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Apple Final Cut Express 4

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Quick Overview

Introducing Final Cut Express 4. The easiest, most affordable way to join the Final Cut revolution.

New in Final Cut Express 4

Apple’s powerful moviemaking package now supports the latest AVCHD cameras, features an open format Timeline, provides iMovie ’09 compatibility, and offers sophisticated effects and filters.

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Product Description

New in Final Cut Express 4


Built-in AVCHD

Offering plenty of creative options, Final Cut Express 4 lets you edit footage captured in the most popular formats — including AVCHD. Simply connect your camcorder to your Mac, preview and select the AVCHD clips you’d like to import, and start editing your video.

Import iMovie projects

With iMovie, putting together a great movie is as quick as drag and drop. When you want to add professional polish to your project, simply export to Final Cut Express 4 and edit like a pro.

Open format Timeline

No need to worry about formats, frame rates, or conversions. Final Cut Express 4 provides an open format Timeline that handily accommodates DV (both NTSC and PAL) and HD footage simultaneously and in real time. Just drop video into the Timeline and edit away.

Sophisticated FxPlug effects and filters

Add cinematic looks to your project with an expansive library of professional-quality transitions and filters and experiment with over 50 brand-new video effects, including Soft Focus, Vignette, Light Rays, and Line Art.


Final Cut Express 4 Overview


Your ticket to more advanced video editing, Final Cut Express 4 delivers a powerful and extensible toolset at a new price.

Import video

Capture the most popular formats — DV, HDV, or AVCHD — from your camcorder. Or export projects from iMovie ’09 for a final edit in Final Cut Express 4.

Audio
Create the perfect mix

Use multiple audio tracks, audio level automation, advanced audio filters, and the new Soft Normalize and Gain feature to achieve pro results easily.

Edit like a pro

Mix different video formats in the new open format Timeline, editing them in real time using the same precision tools found in Final Cut Pro. Learn more

Add custom titles with LiveType

Add dynamic animated text to your video projects using LiveType with its exclusive LiveFont animated font technology and huge library of textures and effects.

Compositing
Make composites and add effects

Create impressive composites and easily enhance video with sophisticated transitions, filters, and effects, including a wide assortment of FxPlug plug-ins.


Apple Final Cut Express PDF Overview


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Publisher's description


From Apple

Take your filmmaking to the next stage with Final Cut Express HD. Along with powerful DV editing tools, Final Cut Express HD now offers high-definition video (HDV) capability to beginners and experienced editors alike. And full versions of LiveType and Soundtrack let you create animated graphics, text effects and custom soundtracks.

Whether you want to make sophisticated home movies complete with transitions and effects or pro-level videos for your business, Final Cut Express HD provides the compositing, titling and effects capabilities you need to express your creativity. As a full-featured package, Final Cut Express HD offers an unparalleled combination of power and affordability

Additional Information

Monthly Price $13.00
Brand Apple
Version Final Cut Express 4
Type Media
Rating No
Supported Systems Mac OS X v10.4.10 or later
Requirements

A Mac computer with a 1.25GHz or faster PowerPC G4, PowerPC G5, Intel Core Duo, Intel Core 2 Duo, or Intel Xeon processor

   * For AVCHD: A Mac computer with an Intel processor

1GB of RAM or more
An AGP or PCI Express graphics card compatible with Quartz Extreme; or an Intel GMA integrated graphics processor in a MacBook or Mac mini computer

   * Some FxPlug filters are not compatible with integrated Intel graphics processors.

A display with 1024-by-768 resolution or higher
A DVD drive for installation
Mac OS X v10.4.10 or later
QuickTime 7.2 or later
500MB of disk space to install Final Cut Express and LiveType
Additional 500MB to install LiveType content

Features

Universal Applications

    * Final Cut Express 4 and LiveType 2.1 are Universal applications; they run on both PowerPC- and Intel-based Mac computers.

Input and Capture

    * Plug-and-play support for most DV25-format camcorders and decks: MiniDV and DVCAM (NTSC or PAL)
    * Plug-and-play support for most HDV-format camcorders and decks: 720p, 1080i
    * Plug-and-play support for most AVCHD-format camcorders and decks: 720p, 1080i*
    * FireWire device control of most FireWire-equipped MiniDV camcorders from such leading manufacturers as Sony, Canon, Panasonic, and JVC
    * Capture window for naming, adding comments to, and organizing clips as they are captured
    * Log and Transfer window for naming, adding comments to, organizing, and transferring AVCHD clips
    * Incremental clip naming during capture when a recording break is discovered
    * Still image importing for PSD, BMP, JPEG, PICT, PNG, SGI, TARGA, and TIFF formats
    * iMovie ’08 file import with cuts and dissolve transitions
    * Bins for project file and sequence organization
    * Clip organization in the Browser using extensive search and sort capabilities
    * Clip labels for organizing and sorting clips
    * Master and affiliate clip relationship for automatic update of certain properties of a clip, such as clip name or reel name, within the current project
    * Up to 32 levels of undo

Editing and Timeline

    * Mix DV (NTSC and PAL) and HD formats in the same Timeline
    * Nondestructive editing references original video to prevent alteration of source footage
    * Editing palette for most-used functions, enabling one-click, pro-style edits
    * Drag-and-drop editing
    * Editing in the Timeline
    * Three-point editing model
    * 99 video tracks with support for nesting sequences
    * Support for multiple sequences and projects for creating alternative edits or breaking projects into smaller pieces
    * Insert and overwrite with or without transitions
    * Replace, fit to fill, and superimpose edits
    * Blade and Blade All tools for adding edit points to sequences
    * Extend and split edits for additional editing options
    * Sync detection and correction to compensate for audio and video tracks that slip out of sync
    * Active track targeting for specifying individual or multiple tracks to apply edits or protect from editing
    * Auto Select controls of specific tracks in the Timeline for track content selection via In and Out points in the Timeline or Canvas
    * Keyframe graphs
    * Track locking
    * Timecode or frames in the Timeline
    * Clip, sequence, scoring, chapter, and compression markers
    * Clip and sequence marker export to LiveType for titling
    * Chapter marker export to iDVD
    * Custom, independent track heights
    * Autosave Vault for saving projects at specified intervals to prevent accidental loss

Trimming

    * Ripple, roll, slip, and slide
    * Asymmetric, multitrack trimming
    * Dynamic JKL trimming
    * Trim Edit window
    * Timeline trimming
    * Keyboard and numeric trimming

Output

    * Print to Video command for recording a sequence or clip back to DV or HDV device
    * Footage looping for multiple outputs on the same tape
    * Sequence, scoring, chapter, and compression markers
    * Marker export to DVD Studio Pro for chapter and compression settings
    * Project export using any QuickTime file format, including MPEG-4, for distribution via email or the web
    * Digital Cinema Desktop for full-screen, real-time preview playback

Streamlined Workflow

    * Full Unicode support
    * Dynamic window resizing
    * Mode-free interface for workflow efficiency
    * Simultaneous opening of multiple sequences and projects
    * 99 audio and 99 video tracks with support for nesting tracks together
    * System and user preferences
    * Easy Setups for quick configuration
    * Customizable real-time effects settings
    * Customizable render settings
    * Customizable window arrangements
    * Customizable user interface buttons
    * Customizable Browser layouts
    * Customizable track layouts
    * Custom, independent track heights in the Timeline

Media Management

    * Extensive search and sort capabilities in the Browser
    * Clip labels
    * Custom comment fields
    * Master and affiliate clips
    * Move, copy, and transcode capability at sequence or project level
    * Autosave Vault

Transitions, Filters, and Effects

    * More than 200 transitions, filters, and effects
    * Unlimited effects favorites
    * Over 50 new FxPlug filters and effects from Final Cut Pro
    * Support for third-party FxPlug filters and effects
    * Copy and paste capability for motion and effect attributes
    * Bezier curves for motion paths
    * Keyframe control of all effects and filters for precise results
    * Precision numeric controls for effects and animation
    * RT Extreme for scalable, software-based, multistream real-time effects
    * Safe and Unlimited RT Extreme modes for customizing performance versus quality tradeoffs
    * RT Extreme quality settings: low, medium, high. Low setting for maximum simultaneous real-time streams and effects; high setting for full-resolution output for finishing directly to DV or HDV device
    * Dynamic RT for automatic adjustment of image quality and frame rate on the fly, optimizing playback, and scaling performance as processor power increases
    * Opacity overlays in the Timeline for adjustable, keyframable opacity
    * Direct-to-Timeline drag-and-drop integration of Motion projects
    * Auto Render option
    * Broadcast-safe filter
    * 2D and 3D titles with Boris Calligraphy
    * Composite and transfer modes

Titling

    * Standard and scrolling text generators for creating titles that crawl, scroll, or appear in the lower third of the screen
    * Option to combine titles with other filters, effects, and compositing for unlimited creative expression
    * Boris Calligraphy plug-ins for 2D and 3D titles
    * Non-Latin alphabet characters and symbols with full Unicode support

LiveType 2.1

    * Animated title and motion graphics creation
    * Unicode system font support
    * 500MB of royalty-free animated content, including over 50 background textures and objects
    * Sophisticated project templates
    * More than 200 customizable text effects
    * Keyframe animation
    * Real-time wireframe preview
    * Canvas RAM preview
    * Import capability for a wide variety of formats
    * Independent and scalable resolution
    * Dynamic individual character control
    * Animation for rolls and crawls
    * Type on a curve capability
    * FontMaker utility for creating custom LiveFonts
    * Drag-and-drop integration to Final Cut Express 4 Timeline with auto-updating

Compositing

    * Nesting for virtually unlimited compositing layers for complex video effects
    * Adobe Photoshop file import, complete with layers for effects and motion graphics
    * Bezier curves with movable motion paths for animation application and control
    * Ease in/Ease out motion paths for smooth compositing animations
    * Time effects, including slow motion with frame blending, for smooth, time-altered playback
    * Accurate subpixel interpolation rendering for smooth, high-quality effects creation
    * Composite modes including multiply and lighten
    * Flicker filter for incorporation of still frames from video

Color Correction

    * Secondary (two-way) color corrector
    * Image control filters
    * Broadcast-safe filter
    * Correction for flesh tones and other key elements
    * Color mixing for visual style
    * Footage matching from different sources for consistency
    * Error correction in color balance and exposure

Audio

    * Up to 99 total audio tracks per sequence
    * More than 25 audio filters, including three-band and parameter equalizer, compressor/limiter, 60/120Hz hum remover, and noise gate for soundtrack quality control
    * New Soft Normalize and Gain filter
    * Real-time fader automation
    * Real-time audio filters and effects
    * Real-time audio filter adjustments during playback
    * Subframe audio keyframing to 1/100th of a frame
    * Sampling at 8kHz to 48kHz and 8 to 24 bits
    * Audio level meters
    * Mac OS X Audio Units plug-in support
    * Pan controls
    * Mute and solo controls
    * Audio waveform display in the Timeline
    * Logarithmic audio fades
    * Scrubbing with or without pitch shifting
    * Voice Over tool for adding narration directly to the Timeline
    * Audio level overlays viewable in the Timeline
    * No re-rendering required when muted tracks are reactivated