Final Cut Express 4

• Edit shortly and precisely together with professional, flexible editing tools; achieve the look you would like together with a robust suite of color correction and picture adjustment tools
• Mix and edit DV, HDV, and AVCHD video in a single Timeline; mix up to 99 audio tracks together with built-in audio editing tools
• Work together with built-in filter results and third-party FxPlug plug-ins; watch results in real time thanks to RT Extreme together with Dynamic RT
• Effortlessly make sophisticated, animated titles together with LiveType 2.1; precisely change the animation of any result or transition utilizing keyframes
• Import iMovie '08 video projects together with cuts and cross dissolves

Great video editing for DV, HDV, and AVCHD. Advance your moviemaking skills together with Final Cut Express 4.

Extra Great Video Editing for DV, HDV, and AVCHD
Capture clips from your camcorder over a single FireWire or USB cable, then use the new Open Format Timeline in Final Cut Express 4 to edit mutually DV, HDV, and AVCHD material, even if they have different frame rates. Fine-tune your choices together with professional ripple, roll, slip, and slide editing functions, either in the Timeline or a dedicated Trim window. And when it comes time to add results, Dynamic RT lets you instantly preview results, filters, transitions, and multistream composites in real time not including rendering.

A Workflow This Grows together with You
Final Cut Express is intended to offer a neat, straightforward workflow. Capturing video, editing clips, and adding transitions or results are all a click away in the intuitive, drag-and-drop interface. In addition, you can customize the interface by environment window configurations, adding shortcut buttons, and resizing track sizes and asset thumbnails to fit your preferences and streamline your workflow.

Extended Creative Abilities
Adding professional finishing touches to your video is possible throughout fine control of extra than 200 transitions, filters, and results. Combined together with compositing, titling, and keyframing, they provide you the capability to make visually rich, dynamic video projects. Get ready to extend your creative options too, for the reason that Final Cut Express 4 maintains third party FxPlug filters and results, the same plug-in architecture used by Final Cut Studio. And audio is not forgotten, as Final Cut Express offers 99 audio tracks together with great sound editing tools and extra than a dozen audio filters.

Together with the bundled LiveType 2, you can add sophisticated, HD-excellence, animated topic and motion graphics to videos shortly and effortlessly. LiveType consists of animated LiveFonts, over 200 preconfigured topic results, and a diversity of customizable templates, backgrounds, textures, and objects this can be added to any Final Cut Express project.

Extra Than One Way to Show Off
Do sure everyone gets to see your finished project. Whether your final product will be output to videotape or QuickTime for distribution over the web, iPhone or iPod, you're sure to locate this Final Cut Express brings the power, excellence, and features this do it the perfect choice for complex moviemaking.

Together with Final Cut Express 4, you can Log and Transport AVCHD video files shortly and effortlessly to your Intel processor-based Mac over USB.

Selected New Features

Use Movies Captured from AVCHD Camcorders
Together with Final Cut Express 4, you can Log and Transport AVCHD video files shortly and effortlessly to your Intel processor-based Mac over USB. The Log and Transport window lets you to review and pick and choose specific clips you would like to transport, saving you time and hard drive space. One time the clips are transferred to Apple's Intermediate Codec on your hard drive, you can begin frame-accurate editing in real time, complete together with multilayer video, topic, or graphic compositing. Would like to check your handiwork? Preview it full screen whenever you'd like utilizing your primary or secondary display.

Mix Different Formats in a Timeline
Whether you have DV, HDV, or AVCHD content, the new Open Format Timeline in Final Cut Express 4 lets you mix and match clips, even if they use different frame sizes and frame rates. Freely edit a combination of HDV, AVCHD, and DV, counting NTSC and PAL, all in real time utilizing the same industry-leading editing and trimming tools found in Final Cut Pro. Set your sequence to an HD resolution and DV clips will be scaled to fit automatically; conversely, if your sequence is set to DV resolution, HD clips can be cropped or letterboxed for a ideal fit.

Extend Your Results for Visually Rich Looking Movies
Final Cut Express comes together with extra than 200 transitions, filters, and results counting over 50 new FxPlug plug-ins. These contain standard results like dissolves, wipes, and blurs to extra stylized FxPlug results like Light Rays, Line Art and Insect Eye. When you want even extra creative options, extend your results palette utilizing optional third-party FxPlug results, the same plug-in architecture used by Final Cut Studio. Many FxPlug results use your graphics card for accelerated rendering--so the better your graphics card, the faster your FxPlug rendering.

Get Your iMovie '08 projects into Final Cut Express 4
Moving from iMovie '08 to Final Cut Express is simple: iMovie projects can be exported directly to Final Cut Express--together with all of their cuts and dissolve transitions intact. All you do is open the Final Cut XML document and begin utilizing the complex functions of Final Cut Express to increase your iMovie '08 projects.

Great Editing together with Final Cut Express
Final Cut Express puts professional-style editing controls in your hands, allowing you to drag clips directly to a track or use the overlay controls in the Canvas. And for the reason that editing in Final Cut Express is nondestructive, you can experiment together with changes not including modifying your source footage. The editing palette contains tools to cut and modify clips in the Timeline: Cut clips into two pieces, modify the duration of a clip, modify the duration of two clips concurrently, move In and Out points, reselect a new range of frames inside a clip, and resize or expand an edit.

Managing windows is in addition flexible and simple, so you can tailor the workspace to suit your needs.

Trimming is used to fine-tune a sequence by adding or subtracting frames from the In or Out point of a clip.

Use color correction to make contrast or exclusive results.

When working together with large projects or sequences this contain repetitive results, filters, and motion, it is often convenient to copy and paste the attributes from one clip to another.

Do Professional Edits
One time you've captured some or all of the clips this will go into your finished movie, it's time to initiate editing. You will locate a way to edit this is comfortable for you; Final Cut Express is extremely flexible. When you have assembled an edited sequence, you can trim your edits and modify your sequence in several ways as well.

• Utilizing visual controls in the interface
• Directly manipulating your clips utilizing the mouse in the Timeline
• Utilizing keyboard shortcuts

True nondestructive, nonlinear editing
Final Cut Express 4 offers true nonlinear editing abilities for the DV, HDV, and AVCHD formats. All editing is nondestructive to the original footage on your hard drive. Clips in Final Cut Express are merely pointers to the original source material, so any deletion or duplication of clips in the project, trimming changes, results, or other alterations you do do not affect the source files themselves.

Editing tools at work
Professional-style editing means frame-accurate control over trimming your clips, extra flexibility in making edits in the Timeline, and unlimited editing creativity. The editing tools in the palette contain the following:

• Razor blade. Cuts a single clip into two pieces. This can be useful for shortly rearranging pieces of your sequence, deleting a section of a clip, applying an result to a specific part of a clip, or moving a piece of a clip to the same setting on another track.
• Ripple edit. Changes the duration of a clip. It moves the setting of either the Out point preceding or the In point following an edit point. The duration of the clip to the left or the right of the edit point is shortened or lengthened to fit the new edit point not including varying the setting of the edit in the sequence.
• Roll edit. Changes together the selected clip and an adjacent clip. This type of edit adjusts the setting of an edit point shared by two clips; the Out point of the first clip and the In point of the second clip are moved or rolled. This changes the setting of the edit in the sequence as well as the duration of every clip. Roll edits are useful when you would like to match the action of one clip together with the action of another and want to locate the right intersecting frames.
• Slip edit. Moves the In and Out points of a clip concurrently while maintaining its duration and position in the edited sequence. Surrounding clips are not affected, just the range of frames in the clip. This is useful for adjusting footage you've edited into your sequence not including moving it in the Timeline.
• Slide edit. Moves an entire clip along together with the edit points to its left and right. The duration of the clip being moved stays the same, but the clips to the left and right of it modify duration.
• Resize edit. Expands or shortens a clip by moving the In or Out point.
• Expand edit. Lets you to move an edit point between two clips shortly. This edit moves an edit point to the position of the playhead in the Timeline.

Refine Your Edits together with Trimming
Afterwards you have made your initial edits and assembled your footage in the Timeline, you can refine your sequence. Trimming is used to fine-tune a sequence by adding or subtracting frames from the In or Out point of a clip. These small adjustments to your initial edits help to make smoother edits.

Trim Edit window
This window offers very precise control while trimming. It displays together sides of an edit--the outgoing clip before the edit point and the incoming clip this appears afterwards it--allowing you to change your edit together with frame-altitude accuracy. You can in addition use this window to trim a group of edits in multiple tracks at one time (only one edit per track).

Dynamic and asymmetric trimming
Final Cut Express consists of dynamic trimming in the increased Trim Edit window. When dynamic trimming is on, keyboard controls agree to you to trim on the fly. Move the playhead utilizing the J, K, and L keys to locate new Out and In points for the selected edit point. If dynamic trimming is turned on in the General tab of the Customer Preferences window, the selected edit point moves to the new position of the playhead whenever you stop. In addition, Final Cut Express maintains asymmetric trimming--an complex technique this provides you a quick way to trim multiple clips in opposite directions.

Add Transitions and Results
Final Cut Express provides you a suite of great tools for adding cool results. And since you can use third-party FxPlug filter results, your creative options are unlimited as well. Add a transition between clips. Use the Color Corrector to fix and match clips or to make a dramatic look. Control all results and motion parameters together with keyframes for professional looks and precise timing.

See it now together with real-time results
Together with the real-time engine in Final Cut Express, you get superb outcomes shortly, not including rendering. RT Extreme is an increased multistream, real-time results architecture this lets you view your projects not including rendering as you experiment together with results, transitions, composition, and filters. Final Cut Express 4 consists of Dynamic RT, which adjusts resolution and frame rate on the fly for maximum real-time performance, letting you set it and not recall it.

RT Extreme leverages the strengths of Mac OS X and the Intel or PowerPC processor to support a scalable number of video streams and real-time results: The number of available video streams and real-time results enhances as processor speeds enhance. Real-time video transitions and filters be visible in bold in the Results tab and in the Results menu to mean this they will have fun back in real time. The RT Extreme pop-up menu in the Timeline provides you several options for results processing. You can select between various modes this bring either maximum simultaneous streams and real-time results or guaranteed playback not including dropped frames.

• Safe. In Safe mode, Final Cut Express offers guaranteed playback of real-time results. The number of streams and results is based on the abilities of your system.
• Unlimited. In Unlimited mode, Final Cut Express uses each bit of processing power available, allowing you to stack up multiple streams of video. When Unlimited is selected, you can use nearly all of the extra than 200 results, filters, and transitions in real time.
• Dynamic RT. In Unlimited RT mode, you can select the Dynamic environment for Playback Video Excellence, Playback Frame Rate, or together. In Dynamic mode, resolution and frame rate are adjusted automatically, on the fly, so you always get the best real-time performance at the maximum excellence possible. For example, Final Cut Express will have fun back your project at Full Frame Rate unless it distinguishes a section of the Timeline this requires a lower frame rate for real-time playback. It will change for this section, then automatically return to Full Frame Rate one time the section is done. Dynamic RT lets you set it and not recall it, confident this you are always leveraging the maximum real-time performance of your CPU.

Smooth out your transitions
A transition is a visual result used to modify from one clip in your edited sequence to the next. Transitions, particularly dissolves, generally provide the viewer an impression of a modify in time or setting. Final Cut Express comes together with a diversity of transitions from which to select, counting cross-dissolve, page peel, cube spin, and gradient wipe.

Use color to make better pictures
The color correction filters in Final Cut Express offer precise control over the look of each clip. You can change the color balance, hue, saturation, black levels, mids, and white levels on unique clips. Check flesh tones and other key elements for consistency and accuracy in color. Compare and manipulate the brightness and color levels of clips in preparation for output to tape. All the tools necessary to analyze and color-correct clips are integrated.

You can use the two-way color corrector to change the angle of hue and overall balance of an picture. This filter can be combined together with Picture Control filters as well as Matte and Key filters. The assortment of filters makes Final Cut Express exceptionally great and flexible for corrective finishing work. The Color Corrector has numeric controls as well as visual customer interfaces. All parameters can be changed over time throughout the use of keyframes. Together interfaces have Limit Result controls, allowing you to isolate color correction operations to specific areas of an picture based on chrominance, luminance, saturation, or any combination. There are a number of reasons to use the color correction filters integrated together with Final Cut Express:

• Ensuring this a project's key elements look the way they should. The color correction tools let you do whatever adjustments are essential to ensure this the colors and the flesh tones of people in the final edited piece look the way they did in reality.
• Balancing all the shots in a scene to match. Together with careful color correction, all of the clips in a scene can be balanced to match one another so this they look as if they happened at the same time and in the same situate, together with the same lighting.
• Correcting errors in color balance and exposure. The color correction filters offer an unprecedented degree of control over the color balance and exposure of clips, allowing you to ideal your adjustments.
• Achieving a "look." Together with color correction, you have control over whether your video has rich, saturated colors or a extra quiet look. Such subtle modifications can alter the perception of the scene being played, varying its mood.
• Creating contrast or exclusive results. Utilizing color correction, you can subtly accentuate differences. You can in addition make extra extreme results, such as manipulating the colors of an exposure to achieve a day-for-night look. You can even keyframe color changes over time; for example, gradually varying a clip from sepia-toned to full color.

FxPlug filters and results
Final Cut Express comes together with extra than 200 transitions, filters, and results, counting over 50 new FxPlug plug-ins this use GPU-accelerated rendering. Bundled filters and results range from standard products like dissolves, wipes, and blurs to extra stylized FxPlug results like Light Rays, Line Art, and Insect Eye. When you want even extra creative options, Final Cut Express lets you extend your results palette together with optional third-party FxPlug support, the same plug-in architecture used by Final Cut Studio.

Copy, paste, and shunt attributes
When working together with large projects or sequences this contain repetitive results, filters, and motion, it is often convenient to copy and paste the attributes from one clip to another (or others). Similarly, you can shunt attributes from a clip or clips. You can paste keyframes as is or scale them to fit the duration of the clip on which they are being pasted. The following attributes can be copied, pasted, or removed from any clip.

Compositing and Titles
Final Cut Express offers great tools to manipulate, animate, or combine pictures. You can achieve spectacular outcomes by layering video clips or graphics files, such as multilayered Adobe Photoshop files, to make rich visual pictures and animations. You can in addition make excellent titles together with filters, results, and compositing.

By combining two or extra video tracks, in addition called compositing, you can make excitement together with sophisticated exclusive results and visually rich imagery.

Final Cut Express maintains a virtually unlimited number of video, topic, and graphics layers.

All parameters of an object--such as size, rotation, corner distortion, and any applied results--are in addition controllable utilizing keyframes.

LiveType 2 is a full-featured, professional-excellence titling application this lets you to make dynamic, animated titles shortly and effortlessly.

Use Multiple Video Layers
Utilizing multiple video layers is one of the simplest and fastest ways to add a professional look to your projects. By combining two or extra video tracks, in addition called compositing, you can make excitement together with sophisticated exclusive results and visually rich imagery. Utilizing the virtually unlimited number of video tracks, do dynamic, composited video--like image-in-image, split-screen, and video collages. A sequence can be nested as a clip in another sequence, and any changes in a nested sequence ripple throughout all sequences this contain it. Edited sequences are fully changeable and can be nested for reuse again and again in multiple Timelines.

Seeing your results and compositions in real time instead of waiting for them to render lets you experiment extra and use less time editing. The RT Extreme engine intelligently scales to the abilities of your hardware, getting spectacularly extra real-time results, transitions, and video layers--even when you are utilizing HD footage or editing on a laptop computer. Dynamic RT adjusts frame rate and resolution on the fly, so you always get the maximum real-time performance.

Professional compositing outcomes
Final Cut Express maintains a virtually unlimited number of video, topic, and graphics layers. You can import Adobe Photoshop files directly into Final Cut Express either as a flattened picture or together with all layers maintained on separate tracks. You can then combine your Photoshop graphics together with video, apply animation and results to the layers, and add additional titles and animated elements from LiveType.

Complete control of all results, counting motion
All video layers in Final Cut Express can have motion attributes added to them for dynamic compositing. Bezier and numeric controls enable you to modify the position of layers, make motion paths together with or not including a curve, and change the acceleration of objects along a path, ensuring smooth, highly sophisticated outcomes. To make motion for an object or video layer, you make a keyframe by clicking the Add Keyframe button, move to a new point on the Timeline, and then drag the object to a new setting. A path is automatically drawn. Varying the spacing of the points along the path adjusts the acceleration of the product. Adjustments are made right on the path itself, getting direct feedback on how the animation will work. All parameters of an object--such as size, rotation, corner distortion, and any applied results--are in addition controllable utilizing keyframes.

Talk together with Titles
Titling offers a finishing touch, and Final Cut Express has all the tools essential to make stunning titles, utilizing the built-in tools or the bundled LiveType application. Keyframe and animate titles like any other object. Do topic crawl, scroll, or be visible in the lower third of the screen. You can even make animated type on results or spin topic in 3D space utilizing the Boris 3D title generator.

LiveType
LiveType 2 is a full-featured, professional-excellence titling application this lets you to make dynamic, animated titles shortly and effortlessly. Together with LiveFonts--fonts together with their own animated behaviors--in addition full support for all system fonts and a way to make new results, LiveType is neat enough for the first-time customer and great enough for the professional.

LiveType comes together with included LiveFonts, as well as effortlessly adapted project templates, customizable keyframed results, and a library of animated content. It in addition consists of alpha channel support, dynamic unique character control, and frame-accurate registration together with Final Cut Express projects. Professionally intended templates get your project off to a quick begin (you can build and save your own templates as well).

LiveType templates combine the various elements available in the application, counting LiveFonts, system fonts, and animated textures and objects, into ready-touse, customizable projects for your video.

LiveFonts
Developed specifically for video and intended by professional animators, LiveFonts let you type out sophisticated animated font styles as effortlessly as you'd type out a system font. And for the reason that they're created together with an alpha channel, LiveFonts key right over video.

Royalty-free content
LiveType comes together with broadcast-excellence animated textures and objects this you can use in your projects, allowing even nonanimators to produce professional-altitude content right out of the box. The textures can be used full screen, matted inside topic or objects, or scaled down for use in lower thirds.

Customizable results
Results in LiveType are like digital building blocks--modular behaviors this contain movement, transformation, and timing parameters. The extra than 200 prebuilt results this come together with LiveType provide you the power to add fades, zooms, rotations, and motion this ripple throughout your letters, and you can make your own styles by adjusting these results in the LiveType interface. You can in addition use LiveType to make results dynamically on the fly and even save them for use in future projects. Its distinctive approach to keyframe animation makes creating results fast and simple.

Timing is everything
Together with LiveType, animation is easier than ever before. Every keyframe in an result contains all the parameters for this moment in time, eliminating the time-consuming hassle of long keyframe stacks. And since LiveType treats each character of the word as a separate layer, great timing features such as sequencing provide you the creative liberty to move single characters in a topic block together with unique timing elements, so you're not limited to blocks of topic this fly all-around the screen as one picture. The wireframe preview lets you see your work in real time.

Flexible and compatible
You can import clips from Final Cut Express complete together with markers, so it's simple to synchronize your titles to important video and audio transitions in your video projects. LiveType in addition imports and exports all QuickTime-supported document formats, counting Adobe Photoshop, JPEG, TIFF, and PICT.

A wide range of options
Final Cut Express maintains direct Timeline document positioning of LiveType projects, for a smooth and simple workflow. LiveType can make a QuickTime movie this you can import into your Final Cut Express bin like any other document, and creates files together with or not including an alpha channel, making them available to your Final Cut Express projects.

In addition, LiveType lets you to set up your own project size and resolution, so you can work in a custom environment of your choosing. It in addition maintains all of your system fonts, counting PostScript and TrueType fonts, making it possible to make an even wider spectrum of titling results.

Audio
Together with Final Cut Express, you can edit, increase, and change a video's audio tracks. Final Cut Express can mix up to 99 tracks and have fun back up to eight audio tracks in real time. You can add multiple tracks of music, sound results, or voiceover shortly and effortlessly.

Capture audio directly to the Timeline from a built-in or external microphone together with the Voice Over tool.

Real-Time Audio Filters
Audio filters can be adjusted in real time as the track is playing, so you can listen to your work in progress. This helps you experiment extra and exercise extra creative control over your projects. Final Cut Express consists of a number of filters for adjusting your audio clips to be as strong, clear, and noise-free as possible. Filters can in addition be used to blend the clips in your audio mix to prevent the sound excellence or tone of a particular clip from standing out.

• Soft normalize filter. This nondestructive filter scans the audio for the peak (loudest) sample altitude, then applies a gain filter this delivers the peak to the altitude you request. This is perfect for achieving consistency in your audio soundtracks.
• Equalization filters. Use equalization filters to correct unnatural-sounding audio recordings by adjusting specific frequencies. For example, if your audio was recorded in a room this accentuates treble or bass, you can decrease those frequencies.
• Compressor/limiter and extension filters. These filters agree to you to change an audio clip's dynamic range afterwards it has been captured. The compressor/limiter filter lets you change the dynamic range of an audio clip so this the loudest part of the clip is compressed to inside a specified range of the softest part of the clip. The extension filter raises parts of a clip this are too low.
• Hum remover. The hum remover lets you get rid of "cycle hum" (a low buzzing) this may have been introduced into your audio recording by power lines crossing your cables or by a shorted ground wire.
• Vocal DeEsser. This filter is essentially a specialized equalizer this decreases the "ess" sounds produced by a speaker together with pronounced s's or a microphone this accentuates high frequencies.
• Vocal DePopper. The Vocal DePopper lets you attenuate the harsh "p" sounds this outcome from puffs of breath bursting into the microphone.
• Echo and reverb filters. These "results" filters help you match foreground audio clips to the background in which they be visible.
• Noise gate. The noise gate eliminates all sound below a specified volume threshold.

Precise Controls
There's no fumbling when trying to edit audio together with Final Cut Express. Subframe audio editing down to 1/100 of a frame provides precise control over audio edits. Dynamic audio altitude meters offer instantaneous visual information on the range of an audio track as it plays, and audio pan controls do it simple to work together with stereo tracks during playback. In the Timeline, solo and mute controls agree to you to isolate unique audio tracks. And no re-rendering is necessary when quiet tracks are reactivated, so you save an incredible amount of time as well.

Voice Over Tool
Capture audio directly to the Timeline from a built-in or external microphone together with the Voice Over tool. Make fast scratch tracks or voiceover work while editing a project. The Voice Over tool offers a countdown cue, and records before begin and afterwards stop to offer the recorded sound together with handles.

Finding Your Audience
You've used Final Cut Express to put the finishing touches on your movie. You're done together with editing, compositing, and color corrections. You've added results, transitions, and titles, and you've created professional audio tracks. Now you have several options for sharing your finished project.

Print to Video
The Print to Video command sends your project out to videotape. This is useful when you would like to record back to DV, make backup copies of your video project or connect your device to your home or other theater system for direct playback.

Make a DVD
Make named chapter markers in your video project. Use these markers to divide your video into navigable chapters in iDVD. Final Cut Express consists of a workflow document this outlines the neat one-step process of delivering your movie into iDVD.

Export Video for the Web
Export projects utilizing a wide range of QuickTime-supported codecs, counting MPEG-4, for distribution via email or the web.

Whatever your chosen method of distribution, Final Cut Express has the features and power you want to advance your DV, HDV, and AVCHD moviemaking.