Final Cut Pro resources

Logging and Capturing Video-any one of these pages will give you good info on getting video on to the computer from your camera.
http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/finalcut/capturing/
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/log_capture_workflow.html
http://stc.iupui.edu/Print_Final_Cut_Pro.htm

Keyframing and Transitions-
http://www.lafcpug.org/tutorials/basic_keyframing.html
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/basic_transitions.html
http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/finalcut/transitions/