Apple Final Cut Express 4 User Manual download pdf (Page 44)

44 Part I An Introduction to Final Cut Express

Organizing Your Projects

Typically, you create a new project file for each movie you work on, regardless of its

duration. For example, if you’re working on a documentary about a bicycle

manufacturing company, you would create a project for it. If you’re also working on an

industrial training video about how to fix bicycles, that would be a second, separate

project. Both projects could conceivably refer to some of the same media, but they are

completely independent structures, each with their own clips, bins, and sequences.

Very large movie projects, such as feature films and documentaries with high shooting

ratios (meaning most of the footage shot during production will not be used in the

final movie), may contain thousands of clips. Although the number of clips and

sequences you can store in a project is theoretically unlimited, Final Cut Express may

take longer to search, sort, and update if there are too many clips. If you find that

managing your project is becoming difficult, you can always break one project into

several for the early editing stages.

Using More Than One Sequence in a Project

For some projects, it makes sense to use several different sequences within the project.

You can use sequences in several ways, including:

Â Sequences as scenes: Break a movie into a series of separate sequences for each scene.

Â Sequences as versions: Edit different versions of the same movie, with each as its own

sequence. Examples are a television commercial with several alternative sound mixes,

or a documentary cut to feature film length as well as broadcast television length.

Â Sequences for special effects: This allows you to separate elaborate effects shots in

separate sequences so you can render them separately.

Creating and Saving Projects

When you create a new project in Final Cut Express, a new blank sequence is

automatically created and named Sequence 1. You can change the sequence name to

better reflect its content or the type of program you’ll be working on. The settings for

the new sequence are determined by your current Easy Setup. (To check your current

Easy Setup, choose Final Cut Express > Easy Setup.)

Note: When you open Final Cut Express for the first time, there are some initial settings

you must specify before you can create and save projects. For more information, see

Chapter 11, “Connecting DV Video Equipment,” on page 147.

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