Importing videos and basic editing mechanics

The Final Cut Pro X Cookbook contains recipes that will take you from the importing process and basic mechanics of editing up through many of FCPX’s advanced tools needed by top-tier editors on a daily basis. Edit quickly and efficiently, fix image and sound problems with ease, and get your video out to your client or the world easily.

In this article by Jason Cox, we will see the following topics:

• Importing from a tapeless video camera
• Importing MTS, M2TS, and M2T files
• Appending, inserting, and overwriting clips to a storyline
• Working with (and without) the Magnetic Timeline
• Creating connected clips

Most artists have it easy—a painter grabs a brush, some paint and goes straight for the canvas. A writer grabs a pen and paper (or keyboard) and starts writing. A graphic artist grabs a tablet and starts drawing. If only it were that easy for video editors!

Well before an editor can start doing any actual work, we've got to spend a good amount of time getting organized and importing our media. The act of importing is simply the process of bringing our media inside FCPX and making the program aware of its existence. It's very similar to dragging a song file into iTunes—the song file already existed in some capacity, but by dropping it into iTunes, we're making iTunes aware that it exists. The same goes for FCPX in most cases.

Unlike the digital music world, however, which only has a small handful of file formats, the digital video world has dozens, and the process for importing these different media types can vary greatly. And, to top it all off, we have many options to consider as to how we want FCPX to process and handle that media as it is imported!

FCPX can import many kinds of media, but there are many factors that must be considered before doing so to determine the best workflow for a project, and where there's a will there's a way—even if FCPX can't immediately import certain file types or projects from other programs, this chapter will help explain workarounds to do the impossible!

Planning Your Site in Adobe Muse

A site is a collection of web pages containing assets such as images or Flash.

In this article by Jennifer Farley, author of Learning Adobe Muse, we'll look at how to plan a new site and use Muse's excellent wireframing tools to put together a mock up of our website.

Fail To Plan, Plan To Fail

Yes, that may be an old cliché, but like many clichés, this one is certainly true when it comes to our websites. If you spend some time planning your website upfront, you'll prevent a lot of headaches later in the process.

In this article, we'll also take a look at some of the basics of web page layout that are useful to know while planning our sites.

WPF 4.5 Application and Windows

Any attempt at mastering a technology, any technology, requires a good understanding of its foundations. This understanding makes it possible to grasp the more complex aspects of that technology; Windows Presentation Foundation ( WPF) is no different. In this article, we'll take a broader look at WPF's application model, including the use of windows within an application.

In this article by Pavel Yosifovich, author of Windows Presentation Foundation 4.5 Cookbook, we will cover:

• Creating a window
• Creating a dialog box
• Using the common dialog boxes
• Creating ownership between windows
• Creating a custom shaped window
• Creating a single instance application
• Handling an unhandled exception

XNA 4-3D:Getting the battle-tanks into game world

In this article, the author of XNA 4 3D Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide, Kurt Jaegers will cover all that is necessary to get battle tanks into the game and placed in the game world. This can be accomplished by performing the following:

• Adding models to our game's content project and loading them into the game
• Drawing the tank model to the screen
• Animating the various components of the tank model
• Matching the elevation of the tank to its position on the generated terrain
• Adding a second tank and positioning both tanks appropriately on the map

Exporting from Processing

If you want to show your art to the world, you may need to export your work in an appropriate format. Processing can be used to create images, movies, or interactive applications. In this article, we'll explore the different ways you can export your work for print, web, or projection.

In this article by Jan Vantomme, author of Processing 2: Creative Programming Cookbook, we will cover:

• Saving images
• Exporting applications
• Saving PDF files
• Calculating PDF sizes
• Saving text files
• Exporting 3D files
• Saving binary files

ExtGWT Rich Internet Application: Crafting UI Real Estate

Sencha Ext GWT takes GWT to the next level, giving you high-performance widgets, feature-rich templates and layouts, advanced charting, data loaders and stores, accessibility, and much more.

In this article by Odili Charles Opute , Oded Nissan, authors of the book ExtGWT Rich Internet Application Cookbook, we will cover the following topics:

• Organizing navigation with AccordionLayout
• Snapping components even when resized
• UI cardinality with BorderLayout
• Building a basic wizard with CardLayout
• RowLayout vertical and horizontal aligning
• Building grids with ColumnLayout
• Building DashBoards

Getting Started with RapidWeaver

In this first article, we are going to hit the ground running. We are going to go from zero to a deployed website by the end of this article. This means that we are going to see an in-depth review of every setting.