Professional post-production from A-Z: 2 discs packed with everything you need editors and motion graphics designer! The comprehensive video training on DVD 1 takes you through the professional editing with Final Cut Pro 7 with all the refinements. DVD 2 includes intensive study of all the other studio applications. Workshops and professional tips on color correction and special effects as well as extensive video footage invite you to try. For users of Final Cut Express 4.0 is Andreas Zerr specifically address the differences to the Pro version and shows how to create projects, play on or off and applying effects. With bonus tracks and workshops on the logo animation in After Effects CS4!
Final Cut Studio, you have to correct all the tools in hand to cut films professionally, colors, mix to create sound designs and animations, or to prepare videos for television, DVD or the Web.
Andreas Zerr, Apple Distinguished Professional and seasoned motion graphics designer focuses first on the main application Final Cut Pro 7, where he wandered from simple cuts to complex editing techniques, sophisticated color correction and special effects to output all the steps of a sophisticated video production.
Not enough yet, he shows in this comprehensive video training on DVD 2, how to color in both primary and secondary color correction to perform, simple, and create even more costly corrections later, and special effects in Motion, Soundtrack Pro, or interfere with the sound of a movie, corrections to carry audio files and enrich your video with sound effects and music. Compressor, it is possible to encode videos in batches in the best possible quality for the different distribution channels, among other things, for authoring a DVD, then you do in DVD Studio Pro.
Users of Final Cut Express 4.0 will benefit from an extensive chapter that specifically on the differences to the Pro version is received and in detail shows how to edit projects.
Two further workshops to title and logo animation in the video-round after-effect from training.
From the contents:
DVD 1
This DVD contains the complete training course to Final Cut Pro 7 and many sample videos, which you can try what they have learned the same.
First Cuts
In the first steps of this video training, you learn the basic use of Final Cut Pro 7, the different working in the film montage, and the first cut methods. You will also learn more about the organization of media files in the browser and vote as Final Cut Pro 7 perfectly suited to your needs.
Advanced Techniques
This chapter on Advanced Techniques in Final Cut Pro 7 deals with different cutting methods, such as the Three-point cut and the Splitmarking book. Andreas Zerr leads you to the various tools for fine-and explaining how you markers for frames, areas, and use DVD-chapter.
Formats and settings
In this chapter you will learn how to adapt your system to your requirements perfectly that there are different video formats, and how to optimize your project for the different formats. You also learn more about the individual design of the surface and setting keyboard shortcuts.
Transitions
Transitions are stylistic tools to achieve a scene or hide or visual effects. In this section you will learn how to use transitions, post-process them and save them for later use.
Admission and Import
How does your video material comes from the tape to your hard drive? What options the host provides you with Final Cut Pro 7 available? Detailed information about the recording and the import capability of the various video and graphic formats can be found in this chapter.
Audio Editing
Professional audio editing is just as important for a film as masterful editing. In this chapter you will learn what audio formats dominated Final Cut Pro 7, how to cut and mix audio, film professional.
Clip Manipulation
Special effects can be generated not only filters but also about the manipulation of a clip. This includes the constant and variable changes are the speed as well as options such as scaling, rotating, cropping and distortion of video footage.
Filter
Filters are used in video editing, among other things, to correct poor shots - be it to an image enabling him to address lack of white balance or emphasize certain colors and contrasts. Andreas Zerr shows in detail how it%27s done.
Project Organization
Especially complex films with hundreds or even thousands of individual elements require a good organization, both for rapid detection as well as in the household of the available storage devices. How do you organize your media, at best, and what you can do if the store will close once you find out in this section.
Multicam
Recording multiple synchronized cameras cut them into Final Cut Pro 7 with the help of the multi-cam editing. Let us show you live, how to synchronize several cameras, one summarized Multicam clip and cut the sequence via multi-cam viewers.
Title and text
Titles and texts are used in video production for different requirements, such as pre-or credits, for subtitles or as a cummerbund. What are the different types of texts are available in Final Cut Pro 7 is available, you will learn in this chapter.
Issue
At the output of your ready-cut material, you have the choice between the traditional playout to tape or file exports to the modern. The two sections of this chapter reveal more on this topic.
Final Cut Express
As far as the cutting tools and techniques means that the difference between Final Cut Pro 7 and Express only marginally. Mainly in the supported formats of cooperation with other programs and the effects differ from Express Pro. Users of Final Cut Express 4.0 here to learn what is important to note what differences there are and how professional video editing is done.
Additional tips
Tips, tricks and techniques from the professional life to Final Cut Pro and Express are priceless. Because they help you secure the job, you do not miss this chapter!
DVD 2
The second DVD includes the training movies to the other applications of the Studio package that let you adjust colors, among other things, create animations, or create the entire work a professional DVD.
Color
Color is a new program in the Final Cut Studio package, which allows for professional color grading and film clips. In addition, there are a lot of extensive correction tools, including filters and effects that can give a film a music clip or a spot an individual look.
Soundtrack
Sound editing is increasingly becoming the responsibility of editors and media designers. With Apple%27s soundtrack provides an easy-to-use tool which, besides the pure audio editing and working with filters and provides its own voice.
Motion
The program generated motion animations, for example, title, or moving graphics. Motion 4 offers not only the usual standard features of the animation also a 3D space, additional cameras, lights, shadows, reflections, and behavior that are appropriate in addition to special effects for correcting video.
Compressor
The release of films in digital format is becoming increasingly popular, whether in a small circle on CD or via e-mail, to the general public on the Web, or even professionally as a DVD. For many common compression formats suitable Stapelkomprimierer the compressor as part of Final Cut Studio package.
DVD Studio Pro
DVD Studio Pro, Apple delivers with a very comprehensive program for creating DVDs. In addition to the pre-menus, you can also create your own navigation. In the videos of this chapter you learn how to easily burn DVDs, DVDs with menus and pre-design their own menu templates.
Bonus: title and logo animation using After Effects CS4
After Effects CS4 is the latest professional package for Motion Graphics Designer - not from Apple, but from Adobe. This bonus chapter includes two workshops, in which motion-designer Robert Hranitzky shows what you can do with the program. Let us inspire you or make you curious!
Typoraum
This section is one part presents the steps necessary to create a so-called Typoraum with several words. On the other hand, you get tips about scripting to help you in your work further.
Ending logo
Creating a short animation for the logo or writing is a task often required, which works perfectly with After Effects. How exactly does that show films in this section.