- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 2 The Hardware and Software for Firewire DV Editing with Final Cut Pro
- What goes on inside a Macintosh
- The processor and the motherboard of the Macintosh Minitower
- The Macintosh Operating Software (Mac OS)
- Data storage: RAM and hard drives
- RAM
- Hard drives
- Types of drive by location: removable disk
- Types of drive by location: the internal drive
- Types of drive by location: the external drive
- Types of drive by standard: ATA, IDE, or EIDE
- Types of drive by standard: SCSI
- Types of drive by standard: Firewire
- Types of drive by standard: USB
- The Input and Output Buses
- Checking the pieces: the Apple System Profiler
- Installing Final Cut Pro software
- Chapter 3 The Initial Setup: Optimizing the Mac OS and Final Cut Pro
- The Control Panels
- The Preferences
- Scratch disk assignment: Follow the next steps precisely
- The audio/video settings
- Issues involved in the audio/video settings
- The Summary tab
- The Sequence Presets tab
- Using Duplicate for a settings preset
- The QuickTime Video Settings
- The QuickTime Audio Settings
- Return to the Sequence Presets tab
- Capture Presets tab
- The QuickTime Video Settings
- The QuickTime Audio Settings
- Device Control Presets
- Creating the Easy Setup: After this initial configuration
- Chapter 4 Project Setup: Do It Right the First Time and Every Time
- Why we do it right every time
- The process
- Backing up; Archiving your project
- The Windows of Final Cut Pro
- Moving a clip around the windows
- What is Media and how do I get it into Final Cut Pro?
- Log and Capture
- Logging and Capturing
- Logging and Capturing as a Batch Capture
- Capture Now
- Importing media
- Organize your project for media
- Chapter 5 What Is Editing?
- What is editing?
- Working in the Viewer window
- Drag and Drop to the Sequence: Insert and Overwrite
- Drag and drop to the Canvas: Insert and Overwrite with a Transition
- More about transitions
- Trimming those edits
- The easiest trimming technique
- More trimming precision: the Trim Edit window
- The Timeline and the Toolbar, a deadly duo
- The Toolbar
- Master clips and subclips
- Chapter 6 Compositing and Special Effects
- What exactly is compositing?
- Compositing layers
- Mattes, masks, and stencils
- Travel Matte-Luma
- The Travel Matte-Alpha
- Special effects: motion effects
- Motion for clips
- The clip motion attributes
- Pan and Scan for large images
- Rotation
- Center
- Anchor Point
- Crop Settings
- Distort
- Opacity
- Drop Shadow
- Motion Blur
- Making the motion
- Preparing the project for the motion settings exercise
- Setting Scale keyframes
- Setting Rotation keyframes
- Setting the Center parameter
- Looking at the initial motion
- Setting the Anchor Point keyframes
- Setting the Distort attribute
- Setting the Opacity attribute
- Setting the Drop Shadow attribute
- Applying nonlinear interpolation techniques
- Adjusting the motion path using Ease In/Ease Out
- Adjusting the other attributes and parameters using smooth curves
- Applying motion blur
- Speed and duration
- Effects filters
- Nesting
- Chapter 7 Getting Your Project out of Final Cut Pro
- Epilogue
Final Cut Pro 2 for
FireWire DV Editing
Charles Roberts
OXFORD • AUCKLAND • BOSTON • JOHANNESBURG • MELBOURNE • NEW DELHI
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