50 Fast Final Cut Express® Techniques (50 Fast Techniques Series) - Softcover

Meehan, Tim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0764540912 ISBN 13: 9780764540912

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2003

Synopsis

• Presents 50 fast, easy, and powerful effects that creative professionals and amateurs alike can achieve almost instantly with Apple′s hot new Final Cut Express video editing software
• Proven step–by–step format, lavishly illustrated with "before" and "after" scenes from professional clips
• Includes masking techniques, creative use of colors and special effects, professional titling and rolling credit techniques, size deceptions, film–grain simulations, and much more
• Features in–depth discussions of features and techniques that help readers make the necessary adjustments for their own videos
• Reasonably priced Final Cut Express software is sophisticated enough for the professional, yet basic enough for the editing beginner or hobbyist
• CD–ROM is packed with all video clips from the book and valuable utilities

About this title

About the Author

Tim Meehan is a computer graphics professional who conducts classes, demonstrations, and workshops on a variety of digital video products. He is a longtime member of the Apple Consultants Network, and has served Apple Computer in various consulting and promotional capacities since 1984.

From the Back Cover

"If you are looking to maximize Final Cut Express, you won t find

a better guide than Tim Meehan."
Dan Jahn, President, The Raven Group

Whether creating dynamite digital videos is your profession or just your obsession, Final Cut Express can enhance your projects. In this richly illustrated volume, computer graphics pro Tim Meehan shows you step by step how to use 50 terrific techniques to add that extra dimension of style and pizzazz. You ll learn them quickly, apply them easily, and discover you re amazed and delighted by the results you can achieve.

Your guide to amazing results with Final Cut Express

• Save time and gain focus with storyboards and shot lists
• Capture viewers attention with creative use of colors, special effects, and size deceptions
• Enhance your video pictures with film–grain simulations, contrast correction, and soft–focus effects
• Add polish with rolling credits and professional titling techniques
• Improve communication with time and speed effects, superimposition, and text tricks
• Create "wow" with whimsical people and animals, matte windows in objects, doorways to the unknown, and more

CD–ROM includes demonstrations of the techniques explained in the book, full resolution video clips from Artbeats, and more

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0764540912
• ISBN 13: 9780764540912
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336