Easy Guide to Final Cut Pro 3: For new users and professionals (The Focal Easy Guide) [Paperback]

Rick Young (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 31, 2002 | Series: The Focal Easy Guide

In this highly visual, full colour book Rick Young covers all the essential areas: set-up, capture, editing, sound mixing and print to video. Start cutting immediately, whatever you edit, whatever the format. An ideal introduction for professionals, new users and real-world film makers who want to get the best results from Final Cut Pro.

Rick Young (www.digitalproduction.net) is a freelance television director and editor with many years of broadcast experience.

* Save time, learn all you need to know to edit professionally with FCP3 fast!

* Clear and consice coverage, written for FCP3 but relevant to all versions

* Ideal for professionals, new users and those migrating to FCP from other editing systems.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"The Easy Guide to Final Cut Pro is very much a 'handbook', a 'primer' if you will. Short, clear and to the point. It provides an excellent quick introduction into FCP editing. It will get you up and running on FCP in short order."
Ken Stone (www.kenstone.net), Los Angeles FCP user group

"... this book is a must... for the advanced user and novice editor alike."
Peter Hall, Editor of Media 100

"Your book is terrific! I've read it from cover to cover and only wished I had bought it before I attempted anything on FCP."
Peter Demetris, television director

"It's made Final Cut Pro so much easier"
Gary Williams, Video Producer


"It's like a bible that sits on top of my G4"
George Robertson, Independent filmmaker

"I bought a number of books on using final cut pro and found this book to be the clearest, best-written of them all. When I have questions, I always turn to this book first. It's a fairly short book (130 pages), but it's all great info with very good images."
Online bookshop customer review, 8 June 2003

"If you have just purchased Final Cut Pro 3 and don't fancy wading through the three manuals that came with it, then this book will come as a pleasant surprise."
www.monroevideo.co.uk

About the Author

Director and Founding Member of the UK Final Cut Pro User Group and an Apple Solutions Expert. A freelance television director and editor with many years of broadcast experience, including work for the BBC, Sky, ITN, CNBC and Reuters. Also a Final Cut Pro Consultant, Rick has attended numerous UK and US exhibitions, is a liaison to the US FCP user groups, and author of the best-selling, The Focal Easy Guide to Final Cut Pro 6.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Focal Press; 1 edition (October 31, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0240519205
• ISBN-13: 978-0240519203
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,571,484 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Get Started Guide, June 8, 2003

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This review is from: Easy Guide to Final Cut Pro 3: For new users and professionals (The Focal Easy Guide) (Paperback)

I bought a number of books on using final cut pro and found this book to be the clearest, best-written of them all. When I have questions, I always turn to this book first. It's a fairly short book (130 pages), but it's all great info with very good images.