Workshops

Special Features

Free DVD

14 Final Cut workshops and walkthroughs covering:

Final Cut workshops on changing speed, creative credits and titles, creating subtitles, compositing techniques, using Photoshop with FCP, understanding the foley and ADR, how to output your edit. PLUS step-by-steps on dialogue in Soundtrack, menu design in DVD Pro, creating a consistent soundtrack and mastering depth of field.

As well as step-by-step walkthroughs, there are in-depth features to really advance your Final Cut expertise:

1. •Why and how editing works
   

2. •Make Motion work for you
   

3. •Understanding export techniques
   

4. •Create your own music tracks
   

5. •Discover grading with Color

Click here to view Compositing in FCP pages

On this issues’s FREE DVD:

1. •150 minutes of video tutorials covering: Final Cut Studio, using Photoshop CS5 with FCP, Sound Editing with FCP and Soundtrack, Workflow top tips, using Motion templates and filter & effects tip videos
   

2. •The very latest demos from CHV-Electronics, CGM, Core Melt, Digital Heaven and Noise Industries
   

3. •Royalty-free samples including ethnic percussion, chilled ambiences, Motown grooves and flute loops
   

4. •Plus still images from Shutterstock, themes from DVDThemePak and Motion templates.

Click here to view Exploring pages

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Video Focus is the world’s premier magazine about video editing software. Issue one covers Apple Final Cut Studio.

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Video Focus is also available in WH Smiths (UK) and good bookstores including Borders and Barnes & Noble outside the UK.

Workshops

Special Features

Free DVD

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.

As well as step-by-step walkthroughs, there are in-depth features and expert interviews to really advance your Final Cut expertise:

1. •Codecs and Compression Formats
   

2. •Getting started in Final Cut
   

3. •History of Final Cut
   

4. •50 Tips and Tricks
   

5. •Interviews with Locomotion, UNIT and Preditor

Click here to view colour correction pages

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

1. •4 hours of video tutorials covering: Final Cut 7, Compressor, Motion 4, Mastering DVD Studio Pro, Color Correction, Motion 4, Sound Editing, Ultimate guide To Using The Revolutionary Camera and more
   

2. •Over 110 demo and freeware effects from Nattress, CGM, Lyric, Core, Sheffield Softworks, Noise Industries, Digital Heaven, Mattias Sandström and Joe's Filters
   

3. •Royalty-free sound samples from Time & Space
   

4. •Screenshots and resources for the magazine workshops.

Click here to view 50 Tips & Tricks pages

Buy online now  or call 0844 856 0642  (+44 1795 414877 outside UK)

Video Focus is also available in WH Smiths (UK) and good bookstores including Borders and Barnes & Noble outside the UK.

Click here to view colour correction pages

Interviews

This issue we meet three distinctive champions of Final Cut Pro and find out their angle on Apple’s suite:

1. •Rob Nixon of Media Junction - a full service agency from the eyes of post production
   

2. •Mark Adams of Doghouse - how FCP helped establish pro post production house 100 miles from London’s Soho
   

3. •Phil Richardson of Pogo Films - One of the few post production houses offering stereo 3D services

Click here to view interview pages