Where can I find..

[sb]

I have all the top FCP books and my favorite book is Tom Wolsky's FCP3
Editing Workshop. He's not only one of the top FCP gurus, but a full time
teacher, and his technical editor was Ralph Fairweather, who was Apple's FCP
Quality Assurance person and co-founder of the 2-Pop website, for the first
edition.
It is recommended by Jim Heid (on the Amazon.com website)
 
His book sort of follows the Adobe Classroom in a Book model, which I found
to be the best way for a beginner to learn FCP or FCE. It has
chapters/lessons and includes a tutorial CD that contains the raw material
for you to work with. (If you buy Final Cut Express, you will have to trade
the included CD for a DVD, since Final Cut Express can only work with DV
footage).
It's solidly practical, aimed doing, not theory.
It has hardware requirements as well as explanations of the terminology and
the circumstances where hardware matters (like the 3rd party capture cards)

Its only $35 on Amazon.com
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/flex-sign-in/ref=cm_rate_rev_pagepos4/103
-1167952-1925409#rated-review>

It has gotten really stellar reviews on all the Final Cut Pro
forums/websites, like
Creative Cow. net
LAFCPUG
Ken Stone's FCP
2-Pop.com

just my .02

regards,
 sb

On 3/30/03 5:54 AM, "Jonathan & Diana Long" <feal at tds.net> wrote:

> I keep going in circles....
> 
> Where can I find online a basic guide for digital video editing that
> includes hardware
> 
> requirements? The majority of this list seems way over my head, but every so
> often I catch a
> 
> small nugget... Unfortunately I need to start from the beginning and stop
> fooling myself. I've
> 
> been around Mac's since '89, but this is a new endeavor for me.
> 
> I'm sure that there are others that subscribe but are just as lost as me.
> 
> Please reply off list.
> 
> Jon
> 
> feal at tds.net
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