With our Final Cut Pro 7 training, you'll learn to use Final Cut Pro powerful and precise editing tools to create content in any format from DV and native HDV to fully uncompressed HD. Final Cut Pro gives you more creative options than ever before, and your host Tom Wolsky will help you master the software.
REVIEW:
“This is by far the best training series that I have seen for Final Cut Pro. I’m a huge advocate for the ‘Apple Pro Training Series’ but this is a step up from that and with the expertise of Tom Wolsky is, hands down, first-rate training. If you are serious about editing — meaning if you bought a Mac and Final Cut Pro — this is an essential tool to have in your kit to make you a better, more efficient and even professional editor. Get this DVD now and thank me later.”
— Andy Coon, FCProducer.com Read the full review >>
ABOUT TOM WOLSKY:
Tom Wolsky is on the Board of Directors of the Digital Media Academy, for whom he is an instructor in Final Cut Pro at their Stanford University summer program. Tom is an internationally know guru on Final Cut, the author of five Final Cut instructional books, and an active presence on a number of online forums. Having developed video journalism curriculum for Apple Computer, Tom also does professional development training and teaches in schools around the country.
LESSONS:
1. Optimizing your System
2. Interface
3. Quick Start
4. Interface Details
4.1 Opening a Project
4.2 Browser
4.3 Viewer
4.4 Timeline 5. Customizing
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Windows
5.3 Track Layout
5.4 Keyboard
5.5 Buttons 6. Editing:
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Marking Clips
6.3 Editing Clips
6.4 Editing in the Timeline 7. Enhancing the Edit
7.1 Adding B-roll
7.2 Replace Edits
7.3 Autoselect buttons 8. Storyboard editing
9. Trimming
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Rippling
9.3 Double sided edits, Roll, Slip and Slide
9.4 Shuffle Edits
9.5 Trim Edit Window 10. Understanding Clips
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Masters and Affiliates
10.3 Subclips
10.4 Match Frame
10.5 Markers 11. Settings and Preferences
11.1 Introduction
11.2 User Preferences
11.3 System Settings
11.4 Audio/Video Settings 12. Ingesting
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Log and Capture
12.3 Log and Transfer
12.4 Importing Audio 13. Audio
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Adjusting Levels
13.3 Normalization
13.4 Audio Mixing
13.5 Voice Over: 14. Transitions
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Applying Transitions
14.3 Rendering
14.4 Alpha Transitions 15. Titles
15.1 Introduction
15.2 Basic Titles
15.3 Boris Titles
15.4 Motion Templates 16. Motion Effects
16.1 Introduction
16.2 In the Canvas
16.3 Nesting 17. Speed
17.1 Introduction
17.2 Constant Speed
17.3 Freeze Frame
17.4 Fit to Fill
17.5 Variable Speed 18. iChat Theater
19. Multicam editing
20. Filters
20.1 Introduction
20.2 Applying Filters
20.3 Animating Filters
20.4 Color Correction
20.5 SmoothCam 21. Compositing
21.1 Introduction
21.2 Opacity
21.3 Composite Modes
21.4 Keying
21.5 Garbage Matte
21.6 Travel Matte 22. Media Manager
23. Outputting
23.1 Introduction
23.2 Render and Mixdown
23.3 Output to Tape
23.4 Exporting from FCP
23.5 Sharing
APPROX. TOTAL RUN TIME:5 HRS.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS :
• Mac OS X or higher
• Apple Final Cut Pro 7 software
• DVD-ROM drive
• Speakers
• 1024x768 or higher display
• Media files included so you can follow along
