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Final Cut Pro is the only nonlinear editing tool available that supports the entire range of editing formats. Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro is broken up into a collection of hands-on seminars that focus on teaching a specific aspect of Final Cut Pro. Dealing with version 4, each seminar begins with a lesson that covers the concepts and techniques contained in that seminar. Hofmann then guides the reader step-by-step by applying those concepts and techniques to edit an award winning short film, The Midnight Sun. With this book, users will learn to convert footage from many different sources, manage their footage, edit the content, adjust sound, and output to different sources. If the reader chooses to work through the book cover-to-cover, they will put together an entire short film that includes basic editing, audio, compositing, and various effects. However, if readers just wishes to learn a specific aspect of Final Cut Pro, they will be able to go right to the seminar that covers it, open the source files from the DVD, and pick it right up.
From the Inside Flap
"FCP is not hard to learn but it is complex and Jerry takes this complex subject and guides you gently and with humor through the many obstacles you might encounter if you had not read this book. It's not enough to just tell us how to use the new tools in FCP 4. Where this book shines is in the telling of WHY we 'make the cut.'"
Michael Horton
President, Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group (lafcpug)
"No other book that I have read deals with so many facets of Final Cut Pro while allowing editors to maintain their own workflow by working on one project throughout the book. New editors will be able to establish their own editing style, while experienced ones will be able to see the new features within a realistic context. In all honesty, I can’t recommend any other book that would better address this subject. Jerry’s is one of the first to address Final Cut Pro 4, and even if there were several other entries, Jerry’s reputation and use of a single project as the example for all topics would make this book the obvious choice for learning Final Cut Pro 4."
Christopher Boldon
Filmmaker and Apple Computer instructor
"As an FCP instructor, teaching comes naturally to Jerry (I've seen this phenomenon happen in person where we've instructed at industry-related conferences) and his abilities to convey tangible information carry out into this book quite well."
Marco Solorio
Owner, OneRiver Media
"As an instructor, I would recommend this book to my students primarily because of the DVD dailies. Students, assistant editors, and amateur filmmakers can now afford the tools, but cannot find the material with which to work. This book provides the assistance to get started and the material to practice."
Michael Knue, A.C.E.
Instructor, Department of Entertainment Studies, UCLA
"The book provides a good mix of being both a reference book for commands and preferences, and a tutorial book with the follow-along editing project. None of the books I currently own covering previous versions of FCP offer this mix successfully."
Rob Chinn
Leader, Indianapolis Final Cut Pro User Group
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