Editing Techniques with Final Cut Pro, Second Edition

Amazon.com

So you've got a new DV camera, a shiny new Mac, and you're itching to make your first film. The only problem is that you don't know a script from a storyboard, or a WS from an MCU. Editing Techniques with Final Cut Pro might be just the thing you need to say "Action!" with confidence and bring that certain polish to your production.

Clearly written and lavishly illustrated, this excellent handbook features over 425 pages and 9 chapters covering everything from the basics of production and what an editor does, the language of film and editing, the planning needed when preparing to edit, and the use of Final Cut Pro itself, from beginning through advanced techniques and effects like ramping the speed of a clip, compositing computer animation over a clip, picture-in-picture, color correction, creating titles, and much more.

This is not a book for the experienced user, but it is a solid handbook for beginners who intend to get serious. Offering far more information than just how to use Final Cut Pro for editing, Editing Techniques with Final Cut Pro is almost misnamed. While the focus of the book is editing, there is so much useful information here on preproduction and production that it is simply a wonderful handbook on how to make a good digital video film.

Apple's Final Cut Pro, now up to version 3.0, has helped fuel the next evolutionary step in video production. By integrating powerful software with their hardware technology, Apple has put video postproduction into the hands of almost anyone who can afford a camera, computer, and software. Access to the equipment, however, doesn't mean a windfall of Oscar winners. Learning how to make a good film requires generous amounts of both talent and technical mastery. This book won't infuse you with talent, but you'll walk away with a clear understanding of how production and postproduction techniques work, and how to produce a finished piece that looks finished. --Mike Caputo

Book Description

Untitled

Editing Techniques with Final Cut Pro an invaluable resource, thanksto its practical and efficient cinematic strategies for working with FinalCut Pro and other tools.

Author Michael Wohl is a professional film editor and was one ofthe original designers of Final Cut Pro. In Editing Techniques withFinal Cut Pro, he takes a unique approach, blending hands-on productiontips with professional strategy and artistic techniques. Wohl talked to anall-star lineup of top film editors (see the list below) while writing thebook; each chapter ends with an interview with a seasoned industry insider.From guidelines on editing to suggestions for improving work flow, Editing Techniques with Final Cut Pro ventures beyond the basics andteaches you how to edit like a pro.

Editors interviewed in Editing Techniques with Final Cut Pro:Brian Berden ( Blue Velvet, Natural Born Killers); Curtiss Clayton( Drugstore Cowboy, Made); Hervé Schneid ( Delicatessen, TheCity of Lost Children); Steven Mirrione ( Swingers, Traffic);Valdís Óskarsdóttir ( The Celebration, FindingForrester); Chris Tellefsen ( The People vs. Larry Flynt, Flirtingwith Disaster); John Wilson ( The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & HerLover, Billy Elliot); Paul Hirsch ( Star Wars, MissionImpossible); Walter Murch ( American Graffiti, Apocalypse Now, TheEnglish Patient)

Book Description

In this magisterial book, Henri Dorra synthesizes more than fifty years of study to present a comprehensive examination of Paul Gauguin's symbolism. Drawing on his profound grasp of the artistic and social contexts in which Gauguin worked, Dorra provides new, complex insights into and interpretations of Gauguin's multilayered symbolism. The Symbolism of Paul Gauguin is lavishly illustrated with a major visual compendium of the artist's prodigious output. The highly readable narrative, based on a sophisticated understanding of Gauguin's oeuvre, offers a masterly interpretation of recurrent images and their interrelationships in the contemporaneous artistic and social context.
Dorra discusses Gauguin's iconography and the artist's treatments of similar themes in various media, from prepatory drawings for paintings to related ceramics and wood carvings. He traces Gauguin's meanings in literary sources from classical mythology and the Bible to late ninetheenth-century literature. He also links the form and content of the artist's work to his unusual ancestry and upbringing. As the final scholarly work by an internationally recognized expert on nineteenth-century French symbolism, this book provides a profound new perspective on Gauguin and his work.

Customer Reviews:

New perspective on Gauguin.......2007-07-21

This book is the culmination of a lifetime's study of the life and art of Paul Gauguin by a professor who has developed his material over years of teaching and analysis. It offers many new perspectives on the life and thinking of this artist, and is a must read for any person interested in the artist, his associates and the cultural world in which they worked.

Exotica, series 3;: Pictorial cyclopedia of exotic plants from tropical and near-tropic regions

Average customer rating:

Incredible Book
I need the book
The most thorough pictorial book on plants that's out.
Brilliant

Exotica, series 3;: Pictorial cyclopedia of exotic plants from tropical and near-tropic regions
Alfred Byrd Graf
Manufacturer: Roehrs Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Gardening & Horticulture | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books

Look Inside Home & Garden Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books
ASIN: 0911266054

Customer Reviews:

Incredible Book.......2003-11-12

It was approximately 25 years ago when I first encountered this book at my university library (Clemson U). I came across it one day while doing some research. At this time tropical/house plants were becoming the rage. This book, loaded with photos of specimens, showed the incredible variety of plants I was not aware of. I spent a good bit of my study time pouring over the pages and taking inventory of plants. It's worth tracking down to purchase a copy.

I need the book.......2003-05-15

I have been searching for this book for 7 years. I could only turn to the libraries and the government Parks Board for reference. So i would very much appreciate if your company could make it available in the market.
It is a brilliant book for reference especially if one is in the industry. I have not come across any books that could come close to Graf's compilation of plants. I am also very interested in his other book Tropica which is also not been made available in the market. So please could i at least order the book from this review column

The most thorough pictorial book on plants that's out........1998-05-31

I have the Series 3 Seventh Edition. It is the best pictorial book on identifying plants that is out and if you are so lucky to purchase one, you will be envied by your fellow gardners. They are scarce and those who have these books treasure them and do not give them up.

Brilliant.......1997-12-13

I bought my version in 1967 and consider it to be the best illustrated horticultural book I have seen. I still have it. It does suffer a major disadvantage in that it is too thick for one volume making it very unstable to read on your lap,the danger being that it's weight will cause it to drop off while you are holding a page. I have not seen Exotica 4 and would appreciate knowing what changes were made if that is possible. I have to be fair though and tell you that I will not be buying. Thankyou.

Average customer rating:

Arguably the most intelligent music critic writing

Exotica
David Toop
Manufacturer: Serpent's Tail
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Music | Entertainment | Subjects | Books

History & Criticism | Music | Entertainment | Subjects | Books

General | New Age | Religion & Spirituality | Subjects | Books

Look Inside Entertainment Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books
Similar Items:

ASIN: 1852425954

Customer Reviews:

Arguably the most intelligent music critic writing.......1999-08-18

Exotica by David Toop

David Toop is arguably the most intelligent music critic writing today, his range of interests prospecting across an avant garde canvas coloured by the 20th century's foremost writers, thinkers and musicians.

Although Toop's subject is predominantly that of fabricated soundscapes in a real world, a music which has come to be categorised as exotica, his roots are literary and extend to novelistic cosmographers like Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad and William Burroughs. Toop is erudite, but refreshingly unacademic in the way his texts are interspersed with autobiography, anecdote, interviews and fiction. Bringing imaginative criticism to bear on a range of subjects from the beginnings of ethnic music to Josephine Baker and Yma Sumac, Les Baxter and Martin Denny, Toop succeeds in aligning the concept of the exotic with world music. In a century in which we have grown to be increasingly interiorised, television often providing our point of contact with the external world, so music has come to assume the role of transporting geography into our rooms. In this respect Les Baxter's floridly contrived soundscapes prove central to Toop's thesis, for Baxter was throughout the 1950's to offer his listeners package tours in sound. According to Toop Baxter's music provided 'running excursions for sedentary tourists who wanted to stroll around some taboo urges before lunch, view a pagan ceremony through gaps in the bamboo, go wild in the sun or conjure a demon, all without leaving home stereo comforts in the whitebread suburbs.' Baxter's albums carried titles such as Caribbean moonlight, Jewels of the Sea, Ritual of the Savage and Ports of Pleasure, and by hinting at sexual licentiousness in exotic landscapes, the music was to prove irresistible to a 1950's record buying public.

Toop is particularly good on inventive vocalists like Josephine Baker and Yma Sumac. When Baker arrived in Paris in 1925 as a dancer with La Revue Négre, she caused a sensation by exposing her breasts when she danced. Aspiring to chanson, she injected the medium with her atavistic African roots, so as to create an exotic vocal genre.

Yma Sumac noted for her collaboration with Les Baxter on Voice of the Xtabay, was an extraordinarily volatile singer of South American ancestry noted for her multi-octave range and freakishly histrionic tone. Sumac shared with Baxter and Denny the ability to transpose a spuriously sourced primitivism to the contrived medium of the Western recording studio.

David Toop is a marvellous guide to the curious, the bizarre, the culted and the durable in 20th century music. His book includes interviews with the eclectic likes of Burt Bacharach, Ornette Coleman, Bill Laswell, Maroumi Hosno and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the renowned Pakistani popular singer.

More than just a vibrantly maverick musician and musicologist David Toop writes with the exciting inventiveness of a fine prose stylist. This is a book to be ingested slowly and with careful attention paid to the originality of the author's metaphors. Exotica is a rich text in the best sense of contemporary writing.

JEREMY REED

Average customer rating:

Except for Hortis III, this is the plant bible.

Exotica Series Three: Pictorial Cyclopedia of Exotic Plants
Alfred B. Graf
Manufacturer: Roehrs Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Textbook Binding
ASIN: 0911266151

Customer Reviews:

Except for Hortis III, this is the plant bible........1998-06-27

If you are curious about finding out what that odd plant you have had for a while is, or if you are a student of horticulture, or even if you simply want the most complete pictoral guide to tropical plants ever published, this is the book.

The only real drawback to this monumental work is the lack of cover-to-cover color slides, though for its time it was loaded. Through this and other gargantuan works, Alfred Byrd Graf is legendary for his contributions to horticulture.

Average customer rating:

Excellent reference

Best book you will find on this subject..

Shrunken Heads: Tsantsa Trophies and Human Exotica
James L. Castner
Manufacturer: Feline Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | World | History | Subjects | Books
All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
ASIN: 0962515035

Customer Reviews:

Excellent reference .......2005-01-17

As an occasional curator and restorer of these items; I can honestly say that this book is a very valuable reference and resource. Especially useful to me is the clear differences between authentic shrunken heads and various simulated or "fakes." Most of the privately-held (and some of the museum's) heads in the U.S. that I have seen are not authentic. The color photographs are top quality and the text is not disappointing.

Best book you will find on this subject.........2003-01-11

This book is well written from a scientific point of view but still easy to read. The author really did his research.
What makes this book even more amazing is the number of good quality pictures.. I believe there are over 150
color photos and 23 B&W photos. I have seen a few books on this subject matter but they are older books with very
few pictures that are in B&W. I believe this is the best and most current(2002) book ever written on this subject.

Sensory Exotica: A World beyond Human Experience

Average customer rating:

Good, but not what I expected.
Very interesting and educational book
an intriguing read...
Good subject, bad execution

Sensory Exotica: A World beyond Human Experience
Howard C. Hughes
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Psychology & Counseling | Health, Mind & Body | Subjects | Books

General | Mental Health | Health, Mind & Body | Subjects | Books

Anatomy | Biological Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books

Cognitive Psychology | Behavioral Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books

General | Behavioral Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books

Look Inside Outdoors & Nature Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books
Similar Items:

ASIN: 026258204X

Book Description

Bees, birds, bats, fish, and dolphins possess senses that lie far beyond the realm of human experience. In this book Howard C. Hughes tells the story of these "exotic" senses. He tells not only what has been discovered but how it was discovered--including historical misinterpretations of animal perception that we now view with amusement.

The book is divided into four parts: biosonar, biological compasses, electroreception, and the scents of attraction. Although the book is filled with fascinating descriptions of animal sensitivities, the author's goal is to explain the anatomical and physiological principles that underlie them. Knowledge of these mechanisms has practical applications in areas as diverse as marine navigation, biomedical sciences, and nontoxic pest control. It can also help us to obtain a deeper understanding of more familiar sensory systems and the brain in general.

Customer Reviews:

Good, but not what I expected........2004-08-08

I was hoping for an overview of dozens of sensory systems in use in the world today. In that I was disappointed, because the book only covers something like 5 of them. By contrast my Encyclopedia Britannica has a better overview of sensoria under 'senses'.

On the other hand, those senses that are covered are covered in considerably more depth than I was expecting, and were an enjoyable read. Descriptions of the neurobiology of how the various senses process input were particularly welcome.

Very interesting and educational book.......2001-12-06

Good reading for those who loves animals,navigation,sensing,
biology,physics or nature.

an intriguing read..........2000-11-15

how do bats find their way in the dark? how do fish and birds experience or sense the world around them? echolocation, bioelectricity and internal navigation systems are some of the sensory cabilities discussed in this interesting book

Good subject, bad execution.......2000-01-13

This book is about sensory modalities, like a bat's sonar, which humans do not have. Ever since I read Nagel's What is it like to be a Bat as a wee lad, I have wondered that very thing. So you would think I would have loved this book. You might think so, but you woul be wrong.

Though I am very interested in the subject this review covers (hence the 2-stars) I could not finish the book because of the chatty, faux-chummy style. I compleatly support the idea that science writing does not have to be dry and jargon-heavy but there is no need for a forced imitation of an informal discusion.

I may skim though the rest, but every time I open the book I want to send the author Strunk and White.

Average customer rating:
Electrocardiographic excursions, vulgaria et exotica: 50 studies in electrocardiographic detection
Leo Schamroth
Manufacturer: Blackwell Scientific
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: 0632002581

Average customer rating:
Aves Exoticas: Cinco Cuentos Con Mujeres Raras
Reina Roffe
Manufacturer: Editorial Leviatan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Short Stories | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
Spanish | Foreign Language Fiction | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
General | Cuentos Cortos | Literatura y ficción | Libros en español | Formats | Books
ASIN: 9875140678

Average customer rating:
1002 Nights: Exotica 2 (Exotica)
Cris Newport
Manufacturer: Windstorm Creative
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 188357398X

Book Description

22,000 COPIES OF 1001 NIGHTS EXOTICA 1 SOLD IN TRADE PAPERBACK ALONE

"Forty-one. Forty-two. Forty-three...."

Your mouth against mine is hard and hungry. You pull me against you and I can feel your nails rake across my skin as you push your hands up under my shirt. My hands skate across your breasts; the nipples are erect under the soft cloth and I want to linger there, remembering their shape and heaviness but there is no time.

"Fifty-five. Sixty."

"She's skipping numbers," you gasp.

I laugh and pull you closer...

Erotic or exotic. Steamy or haunting. This second volume in Newport's Exotica series is full of powerful stories that look at who we are even while they make our knees weak and shake the foundations on which we stand. Drawing from true stories and seven years of best-selling prowess, Newport knows how to give us what we want. Featuring photographs by the author and her critically acclaimed stories-behind-the-stories section.

Average customer rating:

Puzzles are pretty easy

The Official Book of Sudoku: Book 2 (Official Book of Sudoku)
Plume
Manufacturer: Amazon Remainders Account
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Look Inside Entertainment Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books
Sudoku | Puzzles & Games | Entertainment | Subjects | Books
Similar Items:

The Official Book of Sudoku: Book 1

Puzzle Time Sudoku: Book Three (100 Puzzles)

Puzzle Time Sudoku: Book Four (100 Puzzles)

The Big Book of Su Doku #1 (Sudoku)

The Official Book of Kakuro: Book 1

ASIN: B000F71138

Customer Reviews:

Puzzles are pretty easy.......2007-09-11

If you are just learning Sudoku these might be enjoyable, but the majority of these puzzles are very easy.

The Official Book of Wordoku #2: Sudoku Puzzles for Word Lovers (Wordoku)

Average customer rating:

different fun

The Official Book of Wordoku #2: Sudoku Puzzles for Word Lovers (Wordoku)
Frank Longo
Manufacturer: Sterling
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Puzzles & Games | Entertainment | Subjects | Books

Logic & Brain Teasers | Puzzles & Games | Entertainment | Subjects | Books

Puzzles | Puzzles & Games | Entertainment | Subjects | Books

Word Games | Puzzles & Games | Entertainment | Subjects | Books

Sudoku | Puzzles & Games | Entertainment | Subjects | Books

All 4-for-3 Deals | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books
Similar Items:

ASIN: 1402737637

Book Description

A second helping of fun for solvers who enjoy the popular combination of sudoku and wordplay. And this time, #2 includes five larger-than-usual, super-challenging grids that measure 12 x 12.

Wordoku follows the same basic principles as sudoku, except that solvers fill the grid with letters. Under each grid, the letters for that puzzle appear, in a pronounceable anagram. Then, just like the original, you arrange them so that every letter appears in every column, every row, and every box just one time. Unlike sudoku, the fun doesn’t end there, because the answer to the anagram lies buried inside the grid. But beware: in some cases the anagram actually has more than one possible solution!

Customer Reviews:

different fun.......2007-04-07

These books are the best puzzles yet---I rotate between them every day{several times during a day} & never tire of them.

Product Description

Noted sales trainer, Stephan Schiffman, succinctly describes 25 effective sales strategies that will build your customer base and increase your sales. This will boost your communications, planning, knowledge, rainmaking, visibility and confidence. a wonderful tool for new salespeople who must first learn the basics of selling, and for any established salesperson who needs a refresher!

Customer Reviews:

The 25 Habits of Highly Successful Salespeople Has a Bad Habi.......2006-03-12

This book has a bad habit of being weak and juvenille. Very weak and ordinary.
GH

Boost of Energy.......2006-02-05

This encouraging book gives each of the author's 25 selling habits a great little chapter to explain and give a few examples of the technique. Even if you have heard the habit before, it gives you a boost of energy to get going. This book is a great one to have around for all salespeople- new and old.

Schiffmans' 25 Sales Habits Book Is Very Useful.......2006-02-05

The best thing about Stephan's 25 Habits book is that it summarizes what it takes to be a successful sales person.

It's easy to read, and even when you're an experienced sales pro like some of us grizzled old veterans are, you'll still find that there's things you could improve upon in what's explained.. so it's a great "self check" and tune-up, for all levels of sales reps.

Schiffmans' books (and Gitomers) are ones that I recommend all my clients read, as they're important, and their techniques work.

This one is useful, a good overview and primer of what sales success is all about. Nice work.

Ken Calhoun

What gives?.......2005-07-14

You want I should read this book and sell good? I read it and it aint working so good for me.

Never Forget the Fundamentals!.......2005-03-27

Funny, but people seem to believe all show business folks know each other (they don't). Same for sales trainers (we don't either!). So Stephan Schiffman and I, both successful sales trainers/authors/speakers/consultants, somehow managed to avoid each other out on the road for almost 40 years - before finally doing a sales training seminar together just a few months ago. As for me, I was impressed! He had the audience in stiches, while teaching them some very solid sales information.

Understand, "The 25 Sales Habits of Highly Successful Salespeople" is not one of Steve's deeper works (he has plenty of those!). But it a wonderful tool for new salespeople who must first learn the basics of selling, and for any established salesperson who needs to get "re-threaded" (as we all do from time-to-time).

And don't get distracted by some of the negative reviews I saw about Steve's book. Those people are, in my humble opinion, missing the point. Even my material ("The Closers" series of books/audios/videos/newsletters/seminars) gets rapped on occasion. But as does Steve, I find solace in knowing how many salespeople have gotten rich using my material!

Note: You may have noticed that all of my book reviews carry "5 Star" ratings (*****). But that's not the sign of a "soft reviewer." I only review books to which I can honestly give a "5 Star" rating. You may assume, therefore, that any sales training/self-improvement book without my "5 Star" rating is either something less than "5 Star," or I simply haven't gotten to it yet . . . and there are certainly plenty of those!

The 25 Sales Habits of Highly Successful Salespeople

Average customer rating:

I took notes.

The 25 Sales Habits of Highly Successful Salespeople
Stephan Schiffman
Manufacturer: Adams Media Corp
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000NY4MNO

Customer Reviews:

I took notes........2007-07-06

This book was unlike most I've read about selling. There was very little fluff! The whole thing was covered in less than 130 pages. I found myself taking notes by the second chapter. Great book, simple and straight to the point. Very well written.

Books:

Books Index

Books Home

Recommended Books