Video Focus

The single topic special series for pro video editors

ON SALE NOW – Video Focus: Final Cut Pro

Featuring the same great quality and depth of the Music Tech Focus series, Video Focus is on sale now!

Video Focus: Final Cut Pro is 132 pages of practical Final Cut Pro know-how for professional and serious video editors. It’s packed with hands-on tutorials, features and advice to help you improve the results you get from working in Apple’s Final Cut Studio. PLUS this special edition issue comes complete with a DVD of video tutorials, walkthrough resources and video effects.

Video Focus: Final Cut Pro is available in WH Smith (UK) now priced £8.99 with free DVD and in good bookstores in Europe. On sale in USA from mid-May at Barnes & Noble and Borders, and in Australia/World late May.

Buy online now £8.99 UK inc p&p, £10.99 Europe, £13.99 USA/World, or call 0844 856 0642 (+44 1795 414877 outside UK)

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Inside this special issue

Workshops

14 Final Cut workshops and walkthroughs covering: transcoding and batch processing, enhancing and restoring audio, the Tool Palette explained, creating a basic DVD, motion graphics, scoring music tracks, using Behaviours in Motion, surround sound, adding polish to your discs, better slow-mo in Compressor, colour correction, Final Cut plug-ins, broadcast quality and creative motion tracking.

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Special features

As well as step-by-step walkthroughs, there are in-depth features and expert interviews to really advance your Final Cut expertise: Codecs and Compression Formats, Getting started in Final Cut, History of Final Cut, 50 Tips and Tricks, Interviews with the creative talent at Locomotion, UNIT and Preditor.

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Free DVD

This issue comes with a free DVD packed full of effects, resources and video tutorials covering:

•    4 hours of video tutorials covering: Final Cut 7, Compressor, Motion 4, Mastering DVD Studio Pro, Color Correction, Motion 4, Sound Editing in Final Cut Studio, Ultimate guide To Using The Revolutionary Camera and more
•    Over 110 demo and freeware effects from Nattress, CGM, Lyric, Core, Sheffield Softworks, Noise Industries, Digital Heaven, Mattias Sandström and Joe’s Filters
•    Royalty-free sound samples from Time & Space
•    All the screenshots and resources for the magazine workshops.

Video Focus: Final Cut Pro is available in WH Smith (UK) now and good bookstores in Europe. On sale in USA from mid-May at Barnes & Noble and Borders, and in Australia/World late May. Buy online now, or call 0844 856 0642 (+44 1795 414877 outside UK)

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