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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 18. Real Time and Rendering

Final Cut Express offers many, many ways to manipulate your raw media—a wild world of complex effects. We enjoy more real time and less rendering in each successive version of Final Cut Express, but even FCE’s impressive real-time performance improvements can barely keep pace with increased performance demands as industry and consumer video standards move to higher-resolution HD formats.

Apple engineers persevere, however, and their efforts have brought us the Open Format Timeline feature, new in FCE 4. Now you can combine media with different formats, frame rates, and scanning methods in a single sequence and edit without rendering. In this mega-multi-format world, Open Format is a lifesaver.

This chapter outlines ...

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