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What are you getting when you purchase Final Cut Express 4? Well, you are
getting a powerful multi-track video editing tool that supports multiple video
tracks as well as audio tracks, that will allow you to produce professional
refined cuts. You are also getting a variety of effects plug-ins, color
correction and audio enhancement tools that will enable you to achieve popular
stylized looks in your video. Final Cut Express 4 also comes with LiveType
2, a dynamic text and graphic program, complete with a royalty free library,
filled with customizable textures, objects, templates and effects.
LiveType enables you to make professional level animated graphics to your
video projects, in the form of titles, lower thirds, credits and even full
screen animated graphics. Later on in the program, we will discuss the functionality
of LiveType and how to bring a LiveType project into Final Cut Express.
One thing you will notice, if you have used Final Cut Express 3.5 is that
Apple's loop-based music composer and audio editing application, Soundtrack Pro,
is not shipped with version 4. If you have upgraded to version 4 from a
previous version of Final Cut Express, you will still be able to use Soundtrack Pro
with the current version of Final Cut Express. If you are an Apple GarageBand user, which
is part of the iLife Suite, you are still able to create your own loop- based
music within GarageBand, export to disk, then import songs into Final Cut Express
4. Although Soundtrack and GarageBand are similar,
the big difference between the two is that Soundtrack is optimized to bring
in video from Final Cut and let you score directly to the video. There you
have it. Not only do you have a wonderful multi-track editor in Final Cut
Express, which uses the same powerful trimming tools as its big brother Final Cut
Pro, but you also have a library of animated text and graphics in LiveType.