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Working with Quartz Composer in Leopard. Tutorial: Basic Keyframing in Final Cut Express V. 1.0.1. Basic Keyframing in Final Cut Express V. 1.0.1 What is a Keyframe and what does it do? As the movie starts, the screen is black and all is quiet. Then, slowly, both the picture and background music begin to fade in. A television news broadcast tells a story and at a certain point a small picture depicting elements of the news story appears on screen in a small window, then disappears.

In Final Cut Express we have the ability to change elements of our video as it plays on the screen. Thus these changes will occur over time. Keyframing on the Timeline I have a clip in the Timeline, I want to fade in both the audio and the picture. From the lower left hand side of the TL, enlarge the TL so that you have some room to work (blue arrow right). Before we start to set Keyframes let's look at these level overlay lines. As you can see, pulling down the overlay line pulls down the line for the entire clip. 1. Keyframing audio in the Timeline can do more than simple fade in and outs. 1. 6. 8. 10. 1. Learn Final Cut Express 4 – Final Chapters. 10 Hot Tips: Getting the most out of Final Cut Express, Tom Wolsky. 4/5/2004 By: Tom Wolsky In Final Cut Express, Apple has created an ideal video editing package for schools. Based on the company’s Emmy-award winning Final Cut Pro software, Final Cut Express provides more power and capabilities than applications costing four times as much.

Don’t be fooled by Final Cut Express’s cheap price. For an academic price of $149, Final Cut Express offers a lot of bang for the buck. An enormous amount of power is tucked away inside Final Cut Express, not all of it readily apparent, nor as well documented as it should be. Here’s a collection of 10 tips and tricks that I hope will give you a glimpse of what this application is really capable of. Tip 1 Users of iMovie who make the jump up to Final Cut Express often miss iMovie 3’s great sound effects and wish they were available in Final Cut Express.

Begin by Control-clicking on the iMovie application icon in your Applications folder. Tip 2 First, use the View menu to change to Browser>as List. Tip 3 Tip 4. Importing iMovie Clips into FCE. Importing iMovie Clips into FCE Why should you want to import iMovie Clips into FCE ? I) in FCE you want to continue editing a project started in iMovie ii) in FCE you want to import a movie created with iMovie iii) in FCE you want to reuse some clips captured by iMovie iv) in FCE you want to be able to recover disk space used by no more needed captured media v) you use iMovie to capture simply because sometimes it is able to capture when FCE is not.

Case i) - How do I open an iMovie Project ? If you want to continue editing an iMovie project in FCE you must open the iMovie project in FCE , as advertised in the FCE 3.0 help manual (but the manual for the 3.5 version does not have that section any more...). Case ii) - How do I import a movie created with iMovie ? The procedure is very simple and always works, except for the limits of the .dv file format used by iMovie (se dedicated section below): 1. in iMovie use File > Export > QuickTime > Full Quality - this creates a self-contained .dv file. Final Cut Express - Resources. Titles final cut - How-To Videos & Articles.