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Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Express 4 |  | Author: Diana Weynand
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Category: Book
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Pages: 504
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ISBN: 0321534670
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Product Description
The only Apple-certified guide to Final Cut Express 4, this book delivers the techniques you need to make movie magic with DV, HDV, or AVCHD footage. Each chapter presents a complete lesson in an aspect of video editing and finishing, with hands-on projects to complete as you go. All the files you need are on the included DVD-ROM. You’ll learn how to make effective edits and adjust them precisely; create polished transitions and sophisticated composites; add audio tracks, titles, and speed and motion effects; then color-correct and finish your video for export to DVD or the Web. Whether you’re a student, a devoted amateur who’s serious about digital video, or a professional who needs a comprehensive editing program, you’ll find everything you need to learn Final Cut Express 4 within the pages of this book. DVD-ROM includes lesson and media files for over 20 hours of training.
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 Takes you by the hand and shows you how July 13, 2010
The Apple Pro Training series is and excellent resource. If you are a beginner or and intermediate user, you will pick up some keyboard shortcuts or something you didn't know before you read and follow the lessons in this book.
Next best thing June 1, 2010
My first Apple Pro Training Series (APTS) book was for Logic Pro 8 and I enjoyed every minute of it! So when I thought about learning Final Cut I looked into online videos like [...] but didn't really enjoy the fact that you are just watching and not getting a chance to do anything. Even though I do like hearing someone talk as opposed to reading their words, I value the hands on approach of these APTS books more, so I went with it.
The included material, the even pace of learning, and the great writing is why I love this book and would definitely recommend it. So far I've been through 2 of these and had great experiences. So next time I need to learn a program I am going to check to see if there is an APTS book for it!
 Great for beginners like me! April 9, 2010
This book is great if you are are fairly new to Final Cut Express. It does start off a bit slow in the beginning, but the basics are always important!
However, I would not recommend this to people seeking to learn the more advanced editing techniques.
Overall, it was very helpful and provides plenty of extras to help you get your way around FCE.
 Of Limited Value, Little More than a Rehash of Already Available Apple Documentation March 28, 2010
The Multimedia Kid (Cincinnati, OH)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
One of the trials of using many of Apple products these days is that they make it difficult to use common file formats and applications. Let's say you use Audacity, for instance, a wonderful and free, quite sophisticated audio editing system and produce mp3 files, you'll have a hard time getting the files into Final Cut Express (FCE). But, of course, many of us live in a musical world of mp3's. Of let's say you are into the world of Apple and you've composed some music with Garrageband and now want to use the music in your FCE project. These are not uncommon issues. The volume will be of little if any help. In fact neither mp3 nor Garrageband is even listed in the index. Heavens help us, not even wav file appears there. The book is organized around the assumption that the reader has all that he needs already in the ideal format--true if all one is going to do is construct a video with the materials on the accompanying CD.
Apple's world unfortunately can be too proprietary, even provincial, and this book is not going to steer your around the various and often considerable hurdles the novice, or even relatively experienced movie maker, encounters with FCE.
At this point in time, when we've had a decade or two, at least, to explore the powers of multimedia, one might expect the volume-- equipped as it is with a CD attached to its spine--to, say, use video tutorials as the center piece of instruction--after all the book is about producing video. But no, it's just a textbook with some files on a CD to practice with. Boring and unimaginative--worse, a waste of the consumer's time and money.
To learn FCE, I'd say stick with the video tutorials that Apple has on its site, supplemented by the numerous movies users have placed on youtube to help one another with FCE--a program even less transparent than iMovie. Unfortunately one has to hunt down supplements to the tutorials, such as documentation on Garageband--some kind souls have produced (google "How to Convert a GarageBand File to an .mp3"). I'm tempted to give the book only one star, given that I'd like to have my money back, but at least it does represent effort. A pity David Pogue hasn't produced a missing manual on FCE, since his books tend to be more comprehensive and a program like FCE really needs lots of explanations and examples, particularly more of the real world of file formats and diverse equipment.
Great for beginning editors using FCE March 21, 2010
M. G. Snyder
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I had a bit of experience editing using Adobe Premiere Elements before switching to FCE. The first time I used FCE I felt lost and confused. It wasn't as intuitive as Adobe Premiere Elements, which I learned how to use pretty quickly despite not having any prior experience in video editing and without having to use a how-to book. For some people this book might seem too simplistic but I think this book gives a great introduction to the editing program. If you want to be hand-held (which is not a bad thing) as you go through the course, then this is the perfect book for you. I think Lisa Brenneis' book is good to get together with this as she goes into more detail when it comes to organizing your project, sequences and clips.
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