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Final Cut Express - Resources

Final Cut Express - Resources

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.

iLife - Do more with photos, movies, and music on a Mac. 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. 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 A key feature to using Final Cut Express efficiently is to work with DV Start/Stop Detection. First, use the View menu to change to Browser>as List. If you switch back to Icon view from the View menu, each of the clips appears as a separate shot with a new Poster frame, the first frame of the clip. Tip 3 What makes Final Cut a powerful editing tool is the great precision with which you can position, control, and edit your material. Tip 4 Tip 5 Tip 6 Tip 7 Presto! Tip 8 Tip 9

Downloads - Video - iShowU HD Pro 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.

Preference Manager for Final Cut Studio - Trash Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Pro Preferences - Restore and backup Preference Manager allows you to manage preference files for Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Express, Final Cut Pro X, Avid Media Composer, Avid Symphony, Adobe Creative Suite / Creative Cloud, Logic Pro X and Pro Tools for Mac. Preference files store information about user preferences, window layouts, toolbar placements and launch settings. Sometimes these can become corrupted, causing problems. Preference Manager allows you to trash corrupted preferences and keep backups of working preference files in order to quickly restore your settings. For comprehensive maintenance and troubleshooting of your editing system, download Pro Maintenance Tools.

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