wrong books

[Arnie Schlissel]

Call Apple. There should be a tech support phone number somewhere amongst all the packaging you received, if not, their website is apple.com.

Arnie
https://www.arniepix.com

[Dave Mac]

Rob,

You can download the FCP User Manual from here:

Final Cut Pro 5 User Manual

I would guess that it’ll be easier to return the entire package than to have Apple send out a partial set of manuals. You may even be able to exchange the entire package at a nearby Apple store.

-Dave

[Dean Sensui]

If you have an Apple store nearby that might be the best place to go.

In reality, the “help” file that comes online via FCP is identical to the manual. It’s also easier to reference and find things through the PDF file than the printed manual.

Dean Sensui — http://www.HawaiiGoesFishing.com

[Arnie Schlissel]

[Dean Sensui] “It’s also easier to reference and find things through the PDF file than the printed manual.”

It’s kind of awkward to try to read the PDF on the subway during your commute. 😉

Arnie
https://www.arniepix.com

[Rob Griffiths]

Great! Dave, this PDF is so huge that I thought my browers had hung up when it was loading. It’s a shame that I didn’t get the books and if I need to read them on the subway I’m screwed but this’ll do. Thanks guys.

Rob

[Dave Mac]

Rob,

You can still read the PDf on the subway… just buy a PowerBook! 🙂

-Dave

[Zander]

you don’t have to open the pdf in your browser, if you open fcp and go to help and theopen teh ehlp file it will open on your computer (no loading) and faster searching, as well as the fact that it opens in preview

Aaron Zander-Student edditor
If it’s out there and it does somethign to something,
teach me how to use it
Powerbook g4 1.5 GHz (it might not be big, but i can take it on set
fcp 5, ae 6.5pro adobe cs2

[Nichofilm]

I don’t think you will be taking the FCP manuals on the train Rob – 1600 pages in 3 volumes, topics spread across all 3, weigh over 2.5 Kg. They are good as manuals go, so worth having from Apple, and are duplicated in your FCP Help file. What I would recommend, not for any commercial reasons but because it has been an enormous help to me, is the Focal Press ‘Editing with Final Cut Pro’ by Charles Roberts.

He really helps with setting up your system and your workflow, and is much easier to read and understand than the FCP manual, which remains a good set of reference books. For instance, it is not obvious where FCP stashes all your files, and unless you understand this early on you can get in a huge mess after a while.

Have fun!

[David Smith]

The online manual is pretty handy, but so is the written one. I’d certainly get Apple to get you the correct volumes, you’ve paid for them after all.

Also, I much prefer looking at the online manual in Adobe Reader instead of Apple’s Preview. The search capabilities are a lot easier. I find Preview pretty clunky over all.

David