Go beyond the mechanics of Final Cut Express 4--learn how to edit with it! More than a button-pushing manual--this workshop give you firsthand experience with the art and technique of editing. You develop a working knowledge with nineteen tutorials that cover each and every essential, including: setting up your system and understanding the interface ingesting and organizing your material including drive-based and disc-based camera data slicing, dicing, and organizing clips editing to build and trim a sequence of shots adding transitions using sound to refine your edit titling with FCE...

Video Production Workshop is the first book written to be accessible and appealing to a younger, digitally savvy audience interested in learning the full range of skills involved in planning and executing a video project. It introduces all the digital tools and basic techniques in sequence for readers to build proficiency and gain a well-rounded mastery of the art and craft of video production. Author Tom Wolsky begins with lessons in video editing and camera handling, and then moves on to scripting and storyboarding a production. Readers then step through a series of exercise projects....

Updates and addendum for the new version of FCPX (10.0.3) are available on the companion website, fcpxbook.com.Are you an iMovie or Final Cut Express user ready to make the jump to Final Cut Pro? If so, look no further.
Take your movies to the next level with this easy-to-follow, hand-on guide from one of the preeminent Apple trainers in the world today. Author Tom Wolsky starts with the basics of Final Cut Pro X, allowing you to easily make the leap from Final Cut Express or iMovie, then gradually introduces you to more complex techniques with step-by-step tutorials. Tom specifically shows...