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Final Cut Pro 3 and DVD Studio Pro Handbook
Final Cut Pro 3 and DVD Studio Pro Handbook
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Product Description
With recent advances in technology, the exciting realms of digital editing and DVD authoring are now within reach of most graphics professionals. Until now, editing and rendering animations to fit on VHS and compressing digital images for delivery meant sacrificing quality. But with Apple Final Cut Pro 3, DVD Studio Pro, and the practical guidance found in this book, designers and animators can edit and deliver their creations with excellent results.
Written for graphics professionals, animators, video artists, and users of Final Cut Pro and other popular video packages (iMovie, iDVD, Premiere), the Final Cut Pro 3 and DVD Studio Pro Handbook provides hands-on practice for the entire digital editing process. The book is broken into two main parts. Part One provides an in depth look at FCP and basic cinematography and editing concepts. It includes a detailed review of non-linear digital video editing (NLDVE), outlines the technical specifications for DVD, and provides a comprehensive overview of Final Cut Pro 3. From there the book delves into the process of editing and delivering media productions. Using raw video files from the book’s companion DVD, users work through every step of the editing process, from importing and editing media, to audio techniques, effects, outputting FCP data, and exporting to DVD. In Part Two, users learn how to use the core features of DVD Studio Pro, such as creating compressed media, importing streaming media, designing still and motion based menus, adding fully functional interactivity, and integrating subtitles.
Highlights!
* Provides a practical guide to using both FCP 3 and DVD Studio Pro
* Teaches FCP editing techniques through concise tutorials and raw video files
* Guides users through the fundamentals of DVD Studio Pro
* Includes a companion DVD (Mac) with raw video footage and the support files for all the tutorials in the book
On the DVD!
* Tutorial files for each chapter, including all of the media files
* FCP and DVDSP files from the tutorials for further investigation
* All of the figures from the book in full color for closer examination and use
Final Draft Version 8
- Final Draft 8 combines powerful word processing with professional script formatting in one self-contained, easy-to-use package specifically designed for writing movie scripts, television episodics and stage plays
- No need to learn about script formatting rules–Final Draft automatically paginates and formats your script to industry standards as you write
- Television show, screenplay, stage play and graphic novel templates are included to help get you started
- Have your script read back to you by assigning different male and female voices to each of your characters with text-to-speech
- New XML file format for compatibility with a wide variety of other products
Product Description
Everyone has a story. The problem is giving that story life. Final Draft is a unique word processing application that helps take your story ideas and make them ready for stage and screen.
Do you have the dream of writing and selling million-dollar scripts to Hollywood and Broadway, and achieving fame and fortune? The first step in realizing this dream is Final Draft, the same software used on nearly every television show, feature film, and theatre production. Using Final Draft is like knowing the insider handshake. It enables a new, aspiring writer to create a professional-looking script like those passed around in studio writers’ rooms. Scripts for sale are first judged by how they are formatted and how they appear. Final Draft has made it impossible for Industry agents to know the difference between a professional writer and an aspiring one. Dynamically compares two scripts and highlights any changes, allowing you to easily see the differences from one file to the next Over 50 television show, movie and stage play templates are included, complete with characters and locations Checks your script for common formatting errors, such as missing dialogue, extra spaces, carriage returns and blank elements Pop-up windows that can hold ideas, notes, suggestions or scene fragments without taking up space onscreen Write, edit and discuss a script with other Final Draft users in real time, over the Internet, anywhere in the world Have your script read back to you by assigning different voices to your characters. It’s like having a live script reading in your computer An interactive problem-solver with legendary screenwriting teacher Syd Field, television writer Larry Brody, playwright Jon Dorf and WGAW’s The Creative Rights Handbook System Requirements (Windows) – Microsoft Windows Vista or Windows XP Intel Pentium III processor or later Minimum 512 MBAmazon.com Product Description
Use your creative energy to focus on the content; let Final Draft take care of the style. Final Draft is the number-one selling application specifically designed for writing movie scripts, television episodics and stage plays.
It combines powerful word processing with professional script formatting in one self-contained, easy-to-use package. There is no need to learn about script formatting rules–Final Draft automatically paginates and formats your script to industry standards as you write.
Its ease-of-use and time-saving features have attracted writers for almost two decades positioning Final Draft as the Professional Screenwriters Choice. Final Draft power users include Academy, Emmy and BAFTA award winning writers like Oliver Stone, Tom Hanks, Alan Ball, J.J. Abrams, James Cameron and more.
Scene View lets you outline your script ideas and re-order scenes. Click to enlarge. |
Manage and view the important details of your scene in the Scene Navigator. Click to enlarge. |
Add scene titles and colors to track your story lines, characters, etc. Click to enlarge. |
Easily outline your story and restructure your script by dragging and dropping multiple scenes at a time. Click to enlarge. |
New in Final Draft Version 8
- Scene Navigator
Manage and view all the important details of your scene in this sortable floating palette - Page Count Management
Now you have even more control about what fits on a page - File Format (now XML)
Outline your script ideas in story development software and seamlessly read them into version 8 - Scene Properties Inspector (SPI)
Add scene titles and colors to track your story lines, characters, etc. - Scene View
Outline your script ideas and re-order scenes in this high-level overview - Remember Workspace
No more searching for the correct draft you were just working on
Story Development Features
Scene View Scene Navigator Scene Properties Inspector (SPI) Index Cards File Format (now XML)
With the Scene View you can look at your script from a 5,000 foot view and select, drag and drop one or more scenes to reorganize your ideas as you outline. Insert new scenes easily, and hide or show information important to you such as the scene’s action, title and summary. Scene View also displays a scene’s color so you can quickly identify one scene from another. Print your Scene View or just view it alongside the script. With a double-click you can sync the script to instantly go to any scene you’ve selected in Scene View.
Manage the pace and flow of your story and keep track of up to 9 categories of information related to your scenes. The Scene Navigator is a sortable, customizable floating palette that displays details about your script such as a scene’s title, color, page number, length and location, and best of all it syncs with the script with a single-click. As your script progresses you can pick and choose the columns of information that are relevant for that phase of writing.
Track data specific to each scene in this new floating palette such as the scene’s story beats that will eventually make up the Action, Characters and Dialog of the scene. Add and edit your scene’s title such as ‘Villain introduced’, and add color to the scene to help you track things like storylines, character arcs, and material you need to get back to later. Like the Navigator, the SPI will display the details of whatever scene you’re working on in your script so that you have your summary notes handy as you need them.
This improved feature has double-sided cards that display the script’s scene on one side and the summary on the other. The Summary View allows you to enter ideas directly into the index card such as your basic outline, notes, sequence or act markers, comments, locations, blocking… anything you need to build and organize your story. You can also color your Index Cards to help organize themes, character arcs, A and B stories, etc. Select and rearrange multiple cards at once if you need to re-order your scenes or print your Index Cards directly on 3×5 or 4×6 cards for use in the ‘traditional’ way if you want to visualize and organize scenes outside of the application. Double-clicking on a card in Split Panel View will automatically sync the scene selected with your script.
Final Draft version 8, has a new file format that we have shared with a number of technology partners to make the writer’s overall experience better. Now you can save to the new Final Draf’t file format in a variety of products. Your information can then be opened directly in Final Draft with perfect format and structure. No more reformatting in Final Draft and no more re-typing or lost information!
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Writing/Rewriting Features
The Panels System Templates Page Count Management
Like most writers, you probably need to keep a lot of ideas at the front of your mind while you’re writing. With the Panels System, you can split your screen into separate panels and view your script pages in one panel while you view another section of the script, your Index Cards or Scene View in the other panel. With the Panels System you can compare two scenes’ dialog and pacing side by side even though they may be separated by a vast number of pages. If you want an overview of each scene, use the Index Cards or Scene View on one side and the script in the other. A double-click in any scene will keep the panels in sync.
Television show, screenplay, stage play and graphic novel templates are included to help get you started. Looking for an old series no longer on the air? The Final Draft Online Template Library is updated regularly and allows registered users to download additional templates directly from finaldraft.com.
Our new Leading Style in version 8 allows you to adjust the spacing of the entire script or you can select individual sections of text and adjust their spacing to help manage your page count
Keep your script in sync with the Panels system. Click to enlarge. |
Jumpstart your writing by using built-in templates. Click to enlarge. |
Adjust spacing to help manage your page count. Click to enlarge. |
Built-in Spell-Checking and Thesaurus Remember Workspace Final Draft Courier Font Printing and PDF Options Writing Management ScriptNotes Tab and Enter functions ScriptCompare Text to Speech
The vastly improved spell-checking engine comes with English (US) and a built-in thesaurus plus the option to install one of 15 additional language spell-checkers and thesauri. The application provides real time auto-spell check, catches capitalization errors and will assist you in finding synonyms. With definitions for 80,000 plus words from Merriam-Webster and a full thesaurus, you have all the tools at your fingertips. In addition, all the words you added to your user dictionary from version 7 will automatically populate your user dictionary when you install version 8.
It’s important if you are working among multiple drafts to make sure that you are editing the correct one. With the new Workspace preference, you can have Final Draft open all the files you had open, in the order you were working on them, the last time you worked in Final Draft.
Having a consistent page count that production companies and studios can depend on to help them estimate their budgets is crucial when working on a script. That’s why Final Draft offers its own font that will ensure proper pagination on both Windows and Macintosh. With version 8 we have made the font easier on the eye so you can better endure when you’re writing for long periods of time.
Now, not only can you print your script in its entirety, you can choose which sets of revisions you want to print and you can print other views such as the Scene View and Index Cards. We’ve added the ability for you to print directly on 3×4 or 4×6 index cards and print your script directly to PDF so you can decide whether to send a full script or subset of pages to someone via PDF. The Title Page is also conveniently available as an option to include in your PDF or printed output.
Use the Statistics Report to check how much content you’ve completed in a writing session to help you manage your writing goals. You can also track things such as your ratio of Action to Dialog and whether there may be some unnecessary profanity in your script if you’re attempting to ‘clean it up.’
These effective pop-up windows hold your ideas, suggestions or scene fragments that you’ve cut but don’t want to toss without taking up space onscreen. Use ScriptNotes to provide feedback on a particular scene when reviewing your partner’s script or print your ScriptNotes as a report for easy reference when reviewing your script.
You can install and start using Final Draft within minutes due to the easy-to-use Tab and Enter functionality that helps format all of the various types of script elements to Industry Standards.
Compare two drafts of the same script (.fdr or .fdx) and Final Draft will highlight any changes, allowing you to easily see the differences from one file to the next.
Have your script read back to you by assigning different male and female voices to each of your characters. You can even assign a narrator for action and other non-dialog script elements. Powered by the text-to-speech engines built-in to Windows and Mac OS — it’s like having a live script reading in your computer.
Keep track of ideas and feedback about sections of your script with ScriptNotes. Click to enlarge. |
Have your script read back to you by assigning different male and female voices to each of your characters. Click to enlarge. |
Scan your script for common formatting errors. Click to enlarge. |
CollaboWriter Format Assistant 100% Cross-Platform Script Registry
Write, edit and discuss a script with other Final Draft users in real time, over the internet, anywhere in the world. You can transfer ‘control’ back and forth between individuals so that one person makes changes at a time, ensuring that information isn’t lost during rewrites.
This useful tool checks your script for common formatting errors, such as missing dialogue, extra spaces, carriage returns and blank elements. You can set it to run every time you print or only when you want it to.
Final Draft scripts are identical on both Windows and Macintosh platforms and can easily be exchanged between both.
Final Draft is a preferred file format and the only scriptwriting software with an authorized agreement with the WGAW online registry service.
Production Features
Final Draft Tagger 2 Revisions/Page Locking Title Page, Cast Pages and Locations Pages Customizable Reporting
This updated stand-alone application reads any Final Draft script and enables you to “tag” elements within the script [cast, costumes, props, etc.] and export the results into most scheduling applications. Tagger allows you to select text from the script and add any element with a click of the mouse in any category for that scene–or for any or all scenes where that element appears. The element text is highlighted and color coded, and can be customized to suit the way you like to work. Created with the help of veteran Assistant Directors, Producers and Unit Production Managers, Tagger means no more going over a paper script again and again with highlighters.
From the ability to omit scenes, lock pages and A-pages as well as set your revision colors, version 8 provides you all the tools you’ll need to take your script through production. With version 8, we’ve created a new feature that will automatically track the page header’s revision color so you can issue one set of revisions or all of them as needed. Merging pages that have been cut once a script is locked is also a snap. With new how-to tutorials, you have step-by-step instructions on how to merge pages without affecting your overall page count. Final Draft also includes standard revision colors in each film and television template.
All of the Final Draft Television Templates come pre-set with easy-to-use information for each series such as the specific cast list and typical sets/locations. Our Standard One-Hour and Half-Hour Templates will also help you get started on pilots by providing what information should appear in the finished product. The added bonus is that the Title Page uses its own numbering for tracking the following pages so it won’t add to your overall page count.
Final Draft offers seven different reports to give you quick facts about your script. The Scene Report, for example, provides a snapshot of the scene’s length, cast, starting page number and location. The Location Report will inform you how often a location is used and will group the scenes by INT/EXT. The Character Report includes an ‘appearance summary’ so you know how frequently one character speaks, versus the other characters, as well as the total word count for the character. Use the ScriptNotes Report to get a quick scan of all the notes in your script based on each scene and page. The Statistics Report will allow you to track daily writing goals by displaying how many words you’ve written along with details on the types of elements you used and what percentage of the script they make up. Need to cast your characters? You can instantly create then print or email Character Sides for any speaking parts in your script.
Final Cut Express: Make The Cut
Final Cut Express: Make The Cut
Product Description
Final Cut Express: Make the Cut is written for anyone who has a DV camera, a Macintosh, Final Cut Express, and an idea for a digital film. If you want to learn how to use this affordable, powerful tool to edit your own home movies, documentaries, or short films, this is the book to get you started.
This book is not only a detailed technical guide to the basic procedures in Final Cut Express; it is also a creative, process-oriented tutorial on editing, which will guide you through the entire process from shooting to the final mastering of your film. The coverage throughout the book closely mirrors a real-world production workflow, beginning with an overview of DV camera technology and the shooting process. With this knowledge, you’ll quickly progress to learn how to digitize footage into your computer. From there you’ll begin the editing process, including specifics on working with the FCE timeline and the multitude of editing tools. In the last parts of the book, you’ll learn about the often over-looked FCE color filters, techniques for stylizing your film, and how to master your final work to DV tape, DVD, or QuickTime format.
Using a short documentary about a puppeteer, you’ll work through the editing process and practice with all the essential tools. Along the way, you’ll find lots of pictures to make sure you don’t get lost, and plenty of details about the tools relevant to the editorial workflow. In addition, Final Cut Express often provides multiple ways to accomplish the same task, so we’ve provided instruction on each for you to use and test as you develop your own editorial style.
Key Features:
* Teaches the artistic as well as the technical details of editing
* Provides in-depth instruction on the FCE tools and explains how and why to use each
* Includes real film footage to work with as you progress through the editing process
On the DVD:
* Full film, deconstructed and cut into pieces, chapter by chapter, to help you along the process of actually editing a digital film
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
MAC: Power Macintosh G3/ 300 MHz or faster, Power-book G3/400 MHz or faster, iMac 350 MHz or faster, iBook (Dual USB) 500 MHz or faster, eMac, or Xserve, with built-in FireWire ports. In addition, you’ll need Final Cut Express, at least 4.5 extra Gigabytes on your Hard Drive, and a DVD reader.