- Copyright 2007
- Edition: 1st
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Book
- ISBN-10: 0-321-50265-5
- ISBN-13: 978-0-321-50265-0
Cut a scene from the USA Network television series Monk, create a promo for Seaworld’s Belief documentary, and master filters and effects as you edit a segment of BBC Motion Gallery's Living Colour documentary. Completely revised for Final Cut Pro 6 and featuring all-new footage, this best-selling, Apple-certified guide provides a strong foundation in all aspects of video editing. Renowned author Diana Weynand starts with basic video editing techniques and takes you all the way through Final Cut Pro’s powerful advanced features. Each chapter presents a complete lesson in an aspect of video editing and finishing, using actual broadcast footage. After marking and editing clips to create a rough cut, you’ll learn how to trim and refine the cut before moving on to complex tasks such as mixing sound, adding titles, creating transitions and motion effects, applying filters, real-time color correcting, and working with multi-format and multi-camera footage.
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The "This File Is Too New Error"
There is a bug with some versions of the Final Cut software.
When opening some projects, Final Cut Pro 6 would for some users erroneously display a message warning that the project was unreadable or too new for that version of Final Cut Pro. This issue has been resolved in Final Cut Pro 6.0.3. For more information, see the article on the AppleCare website at http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1249.
Also see-
http://www.apple.com/support/releasenotes/en/Final_Cut_Studio_2.0_rn/
Updates & Corrections
DVD
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- Clean the disc surface very carefully, even if you can't see any dust. It sounds dumb, but it frequently works.
- Copy the files over in smaller chunks, one folder or one file at a time. This is slow and tedious, but has been successful for some people.
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Errata
Page 367, item 5, should say "... or press Command-N, to create a new Finder window."