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"you can only learn to edit by editing. That is what sets this book apart from others..." --Michael Horton, president, Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group
"Tom helps you make the leap from iMovie to Final Cut Express, and teaches you the art of editing."--Jim Heid, Avondale Media
"you can only learn to edit by editing. That is what sets this book apart from others..." --Michael Horton, president, Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group
"Tom helps you make the leap from iMovie to Final Cut Express, and teaches you the art of editing."--Jim Heid, Avondale Media
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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 and Photoshop; animating images to create engaging scenes; adding special effects filters; compositing to enhance your projects; and, outputting your material.The companion DVD contains project media, demo software, and free plug-ins for your use. Nineteen tutorial lessons give you firsthand experience with the art and technique of editing. It covers every essential activity from system set-up to outputting your material.
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you are new to Final Cut then this is the book to get. Very clearly written, it's pretty much a must-have. It neither treats you like a complete computer newbie nor presumes a PHD in computer science, it is obviously aimed at the enthusiast and will get you from whatever level you are at to being a competent user through a number of very clearly set out tutorials, within a matter of only a few weeks. It is obviously written by someone who has a massive knowledge of the application, but who teaches the important bits of that knowledge in a clear, concise and factual way. I cannot recommend this book enough, anything else is a compromise!
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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excellent book for newcomers to the software, a great way to brush up on the hotkeys and learn new workflows for those who are already pretty good at it. I recommend this book!
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Although quite good at movie editing programmes, I still like to have a book to fall back on when learning a new product and this book does it well. I think you need some sort of knowledge of video editing though but the exercises are very good
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Tom Wolskey's Editing Workshop
An extremely helpful book: clearly set-out in a logical path with helpful explanations for the uninitiated without being patronising. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Orriss
Poor QC on DVD
This is the second copy of Tom's book I received from Amazon. In each case the DVD was unreadable by my various machines and showed missing and corrupted file extensions. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Richard Elmes
Complete and at the right level of details
Even if I am already quite familiar with FCE, this book resulted extremely useful. It gives the right directions, I could understand what I was doing right and what wrong. Read more
Published 20 months ago by M. Baroni
Just the best book on FCE I've found
This is a great book, it takes you steadily through the different tools but also teaches you some editing skills. It makes moving from iMovie possible. Read more
Published 23 months ago by M. Griffiths
Has brought me into the digital age!
10 years after Uni when I last edited video tapes I have decided to renew my interest in film making. After bit of editing on iMovie9 I took the plunge with FCE. Read more
Published on 8 Jan 2010 by M. Wigham
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