Re: Final Cut Express and AGP

[Tom Baker]

Final Cut Express  for sure ain't iMovie. I went through this about six 
weeks ago. I fooled around with FCE a little and then went back to 
iMovie in disgust, mad about how complex FCE is, or seemed to be at 
first encounter. I even wrote a tirade to the Apple FCE forum telling 
them the program was too stinking hard to use and a $300 fraud. Then 
iMovie started screwing up on me again as usual. As soon as an iMovie 
starts to get any length, doing anything in it takes forever. You'll 
watch that spinning beachball by the hour. Then it crashes and crashes, 
and if you do manage to get a long movie out of it, the sound will be 
out of synch with the action, and the audio will change at every 
transition and there'll be snap, crackle, pops that you can't get out. 
That's just a few of the problems. So, resignedly, I bought two 
tutorial books for Final Cut Express from Amazon.com and buckled down 
to learn FCE. And the guys in the FCE discussion forum, instead of 
flaming me for being a fool, sympathized with my first impression of 
the program and then talked me through the first steps toward learning 
it.

And you know what? If  you stick it out and learn FCE, you'll never 
again think of going back to iMovie. There is just so much you can do 
with FCE  you won't believe it. You can fix anything in a video, too, 
from bad color to bad exposure, well, don't get me started on how good 
this program is. FCE is a real BARGAIN for $300. It's a slightly 
disabled version of Final Cut Pro that costs over three times as much. 
If an experienced user of the program could just sit down and 
demonstrate it to you for a few minutes, you'd be instantly sold and 
enthusiastic. Unfortunately, we're usually on our own when it comes to 
learning new software. So, get the books, go through the tutorials, 
post a lot of questions in the FCE forum 
http://discussions.info.apple.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@.3bbdbd29. 
The people in that forum range from brand new FCE users to Tom Wolsky 
who wrote the best tutorial book out there, and they answer your 
questions fast. The other good book besides Wolsky's is "FCE for 
Dummies" by Helmut Kobler. Between Wolsky's book and Kobler's, and 
asking plenty of questions in the Apple FCE forum, you can usually 
figure things out, and once the ball begins to roll for you and your 
movies begin to look really cool, you'll never regret the time and 
money you put into FCE.

Tom
On Feb 13, 2005, at 8:10 AM, Martha Sadler wrote:
The best book that I have found is 'Final Cut Express2 Editing 
Workshop' by Tom Wolsky.  There is also a great discussion list on the 
apple support discussions.  Tom Wolsky answers many questions there.

It's more like Final Cut Pro.
Martha
We got it to work!  Now my job is done my friend has to figure out 
how to
use it.  "It sure doesn't look like iMovie", were her first words 
when it
loaded up.

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