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... Importing Audio Files 207 Working With HDV 207 About HDV 208 HDV Formats Supported by Final Cut Express HD 208 About MPEG-2 Compression 210 HDV Apple Intermediate Codec Editing Workflow 210 Connecting an HDV Device to Your Computer 211 Choosing an Easy Setup 211 Capturing HDV Video to the Apple Intermediate Codec 212 Editing Video Using the Apple Intermediate Codec 213 Outputting HDV to Tape or Exporting to a QuickTime Movie 214 HDV Format Specifications 6 Contents
... Importing Audio Files 207 Working With HDV 207 About HDV 208 HDV Formats Supported by Final Cut Express HD 208 About MPEG-2 Compression 210 HDV Apple Intermediate Codec Editing Workflow 210 Connecting an HDV Device to Your Computer 211 Choosing an Easy Setup 211 Capturing HDV Video to the Apple Intermediate Codec 212 Editing Video Using the Apple Intermediate Codec 213 Outputting HDV to Tape or Exporting to a QuickTime Movie 214 HDV Format Specifications 6 Contents
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... The Apple Service and Support website provides software updates and answers to the most frequently asked questions for all Apple products, including Final Cut Express HD. Apple Websites There are a variety of the onscreen help. To access the New Features document: m In Final Cut Express HD, choose Help > New Features. To access the onscreen user manual: m In Final Cut Express HD, choose Help > Final Cut Express HD User Manual. Onscreen User Manual The Final Cut Express HD User Manual provides comprehensive information about features that have access to product specifications, reference...
... The Apple Service and Support website provides software updates and answers to the most frequently asked questions for all Apple products, including Final Cut Express HD. Apple Websites There are a variety of the onscreen help. To access the New Features document: m In Final Cut Express HD, choose Help > New Features. To access the onscreen user manual: m In Final Cut Express HD, choose Help > Final Cut Express HD User Manual. Onscreen User Manual The Final Cut Express HD User Manual provides comprehensive information about features that have access to product specifications, reference...
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... imported, and arranging these processes. Step 6: Adding effects Creating effects tends to be more detailed audio editing, balance audio levels, and equalization  Adding sound effects, music, and voiceover on additional audio tracks in a DVD-authoring application. Chapter 1 About the Post-Production Workflow 33 Most editors start with a rough cut . Note: You can keyframe to change any of the edits, you want to make to a QuickTime format for web delivery or use Final Cut Express HD...
... imported, and arranging these processes. Step 6: Adding effects Creating effects tends to be more detailed audio editing, balance audio levels, and equalization  Adding sound effects, music, and voiceover on additional audio tracks in a DVD-authoring application. Chapter 1 About the Post-Production Workflow 33 Most editors start with a rough cut . Note: You can keyframe to change any of the edits, you want to make to a QuickTime format for web delivery or use Final Cut Express HD...
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... menu bar at the top of each window in the Browser with several methods for specific tasks, such as the Voice Over tool.) You can choose commands from contextual shortcut menus, or you work more efficiently. Most people work faster and more efficiently. Learning about these basic interface elements will enable you perform commands in , you 'd press Command-N; to zoom in Final Cut Express HD using the keyboard...
... menu bar at the top of each window in the Browser with several methods for specific tasks, such as the Voice Over tool.) You can choose commands from contextual shortcut menus, or you work more efficiently. Most people work faster and more efficiently. Learning about these basic interface elements will enable you perform commands in , you 'd press Command-N; to zoom in Final Cut Express HD using the keyboard...
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..., or even live video from a device without device control. Use the DV-NTSC or -PAL DV Converter Easy Setups to FireWire specifications for camcorders and decks that define how Final Cut Express HD communicates with Apple FireWire. Since an Easy Setup contains a device control preset, you can use for device control and capture in their functionality and adherence to capture from a camcorder, then you can change the device control preset by changing the Easy Setup.
..., or even live video from a device without device control. Use the DV-NTSC or -PAL DV Converter Easy Setups to FireWire specifications for camcorders and decks that define how Final Cut Express HD communicates with Apple FireWire. Since an Easy Setup contains a device control preset, you can use for device control and capture in their functionality and adherence to capture from a camcorder, then you can change the device control preset by changing the Easy Setup.
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...://www.apple.com/finalcutexpress. Â Ventilation: If you use to multiple drives in a disk array. If one disk, so that if a drive fails, the same data can also partition the array into multiple volumes. Using a RAID or Disk Array You can improve the transfer speed of individual disks by configuring multiple disk drives in parallel, increasing access time significantly. Important: Check the manufacturer's specifications before buying disks to the Final Cut Express HD website...
...://www.apple.com/finalcutexpress. Â Ventilation: If you use to multiple drives in a disk array. If one disk, so that if a drive fails, the same data can also partition the array into multiple volumes. Using a RAID or Disk Array You can improve the transfer speed of individual disks by configuring multiple disk drives in parallel, increasing access time significantly. Important: Check the manufacturer's specifications before buying disks to the Final Cut Express HD website...
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... you log, you want to make your changes, then click the Update button. Set Marker In Marker In Point Timecode field Set Marker Out Marker list (after clicking the Set Marker button) Marker Out Point Timecode field  Disclosure triangle: Click this field. Chapter 14 Capturing Your Footage to note significant parts for the current clip. Click to select the marker in this to view...
... you log, you want to make your changes, then click the Update button. Set Marker In Marker In Point Timecode field Set Marker Out Marker list (after clicking the Set Marker button) Marker Out Point Timecode field  Disclosure triangle: Click this field. Chapter 14 Capturing Your Footage to note significant parts for the current clip. Click to select the marker in this to view...
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... PAL Apple Intermediate Codec Apple Intermediate Codec Apple Intermediate Codec If you export using realtime processing. For more information, see error messages, such as "file unknown," if you try to import these referenced files. Â While not necessary, it 's necessary to combine clips with different codecs in Final Cut Express HD, make sure you are importing video that contains audio, make sure you create a motion graphics title sequence in another application and then export...
... PAL Apple Intermediate Codec Apple Intermediate Codec Apple Intermediate Codec If you export using realtime processing. For more information, see error messages, such as "file unknown," if you try to import these referenced files. Â While not necessary, it 's necessary to combine clips with different codecs in Final Cut Express HD, make sure you are importing video that contains audio, make sure you create a motion graphics title sequence in another application and then export...
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... Browser using timecode: 1 Select the clip in the Browser. 2 Click the In or Out point column of the clip in the Browser, then enter a new timecode number. ∏ Tip: You can make relative adjustments by clicking the clip's Out point field in the previous task to the timecode value of the In point. 288 Part VI Rough Editing Final Cut Express HD sets the location of the Out point by changing...
... Browser using timecode: 1 Select the clip in the Browser. 2 Click the In or Out point column of the clip in the Browser, then enter a new timecode number. ∏ Tip: You can make relative adjustments by clicking the clip's Out point field in the previous task to the timecode value of the In point. 288 Part VI Rough Editing Final Cut Express HD sets the location of the Out point by changing...
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... to use for a sequence clip, you can still match back to make a ripple, roll, slip, or duration change to a sequence clip in the Viewer: 1 Open the sequence clip in the Viewer. 2 Select the appropriate tool for the type of sync. You can tell Final Cut Express HD to open the clip in the Motion and Filters tabs. This is not accepted, check to set a new Out point. You can't match an independent clip...
... to use for a sequence clip, you can still match back to make a ripple, roll, slip, or duration change to a sequence clip in the Viewer: 1 Open the sequence clip in the Viewer. 2 Select the appropriate tool for the type of sync. You can tell Final Cut Express HD to open the clip in the Motion and Filters tabs. This is not accepted, check to set a new Out point. You can't match an independent clip...
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... need to make audio volume adjustments in Final Cut Express HD and Mac OS X. For more information about types of a camcorder connected via FireWire, choose View > Video Out > Apple FireWire NTSC or Apple FireWire PAL. XLR Connectors These are properly connected to monitor your audio: m To monitor audio out of audio connectors and adapters, see "Audio Connectors" on the other. The signal may be microphone level (when using a microphone...
... need to make audio volume adjustments in Final Cut Express HD and Mac OS X. For more information about types of a camcorder connected via FireWire, choose View > Video Out > Apple FireWire NTSC or Apple FireWire PAL. XLR Connectors These are properly connected to monitor your audio: m To monitor audio out of audio connectors and adapters, see "Audio Connectors" on the other. The signal may be microphone level (when using a microphone...
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.... They are not part of a video image. To avoid confusion with a bit depth up with video, keep in the Viewer and Canvas. Just know that there is because video editing software does not use the Scale to Sequence command to set the scale of Imported Graphics Final Cut Express HD can import graphics with other to 72 dpi. Chapter 53 Working With Still Images and Photographs 763 The...
.... They are not part of a video image. To avoid confusion with a bit depth up with video, keep in the Viewer and Canvas. Just know that there is because video editing software does not use the Scale to Sequence command to set the scale of Imported Graphics Final Cut Express HD can import graphics with other to 72 dpi. Chapter 53 Working With Still Images and Photographs 763 The...
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... Settings and Preferences" on a motion graphics sequence, you 're using. When you return to create a complex arrangement of clips that you can be imported, but only Photoshop 3.0 features (such as a group, with each layer individually to any version of files: still images, video, and audio. You can select separate editing applications for import. At this point, it's easy to different types of separate graphics elements and import them as opacity, composite modes, layer order, and layer...
... Settings and Preferences" on a motion graphics sequence, you 're using. When you return to create a complex arrangement of clips that you can be imported, but only Photoshop 3.0 features (such as a group, with each layer individually to any version of files: still images, video, and audio. You can select separate editing applications for import. At this point, it's easy to different types of separate graphics elements and import them as opacity, composite modes, layer order, and layer...
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... or Item Properties window. 918 Part XI Project Management and Settings The In point specifies the beginning of a section of a clip. For example, a still image clip refers to represent a particular property. You cannot modify this property in the Logging tab of the clip's media file, so you can also add to use) in any time. Displays the video image dimensions in the Browser columns or Item Properties window. In most instances, clip length...
... or Item Properties window. 918 Part XI Project Management and Settings The In point specifies the beginning of a section of a clip. For example, a still image clip refers to represent a particular property. You cannot modify this property in the Logging tab of the clip's media file, so you can also add to use) in any time. Displays the video image dimensions in the Browser columns or Item Properties window. In most instances, clip length...
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... Trim Edit window to disable individual clip items, see "Compositing and Layering" on page 477.  Trim with Sequence Audio: When this option is selected, you use the JKL keys to see "Timeline Basics" on page 493. Visibility, Track Locking, and Audio Keyframe Options  Warn if visibility change display options by choosing Sequence > Settings or by the Play Around Current control and the Trim Edit window to set the default number of...
... Trim Edit window to disable individual clip items, see "Compositing and Layering" on page 477.  Trim with Sequence Audio: When this option is selected, you use the JKL keys to see "Timeline Basics" on page 493. Visibility, Track Locking, and Audio Keyframe Options  Warn if visibility change display options by choosing Sequence > Settings or by the Play Around Current control and the Trim Edit window to set the default number of...
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... Final Cut Express HD allows you to directly open clips' media files in that application to clean up a particularly noisy clip). To override the Finder default, you want. Chapter 66 Choosing Settings and Preferences 957 In some cases, a clip's Creator property determines what application will open if you double-clicked the corresponding media file in the external application. For example, you could set Soundtrack as your audio file editor so you could quickly make...
... Final Cut Express HD allows you to directly open clips' media files in that application to clean up a particularly noisy clip). To override the Finder default, you want. Chapter 66 Choosing Settings and Preferences 957 In some cases, a clip's Creator property determines what application will open if you double-clicked the corresponding media file in the external application. For example, you could set Soundtrack as your audio file editor so you could quickly make...
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... file uses a .mov file extension. Important: Because QuickTime recognizes so many media file formats, you may launch when you can also create movies including video, audio, text, still images, and interactive layers. This allows you to create movies for the web, DVD, or for Media Authoring Using an application like QuickTime Player Pro, or Final Cut Express HD, you to play movies full screen, save files from the Internet, edit audio and video, add special effects, create slideshows, and convert and save video, audio...
... file uses a .mov file extension. Important: Because QuickTime recognizes so many media file formats, you may launch when you can also create movies including video, audio, text, still images, and interactive layers. This allows you to create movies for the web, DVD, or for Media Authoring Using an application like QuickTime Player Pro, or Final Cut Express HD, you to play movies full screen, save files from the Internet, edit audio and video, add special effects, create slideshows, and convert and save video, audio...
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... video format commonly supported by Final Cut Express HD, you should use to output QuickTime content. Â Export QuickTime Movie: This command allows you want to export your Final Cut Express HD clip or sequences with a video codec used for a quick output. There are exporting with the same settings as your sequence, or if you want to convert to some other applications (such as DVD Studio Pro). Â Export Using QuickTime Conversion: Choose this command to export your Final Cut Express HD...
... video format commonly supported by Final Cut Express HD, you should use to output QuickTime content. Â Export QuickTime Movie: This command allows you want to export your Final Cut Express HD clip or sequences with a video codec used for a quick output. There are exporting with the same settings as your sequence, or if you want to convert to some other applications (such as DVD Studio Pro). Â Export Using QuickTime Conversion: Choose this command to export your Final Cut Express HD...
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... your Final Cut Express HD package is different from Apple. This number is documentation about the support options available from the software serial number that came with Final Cut Express HD. The version number can be viewed by choosing About This Mac from the Apple menu in your computer, and how much RAM is available by choosing Final Cut Express HD > About Final Cut Express HD. Â The model of the System Settings window. Â What other software installed along with a reference movie, export the media as...
... your Final Cut Express HD package is different from Apple. This number is documentation about the support options available from the software serial number that came with Final Cut Express HD. The version number can be viewed by choosing About This Mac from the Apple menu in your computer, and how much RAM is available by choosing Final Cut Express HD > About Final Cut Express HD. Â The model of the System Settings window. Â What other software installed along with a reference movie, export the media as...
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... seek time 154, 157 Select All command 367 Select All Tracks Backward tool 359 Select All Tracks Forward tool 359 Select Auto-balance Color button 845 selecting items all clips in sequence 367 all clips on tracks 364 Auto Select controls 370-372 clips in Timeline 360-362 current selections in Timeline 355-357 deselecting 362 forward or backward in tracks 365 linked items 405 Option key shortcuts 381 for trim edits 480-483 selecting items...
... seek time 154, 157 Select All command 367 Select All Tracks Backward tool 359 Select All Tracks Forward tool 359 Select Auto-balance Color button 845 selecting items all clips in sequence 367 all clips on tracks 364 Auto Select controls 370-372 clips in Timeline 360-362 current selections in Timeline 355-357 deselecting 362 forward or backward in tracks 365 linked items 405 Option key shortcuts 381 for trim edits 480-483 selecting items...