Final Cut Express

This guide is for anyone who has a DV camera, Final Cut Express, a Macintosh and an idea for a digital film. The book is a creative, process-oriented tutorial on editing. It guides your project from the shoot all the way to the final tape mastering of your film.

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This guide is for anyone who has a DV camera, Final Cut Express, a Macintosh and an idea for a digital film. Your idea could be anything: a short documentary about your community, a home video, even a film that you need to make for school. Whatever it is, this book aims to help you make that idea a reality. Rather than simply providing a technical guide to the basic procedures and tools of Final Cut Express, this book is a creative, process-oriented tutorial on editing. It guides your project from the shoot all the way to the final tape mastering of your film. As you work through the tutorials, you'll find creative advice alongside technical considerations to help you add more editorial flourish to your film. The book also includes interviews with professional filmmakers discussing their first small-scale, independent films and revealing their secrets and mistakes. By learning what they did right and wrong, you should gain new insights for your own filmmaking.