Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop

Table of contents

1. Title
2. Copyright
3. Contents
4. Final cut express 4 editing workshop
5. Dedication
6. WHAT’S ON THE DVD?
7. Introduction
   1. What Is Editing?
   2. Why Do I Get to Write This Book?
   3. Who Should Read This Book?
   4. What’s on the DVD?
8. Acknowledgments
9. Lesson 1 Installing Final Cut Express
   1. What You Really Need
   2. Firing Up the Application
   3. Understanding the Interface
   4. Summary
10. Lesson 2 The Final Cut Express Interface
    1. Loading the Lesson
    2. Reconnecting the Media
    3. The Browser
    4. The Viewer
    5. Playing Clips
    6. Exploring the Canvas and Timeline
    7. Summary
11. Lesson 3 Setting Up Your Application Preferences
    1. Setting Up a New Project
    2. User Preferences
    3. General Preferences
    4. System Settings
    5. Easy Setup
    6. Summary
12. Lesson 4 Getting Material into Final Cut Express
    1. Capture
    2. Strategies for Capturing
    3. Log and Transfer
    4. Importing Files
    5. Importing Music
    6. Summary
13. Lesson 5 Cutting Up Those Shots
    1. Loading the Lesson
    2. Marking In and Out Points
    3. DV Start/Stop Detect
    4. Using Markers
    5. Slicing Your Clips
    6. Organizing the Clips
    7. Look Before You Cut
    8. Summary
14. Lesson 6 Editing Basics: Placing Your Shots
    1. Loading the Lesson
    2. Working with the Clips
    3. Summary
15. Lesson 7 Editing Basics: Building Your Sequence
    1. Loading the Lesson
    2. Making the Sequence
    3. Rearranging the Sequence
    4. The Trim Tools
    5. Summary
16. Lesson 8 Adding Transitions
    1. Loading the Lesson
    2. Applying Transitions
    3. Rendering
    4. Controlling Transitions
    5. Using Transitions
    6. Summary
17. Lesson 9 Advanced Editing: Trim Edit and Splitting Edits
    1. Setting Up the Project
    2. The Trim Edit Window
    3. The Split Edit
    4. Summary
18. Lesson 10 Advanced Editing: Using Sound
    1. Setting Up the Project
    2. Controlling Levels
    3. Normalization
    4. Finishing Up
    5. Voice Over
    6. Summary
19. Lesson 11 Adding Titles
    1. Setting Up the Project
    2. Text Generator
    3. Basic Animation
    4. Summary
20. Lesson 12 Boris Calligraphy and Advanced Titling
    1. Setting Up the Project
    2. Title 3D
    3. Title Crawl
    4. Nesting
    5. Still Images
    6. Summary
21. Lesson 13 Animating Images
    1. Setting Up the Project
    2. Keyframing
    3. Straight Motion
    4. Curved Motion
    5. Other Motion Controls
    6. Summary
22. Lesson 14 Animation Effects
    1. Setting Up the Project
    2. Motion Control
    3. Split Screen
    4. Brady Bunch Open
    5. Summary
23. Lesson 15 Adding Special Effects Filters
    1. Setting Up the Project
    2. Effect AvailabilityEffect Availability
    3. Applying a Filte
    4. Some Useful Filters
    5. Summary
24. Lesson 16 Color Correction, Keys, and Mattes
    1. Color Correction
    2. Image Control
    3. Keying
    4. Matte
    5. Summary
25. Lesson 17 Compositing
    1. Setting Up the Project
    2. Generators
    3. Compositing Modes
    4. Summary
26. Lesson 18 Travel Mattes
    1. Setting Up the Project
    2. Travel Mattes
    3. Summary
27. Lesson 19 Outputting from Final Cut Express
    1. Record to Tape
    2. Print to Video
    3. Export
    4. Archiving
    5. Summary
28. INDEX