Sports Highlight Video

I am a new Apple user. I would like to import video from DVD's of my daughter's basketball games, and edit clips into a highlight video. Is this possible to do if I purchase FCE? Thanks for the help.

Hi -
Yes, but . . . .
1) Importing the material from DVDs will involve converting the footage to a FCE friendly format. The footage from the DVDs will not be editable directly, The file format will need to be transcoded to DV video to work in FCE.
2) The learning curve for FCE may appear to be daunting, but there are good resources, including the well written FCE user manual to help. Do you have prior editing experience? You may want to get some additional help, either in online tutorials, or a book like "Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop" by Tom Wolsky/
Hope this helps.

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