Final Cut Express HD 3.5

$49.00

Format: 1 DVD-ROM
Duration: 5.5 Hours
Platform: Apple Macintosh

Inside Final Cut Express HD 3.5 will take you through all the new features of Final Cut Express HD, Live Type, and Soundtrack 1.5. You will work alongside Apple Certified Instructor Jem Schofield using specially included media files, so that you can quickly get up and running in an integrated HD workflow to get the most out of your creative editing. By the end of the training, you will feel comfortable capturing DV and HDV, keyframing filters and effects, organizing your projects, correcting colors and outputting your high-quality video projects. This training is especially well-suited for home users, educators and small businesses.

Jem Schofield

Jem Schofield is the President and Creative Director of Buttons Productions, a CREATIVE company that specializes in providing video, DVD, web, audio and post-production solutions to a variety clients. Clients include Apple Computer, Isaac Hayes Entertainment, Justin Hayward, Poolside Entertainment and Rutgers University.

Capturing Footage

System Set-Up
Capturing DV
Capturing HDV

Getting Started with Final Cut Express

Importing Project Media
The Browser
The Viewer
The Canvas
The Timeline

  1. Introduction
    1. Introduction to the Training
    2. Section Overview
    3. Launching Final Cut Express
    4. Capturing Footage
    5. System Set-Up
    6. Capturing DV
    7. Capturing HDV
    8. Getting Started with Final Cut Express
  2. Importing Project Media
    1. The Browser
    2. The Viewer
    3. The Canvas
    4. The Timeline
    5. Editing A Sequence
  3. Inserting a Clip into the Timeline
    1. Editing with the Blade Tool
    2. Real-Time Playback
    3. Editing in the Timeline
    4. Overwrite Editing into the Timeline
    5. Creating a Montage
    6. Storyboard Editing
    7. Editing Tools
  4. The Slip Tool
    1. Play Around Current Frame
    2. The Slide Tool
    3. The Ripple Edit Tool
    4. The Roll Edit Tool
    5. Replace Edit
    6. Editing onto a Second Video Track
    7. Text In Final Cut Express HD
  5. Final Cut Express HD Text Generator
    1. Creating a Lower Third
    2. Creating Opacity Change with the Pen Tool
    3. Creating Multiple Titles
    4. Transitions
  6. Keyframes in the Timeline and Viewer
    1. Video Transitions
    2. Creating a White Flash Transition
    3. Filters
  7. Applying Filters
    1. Keyframing a Filter
    2. Broadcast Safe
    3. Corrective Filters
    4. LiveType
  8. Setting up an HDV Project in LiveType
    1. Create an Animated Title
    2. Roundtripping with Live Type
    3. Creating A Soundtrack
  9. Creating a Reference Movie for Soundtrack
    1. The Soundtrack 1.5 Interface
    2. Adding an Ambient Sound Effect
    3. Creating Music
    4. Working with Envelopes
    5. Recording a Voice-Over in Soundtrack
    6. Real-Time Audio Effects
    7. Mixing and Exporting
    8. Adjusting Audio in Final Cut Express HD
    9. Exporting The Project
  10. Rendering
    1. Print to Video
    2. Export to QuickTime for the Web
    3. Export to QuickTime for iDVD