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Introduction
Welcome to the third edition of The
Focal Easy Guide to Final Cut Pro X .
This software is now mature, fully
professional, and ready to edit anything
you throw at it. Don’t let anyone tell
you otherwise!
I worked on an incredibly busy job in
Barcelona several months ago: in that
time I knocked out close to 25 edits
over a week.
Some were simple, others more complex, everything from 40-minute
presentations, to demos with integrated graphics.
There was a lot of editing, encoding of master fi les, transcoding, uploading, and
Final Cut Pro performed admirably.
Another job I was involved in took place in four separate locations ...