Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Express

Whether you're a student who's serious about digital video, an event videographer, a small business owner, or a digital video enthusiast who needs a comprehensive editing system for your home computer, you'll find everything you need to begin using Apple's Final Cut Express software in Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Express. Written by master trainer Diana Weynand, this comprehensive course is both a self-paced learning tool and the approved curriculum for all Apple-certified trainers. Each chapter in this hands-on guide represents a complete lesson--with a project to complete, a review section, and bonus exercises to reinforce the lessons. Diana takes you through every aspect of editing with Final Cut Express: working in the timeline and viewer, making and adjusting edits, adding audio, creating transitions, and more. Work through the entire book, or pick just the sections that interest you most: Either way, you'll find just what you need to begin making movie magic.

Diana Weynand's training company, Weynand Training International, provides authorized training for Apple and Adobe products as well as curriculum development for emerging entertainment-industry technologies. She has written numerous books, including Peachpit's Final Cut Pro for Avid Editors.