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

Rick Young (Author)
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The Focal Easy Guide November 20, 2003
This highly illustrated, full color book tells you all you need to know to get up and running quickly using Apple's new digital video editing application - Final Cut Express. Rick Young shares his professional insight to ensure you get the most out of all the pro-level tools, offered at a very affordable price by Express.

All the essential areas are covered: set-up; capture; editing; multi-channel sound mixing; effects creation and print to video, web or DVD, enhanced throughout by important workflow tips. This is an ideal first read, whatever you want to edit in Final Cut Express, at whatever level, as this powerful package is the answer to all your digital video needs, presenting a complete, easy to use digital laboratory for your movie creation.

Rick Young (www.digitalproduction.net) is 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 Easy Guide to Final Cut Pro'.

* Achieve excellent results - fast! - with Express through Rick Young's expert teaching
* Clear and concise color coverage helps you explore the full power of the program
* Ideal for editors who want to learn how to push their skills to a professional level with this new, affordable package


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From the author of the best-selling Easy Guide to Final Cut Pro 3!

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This highly illustrated, full color book tells you all you need to know to get up and running quickly using Apple's new digital video editing application - Final Cut Express. Rick young shares his professional insight to ensure you get the most out of all the pro-level tools, offered at a very affordable price by Express.

All the essential areas are covered: set-up; capture; editing; multi-channel sound mixing; effects creation and print to video, web or DVD, enhanced throughout by important workflow tips. This is an ideal first read, whatever you want to edit in Final Cut Express, at whatever level, as this powerful package is the answer to all your digital video needs, presenting a complete, easy to use digital laboratory for your movie creation.

Rick Young (www.digitalproduction.net) is 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 Easy Guide to Final Cut Pro'.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Focal Press; 1 edition (November 20, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0240519469
  • ISBN-13: 978-0240519463
  • Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.7 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #758,672 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Brief but Best!, June 13, 2008
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This review is from: Focal Easy Guide to Final Cut Express: For new users and professionals (The Focal Easy Guide) (Paperback)
Rick Young's Final Cut Express guide is the best I've found, and I've checked out half a dozen. His breezy, informative style is simple, clear and comfortable. Text is profusely illustrated with specific, detailed graphics shown nearby, often within the same paragraph, which greatly enhances learning.
As a novice to this particular nonlinear video editing system, with a background in others, I found the book of great value. While I wish Mr. Young would offer an updated edition covering FCE's recent advances, I think the book is a better guide to the basics -- four years later -- than current books I've seen. I recommend it to video editors of any experience levels who want to learn Apple's Final Cut Express.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Good book for beginners, February 24, 2004
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Loved the book. Got me started quickly and easily. Would recommend it to anybody.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Best Little Book on Using Final Cut, September 20, 2009
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While there are certainly longer, more detailed books on how to use Final Cut, as a new user I found this little book the most helpful, and, indeed, easy to use. If you buy only one book for the basics on Final Cut, this is the one to buy!
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