Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro for Avid Editors [Paperback]

Diana Weynand (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 22, 2004 | ISBN-10: 0321245776 | ISBN-13: 978-0321245779 | Edition: 1

The only Final Cut Pro 4 training designed for Avid editors and certified by Apple! Using Avid images and terminology, master teacher Diana Weynand shows you how to perform the tasks you've been doing in Media Composer by using Final Cut Pro instead. You will find detailed feature comparisons, practical conversion tips, and instructions on how to use Final Cut Pro features that aren't available in Media Composer. You'll also learn about what's new in version 4: asymmetric trimming, multitrack audio mixing, multiple video stream support, and more. Each chapter represents a complete lesson in some aspect of Final Cut Pro 4 with a project with exercises to reinforce the lessons and a review section. A DVD includes all of the chapters' lesson files and media.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

It used to be that you had to know Avid Media Composer to edit Hollywood-style film and videos. Now, thanks to Apple's low-cost, high-end video editing software, you need to know Media Composer and Apple's Final Cut Pro to stay marketable. If you're an editor experienced in Media Composer who needs to learn Final Cut Pro fast, you need Final Cut Pro for Avid Editors: A Guide for Editors Making the Switch. It's the only book that teaches Final Cut Pro from an Avid Media Composer user's perspective, using Avid images and terminology as references to guide you through the program's features and functions. This task-based book doesn't waste time going over editing basics that you already know, but rather explains how you can get the same job done in Final Cut Pro as you did in Media Composer with detailed feature comparisons, practical conversion tips, and instructions on how to use Final Cut Pro features that aren't available in Media Composer. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Diana Weynand is an award-winning producer, director, and editor. Her training company, Weynand Training International, is a leader in providing training services and curriculum development for emerging technologies to the entertainment industry, as well as being an Apple Authorized Training Center. Diana has written numerous books, including Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro 4, Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Express, and Final Cut Pro for Avid Editors.

Product Details

• Paperback: 544 pages
• Publisher: Peachpit Press; 1 edition (April 22, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321245776
• ISBN-13: 978-0321245779
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,230,895 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Diana Weynand is an award-winning producer, director, editor, and co-founder of Weynand Training International (www.weynand.com), an Apple Authorized Training Center and a leader in training and curriculum development for emerging technologies. Diana was supervising editor for The Barbara Walters Special, director and co-producer of the Emmy nominated PBS series, Cinematic Eye, and online editor for Real World. She is the author of four best-selling books on Final Cut Pro (including Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro for Avid Editors and Final Cut Express HD), and the co-author of Secrets of Videoblogging and How Video Works. A well-known columnist, she also writes on High Definition production.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Moving from Avid to FCP? This book is great!, December 16, 2002

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Jim "jim_videoworks" (Reading, PA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Final Cut Pro for Avid Editors (Paperback)

We have been an Avid only edit house for years, but reciently purchased two Final Cut systems. Most of the transition was pretty easy, but trying to figure out how to do some of the things in FCP that we did in our sleep on the Avid slowed us down a bit. This book draws great parallels between the two systems.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This book Yes Indeed, December 30, 2002

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Larry Krantz "Final Cut Pro Editor" (Alabama) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Final Cut Pro for Avid Editors (Paperback)

As an Avid editor and now learning FCP, I can recommend this book for helping to understand where everthing is. This book is a must unless you want to tear your hair out. If you know how it feels going from Media Composer to DS, then you will understand why you need this book and I might add others.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Up and running on FCP in a week, March 18, 2005

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dangarrob "x" (Spain) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro for Avid Editors (Paperback)

If you are ever forced to quickly learn Final Cut pro for the odd job where Avid is not a viable option, or you want to start editing your on stuff on the cheap, buy this, read it and practise it for a week and you will be a Pro at Pro, knowing everything there is to know, at least, where to find it and whether it is doable or not. It is a book written by an Avid editor for Avid editors who have to go through the same learning curve. You can be very surprised going through it on how similar the two editing systems are and most of all, how quickly you can synthesise the information and make it second nature. I fervently recommend this book being so well written, going always to the point and covering everything properly.