Preface

Final Cut Express is an extraordinarily good editor.

It is extremely reliable and stable.

It has a great interface.

It does what it says it will do.

Final Cut Express is way ahead of iMovie. The two don’t compare. If you’re coming from an iMovie background get ready to drive a real editing suite.

Suite Drivers they used to call us back in the ‘80s and ’90s, before non-linear took over. We were the ones who operated the on-line edit suites of television stations and post-houses – we were highly skilled, highly paid.

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Three, Four, Five, Six machine edit suites packed with DVEs, character generators, audio mixers, vision mixers, racks, patch ...

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