Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro 6 (Apple Pro Training) | 
 enlarge | Author: Diana Weynand
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 7072
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1 Pap/Dvdr
Pages: 648
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.8
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.3
ISBN: 0321502655
Dewey Decimal Number: 778.5930285536
EAN: 9780321502650
Publication Date: May 31, 2007
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Product Description
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.
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 Not just interface overview October 21, 2007
Vladimir Nagorniy (Hollywood, CA USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book actually teaches you efficient work flows. All lessons designed in a really smart way, so your progress is well guided. Makes you learn keyboard shortcuts. The footage was fun to work with (not the usual snowboarders and surfers). Highly recommended.
Superb! December 4, 2007
D. Goodman (San Francisco)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Sure beats the manual. The DVD footage that accompanies the tutorial is woth its weight in gold.
A very good jump start October 13, 2007
J. D. Vandenberghe (Los Angeles, CA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
When it comes to learn how to use an editing software, the most important thing you need is... footages! And that's where the DVD included in the book comes handy. For each lesson there is a project to load in FCP. The project lessons and the book together make the learning experience fun and, most importantly, very efficient.
This book is the one you need if you are very serious about editing.
A last word: I believe you need a little software editing experience prior to start this book otherwise it will be a little hard and discouraging.
Excellent April 16, 2008
Brian (Austin, TX)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
There is no better book for beginning editors. I recommend it to all those trying to learn the basics (and some moderately advanced workflow things) of Final Cut Pro 6.
Great Book and a Great Learning Experience August 5, 2008
foust (Oakland, CA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
After struggling for a few weeks trying to learn Final Cut Pro from the 4 volume set of books that came with the software, I was almost ready to call it quits and dump $900(USD) into one of the 3 day Final Cut Pro certification courses. After learning that this is the book that is used with those courses, and having heard Great things about Peach Pit Press, and after reading the reviews here, I decided to get this book and give it a go.
First let me say that I am not a typical 'learn from the books' kind of learner. I usually (especially with software) just hack around and figure things out. Final Cut is pretty complicated, and I need to know how to operate it pretty quickly (changing computers and software for editing, Win->Mac). I have learned most of what I need to get going on some projects after just going through the first 4 lessons! I am not going to stop there, I plan to finish this book, and probably look into additional volumes from this series for things like Soundtrack Pro and Motion.
Sure the Sea World footage and especially the music is cheesy, but you are encouraged to do additional work at the end of each lesson, to reinforce what you were just taught. This is where it gets fun! I found myself taking some music from my collection and replacing the awful Sea World song, and cutting footage to that instead.
I did not experience any problem with any of the projects opening (I took a peek).
If you are wanting to get to know this software, this is a great book to start with!
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