num_pages: 600
description: This task-based guide has been revised to cover the latest version of Apple's consumer-level video editing, effects, and compositing software! Built around the same interface as its Emmy Award-winning big brother, Final Cut Pro, and updated with a slew of powerful new features, Apple's Final Cut Express 2 ($299; upgrade, $99) is the digital video editing application for the rest of everyone who wants to make sophisticated, compelling videos using the tools and workflow of the pros but without investing heavily in training or equipment. This concise yet complete task-based reference by digital video expert Lisa Brenneis uses loads of illustrations and valuable professional advice to show Final Cut Express users how to edit video; apply special effects and transitions; master the program's compositing, titling, and audio tools; and output their finished work. Readers will also learn to use Final Cut Express 2's new real-time effects and transition preview, enhanced audio editing capabilities, real-time color correction tools, dynamic and asymmetrical trimming, and much more.
language: English
title: Final Cut Express 2 for Mac OS X
titlecomplete: Final Cut Express 2 for Mac OS X (Visual QuickStart Guide)
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Peachpit Press