Final Cut Pro Workflows

Foreword

So you need to make a movie. Or a documentary. Or a corporate communications video. Or an episodic web-delivered serial adventure show, for that matter.

You've done a very good thing by picking up this book.

Video and film programs have always been made or broken by the amount of preparation that was done before even a single frame was recorded. At every step of preproduction, production, and postproduction, choices that affect both time and money (and usually both) assail you from every direction. Some are purely a matter of aesthetic preference, while others might be life or death decisions for your budget—and by extension your project. However, it can be difficult to know which pennies saved today will turn into pounds spent tomorrow. ...