Final Cut Express HD 3.5 Editing Workshop |
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Tom Wolsky
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Pages: 368 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0240809459
Pub: CMP
Pub date: 2007-04-16
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 52519
Reader Reviews:
Editing Workshop?? This Mess Has Never Seen An Editor (0/0 people found this helpful)
This book is a complete travesty both as a book and as a "course" which is what it claims to be. I have owned it for nearly a year now and have found it utterly confusing and downright misleading.
You see I wanted to learn how to use this program and move up from iMovie and have some fun with film making. As it happens I have done so - no thanks to this!
Instead of banging on about his long experience as an educator and editor - both of which I see little evidence of here - Mr Wolsky seems unable to grasp an idea, unpack it and communicate what he is trying to say in a straightforward manner. Rather than tell us all how dissimilar the two programs (iMovie and FCE) are, wouldn't it have been a better idea to explain in simple terms the fact that the one (FCE) is a more complex but ultimately rewarding variant of the other? They are after all essentially based on Quicktime. Instead the book jumps back and forward without explaining much of anything much less educating anyone. A great opportunity wasted.
I repeat: The book is confusing because it is desperately badly written and edited. I suspect the editor left the author alone to get on with it and didn't bother to read the presented manuscript! It is misleading due to the convoluted almost indecipherable way in which the "lessons" are laid out and managed. This book is a mess and frankly if I could get my money back I would.
BUY IT! (1/1 people found this helpful)
Excellent, both as a reference manual and as a highly readable book too. Most of it is equally applicable to the current FCE 4 too. Much more useful and accessible than the 1,152 page official user manual with FCE4.
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