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What follows may look complex and seem hard to follow. In light of that here are some things to consider:

Some of these steps will only have to be done the first time you open Final Cut Express;

If you have a tech person on your crew, have them go through this with you;

Video tutorial links are provided at the bottom of these instructions and can also be found on the Tutorials page of the FIN Commons;

You can contact me ANYTIME at 510-435-6198 if you are having problems—if I don’t pick up, leave a message and I will call right back.

Once you have done these steps once or twice, you will see that it is actually pretty easy to digitize footage.

Now that you have begun to shoot video footage using the Canon HV30, you are ready to move to the next step: getting the footage from your camera into your computer so that you can begin to edit it. This process is called “digitizing.”  Steps to follow in digitizing your footage:

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