What is dvcCast!?
dvcCast! is the killer app for publishing video, images and audio on the internet.
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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 …
Have you ever found yourself changing the file names of a whole folder of clips, graphic or other files on your hard drive one by one? Here is a Warp Speed Workflow showing how to change hundred of files names in one click.
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A frequently asked question by new Final Cut users is about creating titles and not being able to see changes as they make them. This movie shows how to see changes while editing your title, all in real-time! Wa-Hoo!
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ArtRage is a painting package designed to provide a realistic and fun simulation of using paint on a canvas, along with pens, pencils, crayons, and other tools. ArtRage is available for both Windows and Mac OS X. It can be used with a mouse, but works better if you have a graphics tablet, or even better on a Tablet PC …
Windows-only free app:
Gloodle is "doodle with globs" — drawing using 3D shapes to create 2D images with a lot of richness, complexity, and depth.
Gloodle is a simple app that shows some hint of the immediate feedback that makes particleIllusion so fun and useable: in Gloodle you just …
Features:
* Deinterlace movies (half height/normal height/double frame rate/blend,adaptive/simple). * Change field dominance (for PAL films with fake interlace). * Reinterlace from one or two movies. * Standards conversion (PAL< ->NTSC or custom). * Inverse telecine. * Trim, shift, simple color correction, noise reduction. * Change encoding (RGB gamma, video range/full range). * Fix jagged edges. * Pitch preserving sound track …
This is a common question and there are several answers:
1. First, the Final Cut Pro Canvas has a low quality playback engine that will not show the original quality of the clip. (Why? On slower machines, you can play layers, title overlays, real time filters etc. a lot better.) So, the Canvas will always show titles and graphics more pixelated
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To use still images in a Final Cut DV-NTSC format timeline, use: TIFFs, PICTs (uncompressed), PNGs or .PSD RGB (NOT CMYK) 72 dpi 24 bit color (or 32 with Alpha channel) 720 X 534.
Save your original Photoshop or Fireworks file, then "Merge Down" (to rasterize layer effects like glows and drop shadows, FCP will not import those)….
When moving footage is not available, don’t forget about still photos! You can animate still photos with motion and scale, crop them, apply filters (like sepia, B & W, color tint) and sometimes stills can fill empty spots in your timeline as well or even better than a video clip. Also, many stock photos are automatically HD res!…
