- Exporting Still Images from Final Cut Pro
- Feb 18, 2009
- So how do you export a still frame from Final Cut? Tom Wolsky shows you how and also alerts you to a number of gotchas to avoid along the way.
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- Extend Your Wireless Network and Play Tunes with AirPort Express
- Jan 27, 2006
- With her AirPort Express, Maria Langer has figured out a way to get some phenomenal sound from some of that ancient Mac equipment collecting dust in her living room (along with the more modern stuff, of course).
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- Filmmaking 101: Anatomy of a Final Cut Express Project
- Apr 29, 2008
- Before you can make movie magic, it helps to understand how your editing program organizes and manipulates all of those sequences and clips you've been shooting. In this sample chapter from Final Cut Express 4 Visual QuickStart Guide, author Lisa Brenneis shows you how to manage a well-organized project in Final Cut Express.
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- Final Cut Express Presets and Preferences
- Jul 21, 2006
- This chapter explains Easy Setups—FCE's streamlined configuration feature—and then walks you through your preference options in the User Preferences and System Settings windows.
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- Final Cut Pro 4 Organization and Basic Editing
- Dec 23, 2003
- Digital editing pioneer Jerry Hoffman shows how to get your elements in order and start editing with Final Cut Pro 4.
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- Final Cut Pro for Avid Editors: Customizing Your Project
- Nov 17, 2006
- This 45-minute lesson takes a look at where and how to adjust your settings in Final Cut Pro. You'll learn how to select an editing preset, change audio/video settings, select user preferences, and more. This chapter also covers bin organization and describes storyboard editing, which is performed largely by working within a bin.
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- Final Cut Pro for Avid Editors: Speed and Motion Effects
- Mar 29, 2011
- By using a hybrid approach to building composites, you will learn how to scale, position, crop, distort an image’s perspective, and even set keyframes, all directly on the sequence clip in the Canvas.
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- Final Cut Pro for Avid Editors: Trimming Clips
- Mar 9, 2011
- Diana Weynand covers the basic Avid approach to trimming and shows how to perform those same functions in Final Cut Pro.
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- Final Cut Pro Power Skills: Working in the Application
- Nov 16, 2009
- Based on how well you understand the Final Cut Pro interface, it can determine whether we are happy or frustrated, productive or panicking. Larry Jordan offers dozens of Power Skills you can use to turn yourself into an interface master.
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- Final Cut Pro Power Tip: Applying Transitions to Multiple Clips in One Track
- Apr 14, 2006
- Larry Jordan knows the trick for applying transitions to multiple Final Cut Pro clips simultaneously. Amazingly, he's willing to share the secret!
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- Final Cut Pro Power Tip: Changing the Default Transition
- Mar 10, 2006
- There’s nothing wrong with the default video transition in Final Cut Pro, except that it’s too long. Boring! Larry Jordan shows you how to change the default into your favorite transition and make it accessible with a keyboard shortcut.
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- Final Cut Pro Power Tip: Creating a Compressor Droplet
- Mar 17, 2006
- Apple's Compressor application makes compressing video files easy, but Larry Jordan knows a way to hurry up that process. Create a "droplet" with your favorite formatting, and you can compress a file with drag-and-drop speed.
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- Final Cut Pro Power Tip: Creating a Glow Behind Text
- Mar 24, 2006
- The outline text generator in Final Cut Pro has to be the ugliest thing since the invention of ducklings. But Larry Jordan explains how to turn it into a swan of beauty with just a little tinkering.
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- Final Cut Pro Power Tip: Keeping Files Under Control with Render Manager
- Apr 7, 2006
- Render files eat disk space surprisingly quickly. But with your Final Cut Pro files and folders set up according to Larry Jordan's advice, you can use the Render Manager to recover that lost space in a trice. (Maybe even half a trice!)
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- Final Cut Pro Power Tip: Setting a Position Keyframe in LiveType
- Apr 21, 2006
- The beauty of LiveType is that you can create dazzling text animation without a single keyframe. Larry Jordan shows the control that's possible when you start adding keyframes.
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- Final Cut Pro Transitions and Effects
- May 16, 2003
- Final Cut Pro has numerous transitions and effects. Diana Weynand explores their creation in this article.
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- Final Cut Pro X Advanced Editing: Working with Sound
- May 29, 2012
- Final Cut Pro X contains an impressive number of ways to improve your video’s sound. It has tools to set the audio levels to a uniform, accurate volume; multiple methods to create audio fades and four fade styles; intuitive controls for panning sound between speakers, in both stereo and surround sound environments; and much more. Learn how to work with sounds in Final Cut Pro X in this chapter from Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro X Advanced Editing.
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- Final Cut Pro X: Visual QuickStart Guide: Marking Clips
- Jan 19, 2012
- This chapter will cover different ways of identifying, selecting, and highlighting bits of clips in Final Cut Pro X.
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- Final Cut Pro: First Things First
- Mar 14, 2003
- Follow Michael Rubin through a personal tour of Final Cut Pro and get comfortable with its interface and navigation.
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- Five Best New Features of Adobe® After Effects® CS5
- Jun 15, 2010
- Rob Birnholz and Ian Robinson, contributing authors to Motion Graphics with Adobe Creative Suite 5 Studio Techniques, take a break to discuss their top five favorite new features of Adobe After Effects CS5. Whether you use After Effects for hard-core compositing or you’re a designer looking to push your projects to the next level, there’s something new for everyone.
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