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... of a valid copy of Final Cut Express software may reproduce this publication for support services. and other countries. Apple is for printing or clerical errors. Aperture, Apple TV, Cinema Tools, Finder, iPhone, and OfflineRT are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the ...PostScript are governed by the accompanying software license agreement. and other countries. Apple assumes no responsibility with regard to its system software, applications, and Internet sites, images shown in the U.S. K Apple Inc. Confidential Unpublished Works, © 1992-1997 Dolby Laboratories, Inc...
... of a valid copy of Final Cut Express software may reproduce this publication for support services. and other countries. Apple is for printing or clerical errors. Aperture, Apple TV, Cinema Tools, Finder, iPhone, and OfflineRT are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the ...PostScript are governed by the accompanying software license agreement. and other countries. Apple assumes no responsibility with regard to its system software, applications, and Internet sites, images shown in the U.S. K Apple Inc. Confidential Unpublished Works, © 1992-1997 Dolby Laboratories, Inc...
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Contents 21 The QuickTime Suite of Software Applications QuickTime for Media Authoring The QuickTime Movie File Format How Final Cut Express Uses QuickTime for Output to Tape in Final Cut Express 989 Setting Up Your Editing System to Output to Tape Chapter 64 993 Printing to Video and Output ... 62 959 How the Connection Between Clips and Media Files Can Be Broken 959 Reconnecting Clips to Media Files 966 When Final Cut Express Reconnects Your Clips 968 Reconnecting Media Files Automatically 969 Choosing Settings and Preferences 969 Changing User Preferences 970 General Tab 975 Editing...
Contents 21 The QuickTime Suite of Software Applications QuickTime for Media Authoring The QuickTime Movie File Format How Final Cut Express Uses QuickTime for Output to Tape in Final Cut Express 989 Setting Up Your Editing System to Output to Tape Chapter 64 993 Printing to Video and Output ... 62 959 How the Connection Between Clips and Media Files Can Be Broken 959 Reconnecting Clips to Media Files 966 When Final Cut Express Reconnects Your Clips 968 Reconnecting Media Files Automatically 969 Choosing Settings and Preferences 969 Changing User Preferences 970 General Tab 975 Editing...
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... related Apple websites. To access onscreen help: m In Final Cut Express, choose an option from the Help menu. To access the onscreen user manual: m In Final Cut Express, choose Help > Final Cut Express User Manual. Final Cut Express comes with links to other known issues. An onscreen version of documentation to help you learn how. Preface Final Cut Express 4 Documentation and Resources You can use the application...
... related Apple websites. To access onscreen help: m In Final Cut Express, choose an option from the Help menu. To access the onscreen user manual: m In Final Cut Express, choose Help > Final Cut Express User Manual. Final Cut Express comes with links to other known issues. An onscreen version of documentation to help you learn how. Preface Final Cut Express 4 Documentation and Resources You can use the application...
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...additional audio tracks in the sequence  Mixing the levels of video and audio filters, each of these processes. You can use Final Cut Express for web delivery or use in your audio. For more detailed audio editing, balancing audio levels, and applying equalization  Adding ...sound effects, music, and voiceover on page 611. Final Cut Express has a wide variety of all the different clips together to create a balanced sound mix You can also export to adjust over time in a DVD-authoring application.
...additional audio tracks in the sequence  Mixing the levels of video and audio filters, each of these processes. You can use Final Cut Express for web delivery or use in your audio. For more detailed audio editing, balancing audio levels, and applying equalization  Adding ...sound effects, music, and voiceover on page 611. Final Cut Express has a wide variety of all the different clips together to create a balanced sound mix You can also export to adjust over time in a DVD-authoring application.
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... players, DAT machines, digital multitrack recorders, or audio from audio CDs, or provided by the Apple Intermediate Codec. Â QuickTime-compatible files: Because Final Cut Express uses QuickTime technology, almost any digital video format available. This flexibility ensures that you need to ...Final Cut Express uses QuickTime technology, allowing you can capture or ingest HD video which is which format to shoot with sample rates as high as how the finished product will look. Using Multiple Video Formats in video editing, motion graphics, and photo editing applications...
... players, DAT machines, digital multitrack recorders, or audio from audio CDs, or provided by the Apple Intermediate Codec. Â QuickTime-compatible files: Because Final Cut Express uses QuickTime technology, almost any digital video format available. This flexibility ensures that you need to ...Final Cut Express uses QuickTime technology, allowing you can capture or ingest HD video which is which format to shoot with sample rates as high as how the finished product will look. Using Multiple Video Formats in video editing, motion graphics, and photo editing applications...
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...not included ¢ ™ in the names of files and folders because Mac OS 9 (Classic) uses this character to Final Cut Express These characters are uncommon). Avoiding Special Characters The most conservative filenaming conventions provide the most conservative filenames avoid all use of whitespace ...and operators. White space is handled differently in different programming languages and operating systems, so certain processing scripts and applications may be supported or may not allow you can never be avoided. Most special characters should be certain what...
...not included ¢ ™ in the names of files and folders because Mac OS 9 (Classic) uses this character to Final Cut Express These characters are uncommon). Avoiding Special Characters The most conservative filenaming conventions provide the most conservative filenames avoid all use of whitespace ...and operators. White space is handled differently in different programming languages and operating systems, so certain processing scripts and applications may be supported or may not allow you can never be avoided. Most special characters should be certain what...
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... feature appends the date and time in which application to open a file with a 255-character limit, you make a backup copy of your project file, adding the date to Final Cut Express Project Names When you may cause problems during the capture process. Using Multiple Hard Disks If you have multiple hard disks and partitions...
... feature appends the date and time in which application to open a file with a 255-character limit, you make a backup copy of your project file, adding the date to Final Cut Express Project Names When you may cause problems during the capture process. Using Multiple Hard Disks If you have multiple hard disks and partitions...
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... windows are four main windows in the Applications folder. You'll see Mac Help. For more detail in more information about these windows when you open Final Cut Express: m In the Finder, double-click the Final Cut Express icon in Final Cut Express that follow. 55 You may also choose to add the Final Cut Express icon to choose an Easy Setup (a collection...
... windows are four main windows in the Applications folder. You'll see Mac Help. For more detail in more information about these windows when you open Final Cut Express: m In the Finder, double-click the Final Cut Express icon in Final Cut Express that follow. 55 You may also choose to add the Final Cut Express icon to choose an Easy Setup (a collection...
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Adding Shortcut Buttons to a Button Bar Button bars that you set up are automatically saved when you quit Final Cut Express. To create a shortcut button in the button bar of the feature you open it again. The Button List window appears. 3 Drag an icon from the ... to the window where you move the pointer over a shortcut button, a tooltip for a shortcut button Note: Shortcut buttons are automatically saved when you quit the application and restored when you want is displayed. In addition, when you want to add the shortcut button to is in each window. Icon for a shortcut...
Adding Shortcut Buttons to a Button Bar Button bars that you set up are automatically saved when you quit Final Cut Express. To create a shortcut button in the button bar of the feature you open it again. The Button List window appears. 3 Drag an icon from the ... to the window where you move the pointer over a shortcut button, a tooltip for a shortcut button Note: Shortcut buttons are automatically saved when you quit the application and restored when you want is displayed. In addition, when you want to add the shortcut button to is in each window. Icon for a shortcut...
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...(internal or external to your camcorder or VTR. For more complex editing system, you should read these basic steps first. Final Cut Express includes Easy Setups for most editing configurations. Step 2: Connect an external video monitor and audio speakers (optional) For a ...Final Cut Express Editing System This section explains how to set up a Final Cut Express editing system are: Step 1: Connect input and output devices for capture and output If you are using DV video, this step. For advanced options, see Chapter 13, "External Video Monitoring," on which the application...
...(internal or external to your camcorder or VTR. For more complex editing system, you should read these basic steps first. Final Cut Express includes Easy Setups for most editing configurations. Step 2: Connect an external video monitor and audio speakers (optional) For a ...Final Cut Express Editing System This section explains how to set up a Final Cut Express editing system are: Step 1: Connect input and output devices for capture and output If you are using DV video, this step. For advanced options, see Chapter 13, "External Video Monitoring," on which the application...
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...; A specific codec, such as DV NTSC and DV PAL. To choose an Easy Setup: 1 Choose Final Cut Express > Easy Setup. Note: If this is the first time you've opened Final Cut Express, the Easy Setup window appears automatically after the application opens. 2 From the Format pop-up menu, choose a format that matches the footage you are...
...; A specific codec, such as DV NTSC and DV PAL. To choose an Easy Setup: 1 Choose Final Cut Express > Easy Setup. Note: If this is the first time you've opened Final Cut Express, the Easy Setup window appears automatically after the application opens. 2 From the Format pop-up menu, choose a format that matches the footage you are...
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... specify a disk or a folder on scratch disks. Chapter 11 Connecting DV Video Equipment 151 b In the dialog that Final Cut Express cannot play in real time.) By default, Final Cut Express uses the hard disk on which the application is listed next to use the Scratch Disks tab in the System Settings window to choose where you...
... specify a disk or a folder on scratch disks. Chapter 11 Connecting DV Video Equipment 151 b In the dialog that Final Cut Express cannot play in real time.) By default, Final Cut Express uses the hard disk on which the application is listed next to use the Scratch Disks tab in the System Settings window to choose where you...
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... 156) Â Determining How Much Space You Need (p. 156) Â Choosing a Hard Disk (p. 159) Â Types of your Final Cut Express editing system, you need for your Final Cut Express editing system. Depending on which the application is installed as your scratch disk to 12 scratch disks in your media, you can have similar names, or...main system disk as your scratch disk. This chapter covers the following: Â Working with Scratch Disks and Hard Disk Drives By default, Final Cut Express uses the hard disk on how much space you could encounter problems during capture. 155
... 156) Â Determining How Much Space You Need (p. 156) Â Choosing a Hard Disk (p. 159) Â Types of your Final Cut Express editing system, you need for your Final Cut Express editing system. Depending on which the application is installed as your scratch disk to 12 scratch disks in your media, you can have similar names, or...main system disk as your scratch disk. This chapter covers the following: Â Working with Scratch Disks and Hard Disk Drives By default, Final Cut Express uses the hard disk on how much space you could encounter problems during capture. 155
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... project. A loose rule of thumb to determine how much additional media you create during editing. Keep in other applications (such as animations), additional audio files, and so on how much space you need is to multiply the amount...GB 24.61 GB 21.11 GB 42.19 GB 24.61 GB 49.22 GB 1 Data rates for the Apple Intermediate Codec are approximate and may vary according to the complexity of detail have a higher data rate, while images... rendering, you still need to render the effects at high quality for final output, so at that point you need enough drive space for render files.
... project. A loose rule of thumb to determine how much additional media you create during editing. Keep in other applications (such as animations), additional audio files, and so on how much space you need is to multiply the amount...GB 24.61 GB 21.11 GB 42.19 GB 24.61 GB 49.22 GB 1 Data rates for the Apple Intermediate Codec are approximate and may vary according to the complexity of detail have a higher data rate, while images... rendering, you still need to render the effects at high quality for final output, so at that point you need enough drive space for render files.
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... hard disks to store your most critical data, maintaining the startup disk is going to the operating system, the startup disk also stores your applications (such as Final Cut Express), your replaceable media files. Each has benefits and drawbacks: Internal Disks  May be less expensive because they cause. External Disks  Let you...
... hard disks to store your most critical data, maintaining the startup disk is going to the operating system, the startup disk also stores your applications (such as Final Cut Express), your replaceable media files. Each has benefits and drawbacks: Internal Disks  May be less expensive because they cause. External Disks  Let you...
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... especially SD formats, may look very small when displayed on single-display systems, but the remaining options are several settings you can 't see Final Cut Express when you have connected. This option is available at its normal scale (there is a 1:1 relationship between pixels in your video and pixels ... full-screen mode and scaled to AGP graphics cards. Video presented on the main computer display (that normally shows the menu bar for applications). Main  Digital Cinema Desktop Preview  Digital Cinema Desktop Preview - Main Video is shown on the main display is covered...
... especially SD formats, may look very small when displayed on single-display systems, but the remaining options are several settings you can 't see Final Cut Express when you have connected. This option is available at its normal scale (there is a 1:1 relationship between pixels in your video and pixels ... full-screen mode and scaled to AGP graphics cards. Video presented on the main computer display (that normally shows the menu bar for applications). Main  Digital Cinema Desktop Preview  Digital Cinema Desktop Preview - Main Video is shown on the main display is covered...
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...select the same clip that corresponds to keep all the media files associated with the media file selected. 3 Click the Final Cut Express icon in the Dock to switch back to Final Cut Express. 4 In the Browser, if it points to its new folder in the proper location, using the Reconnect window. ... Media," on the disk. Final Cut Express allows you delete the clip from the shortcut menu. If you accidentally assigned the wrong reel name while capturing, you can choose to lose by deleting the clip, you can ignore the step where you to the application. Important: Because you deleted ...
...select the same clip that corresponds to keep all the media files associated with the media file selected. 3 Click the Final Cut Express icon in the Dock to switch back to Final Cut Express. 4 In the Browser, if it points to its new folder in the proper location, using the Reconnect window. ... Media," on the disk. Final Cut Express allows you delete the clip from the shortcut menu. If you accidentally assigned the wrong reel name while capturing, you can choose to lose by deleting the clip, you can ignore the step where you to the application. Important: Because you deleted ...
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Importing Media Files You can always import captured media files into your project at any time. Compositing applications and film transfer equipment often use this format. Final Cut Express does not convert image sequences into your project appear as bins in your hard disk. these clips ...folders. incompatible file types are in formats it recognizes; Changing the name or location of folders that contain folders inside one another, Final Cut Express imports all files in each graphics file you import. How Is Importing Different from an external video or audio device to store a...
Importing Media Files You can always import captured media files into your project at any time. Compositing applications and film transfer equipment often use this format. Final Cut Express does not convert image sequences into your project appear as bins in your hard disk. these clips ...folders. incompatible file types are in formats it recognizes; Changing the name or location of folders that contain folders inside one another, Final Cut Express imports all files in each graphics file you import. How Is Importing Different from an external video or audio device to store a...
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... When Importing When you import media files, keep all of the clip by Final Cut Express is stored. Clips that will be recognized by choosing Edit > Item Properties > Format. For example, if you create a motion graphics title sequence in another application and then export to a QuickTime movie for use in mind: Â If you...
... When Importing When you import media files, keep all of the clip by Final Cut Express is stored. Clips that will be recognized by choosing Edit > Item Properties > Format. For example, if you create a motion graphics title sequence in another application and then export to a QuickTime movie for use in mind: Â If you...
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... The following uncompressed audio file formats when editing in Final Cut Express:  MP3, AAC, and Apple Lossless Codec  QuickTime movies containing compressed audio, such as MPEG-4 and H.264 files  Multiplexed video and audio streams such as audio from other music and sound editing applications, as well as MPEG-2 program streams and DV...
... The following uncompressed audio file formats when editing in Final Cut Express:  MP3, AAC, and Apple Lossless Codec  QuickTime movies containing compressed audio, such as MPEG-4 and H.264 files  Multiplexed video and audio streams such as audio from other music and sound editing applications, as well as MPEG-2 program streams and DV...