Summary:

Here is the follow-up to one of the most applauded Final Cut Pro books! Thoroughly updated for Final Cut Pro 4, this premier full-color guide emphasizes how to achieve professional quality results. It first introduces basic concepts, then leads you through a movie project from start to finish, while offering expert tips and advice from professional video editors. An abundance of striking illustrations and screen shots help you visualize important concepts and activities. New FCP features, all covered in this book, include better audio scoring, full-featured titling, and 24 frames-per-second capabilities for HD. The companion DVD features the book's sample video project for practice editing.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Part I: Getting Started
Chapter 1: Setting Up Your Workstation
Chapter 2: Getting to Know Final Cut Pro
Chapter 3: Creating Your Footage
Chapter 4: Logging Your Footage
Chapter 5: Capturing and Importing Your Footage Part II: Editing Your Movie
Chapter 6: Starting Your Edit
Chapter 7: The Tools of Editing
Chapter 8: Making Smart Edits Part III: Adding Effects
Chapter 9: Working with Effects: Real-Time and Rendering
Chapter 10: Adding Transitions
Chapter 11: Using Filters for Color Correcting
Chapter 12: Manipulating the Image with Filters
Chapter 13: Compositing Images
Chapter 14: Using Motion Controls
Chapter 15: Making Temporal Changes with Keyframes Part IV: Finishing Touches
Chapter 16: Fine-Tuning Your Audio
Chapter 17: Adding Titles
Chapter 18: Putting It All Together Part V: After the Editing is Done
Chapter 19: Managing Your Media
Chapter 20: Printing to Video
Chapter 21: Outputting Video for CDs, DVDs, and the Web Glossary of Terms
Index