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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Who This Book Is For | |
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| What This Book Offers | |
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| How to Use Th is Book | |
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| Preparing to Edit | |
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| Familiarizing Yourself with the Film | |
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| Reading the Script | |
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| Story and structure | |
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| The characters | |
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| Working with Reports and Logs | |
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| The continuity shot list | |
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| The continuity script | |
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| Your Role as Editor | |
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| Final Cut Pro X Essentials | |
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| Getting Up and Running | |
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| Locating your fi les on the Mac | |
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| Considering media storage | |
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| Copying the media to your hard drive | |
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| Exploring the Interface | |
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| The Event Library | |
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| The Event Browser | |
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| The Project Library and Timeline | |
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| The Viewer | |
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| The Toolbar | |
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| The Inspector | |
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| Working with Keyboard Commands | |
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| Essential keyboard commands | |
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| The Command Editor | |
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| Importing Media | |
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| Setting Import Preferences | |
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| Organizing | |
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| Transcoding | |
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| Video | |
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| Audio | |
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| Importing the Rushes | |
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| Creating new Events | |
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| Importing files | |
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| Keeping an eye on background tasks | |
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| Understanding how Events are organized | |
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| Grouping Events | |
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| Importing Media from Other Sources | |
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| File-based cameras | |
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| DSLRs | |
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| Tape-based cameras | |
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| iMovie Projects | |
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| Organizing and Preparing Media | |
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| Viewing Media in the Event Browser | |
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| Working in Filmstrip View | |
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| Working in List View | |
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| Skimming clips | |
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| Playing selections | |
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| Marking In and Out points | |
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| Evaluating the Rushes | |
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| Developing a strategy | |
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| Selecting Favorites | |
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| Rejecting clips | |
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| Removing ratings | |
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| Naming clips | |
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| Filtering clips | |
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| Using Collections to Organize Your Footage | |
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| Working with automatic collections | |
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| Assigning keywords | |
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| Deleting keywords | |
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| Working with Keyword Collections | |
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| Finding your footage | |
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| Creating Smart Collections | |
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| Organizing Collections into folders | |
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| Working with Metadata | |
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| Working with metadata in the Inspector | |
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| Customizing metadata views | |
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| Customizing metadata properties | |
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| Assigning Roles | |
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| The Edit | |
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| The Assembly Edit | |
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| Understanding Projects and Timelines | |
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| Creating new Projects | |
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| Duplicating Projects | |
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| Understanding Storylines | |
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| Compiling the Assembly Edit | |
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| Appending clips | |
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| Performing overwrite edits | |
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| Performing insert edits | |
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| Working in the Magnetic Timeline | |
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| Navigating in the Timeline | |
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| Changing the clip appearance | |
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| Using the skimmer and playhead | |
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| Keyboard navigation in the Timeline | |
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| Finding clips with the Timeline Index | |
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| Using markers and to-do's | |
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| Using placeholders | |
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| Editing the Rough Cut | |
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| Trimming Clips | |
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| Performing a Ripple edit | |
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| Performing a Roll edit | |
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| Performing a Slip edit | |
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| Performing a Slide edit | |
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| Using the Precision Editor | |
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| Manipulating Media in the Timeline | |
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| Cutting clips with the Blade tool | |
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| Performing a three-point edit | |
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| Replacing clips | |
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| Auditioning clips | |
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| Mind the Gap | |
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| Working with the Position tool | |
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| Making the Connection | |
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| Connecting clips to the Primary Storyline | |
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| Working with Connected Clips | |
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| Completing the Cut | |
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| Adding Cutaways | |
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| Secondary Storylines | |
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| Manipulating clips in a Secondary Storyline | |
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| Working with Secondary Storylines | |
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| Breaking apart clip items | |
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| Adding audio clips to the Timeline | |
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| Compound Clips | |
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| Working with Compound Clips in the Timeline | |
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| Working with Compound Clips in the Event Browser | |
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| Adding Transitions | |
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| Adding simple dissolves | |
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| Changing transition durations | |
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| Selecting transitions in the Transition Browser | |
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| Manipulating transitions in the Inspector | |
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| Editing Audio | |
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| Accessing the Music and Sound Browser | |
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| Working with Audio | |
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| Using the audio meters | |
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| Controlling audio volume | |
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| Expanding and detaching audio | |
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| Syncing double-system sound | |
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| Creating audio fades | |
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| Making Audio Enhancements | |
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| Using equalization | |
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| Fixing audio problems | |
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| The Craft of the Edit | |
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| Setting Up the Story | |
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| Th e First Act | |
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| Evaluating the footage | |
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| Exploring the edit | |
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| Scene 2 | |
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| Scene 3 | |
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| Cutting Dialogue | |
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| Dialogue Scene One | |
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| Evaluating the footage | |
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| Exploring the edit | |
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| Dialogue Scene Two | |
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| Evaluating the footage | |
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| Exploring the edit | |
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| Editing Action | |
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| Th e Staircase Sequence | |
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| Evaluating the footage | |
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| Exploring the edit | |
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| Building the Climax | |
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| Th e Final Act | |
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| Evaluating the footage | |
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| Exploring the edit | |
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| After the Edit | |
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| Building the Soundtrack | |
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| Replacing Dialogue with the ADR Files | |
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| Cleaning Up the Audio | |
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| Adding Ambience and FX | |
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| Incorporating the Music Cues | |
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| Constructing Your Own Sound Design | |
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| Creating a Surround Mix | |
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| Working with Effects | |
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| Exploring the Built-In Eff ects | |
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| Transforming images | |
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| Trimming and cropping images | |
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| Creating the Ken Burns eff ect | |
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| Distorting images | |
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| Animating with keyframes | |
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| Working with the Animation Editor | |
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| Creating Effects for the Movie | |
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| Flipping Shots | |
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| Creating a camera flash effect | |
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| Creating freeze frames | |
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| Retiming Clips | |
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| Applying the Finishing Touches | |
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| Color Correction and Grading | |
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| Fixing color balance issues | |
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| Color matching between shots | |
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| Manually Color-Correcting Shots | |
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| Working with scopes | |
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| The Waveform Monitor | |
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| The Vectorscope | |
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| The Histogram | |
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| Working with the Color Board | |
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| Using color masks | |
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| Using shape masks | |
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| Adding Titles and Credits | |
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| Working with titles | |
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| Adjusting titles in the Inspector | |
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| The Title pane | |
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| The Text pane | |
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| Creating the opening credits | |
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| Sharing and Exporting Your Movie | |
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| Working with the Share Monitor | |
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| Sharing Movies | |
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| Sharing to the Media Browser and Apple devices | |
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| Creating DVD and Blu-ray discs | |
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| DVD | |
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| Blu-ray | |
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| Publishing to the Web | |
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| Exporting Movies | |
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| Exporting with Compressor | |
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| Understanding the Compressor workfl ow | |
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| Creating chapter markers for DVD and Blu-ray | |
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| Exporting to XML | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Resources | |
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| Red Giant | |
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| CrumplePop | |
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| Noise Industries FX Factory | |
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| Intelligent Assistance | |
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| X2Pro Audio Convert | |
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| What's on the DVD? | |
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| System Requirements | |
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| What's on the DVD | |
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| Using the DVD | |
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| Troubleshooting | |
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| Customer Care | |
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| Index | |