The Focal Easy Guide to Final Cut Pro 6
by Rick Young
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Author: Rick YoungEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-11-28
ISBN: 0240810090
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Focal Press
Book Reviews of The Focal Easy Guide to Final Cut Pro 6
Book Review: inexpensive, but fills a very narrow niche
Summary: 3 Stars
I am taking a class in Video Editing, and we are doing the class on the Macintosh using Final Cut Pro 6, so this was a required text for the class.
This book has both some serious plusses but also serious minuses. First the strengths. I feel this book serves as a good reference for intermediate Final Cut Pro users. I think mainly this book is great for people who may be familiar with an older version of Final Cut, or are familiar with a different editor (Premiere, Vegas or whatever) and are migrating over to use Final Cut. For such people, this book is great because if you want to, say, know how to add a video track, or how to slice a clip into two parts, these kinds of things are very easy to look up in this book. And obviously the book is attractively priced.
Now the negatives. I think this book is nearly useless for users who are trying to learn not only Final Cut, but how to edit in general. Because the book is organized in "how to do this, how to do that" with pretty much no discussion of *why* you'd want to do these things, or how doing these things would improve your video project, or even how to go about editing a video project using some clips that you might already have. A pretty substantial level of editing knowledge seems to be assumed by this book. On the other hand, really only the pretty basic straightforward things are covered in this book. So I don't think it has anything to offer advanced users.
So I dunno, for a very specific group of users, this book is a nice one to have on your shelf. For everyone else, I think they'd be better served by something else.
Summary of The Focal Easy Guide to Final Cut Pro 6
Software packages are complex. Software books don't need to be. Simplify your life with The Focal Easy Guide to Final Cut Pro! This concise, full-color book lives up to its name by paring down the software to its essentials. You learn the key features and essential workflow to get you up and running in no time.With this book you can start cutting immediately, whatever you edit, whatever the format. This is an ideal introduction whether you are a professional moving over to Final Cut Pro from another package or system, a new user, or just someone who wants to get the best results from Final Cut Pro, fast!
* Save time, learn all you need to know to edit with FCP in hours
* Concise full-color coverage, suitable for all OSX versions of FCP
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