Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop

Now that we have set up our preferences and everything is ready, we can start bring- ing our own material into the application. The process is called capturing or ingesting. Capturing is bringing in material from tape, either DV or HDV, and ingesting is bringing in material from a camera card or DVD camera disc. Either method is essentially a file transfer of the digital data on your camera tape or media to put that binary information that makes up your video and audio and other data onto your computer hard drive. In the case of DV material, the material is converted from its native format to a QuickTime file with separate audio tracks. In ...