Final Cut Express 4 - iTunes/iPad Edition

Express Yourself

Final Cut Express 4 occupies the middle ground between iMovie and Final Cut Pro. Offering professional editing features, support for high definition video and real time effects playback, Final Cut Express is the perfect editorial solution for budget-minded filmmakers and digital content creators.

Final Cut Pro 4: Express Yourself is presented in 15 individual lessons with a running time of just over 5 hours. The tutorial also includes project files for following along in Final Cut Express 4. Each lesson focuses on building fundamental editorial skills such as logging your media, organizing your footage, trimming, audio mixing, creating titles and motion effects, color correcting and more!

Experience our Training on the iPad

The iPad is revolutionizing the way people access and interact with media. Video training is therefore a natural fit for people who want their training on the go or on a separate device from their main system. Because of the limited storage capacities of the iPad, we have labored to keep the movie sizes as small as possible while maintaining our high standards of image and sound quality. And perhaps best of all, you don't need to be connected to the internet to watch our tutorials on your iPad.

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Who is this Tutorial for?

Final Cut Express 4: Express Yourself starts from the beginning and assumes no prior knowledge of Final Cut Express 4 or Mac-based video editing. Our tutorial walks you through the complete editorial workflow, from initial media logging to final output. Along the way you'll learn techniques to make you more productive using Final Cut Express' arsenal of editing and compositing tools. Each step in the editing workflow is presented in easy-to-follow learning modules that include chapter markers you can use to navigate to the section you want to watch. It's the next best thing to having Steve beside you.

Bonus Tutorial - Creating Motion Graphics in LiveType

Final Cut Express 4 comes with a stand-alone titling application called LiveType. LiveType is used to create animated titles, lower thirds, DVD menus, show opens and other motion graphics content. To help you get up to speed in LiveType, we're including 10 bonus lessons called "Creating Motion Graphics in LiveType. To read more about what's in the included LiveType tutorials click here

Go Tape or Tapeless

Whether you are shooting on video tape, hard drive or flash memory cards, we've included 2 comprehensive lessons on the how to bring your media into Final Cut Express 4.

Edit like a Pro

Learn how to take advantage of Final Cut Express' powerful editing tools such as the Ripple tool (pictured here) to make fast adjustments to your edit points.

Color Correct Your Footage

Learn how to dramatically improve your footage using Final Cut Express 4's Color Correction Filter. We also show you some amazing time-saving tips for working with Filters.

Create Eye-Catching Titles

Final Cut Express 4 has an incredible array of titling tools. In Lesson 13 you will work with Final Cut Express' text generators, the Boris 3D Generaotor and a layered Photoshop document to create a network ID or "bug".

Apply Motion Effects

In lesson 14, you'll dive into Final Cut Express' Motion tab to create split-screens, piture-in-picture effects and learn how to animate photos using keyframes.

Sweeten Your Audio

Anything you do to your soundtracks to enhance them is called "sweetening". In lesson 10, you'll learn how to properly read the digital meters, when to link and unlink audio and video, and how to mix your audio using keyboard shortcuts.

Table of Contents

Getting Started

Capturing From Tape Based Media

Transferring From Memory Based Media

Working in the Browser

Marking Clips in the Viewer

Building a Sequence

Working in the Timeline

Using the Trimming Tools

Working with Markers

Working with Audio

Adding Transitions

Creating Titles

Applying Filters

Creating Motion Effects

Outputting Your Movie

Minimu System Requirements for Viewing Tutorials

Minimum System Requirements for Following Along in Final Cut Express 4