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Reccomendations for learning how to use Final Cut Express
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Jun 2003
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I just got Final Cut Express and I would like to learn how to use it. I watched the DVD that came with it, so I feel like I know the basics, but I would like to learn the more complicated stuff. Are their any good books or books with a DVD of footage to practice with? Or should I just try to learn it myself?
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Why is there always money for war, but none for education?
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Join Date: Sep 2000
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Read the book suggested and practice, practice and most important
experiment.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2001
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Get this book. I got a copy of the Final Cut Pro version when I took my FCP certification course, and it's a wonderful book, with a DVD (not a CD) of excellent clips to use in the exercises. It's a good, properly-written textbook, with little reminders of what you just learned and opportunities to reinforce new skills. Plus, it's Apple Certified�what's not to like? 
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them.
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Joe
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Just play with it 
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 1999
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I found my best techniques come from practice. Not from books.
I get an idea on how I want the picture to look, move etc. Its that fuzzy little picture in my head thats itching to come to life in DV at 24fps.
I try to figure out what parts might have to be done using traditional methods and what parts might be done using digital software (FCE)
It may take a lot of experimenting and sometimes I might have to go back a film additional footage but its worth it in the end.
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Join Date: Jun 1999
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here's a quick and dirty guide to the basics...
Those are the same movies that come with FCE on the included DVD.
Chris
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