Final Cut Pro Editing Course

A Complete Course on DVD-ROM

Final Cut Pro Foundations is the exceptional editing course. It guides you through every step of the Final Cut Pro editing process from organizing projects through capture, basic editing and fine-tuning to exporting the final project for delivery in the highest possible quality. Complete with student project files, Final Cut Pro Foundations is the best Final Cut Pro training. This training course was designed by the training company Apple chose to help launch Final Cut Pro with training on disc, in workshops in over 60 cities and all major trade shows.

During the course, you’ll edit together "Mr. Right", a short comedic tale of revenge and intrigue that steps users through editing a real world project incorporating many editing techniques and challenges that may arise in any project.

You’ll learn the easiest way to perform essential editing operations as well as a constant stream of precious and valuable secrets, tips, tricks, timesavers and techniques that will greatly improve the quality of your future projects and your editing experience.

• the best way to set up your editing system
• how to organize your project for a fast and efficient workflow
• the most important keyboard shortcuts and timesaving tips
• the fastest way to capture your video
• using matched action edits to create a seamless edit
• how to fine-tune the timing and flow of your edit with the ripple tool
• the right way to use Final Cut’s title tool
• setting up real time extreme to avoid redlining and rendering while editing
• how to avoid out of sync video and audio
• finding audio peaks and an awesome secret for getting location sound without distortion
• how to export Quicktime movies with pristine quality for DVD or the web- the quality difference will knock your socks off!
• what to do after your project’s finished to free up space on your drives yet still be ready to re-edit if needed

Final Cut Pro Foundations is presented in the context of completing a real world project. So, when working on your own projects, you’ll immediately be able to put what you’ve learned to work.

The course is mostly designed for new users, with material that will be familiar to anyone who has editing with Final Cut Pro for a while. However, any editor who has not yet attained the mastery of Final Cut Pro they desire will find going through the whole course from the beginning will improve their understanding of Final Cut Pro and the editing process in general.
We guarantee that in the constant stream of cool tips, shortcuts and secrets, you’ll learn at least a few new tricks that will help you in every project you edit.

An excellent DVD for beginners. Any school using Final Cut Pro as its edit system should purchase this course to get students up to speed quickly. A Strong Buy Recommendation. - Stephen Schleicher

And, there are some sections, for example, on exporting, or media mangement, that could be worth the price of this course all by themselves even for very experienced editors. For example, if you only learned how to make your exported files look 1000% better than they do now, is that worth $59?

Final Cut Pro Course Outline

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