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| Preface | |
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| Initial Setup: Optimizing the Mac OS and FCP | |
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| Macintosh OSX: The System Preferences | |
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| The Energy Saver Preference | |
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| The Displays Preference | |
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| Software Update | |
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| Network Issues and AppleTalk | |
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| Multi-User and Administrator Issues | |
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| Installing FCP Software | |
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| Project Setup: Do It Right the First Time and Every Time | |
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| Starting up FCP | |
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| Saving Your Project Correctly | |
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| The Structure of FCP | |
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| The Browser Window | |
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| The Project Tab | |
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| The Effects Tab | |
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| Moving a Clip around the Windows | |
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| The Color Bars and Tone Generator Clip | |
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| Moving the Clip from the Effects Tab to the Project Tab | |
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| Creating a Bin and Using It as an Organizing Tool | |
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| The Viewer Window | |
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| Moving the Clip from the Bin to the Viewer | |
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| The Canvas Window | |
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| The Timeline Window | |
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| Moving the Clip from the Viewer Window to the Sequence | |
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| The Audio Meters | |
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| The Toolbar | |
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| The Tool Bench | |
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| Settings: Are Yours Correct? | |
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| The System Settings | |
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| The Scratch Disks Tab: The Issues Scratch Disk Assignment | |
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| A Note on Partitioning | |
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| A Look at the Scratch Disk Preferences Tab | |
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| Scratch Disk Assignment: Follow the Next Steps Precisely | |
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| Naming Issues | |
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| Waveform and Thumbnail Cache | |
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| Autosave Vault | |
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| Minimum Allowable Free Space on Scratch Disks | |
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| Limit Capture/Export File Segment Size | |
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| Limit Capture Now | |
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| The Memory and Cache Tab | |
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| The Playback Control Tab | |
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| The External Editors Tab | |
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| The Effects Handling Tab | |
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| The Audio/Video Settings | |
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| The Issues Involved in the Audio/Video Settings | |
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| The Summary Tab | |
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| The Capture Presets Tab | |
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| The Sequence Preset Tab | |
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| The Video Processing Tab | |
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| The Device Control Presets Tab | |
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| The A/V Devices Tab | |
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| Back to the Summary Tab | |
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| The Easy Setup | |
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| The User Preferences | |
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| The General Preferences Tab | |
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| Real-Time Audio Mixing | |
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| Audio Playback Quality | |
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| Warn if Visibility Change Deletes Render File | |
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| Prompt for Settings on New Sequence | |
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| Report Dropped Frames During Playback | |
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| Abort Capture on Dropped Frames | |
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| On Timecode Break | |
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| Autosave Vault | |
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| The Audio Outputs Tab | |
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| Media Acquisition: Logging and Capturing | |
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| How Do We Get It Inside FCP? | |
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| Pre-Log and Capture Techniques: The Paper Log and Timecode Window Burn | |
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| Logging and Capturing | |
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| Create a Logging Bin | |
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| The Log and Capture Window | |
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| The Log and Capture Video Preview Window | |
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| The Log and Capture Tabs | |
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| The Reel Name | |
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| The Name, Description, and Marker Fields | |
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| The Capture Buttons | |
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| Capture Clip | |
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| Capture Now | |
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| The Process of Capturing | |
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| Scratch Disk Info | |
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| Current Frame Timecode Field | |
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| The Tape Transport Controls and J-K-L Support | |
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| The Jog and Shuttle Wheels | |
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| Set the In and Out Points for a Clip | |
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| The Clip Duration Timecode Field | |
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| Capture Using Capture Clip | |
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| Capture Now | |
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| Capture Now and Its Relationship with DV Timecode | |
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| The Capture Now Process | |
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| Using DV Start/Stop Detection | |
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| Batch Capture | |
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| What Is Offline/Online? | |
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| The Process | |
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| The Idiot Check | |
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| Importing Media | |
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| What Importing Is and What It Is Not | |
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| Audio CD Import the Right Way: Using Quick Time Pro to Import and Convert Sample Rates | |
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| Importing Photoshop Graphics Files | |
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| Square vs. Non-Square Pixels | |
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| Getting Photoshop Layer Effects into FCP Intact | |
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| The Process | |
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| The Title-Safe Zone and Overscan | |
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| Prepping the Image for FCP | |
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| Importing and Using the Photoshop Image | |
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| Organize and Backing Up Your Project's Imported Media | |
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| Editing: the Business and Pleasure of Final Cut Pro | |
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| Working in the Viewer Window | |
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| The Viewer Window | |
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| Match Frame Button | |
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| Mark Clip Button | |
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| Add Keyframe Button | |
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| Add Marker Button | |
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| In and Out Point Buttons | |
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| Drag and Drop to the Sequence: Insert/Overwrite | |
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| Drag and Drop to the Canvas: Insert/Overwrite with a Transition | |
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| A Few Words about Realtime and Rendering Effects | |
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| Refining the Transition | |
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| The 'Oroborous' Transition Sequence Trick | |
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| Creating Customized Transition Favorites | |
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| Trimming Those Edits | |
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| The Easiest Trimming Technique | |
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| Advanced Editing Tools | |
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| More Trimming Precision: The Trim Edit Window | |
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| Calling Up the Trim Edit Window | |
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| The Track Drop-Down Bar | |
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| Navigating the Clips in the Trim Edit Window | |
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| Previewing the Trim Before Leaving the Trim Edit Window | |
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| The Timeline and the Toolbar | |
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| The Timeline Tracks | |
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| The Track Routing Selection Area | |
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| The Timeline Customization Controls | |
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| Audio Controls | |
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| Clip Keyframes Button | |
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| Clip Overlays Button | |
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| Track Height Switch | |
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| The Zoom Control Meter | |
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| The Time Scale Bar | |
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| Playhead Timecode Field | |
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| Toggle Snapping Button | |
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| Toggle Linking Button | |
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| Linking Operations Demonstrated | |
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| The Split Edit | |
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| Sync Issues With Linking and Unlinking Clips | |
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| Button Bars | |
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| Trimming in the Timeline: The Toolbar | |
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| Toolbar vs. Keyboard Shortcuts | |
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| The General Selection Tool (Keyboard Shortcut-A) | |
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| The Selection Toolset and Accessing "Hidden" Toolsets | |
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| Edit Selection Tool (Keyboard Shortcut-G) | |
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| Group Selection Tool (Keyboard Shortcut-GG) | |
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| Range Selection Tool (Keyboard Shortcut-GGG) | |
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| The Track Selection Toolset (Keyboard Shortcuts-T, TT, TTT, TTTT, TTTTT) | |
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| The Roll and Ripple Edit Toolset | |
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| The Roll Edit Tool (Keyboard Shortcut-R) | |
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| The Ripple Edit Tool (Keyboard Shortcut-RR) | |
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| The Asymmetrical Trim: Split Edit/L-Cut with the Ripple Tool | |
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| Gang-Synced Windows | |
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| The Slip and Slide Toolset (Keyboard Shortcuts-S, SS) | |
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| The Slip Tool (Keyboard Shortcut-S) | |
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| The Storyboard Rough Cut Technique | |
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| Slipping in the Viewer | |
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| Slip into Sync | |
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| The Slide Tool (Keyboard Shortcut-SS) | |
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| Monitoring the Slip and Slide Tools in the Canvas Window | |
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| The Razorblade Toolset (Keyboard Shortcuts-B, BB) | |
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| Using the Razorblade Tool | |
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| Performing a Ripple Delete | |
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| The Zoom Toolset (Keyboard Shortcuts-Z, ZZ, H, HH) | |
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| The Zoom In and Out Tools | |
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| The Hand Tool (Keyboard Shortcut-H) | |
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| The Scrub Video Tool: Scrubbing a Clip's Thumbnail (Keyboard Shortcut-HH) | |
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| Creating Thumbnails in the List View | |
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| Master Clips and Affiliates | |
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| The Subclip | |
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| Dupe Detection | |
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| The Sequence Settings Window | |
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| The Crop/Distort and Pen Toolsets | |
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| Compositing and Special Effects | |
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| Compositing Layers | |
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| Setting Up a Sequence for Compositing Layers | |
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| Keyframing in the Sequence | |
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| Adding Type: The Text Generator | |
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| Master/Affiliate Clips and the Viewer | |
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| Special Effects: Motion Effects | |
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| The Image + Wireframe Viewing Mode | |
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| Creating a Motion Path | |
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| Setting the Keyframes for Motion | |
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| Nonlinear Interpolation--Adding a Curve | |
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| Ease In/Ease Out | |
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| The Other Motion Tab Tools | |
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| The Crop Tool | |
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| The Distort Tool | |
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| The Drop Shadow | |
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| The QuickView Tool and Option-P | |
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| Motion Blur | |
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| Effects Filters | |
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| Applying Effects: The Color Corrector 3-Way Filter | |
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| Picking the Master Shot | |
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| The Video Scopes: Luma and Saturation | |
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| Correcting the Master Shot | |
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| Master Shot Correction: Set Contrast | |
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| Master Shot Correction: Pick Up the Blacks | |
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| Master Shot Correction: Set the Whites | |
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| Master Shot Correction: Set the Mids and Gamma | |
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| Master Shot Correction: Correct Color for White Balance | |
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| The Frame Viewer | |
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| Matching Shots to the Master Shot | |
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| Shot to Shot Copying | |
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| Paste Attributes | |
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| Match to Master Shots | |
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| Match Hue | |
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| Secondary Color Correction | |
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| Limit Effect | |
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| Setting the Matte | |
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| Edge Thin and Softening | |
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| Using the Limit Effect Matte | |
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| Teamwork Equals Fast Work | |
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| Composite Modes | |
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| Mattes, Masks, and Stencils | |
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| Setting the Travel Matte-Luma | |
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| The Travel Matte-Alpha: What Is an Alpha Channel? | |
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| Speed and Duration | |
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| Nesting and Effects, the FCP Way | |
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| Why Nest? | |
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| The Render Manager | |
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| The Audio Tools | |
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| Fixing Audio Levels | |
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| Keyframing Audio Levels | |
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| The Audio Mixer Tool | |
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| Using the Audio Filters | |
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| The Three Band EQ | |
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| The Parametric EQ | |
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| The Voice Over Tool | |
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| Setup and Things to Consider | |
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| Setting the Offset | |
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| The Rest of the Voice Over Window | |
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| Using the Voice Over Tool | |
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| Getting Your Project Out of Final Cut Pro | |
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| Output to Video Tape | |
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| Output to Tape: Print to Video | |
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| Customizing Your Print to Video | |
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| Color Bars and Audio Test Tone | |
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| Slate | |
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| Countdown | |
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| Media | |
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| Trailer | |
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| Duration Calculator | |
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| Print to Tape | |
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| Output to Tape: Edit to Tape | |
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| The Issues for Edit to Tape | |
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| Performing the Edit to Tape | |
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| Exporting | |
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| Exporting for Distribution: Optimizing the QuickTime Movie | |
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| Choosing the File Format | |
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| QuickTime Standalones | |
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| Choosing and Setting the Compression | |
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| Quality or Spatial Compression | |
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| Keyframe Every or Temporal Compression | |
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| Other Factors: Frame Size, Audio, etc. | |
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| MPEG-4, MPEG-2, and You | |
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| Exporting with MPEG-4 | |
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| Exporting for Loss-Less Transfer: The QuickTime Reference Movie | |
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| Special Limitations | |
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| The QuickTime Movie Dialog Box | |
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| Export for Metadata | |
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| The Edit Decision List | |
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| The Batch List | |
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| Media Manager | |
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| The Other Offline/Online Process | |
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| How It Works | |
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| The Offline/Online Process | |
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| What is Digital Video Anyway? | |
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| How Video Works: Analog and Digital Video | |
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| Generation Loss and Digital Video | |
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| Analog Video Formats | |
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| Where Does Digital Video Originate? | |
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| How Light Becomes Numbers | |
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| Sampling and Compression | |
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| The Firewire DV System | |
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| What Is a Codec? | |
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| 8-bit and 10-bit Uncompressed | |
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| What about Digital Audio? | |
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| Sampling and Digital Audio | |
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| Analog Audio Recording and Double System Sound | |
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| SDI Digital Audio | |
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| What About Timecode? | |
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| Firewire DV: Video, Audio, Timecode, and Device Control in One Cable | |
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| Timecode: Analog and DV | |
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| Why Use Non-Drop Frame?: Pulldown Issues | |
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| Panasonic AG-DVX100: The 24P DV Camera | |
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| Device Control | |
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| Storage: RAM and Drive Solutions | |
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| RAM: Random Access Memory | |
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| How Much RAM? | |
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| Hard Drives | |
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| Issues: Storage Space | |
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| Issues: Drive Speed | |
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| Types of Drive by Location: Removable Disk | |
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| Types of Drive by Location: The Internal Drive | |
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| Types of Drive by Location: The External Drive | |
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| Types of Drive by Standard | |
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| Types of Drive by Standard: ATA | |
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| Types of Drive by Standard: SCSI | |
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| Types of Drive by Standard: Firewire | |
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| Types of Drive by Standard: USB | |
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| The Input and Output Buses | |
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| The AGP-Accelerated Graphics Port | |
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| The PCI-Peripheral Component Interconnect | |
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| RAIDs and You | |
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| RAID-0 | |
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| RAID-1 | |
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| RAID-10 or RAID 1/0 | |
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| Checking the Pieces: The Apple System Profiler | |
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| Regular Operating System Maintenance: The Care and Feeding of a Jungle Cat | |
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| Repair Permissions | |
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| Jaguar 10.2 and Single User Mode | |
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| Panther 10.3 and Safe Mode | |
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| When Single User or Safe Mode Doesn't Fix It | |
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| Cleaning House | |
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| Backing Up Your System | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Backing Up to CD-Rs | |
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| Using Apple's Disk Copy | |
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| Using Roxio Toast | |
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| Index | |