Apple Final Cut Express HD (Mac)

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Price: $199.00

Features

Filmmaking software with powerful DV editing tools

High-definition video HDV capability for both new and experienced editors

Full-featured, professional-quality animated titling program, LiveType

Create custom musical accompaniment for video projects with Soundtrack

Precision tools and techniques for flexible editing; versatile interface

Product Description
Known for its powerful DV editing tools, Final Cut Express HD is now also the ideal choice for editing high-definition video with its new HD support. Customers can edit HD video as easily as they edit digital video. With LiveType, customers can add animated text and graphics, and with Soundtrack, customers can create custom music. Final Cut Express HD is the ideal DV and HDV editing software solution for prosumers and creative business users who want true professional-quality results.

Product Description
Final Cut Express HD is the ideal choice for editing high-definition video. Edit HD video as easily as they edit digital video, for creative projects. Create more sophisticated home movies and business presentations by adding animated graphics, text effects and custom soundtracks. It's a full-featured tool offering an unparalleled combination of power and affordability. Mix up to 99 audio tracks for audio and use the VoiceOver tool to record narration into an audio track Enhance audio with pans, levels and the three-band equalizer -- then add transitions, cross fades, reverb, EQ, echo, noise gate and more Choose from thousands of included instrument loops and sound effects. to compose the perfect score for your video

Reader Reviews
I had used iMovie for several projects over the last year and a half before I decided to upgrade to Final Cut Express HD when working on video of my wife's niece's wedding. I finished that project, but for me iMovie's ease and elegance is more important than FCE HD's power and complexity, so I have sold my copy of FCE HD on eBay and have gone back to iMovie. The rest of this review is from my original review of FCE HD from July 11, 2005 (shortly after I bought it). This revision was submitted on February 13, 2006. Apple sells FCE HD as an a step up in features from iMovie, but -- wow! -- it gives you a lot more flexibility but at a huge cost in complexity too! The Apple magic of making something simple enough to let you concentrate on the creativity and not the mechanics of the project seems missing here. IMPORTANT: An employee at the Apple Store near me confided to me that there is very little difference between Final Cut Pro HD and Final Cut Express HD. The extra $700 for the Pro version allows outputting your movie in broadcast quality -- if you don't need that, he said, you can save $700 and buy the Express version. I had just seen the employee give a short in-store class on Final Cut Pro and he said I could do EVERYTHING he did in the class EXACTLY the same way in Final Cut Express! He said the only way you could tell which is which is by the name in the menu bar! (Maybe this is common knowledge in the Final Cut Pro/Express community, but I couldn't find out exactly what was different on Apple's website.) IMPORTANT: There is NO TUTORIAL included for Final Cut Express. There is a 900 page PDF manual on the CD, but since I had never worked with "pro" video editing software, I found it very useful to buy a third party how-to book. I chose "Final Cut Express" by Lisa Brenneis (ISBN: 0-321-35026-X, Peachpit Press) because it seemed well written and had many useful examples. There are a few scattered examples in the online manual, but not enough for my taste. The online manual is all the help you get -- selecting Window -

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