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Published inMar 2024
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ISBN-139781804614921
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Bruce G. Macbryde
Bruce G. Macbryde
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Bruce G. Macbryde

Bruce G. Macbryde, a Final Cut Pro trainer with 20+ years of experience, spanning from the original release in 1999 to the latest version. He served as a sales manager for Australian Authorized Apple distributors (1998-2004) and later as a training manager for Apple-developed software through 2009. He established Wedding Media Productions in 2004, a wedding video business in Sydney, Australia. Bruce is a YouTube creator for the VideoTutors channel, with 500+ video tutorials. He began teaching marketing at NSW TAFE in the early 1980s, specializing in technology and business software such as Microsoft Office, Adobe Pagemaker, and Photoshop during a 7-year stint in New Zealand.
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The first consideration that you need to be clear on is that font and text are different terms; they are not interchangeable. Text includes all the characteristics, such as the size, the color, and the font. The font, which is just a typeface, is only one component of text.

There are clear conventions about the use of text in video, and this is because text in a video is different from printed text, even though we tend to treat them the same. Video is low-resolution compared to text printed on a page. This means that text in video, even 4K video, is pixelated. Also, text on a printed page is there for you to read for as long as you need to decipher it. You can decide how long you need to look at the printed page for your brain to understand the words.

Video is not only lower-resolution and slightly pixelated but also plays for a fixed time, which you have no control over unless you skip back to read it again or pause the screen. This means you have to decipher...

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Edit without Tears with Final Cut Pro
Published in: Mar 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781804614921

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Bruce G. Macbryde

Bruce G. Macbryde, a Final Cut Pro trainer with 20+ years of experience, spanning from the original release in 1999 to the latest version. He served as a sales manager for Australian Authorized Apple distributors (1998-2004) and later as a training manager for Apple-developed software through 2009. He established Wedding Media Productions in 2004, a wedding video business in Sydney, Australia. Bruce is a YouTube creator for the VideoTutors channel, with 500+ video tutorials. He began teaching marketing at NSW TAFE in the early 1980s, specializing in technology and business software such as Microsoft Office, Adobe Pagemaker, and Photoshop during a 7-year stint in New Zealand.
Read more about Bruce G. Macbryde