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Final Cut Express: the (very) basics
As part of our newsroom training effort at the
Daily News I’ve created a handout on FCE for reporters and photographers. It’s a very surface treatment of a very complicated program but here are what I consider the highlights:
Inexperienced FCE users will often rewind their tape completely, which prevents the program from finding the camera in capture mode. Move forward on the tape 5 or 10 seconds so the timecode appears on the camera’s display and try launching the capture window again.
If you choose to use cross fades, make sure you have enough of the shot to blend. The program will make use of what it has — if there’s not enough material the cross fade will be short or one-sided.
You can control the length of the cross fade by double clicking on the cross fade icon. 1 = 1 second, 15 = 15 frames or .5 second.
If you’re importing audio into your project, FCE prefers .aif files. Double click on the audio track to bring it up in the editing window.
Learn the quick keys! They will save you time.
Apple has a very good series of video tutorials for FCE and the Knight Digital Media Center at the UC Berkeley has a great FC Pro tutorial.
My more superficial document (1.4 meg download) is available here: adnvideo.
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