Final Cut Express: Make the Cut is for anyone who has a DV Camera, Final Cut Express, a Macintosh, and an idea for a digital film. Your idea could be anything: a short documentary about your community, a home video, even a film that you need to make for school. Whatever it is, this book will help you make that idea a reality. Rather than simply providing a technical guide to the basic procedures and tools of Final Cut Express, this book is a creative, process-oriented tutorial on editing. It guides your project from the shoot all the way to the final tape mastering of your film. As you work through the tutorials, you'll find creative advice alongside technical considerations to help you add more editorial flourish to your film.

KEY FEATURES:

- Uses latest version of Final Cut Express
- Focuses on creative, professional-level editing techniques,
   including detailed easy-to-follow instructions on shooting,   
   cutting, and coloring digital video
- Provides all the technical information filmmakers need to
   master Final Cut Express, and helps users with previous
   experience with iMovie to make the transition to Final Cut
   Express
- Covers the artistic and creative issues involved in editing,
   along with all the technical aspects
- Provides interviews and commentary from professional
   filmmakers on what they did right (and wrong) when editing
   their films
- Includes a companion DVD-ROM with film footage to practice
   the editing techniques covered throughout the tutorials

Part I Production and Technical Concerns
Part II Assistant Editing: Getting It In
Part III The Editorial Process: Making the Cut
Part IV Special Effects: Forging Your Aesthetic
Part V Finishing the Production: Getting It Out
Appendix About the DVD

About the Author:

Kyle McCabe (Brooklyn, NY) is a shooter/producer and editor. He has worked on a variety of commercial productions for Animal Planet, Bravo, Broadway Media, HBO, The History Channel, the Independent Film Channel, Metro Channel, Sky Television, and Tommy Hilfiger Entertainment. He served as the technical editor and contributing author to numerous books, including Final Cut Pro 3 and the Art of Filmmaking, Photoshop 7 at your Fingertips and iMovie 2 Solutions. He has recently launched his own operation, Split Subject Pictures, viewable online at www.splitsubject.com.