Apple Final Cut Express 4 Upgrade Version Retail Box for Macintosh OS 10.4 or Higher.

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Final Cut Express 4 Upgrade Retail Box

With Final Cut Express 4, you can edit footage captured in such popular video formats as DV, HDV, and AVCHD. Or export your iMovie ’08 projects, putting professional polish on them in Final Cut Express. Capturing DV and HDV footage is as simple as connecting a camcorder to your Mac and keeping an eye on the Capture window to select what you’d like transferred. Preview it full screen on your primary or secondary display whenever you want. Final Cut Express supports both standard-definition DV and high-definition 1080i and 720p HDV. Now you can edit video captured with the most popular AVCHD devices, using the new Log and Transfer tool to access video recorded to disks, memory cards, or DVDs.* Select the clips you want, then transfer them to Final Cut Express. It’s never been easier to work with beautiful HD content.

Capture the most popular formats — DV, HDV, or AVCHD — from your camcorder. Or export projects from iMovie ’08 for a final edit in Final Cut Express 4. Use multiple audio tracks, audio level automation, advanced audio filters, and the new Soft Normalize and Gain feature to achieve pro results easily.

Mix different video formats in the new open format Timeline, editing them in real time using the same precision tools found in Final Cut Pro. Add dynamic animated text to your video projects using LiveType with its exclusive LiveFont animated font technology and huge library of textures and effects. Create impressive composites and easily enhance video with sophisticated transitions, filters, and effects, including a wide assortment of FxPlug plug-ins.

Editing in Final Cut Express 4 provides a world-class experience. Based on the industry-leading editing tools in Final Cut Pro 6, it lets you edit in the Timeline or with the innovative Edit Overlay tool. Choose from a comprehensive set of edit options, including insert, overwrite, fit-to-fill, and more. To add clips, simply drag them into the Timeline. And thanks to a highly flexible interface, you can move seamlessly through your projects, focusing your efforts on creativity and productivity.

No need to worry about formats, frame rates, or conversions. Final Cut Express 4 provides an open format Timeline that accommodates DV (both NTSC and PAL) and HD footage. It even lets you edit clips from multiple formats in real time simultaneously.

Ready for more advanced editing tools? Working in the Timeline or a dedicated Trim window, fine-tune your edits with ripple, roll, slip, slide, extend, and shorten. These pro-level trimming tools, combined with the principles of three-point editing, let you experiment with complex variations and edits. That includes “L cuts, where the audio and video start at different times.

Captivate your audience with rich, multilayered video featuring spectacular filters and effects. You can create them easily in Final Cut Express and tap a rich repository of FxPlug plug-in effects as well.

Dynamic RT

Dynamic RT provides real-time playback of multistream effects. Adjusting image quality and frame rate on the fly for optimal playback, it scales performance as processing power increases. That means you can view multilayered high-definition video in real time — without waiting for previews to render.

Multiple Layers

WIth compositing — the technique of layering multiple video tracks to create visual effects — you can add a distinctive quality to your video projects. The compositing prowess of Final Cut Express lets you create everything from simple title overlays and sophisticated multiple-stream video montages to dazzling picture-in-picture or side-by-side video effects.
FxPlug plug-ins

Out of the box, Final Cut Express provides more than 200 transitions, filters, and effects. And since it supports FxPlug — the same plug-in architecture used in Final Cut Studio — you have many more effect plug-ins to choose from.
Enjoy complete creative control of effects, transitions, and motion parameters with the fully adjustable keyframe markers in Final Cut Express. Use keyframing to modify an effect, and you can save that modification as a favorite for use in other projects.

Audio Perfection

Build the perfect mix for your next project using multiple audio tracks, keyframe automation of audio levels, advanced audio filters, and a new Soft Normalize and Gain feature for more audio control.

Drag-and-drop editing

Editing in Final Cut Express 4 provides a world-class experience. Based on the industry-leading editing tools in Final Cut Pro 6, it lets you edit in the Timeline or with the innovative Edit Overlay tool. Choose from a comprehensive set of edit options, including insert, overwrite, fit-to-fill, and more. To add clips, simply drag them into the Timeline. And thanks to a highly flexible interface, you can move seamlessly through your projects, focusing your efforts on creativity and productivity.

Dynamic RT

Dynamic RT provides real-time playback of multistream effects. Adjusting image quality and frame rate on the fly for optimal playback, it scales performance as processing power increases. That means you can view multilayered high-definition video in real time — without waiting for previews to render.

Multiple Layers

WIth compositing — the technique of layering multiple video tracks to create visual effects — you can add a distinctive quality to your video projects. The compositing prowess of Final Cut Express lets you create everything from simple title overlays and sophisticated multiple-stream video montages to dazzling picture-in-picture or side-by-side video effects.

FxPlug plug-ins

Out of the box, Final Cut Express provides more than 200 transitions, filters, and effects. And since it supports FxPlug — the same plug-in architecture used in Final Cut Studio — you have many more effect plug-ins to choose from.

Keyframes

Enjoy complete creative control of effects, transitions, and motion parameters with the fully adjustable keyframe markers in Final Cut Express. Use keyframing to modify an effect, and you can save that modification as a favorite for use in other projects.

New in Final Cut Express 4

Apple’s powerful moviemaking package now supports the latest AVCHD cameras, features an open format Timeline, provides iMovie ’08 compatibility, and offers sophisticated effects and filters.

Open Formats

Offering plenty of creative options, Final Cut Express 4 lets you edit footage captured in the most popular formats — including AVCHD.* Simply connect your camcorder to your Mac, preview and select the AVCHD clips you’d like to import, and start editing your video.

AVCHD

Begin editing AVCHD footage seconds after import. No need to worry about formats, frame rates, or conversions. Final Cut Express 4 provides an open format Timeline that handily accommodates DV (both NTSC and PAL) and HD footage simultaneously and in real time. Just drop video into the Timeline and edit away.

Sophisticated FxPlug effects and filters

Add cinematic looks to your project with an expansive library of professional-quality transitions and filters and experiment with over 50 brand-new video effects, including Soft Focus, Vignette, Light Rays, and Line Art.

Import iMovie ’08 projects

With iMovie ’08, putting together a great movie is as quick as drag and drop. When you want to add professional polish to your project, simply export to Final Cut Express 4 and edit like a pro.

System and other requirements

Processor:Intel, PowerPC G5, or PowerPC G4 500 MHz or faster
Operating System: Mac OS X version 10.4.9 or later
Hard Disk: 1.5 GB of available space
Memory: 512 MB of RAM or more
Optical Drive: DVD-ROM
Others: Entourage and certain features require Internet access. Connectivity to Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server, Exchange 2003, or Exchange 2007 is required for certain advanced functionality in Entourage 2008. (Exchange support is not included with Office 2008 Home and Student Edition.)