Lesson 1

Capturing Your Material

Firing Up the Application

Launching a new application for the first time is always an adventure, especially one as complex as Final Cut Pro 5. To start up the application either double-click on the icon in the Applications folder (Figure 1.1), or better yet, make an alias in the Dock and just click once on that. After a new installation or after you have trashed your Final Cut Preferences file, you will first be greeted with the preferences ...

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