Final Cut Pro for Avid Editors

by Diana Weynand

'Final Cut Pro for Avid Editors: A Guide for Editors Making the Switch' teaches Final Cut Pro from an Avid Media Composer users perspective, using Avid images and terminology as references to guide... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0321166493
• ISBN13: 9780321166494
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Peachpit Press
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Highly recommended for any film pro involved in training and applications

Part of the Apple-certified training series, Final Cut Pro for Avid Editors is for film editors and professional video editors who already use Avid, but who want to move these skills to Final Cut Pro as quickly as possible. Chapters blend feature comparisons and conversion tips with charts, lesson goals and plans, chapter reviews, and more, making this an excellent guide for either classroom or self-study. It's a self-paced learning handbook highly recommended for any film pro involved in training and applications.

Avid to FCP Editors, Arm Yoruself With This Book

This book helps ease the monumental transition from Avid to FCP. It is definitely a must for anyone going through the change, but becomes less useful once you get the hang of FCP. Once you are through the transtion, then get the book Final Cut Pro 5 for Mac, which answers the rest. This book I could only find used, it is not easy to come by...

Up and running on FCP in a week

If you are ever forced to quickly learn Final Cut pro for the odd job where Avid is not a viable option, or you want to start editing your on stuff on the cheap, buy this, read it and practise it for a week and you will be a Pro at Pro, knowing everything there is to know, at least, where to find it and whether it is doable or not. It is a book written by an Avid editor for Avid editors who have to go through the same learning curve. You can be very surprised going through it on how similar the two editing systems are and most of all, how quickly you can synthesise the information and make it second nature. I fervently recommend this book being so well written, going always to the point and covering everything properly.

This book Yes Indeed

As an Avid editor and now learning FCP, I can recommend this book for helping to understand where everthing is. This book is a must unless you want to tear your hair out. If you know how it feels going from Media Composer to DS, then you will understand why you need this book and I might add others.

Moving from Avid to FCP? This book is great!

We have been an Avid only edit house for years, but reciently purchased two Final Cut systems. Most of the transition was pretty easy, but trying to figure out how to do some of the things in FCP that we did in our sleep on the Avid slowed us down a bit. This book draws great parallels between the two systems.