Final Cut 6 105: Capturing & Outputting in Final Cut 6

38 videos | 99 minutes | by Francesco Schiavon

Learn how to capture and output video without sacrificing picture quality. There are a few secrets, and Francesco knows them all.

Covers Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express.

Capturing and outputting video is the black art of video editing. The choices you make while digitizing and encoding your assets play a huge roll in the visual quality of your final video presentation.

Watch as Media Deployment Guru Francesco Schiavon shows you how to log and capture video into Final Cut. Along the way, you'll learn valuable techniques for setting up scratch disks, controlling playback decks through Firewire, and dealing with broken time-code on source tapes.

But that's not all, the second part of this program shows you how to get all that glorious video back out of Final Cut. You'll learn how to print video back to tape for archiving, how to export reference and self-contained digital videos for use in other programs (such as DVD Studio Pro and Motion) and also how to encode Video for web display using today's top compression codecs.

In the past, this has all been specialized knowledge, but Francesco opens it up for everyone in this must-have addition to our Mastering Final Cut 6 tutorial videos.

Check out the table of contents below for a full list of program topics.