The Filmmaker's Guide to Final Cut Pro Workflow / Edition 1

by Dale Angell

Overview

The Filmmaker's Guide to Final Cut Pro Workflow is the comprehensive roadmap to affordable postproduction workflow using Final Cut Pro, Cinema Tools, and Pro Tools. Illuminating workflow and the interrelationship of these software applications, it also focuses on cost saving and efficiency, aiding low-budget, independent moviemakers as well as students trying to take their skills to the professional level.

Author Dale Angell offers a practical guide to complete film postproduction workflow, describing low-cost workflow that can be used for 35mm film, High Definition digital video, or DV/Red Camera.

The Filmmaker's Guide to Final Cut Pro Workflow will help the independent filmmaker working on a tight budget:
. Understand capturing picture when shooting on film or digital video
. Finishing the project on either film or video
. Audio edit workflows for both film and video
. Comprehend NTSC and PAL video as well as modern digital video formats
. Understand timecode and the file architecture in Final Cut Pro, Cinema Tools, and Pro Tools

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780240809861
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/13/2007
Series:	Filmmaker's Guide To... Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	266
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; The Kodak 35mm Project; Lost Hope and More; Capturing picture when shooting on film; Capturing picture when shooting on digital video; Initial audio workflow, importing production audio and syncing; Editing picture to lock; Finishing on film; Finishing on digital video, the on-line edit; Sound edit workflows; Titles for digital video and film; After the film is finished

Editorial Reviews

If you edit film or video, suddenly your options are virtually unlimited -- and they change almost daily. Amid the whirlwind, how do you define a solid workflow that cuts costs and adds flexibility without compromising your work? Dale Angell can show you.

In this book, Angell follows a real movie through post-production, using Final Cut Pro Studio, Cinema Tools, Pro Tools, and Adobe graphics applications. He walks through initial audio workflow, importing production audio, and syncing; editing picture to lock; finishing on both film and DV; titles; color timing and grading; even distribution.

Angell's been editing since 1974. It shows. When capturing audio, he knows all five scenarios you'll encounter and how to handle each. When discussing timeline editing, he knows the pitfalls, the solution, the right time to implement it -- and the exception to that rule. You quickly realize: There's not much about editing he doesn't know. Bill Camarda, from the December 2007 Read Only

"Dale Angell's Filmmaker's Guide to Final Cut Pro Workflow is the postproduction supervisor's equivalent to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
It provides a babelfish to translate Geek speak into plain English. His wealth of experience in editing and sound makes the book an invaluable aid to navigating the plethora of HD codecs and finishing workflows now available to editors. Don't leave home without it."
—Lois Freeman-Fox, A.C.E.

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