Final Cut Pro: Power Skills

Over 250 techniques guaranteed to make you work faster and more efficiently in Final Cut Pro.

- Written by a popular Final Cut trainer and bestselling author of Final Cut Pro Handson Training.
- Short, focused techniques are meant to give readers the skills they need to work better and more efficiently in the program.
- Covers the latest features in Final Cut Pro 7 but also applies to readers of previous versions of software.

You have the basics of Final Cut Pro down and now you need to work faster and more efficiently in the program. With over 250 focused techniques and shortcuts, this book gives you what you need to know to blaze through your projects and work smarter in Final Cut Pro. In Final Cut Pro Power Skills, you'll learn everything from organizing and setting up your workspace to uncovering secrets for editing and effects work to color-correction speed techniques, and more. You'll learn about Final Cut Pro 7's new features including new ProRes formats, which allows faster and higher quality editing across a wide variety of workflows; iChat theater support, which lets remote clients and collaborators see the same footage the editor sees while making changes ; new speed tools; Alpha Transitions which allows the creation of dramatic moving matte transitions; the ability to easily deliver content to multiple devices including iPhone, iPod, MobileMe; seamless integration with the other apps in Final Cut Studio and much more. These are the hidden techniques, the little-known keyboard shortcuts, the power skills that make the difference between getting a project done and getting in done with enough time to still have a life. Final Cut Pro is part of Apple's Final Cut Studio suite which is now shipping and retails for $999, $300 less than the previous release. The user base for Final Cut Studio is 1.4 million and growing.