Final cut pro 6 manual

While the Smooth Cam filter has no mention, and very little attention paid to the mixed formats ability of Final Cut 6, should you start the book from the beginning, by the end, you will find yourself familiar and comfortable with most everything you need to know.

I would strongly recommend that you copy the media from the supplied disc to your hard drive rather than run it off the disc. It will play back considerably smoother for you and you can pace yourself however you may like. Awhile back I took the previous version for Final Cut 5 and, just for the fun of it, worked with it from cover to cover.

I found it beneficial in a number of ways. There is always something to learn or be reminded of. The Apple Pro Training Series for Final Cut Pro 6 is heads and tales better than working with the manual that comes with Studio 2 and I look forward to seeing the complete series as they are released.

And there you have my bottom line. Feel free to contact him if you are interested in joining Steve on any of these exciting trips. This article first appeared on www. For example, the Media Manager which manages media files for conversion to other formats and Cinema Tools which works with converted film material have been improved.

Version 6. The good news is that once you transcode your video into these formats, editing and rendering are much faster than in native HDV. The cameras on the Mac HD Web site , for example, are confirmed by Apple to work as long as you are using the proper Mac hardware. Macworld has not tested this in-house yet, but has verified with independent sources that this feature works as advertised.

We will post the results of our own testing as soon as we can. FCP 6 always felt solid and stable: in several days of testing on five machines, I never experienced a crash or lockup. Performance was consistently zippy on dual-G5 and faster Macs, and installation went smoothly. My biggest issue was the time it took to install the full nine-DVD, 55GB suite, and making room on a boot drive on my older G5s in order to do so.

Open Format Timeline Feature In Final Cut Pro 6, you can freely mix clips with different formats in a single sequence and play back the sequence in real. Final Cut Pro combines high-performance digital editing and native support for virtually any video format with easy-to-use and timesaving features that let you focus on storytelling.

To explore the Final Cut Pro User Guide, click Table of Contents at the top of the page, or enter a word or phrase in the search field.