The Focal Easy Guide Series

Focal Easy Guides are the best choice to get you started with new software, whatever your level. Refreshingly simple, they do not attempt to cover everything, focusing solely on the essentials needed to get immediate results.

Ideal if you need to learn a new software package quickly, the Focal Easy Guides offer an effective, time-saving introduction to the key tools, not hundreds of pages of confusing reference material. The emphasis is on quickly getting to grips with the software in a practical and accessible way to achieve professional results.

Highly illustrated in color, explanations are short and to the point. Written by professionals in a user-friendly style, the guides assume some computer knowledge and an understanding of the general concepts in the area covered, ensuring they aren’t patronizing!

Series editor: Rick Young (www.digitalproduction.net)

Director and Founding Member of the UK Final Cut User Group, Apple Solutions Expert and freelance television director/editor, Rick has worked for the BBC, Sky, ITN, CNBC and Reuters. Also a Final Cut Pro Consultant and author of the best-selling The Easy Guide to Final Cut Pro.

Titles in the series:

The Easy Guide to Final Cut Pro 3, Rick Young

The Focal Easy Guide to Final Cut Pro 4, Rick Young

The Focal Easy Guide to Final Cut Express, Rick Young

The Focal Easy Guide to Maya 5, Jason Patnode

The Focal Easy Guide to Discreet Combustion 3, Gary Davis

The Focal Easy Guide to Premiere Pro, Tim Kolb