Final Cut (and other editing apps) will accept many kinds and formats of audio for import into the Browser or Timeline.
However, just because they will, doesn’t mean you should! 
If you import compressed audio, for example, in MP3 or AAC codecs, or audio in a different bit or sample rate than your Timeline (such as 44.1 KHz, 32 KHz or …
Here’s a first look at the new motion tracking behaviors in Motion 3.
Click here to ask a question about Motion.
Q: I have 10 zillion titles in my Final Cut Pro project. I just changed my mind and want to change them all to a different font.
How long before the wannabes rip this cool trick off? I mean, what is the DVcreators.net Warp Speed Workflow™ way to do this? …
Boris Continuum Complete’s Snow filter is an auto-animated snow generator. The filter offers extensive options and allows you to create drifts or make flakes pile up along the edges of an alpha channel.
Download the Free Snow Filter for Apple Final Cut Pro and Motion
Download the Free Snow Filter for Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects
The free …
Here’s a “first look” at lights in Motion 3.
These “first looks” are simply improvised explorations, and bear only slight resemblance to our tutorial products, which are painstakingly scripted and polished over many months for an optimum learning experience, then presented in our next-generation chunkalized™ hands-on learning environment. But they are cool, anyway.
To view (non-chunkalized) excerpts from our tutorial …
Ever since the release of our DV Enlightenment lighting course, people are always asking us, “How did you make those awesome light rays on your titles?”
In that case, we used an excellent plugin for After Effects called Shine. Shine worked for a bit in Final Cut Pro years back, but then Apple changed the …
Here’s a quick tip (under 40 seconds) for instantly adding a soft glow to titles in Final Cut Pro or Express - without going into LiveType or Motion.
postcode: 3.45
Michael Wohl’s Motion PowerStart is a comprehensive training course for Motion containing three clear, fun, and practical hands-on tutorials plus a section on integrating Motion with other Apple programs. It was written by Michael Wohl, a member of the official Motion documentation team, along with Josh Mellicker
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When you’re EDITING, you can make good decisions just watching the Canvas Window on your laptop.
But for color grading, it’s critically important to watch your show on a monitor that’s displaying an accurate image. Monitoring is important because all your color grading work is going to be off if the monitor you’re watching while you work is not telling the …
You’re shooting with your new HDV or HD camcorder, and the footage looks amazing! But are you really seeing the full picture?
Not unless you’re looking at a high definition monitor. But professional HD monitors are still expensive.
So, here’s an idea:
You can buy a LCD TV/computer monitor (the lines are being blurred more every day) that can be used for …
When Flash first incorporated video in version 6, they chose the “Spark” Sorenson 3 codec. A good choice, that was the best encoding quality at that time. In the following years, several companies developed encoding algorithms that were clearly higher quality.
Flash 8 then added the On2 VP6 codec, which again delivered higher quality at lower bandwidth.
Because of so many viewers …
After Effects is the software from whence a new art form, motion graphics, was born.
Motion offers many advantages and disadvantages to AE. The two can work together, AE users can use Motion to generate layers for their AE compositions.
Owners of both, before starting many projects, will have to pause and consider which program to use.
So when would you use Motion?
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I spent a little time working with Color over the weekend and can’t say I’m as impressed as I thought I would be.
I feel as if a fabulously wealthy friend just bought me a brand new top-of-the-line bulldozer for my birthday. Gee, it’s super nice… but where am I going to put it? It’s too slow, too powerful, not the …
If you’ve ever realized that you logged your footage with the wrong log clip settings, here’s a great tip that’ll solve it for you.
Click here to ask a question about Final Cut Pro workflows.
