HD
Table Of Contents
- Final Cut Express HD User Manual
- Contents
- Final Cut Express HD Documentation and Resources
- Part I: An Introduction to Final Cut Express HD
- Part II: Learning About the Final Cut Express HD Interface
- Overview of the Final Cut Express HD Interface
- Browser Basics
- Viewer Basics
- Canvas Basics
- Navigating and Using Timecode in the Viewer and Canvas
- Timeline Basics
- Customizing the Interface
- Part III: Setting Up Your Editing System
- Connecting Your Equipment
- Determining Your Hard Disk Storage Options
- External Video Monitoring
- Part IV: Capturing and Importing
- Capturing Your Footage to Disk
- Overview of the Capturing Process
- Overview of the Capture Window
- Preparing to Capture
- Capturing Individual Clips in the Capture Window
- Using Capture Now
- Adding Markers to Clips in the Capture Window
- Recapturing Clips
- Finding Your Media Files After Capture
- Modifying a Media File’s Reel Name Property
- Avoiding Duplicate Timecode Numbers on a Single Tape
- Importing Media Files Into Your Project
- Working With HDV
- Capturing Your Footage to Disk
- Part V: Organizing Footage and Preparing to Edit
- Organizing Footage in the Browser
- Using Markers
- Learning About Markers
- Working With Markers
- Viewing Markers in the Viewer or Canvas
- Viewing Markers in the Browser
- Adding Markers in Clips and Sequences
- Deleting Markers in Clips and Sequences
- Navigating With Markers
- Renaming Markers, Adding Comments, and Changing the Kind of Marker
- Moving a Marker
- Aligning Items in the Timeline by Their Markers
- Extending a Marker’s Duration
- Editing Markers Into Sequences
- Exporting Markers With Your QuickTime Movies
- Creating Subclips
- Part VI: Rough Editing
- Working With Projects, Clips, and Sequences
- Specifying Preferences Before You Start Editing
- Working With Projects
- Learning About the Different Types of Clips
- Viewing and Changing the Properties of a Clip
- Creating and Working With Sequences
- The Fundamentals of Adding Clips to a Sequence
- Setting Edit Points for Clips and Sequences
- About In and Out Points
- Setting Clip In and Out Points in the Viewer
- Setting Sequence In and Out Points in the Canvas or Timeline
- Navigating to In and Out Points
- Moving In and Out Points
- Clearing In and Out Points
- Working With Tracks in the Timeline
- Drag-to-Timeline Editing
- Three-Point Editing
- Finding and Selecting Content in the Timeline
- Understanding What’s Currently Selected
- Direct Methods for Selecting Content in a Sequence
- Finding and Selecting Based on Search Criteria
- Selecting a Vertical Range Between In and Out Points
- Using Auto Select to Specify Tracks for Selections
- Arranging Clips in the Timeline
- Cutting Clips and Adjusting Durations
- Linking and Editing Video and Audio in Sync
- Linked Sync Relationships Between Video and Audio Clips
- Linking and Unlinking Video and Audio Clip Items in the Timeline
- Selecting Individual Clip Items While They Are Linked
- Getting Clip Items Back in Sync
- Establishing a Different Sync Relationship Between Linked Clip Items
- Learning About Linking Behavior in Audio Channel Pairs
- Split Edits
- Audio Editing Basics
- The Goals of Audio Editing
- Using Waveform Displays to Help You Edit Audio
- Learning About the Audio Controls in the Viewer
- Editing Audio in the Viewer
- Opening Audio Clips in the Viewer
- Viewing Audio Tracks in the Viewer
- Zooming In or Out of the Waveform Display Area
- Scrolling Through a Zoomed-In Audio Clip
- Using the J, K, and L Keys to Hear Subtle Details
- Turning Off the Audio Scrubbing Sounds
- About Setting Edit Points for Audio
- Dragging an Audio Clip to the Canvas, Browser, or Timeline
- Trimming Audio Clips in the Viewer
- Editing Audio in the Timeline
- Creating or Separating Stereo Pairs
- Working With Audio at the Subframe Level
- Examples of Ways to Easily Edit Audio
- Working With Projects, Clips, and Sequences
- Part VII: Fine-Tuning Your Edit
- Performing Slip, Slide, Ripple, and Roll Edits
- About Trimming With Slip, Slide, Ripple, and Roll Tools
- Sliding Clips in the Timeline
- Slipping Clips in the Timeline
- Using the Ripple Tool to Trim an Edit Without Leaving a Gap
- Using the Roll Tool to Change Where a Cut Occurs
- Learning About Trimming Clips
- Trimming Clips Using the Trim Edit Window
- Adding Transitions
- Refining Transitions Using the Transition Editor
- Sequence to Sequence Editing
- Matching Frames
- Working With Timecode
- Performing Slip, Slide, Ripple, and Roll Edits
- Part VIII: Audio Mixing
- Overview of Audio Mixing
- Setting Up Audio Equipment
- Audio Fundamentals
- Audio Levels, Meters, and Output Channels
- Mixing Audio in the Timeline and Viewer
- Using the Voice Over Tool
- Using Audio Filters
- Tips for Better Audio
- Part IX: Effects
- Video Filters
- Different Ways to Use Filters
- Applying a Filter to a Clip
- Applying Multiple Filters to Clips
- Viewing and Adjusting a Filter’s Parameters
- Displaying Filter Bars in the Timeline
- Enabling and Rearranging Filters
- Copying and Pasting a Clip’s Filters
- Removing Filters From Clips
- Video Filters Available in Final Cut Express HD
- Changing Motion Parameters
- Adjusting Parameters for Keyframed Effects
- Reusing Effect and Motion Parameters
- Changing Clip Speed
- Working With Still Images and Photographs
- Using Still Images and Graphics in Your Sequences
- Creating Freeze Frame Stills From a Video Clip
- Considerations Before Creating and Importing Stills
- Creating Graphics With the Correct Frame Size for Video
- Working With Graphics Clips of Different Resolutions
- Video Is Not 72 Dots per Inch
- Bit Depth of Imported Graphics
- Scaling a Graphic to Fit the Frame Size
- Creating Graphics With the Correct Color Settings for Video
- Flattening Graphics With Layers
- Using Alpha Channels
- Selecting Fonts and Creating Line Art for Video
- Scaling Images and Video Clips to Match a Sequence
- Changing the Duration of Still Images
- Compositing and Layering
- Introduction to Compositing and Layering
- Adjusting Opacity Levels of Clips
- Working With Composite Modes
- Working With Layered Photoshop Files
- Using Video and Graphics Clips With Alpha Channels
- Temporarily Excluding Clips From Playback or Output
- Keying, Mattes, and Masks
- Color Correcting Clips
- Using Built-in Generated Clips
- Creating Titles
- Video Filters
- Part X: Real Time and Rendering
- Using RT Extreme
- Rendering
- What Is Rendering?
- Render Indicators in Final Cut Express HD
- The Rendering Process
- Rendering Effects in Sequences
- Commands for Rendering Effects
- Rendering One or More Sequences
- Rendering Part of a Sequence
- Rendering Audio Items in a Sequence
- Using the Mixdown Command
- Temporarily Disabling Rendering
- Auto-Rendering While You Are Away From Your Computer
- Changing Settings in the Render Control Tab
- Preserving Render Files
- Tips for Avoiding Unnecessary Rendering
- Part XI: Project Management and Settings
- Media Management
- Backing Up and Restoring Projects
- Elements of a Final Cut Express HD Project
- Working With Master and Affiliate Clips
- Using Master and Affiliate Clips
- How Master Clips Connect to Media Files
- Identifying Master Clips
- Creating Master and Affiliate Clips
- Breaking the Relationship Between an Affiliated Clip and Its Master
- Independent Clips
- Using Keyboard Shortcuts to Modify Master-Affiliate Relationships
- Finding a Clip’s Master Clip
- Master-Affiliate Relationships With Subclips and Freeze Frames
- Master-Affiliate Clip Properties
- Using Master and Affiliate Clips
- Reconnecting Clips and Offline Media
- Choosing Settings and Preferences
- Part XII: Output
- Preparing to Output to Tape
- Printing To Video and Output From the Timeline
- Exporting Sequences for DVD
- Learning About QuickTime
- Exporting QuickTime Movies
- Exporting QuickTime-Compatible Files
- Exporting Still Images and Image Sequences
- Exporting Audio for Mixing in Other Applications
- Part XIII: Appendixes
- Video Formats
- Characteristics of Video Formats
- Types of Video Signals and Connectors
- A Brief History of Film, Television, and Audio Formats
- Frame Rate and Timecode
- Working With Anamorphic 16:9 Media
- Solving Common Problems
- Video Formats
- Glossary
- Index
1122 Index
insert with transition edits 332, 335–336, 511
keyboard shortcuts 331, 549
lift edits 385–387
linear editing 35, 1089
marker information 241, 244
master clips 923
match cuts 471
match frame editing 1090
media management and 901
multiple clips 322–323
nonlinear and nondestructive 35
nonlinear editing 1092
offline/online editing 1092
overwrite editing 1093
overwrite edits 323–325, 332, 336–339, 542
overwrite with transition edits 332, 338–339, 511
performing 421–424
preferences 950
razor blade edits 1094
replace editing 1095
replace edits 332, 339–345
resize editing 1095
resize edits 486–487, 529, 533
ripple editing 1096
ripple edits 386–387, 462–465, 502, 535
roll editing 1096
roll edits 470–475, 502, 529, 534
rough cut 33
rough edit 275–277
rough editing 1096
sequence clips 553
sequences 549
short edits 1072
shuffle edits 378–380, 1097
slide edits 453–456, 1098
slip edits 302, 445, 457–460, 1098
split edits 415–418, 421–424, 425, 449–450, 468,
1099
straight edits 391
subclips and 256
superimpose edits 313, 332, 346–347, 776, 1100
swap edits 1100
swap edits. See shuffle edits
three-point editing 279, 1101
through edits 394
with timecode 487
trim edits 437, 477–478, 483–484, 490
types of edits 329–332
undoing and redoing actions 278
without In and Out points 353
Editing tab 505, 950
Edit Marker dialog 241, 244, 248
Edit Overlay 94, 95, 331
edit points
AIFF files and 1017
described 1085
edit points, moving to 97
edit points. See In and Out points
Edit Selection tool 358, 481
Edit to Tape window 84, 96
EDLs (Edit Decision Lists)
incorrect timecode in 1073
reel names in 902
effects
animating with keyframes 689, 719–731
described 33, 1085
motion effects 714–717
real-time effects 122, 1094
rendering and 878, 889, 894
settings 84
sound effects 658
transitions 513, 514, 531
effects filters 645
Effects menu 513
effects stems 660
Effects tab 513, 514, 531, 648, 836, 870
Eight-Point Garbage Matte filter 682, 822
electronics-to-electronics mode 970
embedded flags. See markers
Emboss filter 685
empty tracks 308
encoding options 1005
equalization (EQ)
advantages 654
filters 564, 640–642
equipment
SCSI devices 159–160
setup 32
error messages. See alert messages
E stems 660
estimating hard disk space 180
E-to-E mode 970
Every Frame option 970
expansion filters 643
Explode transition 522
Export Image Sequence Settings window 1013
exporting items
anamorphic video to QuickTime 1067
audio only 989
AVI QuickTime files 1007–1008
clips with compression markers 976
DV Stream files 1005–1006
frames as still images 760
image sequences 1012–1013
markers as text tracks 249
problems with still images 761
QuickTime audio formats 997
QuickTime-compatible movies 995–997
QuickTime movies 989–990, 991–994, 995–1005
QuickTime movies for iDVD 977
reference movies 992
sequences 976