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Final Cut Express 4: Visual QuickStart Guide
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Final Cut Express 4: Visual QuickStart Guide

by Lisa Brenneis
March 2008
Beginner content levelBeginner
624 pages
16h 23m
English
Peachpit Press
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Chapter 1. Welcome to Final Cut Express

Welcome to Apple’s Final Cut Express—a combination digital video editing, compositing, and special effects program. Final Cut Express is based on Final Cut Pro, Apple’s wildly popular professional digital video editing program.

Final Cut Express is tightly integrated with Apple’s G4, G5, and Intel processors, FireWire high-speed data transfer technology, and QuickTime multimedia format. FCE 4 can capture both DV and HDV-format video via FireWire, ingest AVCHD footage from tapeless camcorders, and output to most QuickTime formats. Final Cut Express provides professional editing functionality in a variety of styles, from strictly drag-and-drop edits to entirely keyboard-based editing.

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