Apple Pro Training Series: Optimizing Your Final Cut Pro System
Sean Cullen, Matthew Geller, Charles Roberts, and Adam Wilt
Copyright © 2006 by Sean Cullen, Matthew Geller, Charles Roberts, and Adam Wilt
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The authors dedicate this book to Charles McConathy, who was busy optimizing Final Cut Proand the working lives of FCP usersfrom the day Final Cut Pro started to the day Charles died .
Charles, you are missed