Final Cut Studio Resource Center
The Final Cut Studio suite puts Final Cut Pro 7 at the center of an integrated post-production workflow that includes Motion 4, Soundtrack Pro 3, Color 1.5, Compressor 3.5, and DVD Studio Pro 4. Whether you're a new user learning Final Cut Studio from scratch or a seasoned video pro taking your skills to the next level, Peachpit has just the book for you.
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Cut a scene from the TNT television series Leverage, create a promo for SeaWorld’s Believe documentary, master effects as you edit a segment of Playing for Change. You’ll learn to mark and edit clips, mix sound, add titles, create transitions, and more. Sample Tutorial: Trimming: The Fine Points |
This complete guide shows you how to harness Motion’s behavior-based animations, particles, filters, effects, keying, tracking, and 3D capabilities to create professional animations, show opens, promos, text treatments, and more. Sample Tutorial: Creating Animation with Behaviors |
This guide to color grading and finishing starts with the basics of color correction in Final Cut Pro 7 and moves on to the fine points of secondary grading in Color 1.5 including scene matching, isolating regions, and creating advanced color effects. Sample Tutorial: Introduction to Color |
Learn to author professional DVDs with this best-selling guide. You'll create tracks, set chapter markers, build still and motion menus, add subtitles, and more. Includes handling multiple audio tracks and camera angles, creating transitions and overlays, and scripting. Sample Tutorial: Creating Menus |
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Your guide to audio post-production with Final Cut Pro 7 and Soundtrack 3. You’ll master audio restoration and clean-up, build and edit multitrack projects, record and edit voice-overs and narration, and experiment with advanced mixing and effects. Sample Tutorial: Creating a Sound Mix |
Whether you’re distributing dailies, authoring a DVD, or prepping video clips for the Web, Compressor is essential for creating quality digital content. Author Brian Gary teaches you real-world techniques for audio and video compression, batch-encoding, test-clip workflows, and more. Sample Tutorial: Encoding and Delivery |
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Veteran system integrator Drew Tucker covers everything from tools for tracking, reviewing, and approving jobs to automating complex sequences of tasks in a busy post environment. Save hours on post-production jobs by adapting the model workflows. |
The RED ONE™ digital cinema camera made it possible to record stunning, cinematic-quality images with an affordable camera. Here to guide newcomers and RED veterans alike, filmmaker Noah Kadner explains how to use the camera in a production environment and make sense of the various options in post. Sample Tutorial: RED Camera Workflow with Apple Final Cut Pro 7 |
An undisputed master of the digital video medium, Lisa Brenneis once again demystifies the complexities of Final Cut Pro with her straightforward approach, using tasked-based, step-by-step instructions and loads of visuals and time-saving tips. Sample Tutorial: Basic Editing |
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Ideal for students and editors on the go, this is the quick look-up guide you’ve been hunting for. Veteran trainer Brendan Boykin uses clear, concise explanations and an easy-to-use format to put the essential techniques, most-used tools, and most-efficient workflows at your fingertips. A compendium of Final Cut Pro best practices, tips, and quick-glance reminders, plus a great summary of what’s new in Final Cut Pro 7. |
Designed as a desktop companion for both editors and motion graphics artists, this is the perfect at-a-glance guide to Motion 4. Master trainer Jem Schofield delivers a crash course on how Motion thinks, and meticulously guides you through the essential techniques and tools for designing animation, motion graphics, visual effects, and 3D graphics in a concise look-up format. |
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This Apple-authorized guide delivers hard-to-find advanced editing and finishing techniques. Director and editor Michael Wohl shows how to create polished transitions, fix screen direction errors, edit multi-camera projects, work with nested sequences, create fantastic effects, use filters creatively, and composite like a pro. |
This updated Apple-certified guide shows you how to record, edit, mix, and polish music files. Veteran music producer David Nahmani’s step-by-step instructions teach you everything from basic music creation to advanced production techniques using Logic’s software synthesizers, samplers, and digital signal processors. |
You have the basics of Final Cut Pro down and now you need to work faster and more efficiently in the program. With more than 600 focused techniques and shortcuts, this book gives you what you need to know to blaze through your projects and work smarter in Final Cut Pro. |
David Dvorin uses project-based tutorials to guide you through real-world production tasks, revealing Logic’s secrets along the way. |
On a Mac, the sky's the limit for creating professional video, but which tools offer the best solutions for combined efficiency and high-level results? The real-world examples and projects in this book show you the whole process of making professional video on a Mac, from storyboarding through final output. |
