The Apple Pro Training Series is the best way to learn Apple’s Professional digital media software
Learn Apple’s popular video editing, audio, and film compositing tools via a comprehensive course that’s both a self-paced learning tool and the approved curriculum for all Apple Certified Trainers. Using real projects that you work through step-by-step, each Apple Pro Training Series book includes a DVD of sample projects, plus a review at the end of each lesson. Follow the lessons from start to finish, or just dive into the lessons that interest you most.
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The Apple Pro Training Series
Getting Started with Final Cut Server
Take a comprehensive tour of Final Cut Server. The book covers everything from tools for tracking, reviewing, and approving jobs to automating complex sequences of tasks in a busy post environment. Save hours on post-production jobs by adapting the model workflows.
Final Cut Pro 6
Professional Editing in Final Cut Studio
Cut a scene from the USA Network television series Monk, create a promo for Seaworld’s Belief documentary, master filters and effects as you edit a segment of BBC’s Living Color. In this best-selling guide, Diana Weynand starts with basic video editing techniques and takes you all the way through Final Cut Pro’s powerful advanced features. You’ll learn to mark and edit clips, mix sound, add titles, create transitions, apply filters, and more.
Final Cut Pro 6: Beyond the Basics
Real-Time Editing, Effects, and Color Correction
This Apple-authorized guide delivers hard-to-find advanced editing and finishing techniques. Director and editor Michael Wohl shows how to create polished transitions, fix screen direction errors, edit multi-camera projects, work with nested sequences, create fantastic effects, use filters creatively, color-correct your video, and composite like a pro. Also covers Soundtrack Pro, managing clips and media, and working with film.
The Craft of Editing with Final Cut Pro
Director and editor Michael Wohl shares must-know professional techniques for cutting dialogue scenes, action scenes, fight and chase scenes, documentaries, comedy, music videos, multi-camera projects, and more. Two DVDs of excellent, professional footage and project files give you the chance to work with every genre as you learn.
Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Studio
Field Techniques for Editors and Designers
This practical approach to motion graphics focuses on just the parts of Final Cut Studio that editors and designers need to create motion graphics in their daily work. Using Motion, Final Cut Pro, and LiveType, you’ll build creative titles, motion menus, show bumpers, and news opens as you learn everything from text animation, compositing, and keyframing to 3D set creation and camera animation.
Motion 3
Designing and Animating Motion Graphics in Final Cut Studio
In this guide to Apple’s revolutionary motion graphics software, commercial artist Damian Allen shows you how to harness Motion’s behavior-based animations, particles, filters, effects, match moving, tracking, and 3D capabilities to create professional animations, show opens, promos, logos, and more.
Soundtrack Pro 2
Audio Editing and Sound Design in Final Cut Studio
Audio producer Martin Sitter is your guide to the only professional audio post application designed specifically for the Final Cut editor. You’ll master audio restoration and clean-up, build and edit multitrack projects, record and edit voice-overs and narration, and experiment with advanced mixing and effects.
DVD Studio Pro 4, second edition
Learn to author professional, interactive DVDs with this best-selling guide by Martin Sitter and Bruce Nazarian. You’ll build three complete DVDs as you learn to create tracks, set chapter markers, build still and motion menus, add subtitles and much more. Includes sophisticated techniques for handling multiple audio tracks and camera angles, creating smart buttons and custom transitions, building advanced overlays, and scripting.
Color
Correcting and Grading in Final Cut Studio
In this guide to Apple’s masterful new color grading and finishing software, colorists David Gross and Alexis van Hurkman start with the basics of color balancing and correction, and move on to the fine points of secondary grading, including scene matching, using vignettes to isolate and track regions, creating advanced color effects and “looks,” skin tone adjustments, adjusting the composition and framing of a shot, and much more.
Logic Pro 8 and Logic Express 8
Boasting all-new projects and media files, this Apple-certified guide shows you how to record, produce, and polish your musical creations with Apple's professional audio software. Veteran music producer David Nahmani uses step-by-step, project-based instruction and straightforward explanations to teach everything from basic music creation to advanced production techniques.
Logic Pro 8 Beyond the Basics
Author David Dvorin shows you many of the world's top producers, composers, and engineers make Logic Pro the centerpiece of their music studios, taking you step by step through Logic's powerful advanced features. Starting with advanced set-up in Logic's brand-new interface, Dvorin covers everything from music production and editing to notation and scoring to picture. Along the way, he reveals real-world techniques for mixing, editing, and producing, and shares professional secrets for streamlining production workflows and constructing a mix to meet the most exacting standards.
Shake 4
The leading compositing choice for cutting-edge visual effects in feature films, Shake is pure magic. Hollywood effects pro Marco Paolini uses stunning real-world sequences to reveal the wizardry of keying, matting, tracking and stabilization, color correction, rotoscoping, warping, and Shake’s procedural paint tools.
Encyclopedia of Visual Effects
The ultimate recipe book for visual effects artists working in Shake, Motion, and Adobe After Effects, this is a compendium of the coolest and most useful effects from A to Z (“Ambient Occlusion Pass” to “z-Depth Effects”). Written by Hollywood and independent pros, it covers everything from rotoscoping and paint to advanced greenscreen techniques. Includes shot breakdowns from Star Wars: Episode 3, War of the Worlds, and more.
Encyclopedia of Color Correction
This advanced, Apple-certified guide delivers hard-to-find training in color correction field techniques for video and film. Colorist Alexis van Hurkman walks you step-by-step through real-world examples of the challenges colorists face most frequently, including scene-to-scene color matching, correcting for broadcast specifications, changing color corrections midstream, day-for-night treatments, and much more.
Aperture 2
This comprehensive book-DVD combo starts with the basics of image management and takes you step by step through Aperture’s powerful photo-editing, image-retouching, proofing, publishing, archiving features, and more.
Final Cut Express 4
The only Apple-authorized guide to Final Cut Express 4, this book delivers the techniques you need to make movie magic from the comfort of your Mac.
Final Cut Pro for Avid Editors
Master trainer Diana Weynand takes you through a comprehensive “translation course” designed for professional video and film editors who already know their way around Avid nonlinear systems.
Final Cut Pro for Broadcast Quick-Reference Guide
This easy look-up guide provides essential techniques for broadcast studios that use Final Cut Pro to edit anything from a voice over to a package. Includes tips for efficient setup, customization, trimming techniques, adjusting audio, common transitions and effects, splicing in fat and tight bites, covering narration with B-Roll, and preparing the story for delivery.
Compressor 3 Quick-Reference Guide
Whether you’re distributing dailies, authoring a DVD, or prepping video clips for the Web, Compressor is essential for creating quality digital content. Learn real-world techniques for audio and video compression, batch-encoding, test-clip workflows, exporting podcasts, and more.
QuickTime Quick-Reference Guide
QuickTime Pro is the most versatile and inexpensive solution for capturing, encoding, editing, and exporting media. This handy guide covers it all, plus streaming, authoring, and recipes for encoding H.264 and MPEG-4 video.
The Apple Training Series
Mac OS X Directory Services v10.5
Completely updated for Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard and certified by Apple, this is the official reference guide for Apple’s Mac OS X Directory Services v10.5 certification course.
Mac OS X Deployment v10.5
Completely updated for Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard and certified by Apple, this is the official reference guide for Apple’s Mac OS X Deployment v10.5 certification course.
Mac OS X Advanced System Administration v10.5
Completely up-to-date for Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard, this is the official reference guide for Apple’s Mac OS X Advanced System Administration v10.5 certification course.
Xsan 2 Administration: A Guide to Designing, Deploying, and Maintaining Xsan
This book takes an in-depth look at Xsan 2 components, requirements, topologies, and installation challenges. System administrators and other IT professionals will learn about storage and network terminology and how to plan a deployment.
iLife ‘09
The official curriculum of the Apple iLife ‘09 certification course, this self-paced book/DVD combo uses practical, step-by-step lessons that will have you making miracles with iPhoto, iMovie, Garageband, iWeb, and iDVD in no time.
iWork ’09
The official curriculum of the Apple iWork ‘09 certification course, this self-paced book/DVD combo uses practical, step-by-step lessons to get you up and running with Keynote, Numbers, and Pages in no time.
Mac OS X Support Essentials, Second Edition
The only Apple-certified book on Mac OS X, this updated best-seller will take you deep inside the latest big-cat operating system, covering everything from networking technologies to system administration, customizing the operating system, command-line programming, and more.
Mac OS X Server Essentials, Second Edition
The only Apple-certified book on Mac OS X Server, this comprehensive reference takes server administrators, support technicians, and ardent Mac users deep inside the server operating system, covering everything from installing and configuring Mac OS X Server to the fine points of networking technologies, service administration, customizing users and groups, command-line service equivalents, and more.
