers the art and technique of editing with Final Cut Express 2. It features a series of tutorials that cover the complete range of tasks, from installing the application to outputting. All of the necessary materials, including raw video footage and sequences, detailed instructions, and techniques taught in film schools, guide the reader to a working knowledge of Final Cut Express 2. The companion DVD includes a video introduction to Final Cut Express 2 specially designed for iMovie users, as well as tutorial media and plug-ins.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781578202560
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • Publication date: 1/6/2004
  • Series: DV Expert Series
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 304
  • Product dimensions: 7.88 (w) x 3.96 (h) x 0.58 (d)

Meet the Author

Tom Wolsky is an honors graduate of the London School of Film Technique with nearly 40 years of professional experience spanning film, tape, and digital production. Tom operates an independent studio, South Coast Productions. He also teaches for Apple Computer and for the Digital Media Academy and serves as a forum leader on creativecow.net

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Table of Contents

Introduction xiii
What Is Editing? xiii
Who Am I To Write This Book? xv
Who Is This Book For? xv
What's on the DVD? xvi
Acknowledgments xvi
Lesson 1 Installing Final Cut Express 2 1
What You Really Need 2
Memory: How Much and What Kind 2
Multiple Drives 2
Optimizing Your Computer for FCE 4
Monitors 5
Speakers 5
Firing Up the Application 6
Understanding the Interface 7
The Primary Windows 7
Tabbed Palettes 10
Browser 10
Importing Files 12
Importing Music 13
Browser Views and Buttons 15
Browser Details 17
Viewer 22
Viewer Buttons 22
Top of the Viewer 24
Viewer Time Displays 25
Playing Clips 25
Spacebar 25
Keyboard Shortcuts 26
Exploring the Canvas 28
Timeline Window 29
More Timeline Functions 30
Summary 32
Lesson 2 Getting Material into FCE2 33
Setting Up a New Project 33
User Preferences 34
General Preferences 34
Timeline Options 38
Render Control 39
System Settings 39
Scratch Disks 39
Memory & Cache 41
Playback Control 42
External Editors 43
Easy Setup 43
Capture 45
Strategies for Capturing 48
Capture Now 49
Clip 50
Project Capture 52
Summary 54
Lesson 3 Cutting Up Those Shots 57
Loading the Lesson 57
Importing the Movie 58
DV Start/Stop Detect 58
Using Markers 60
Slicing Your Clips 64
Slice 164
Slice 265
Slice 368
Range Clipping 69
Organizing the Clips 70
Look before You Cut 72
Summary 73
Lesson 4 Editing Basics: Building Your Sequence 75
Loading the Lesson 75
Setting Up the Project 76
Working with the Clips 76
Overwrite 79
Insert 80
Alternative Overwrite and Insert 82
Replace 83
Fit to Fill 85
Superimpose 88
Making a Sequence 88
Swap Edit 91
Storyboarding 96
The Trim Tools 97
The Ripple Tool 98
The Roll Tool 99
The Slip Tool 100
The Slide Tool 101
Summary 103
Lesson 5 Adding Transitions 105
Loading the Lesson 106
Applying Transitions 106
Checking the Media 107
Using the Edit Overlay 112
Rendering 113
Render Commands 114
Render Control 116
Render Management 116
Controlling Transitions 118
Transition Editor 119
Using Transitions 120
Page Peel 121
Push Slide 122
Gradient Wipe 123
Favorites 124
Conclusion 125
Lesson 6 Advanced Editing: Using Sound 127
Setting Up the Project 128
The Trim Edit Window 128
The Split Edit 131
In the Timeline 132
In the Viewer 135
Controlling Levels 136
In the Timeline 136
Fading Levels in the Timeline 138
Controlling Track Levels 139
More Fades 141
In the Viewer 143
Middle of the Sequence 145
End of the Sequence 147
Voice Over 148
Summary 152
Lesson 7 Adding Titles 153
Loading the Lesson 153
Setting Up the Project 154
Text Generator 154
Text 154
Lower Thirds 161
Typewriter 162
Title 3D 163
Title Crawl 170
Nesting 172
Photoshop Titles 177
Resolution 180
Fading 181
Summary 183
Lesson 8 Animating Images 185
Loading the Lesson 185
Motion Window 185
Keyframing 187
Scale 187
Rotation 188
Center 188
Straight Motion 189
Curved Motion 190
Changing Speed 191
Anchor Point 192
Other Motion Controls 193
Crop 193
Distort 194
Opacity 195
Drop Shadow 196
Motion Blur 197
Animation Effects 197
Pan and Scan 197
Animating Text Files 199
Split Screen 200
Picture in Picture 200
Brady Bunch Open 201
Sliding White Bar 201
Fixing the Headshot 202
Middle Headshots 203
Extending 204
Adding More Headshots 206
New Headshots 207
Final Headshots 208
Titles 209
Final Polishing 210
Fade to Black 211
Summary 211
Lesson 9 Adding Special Effects Filters 213
Loading the Lesson 214
Applying a Filter 214
Some Useful Filters 216
Gaussian Blur 216
Bevel Border 217
Channel Arithmetic 217
Channel Offset 218
Compound Arithmetic 218
Color Correction 218
Color Corrector 219
Desaturate and Sepia 222
Desaturate 222
Sepia 223
Keying 223
Color Smoothing - 4:1:1 224
Chroma Keyer 224
Spill Suppressor-Blue and Spill Suppressor-Green 225
Matte Choker 226
Mattes 226
Eight-Point Garbage Matte 226
Extract 227
Mask Shape 228
Widescreen 229
Perspective 230
Basic 3D 230
Flop 231
Quick Time 231
Color Tint 231
Stylize 232
Find Edges 232
Replicate 232
Video 232
De-interlace and Flicker 232
Summary 234
Lesson 10 Compositing 235
Loading the Lesson 235
Generators 236
Render 236
Compositing Modes 238
Compositing Exercise 239
Instant Sex 239
Noise Exercise 240
Travel Mattes 243
Area Highlight 243
Highlight Matte 244
Glints 246
Soft Edge Split Screen 249
Video in Text 250
Outline Text 256
Grunge Edges 257
Bug 259
Day for Night 261
Lesson 11 Outputting from Final Cut Express 263
Record to Tape 264
Print to Video 265
Export 266
Quick Time Movie 266
Quick Time Conversion 267
Video export 268
Image sequence export 271
Still image export 271
Audio Export 272
Archiving 273
Summary 273
Index 275
What's on the DVD? 284
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