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The Apple-Certified Way to Learn This fully updated Apple-certified guide presents a real-world workflow from raw media to finished project to demonstrate the features of Final Cut Pro X 10.3 and the practical techniques you will use in editing projects. Using professionally acquired media, you'll utilize the same tools and editing techniques used by editors worldwide in this revolutionary editing software. Renowned editor and master trainer Brendan Boykin starts with basic video editing techniques and takes you all the way through Final Cut Pro's powerful features. The lessons start as real world as it gets-with an empty application. After downloading the media files, you will be guided through creating a project from scratch to finished draft. The basic workflow and tools are covered in Lessons 1 through 4 where you create a rough cut.



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Brendan Boykin

My background is in television news and corporate video. In TV newsland, I've been an editor, videographer, director/technical director, and live-truck operator. After a few years in news, I moved into corporate video, where I wore the hats of producer, director, videographer, editor, technical support, and trainer. I have been through the transitions from analog tape formats to whichever digital format flavor-of-the-day is current. And along with those format transitions has been the journey from linear editing to non-linear editing, including all versions of Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Pro X.I've been using Final Cut Pro since version 1. I learned about the Apple certification program in 2002. As I had already written short, Final Cut Pro training guides for a couple of clients, as well as done silo-installations for those clients, I jumped on board and became an Apple Certified Trainer with Final Cut Pro 3. In 2006, Peachpit Press contracted me to be a technical reviewer for the Apple Pro Training Series books. Eight years later, I've served as technical reviewer, technical editor, contributing writer, co-author, and author of 28 books in the APTS and ATS series.When not doing video, providing training or authoring materials, I'm usually exploring Colorado in my Jeep®, camping, or learning something new about Amateur Radio. Combining all three doesn't happen often enough.



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