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Final Cut Pro 7
A guide to Final Cut Pro 7 discusses the basics of video editing, along with instructions on advanced techniques, covering such topics as refining edit points, capturing and transferring footage, applying transitions, mixing audio tracks, and applying filters.
576 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 2009
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Diana Weynand
54 books1 followerHi there. I’m Diana Weynand, or Coach D. If you read my book, you know by now that I love football and I love to “carpe vita” – seize life – by following a clear set of principles and taking action on them. It’s my mission to empower people to mastermind their lives by doing the same thing using the LIPSTICK FOOTBALL Method.
I love writing, coaching, speaking and motivating groups—large and small, young and not as young. I'm a problem solver and I love the challenge of “cracking a marble” to break down a complex challenge, goal or project into actionable steps.
However challenging and messy it may be at times; love your life. As Helen Keller said, “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."
I choose adventure.
I love writing, coaching, speaking and motivating groups—large and small, young and not as young. I'm a problem solver and I love the challenge of “cracking a marble” to break down a complex challenge, goal or project into actionable steps.
However challenging and messy it may be at times; love your life. As Helen Keller said, “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."
I choose adventure.
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March 24, 2019
I found it very hard to read and rate this book because it bears little relation to the version of FCP on my college Macs even though I borrowed the book from the college library.
The first pages are all about loading clips into bins and nesting bins within bins and keeping filing orderly and renaming files. Whereas we were given a download of various clips, told how to import them and to get on with making a music video.
The book presents clips by file names and bin titles. We are recommended to practise on a film about orcas on the web, which clips are imported with word titles. The emphasis is all on keyboard shortcuts, none of which I have needed to know. Instead, our clips showed up immediately as visuals. Unless it was a sound file, which looked like wavelengths. The files showed their relative lengths and we could clip out a section, drag and drop it to the master file being made, with the mouse.
The book shows many coloured sections and options; our viewer is grey.
The book tells you to save work (with a keyboard shortcut) as you go along so you can leave it and come back. But in college you want to take your half-made film away for next week and wipe the computer. You don't want to make a master file that can't be unpicked. This never occurs to the book writers. The help screen of the FCP I am using does not explain how to do this; it promises a section on the drop-down File menu that does not exist. Googling the matter produced no right answer. After an hour of hitting every button and menu and tool (better and bigger labelling needed) I hit the arrow on the far mid right that gave an option to Save As a file and put it on the desktop for removal. On the good side, the Mac saves it as it goes along all by itself, so every time it crashes (about once a session) I can hope to find a version made in the last ten minutes.
The book does make me aware of fancy tricks like split screen which I have not tried. As I didn't find them on my version yet, they may not be there; or they may but not well labelled. Problems that showed up when I was using my version are not covered in the book that I saw. Like a master file being made with seven minutes of blank space added on the end.
If you are running the version of FCP this book relates to and you want to use keyboard shortcuts you may find it useful. The pages are cleanly laid out with colour photos. A friend is using free download DaVinci Resolve on her PC which says it can be run on MAC, PC or Linux and a file made on it can be transferred to FCP.
I borrowed this book from the Dublin Business School Library. This is an unbiased review.
The first pages are all about loading clips into bins and nesting bins within bins and keeping filing orderly and renaming files. Whereas we were given a download of various clips, told how to import them and to get on with making a music video.
The book presents clips by file names and bin titles. We are recommended to practise on a film about orcas on the web, which clips are imported with word titles. The emphasis is all on keyboard shortcuts, none of which I have needed to know. Instead, our clips showed up immediately as visuals. Unless it was a sound file, which looked like wavelengths. The files showed their relative lengths and we could clip out a section, drag and drop it to the master file being made, with the mouse.
The book shows many coloured sections and options; our viewer is grey.
The book tells you to save work (with a keyboard shortcut) as you go along so you can leave it and come back. But in college you want to take your half-made film away for next week and wipe the computer. You don't want to make a master file that can't be unpicked. This never occurs to the book writers. The help screen of the FCP I am using does not explain how to do this; it promises a section on the drop-down File menu that does not exist. Googling the matter produced no right answer. After an hour of hitting every button and menu and tool (better and bigger labelling needed) I hit the arrow on the far mid right that gave an option to Save As a file and put it on the desktop for removal. On the good side, the Mac saves it as it goes along all by itself, so every time it crashes (about once a session) I can hope to find a version made in the last ten minutes.
The book does make me aware of fancy tricks like split screen which I have not tried. As I didn't find them on my version yet, they may not be there; or they may but not well labelled. Problems that showed up when I was using my version are not covered in the book that I saw. Like a master file being made with seven minutes of blank space added on the end.
If you are running the version of FCP this book relates to and you want to use keyboard shortcuts you may find it useful. The pages are cleanly laid out with colour photos. A friend is using free download DaVinci Resolve on her PC which says it can be run on MAC, PC or Linux and a file made on it can be transferred to FCP.
I borrowed this book from the Dublin Business School Library. This is an unbiased review.
June 27, 2020
Good one
May 22, 2012
Very informative, though the uni's disc that came with this was scratched and I found some areas of the book hard to follow. Still I've learnt enough that I feel a lot more comfortable with the software. :)
October 2, 2014
About as good as you are going to get for fcp7. A few quirks-not quite mistakes but not 100% accurate. Designed to help you pass the apple expert test so probably not that useful not that we have fcpx.
December 30, 2010
An excellent guide with real world footage from TV's Leverage and several documentaries.
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