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Final Cut Pro Tutorial
- plug your DV or Digital8 camera into the computer via FireWire.
- open Final Cut Pro.
- choose Log and Capture from the File menu.
- select the Clip Settings and make sure you are capturing Audio+Video and the audio format is Stereo. For best results, simply use the DV NTSC capture and sequence setting presets.
- use the transport controls in the Log and Capture window to control your camcorder and find the footage you want to capture.
- mark the start and end of your sequence by either Clicking the Mark In (>|) and Mark Out (|<) buttons, or entering specific timecodes (In and Out) in the timecode fields at the bottom of the window.
- name the clip in the Label box, or select Prompt and it will prompt you.
- click the "Clip" button to capture the marked clip.
- the clip opens in its own window.
at this point, you
If you aren't editing and exporting a Final Cut Pro movie, then save your captured clip somewhere. quit Final Cut Pro (command-Q).
check out the list of resources, related to final cut pro, ... on the fabulous site run by sf cutters ... which is a fine group and will answer many questions via chatrooms and emails and so forth ...
http://www.sfcutters.org/
Also ... download the new keyboard map for final cut 4 here
zoom in and check it out:
http://www.csif.org/downloads/fcp_4_keyboard.pdf
And ... Ken Stone's Final Cut Pro Site:
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/fcp_homepage_index.html
Finally, Apple's own new final cut 4 site:
http://www.apple.com.au/finalcutpro/
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