Lesson 7
Getting Material into Final Cut Express HD
Now that we’ve set up our preferences and gotten everything ready, we can begin bringing our own material into the application. The process is called capturing and is used to do a file transfer of the digital data on your camera tape to put that binary information that makes up your video and audio and other data onto your computer hard drive.
Capture
To begin, go to File>Capture (Command-8). This brings up the Capture window (see Figure 7.1).
The window is divided in two. On the left is a Viewer like the standard FCE Viewer, but this is a viewer for your tape deck or camera. The control buttons—J, K, L, I, and O keys and spacebar—work ...
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