Learn how to create your very own rays of light for your Final Cut projects!

Here’s a quick tip for instantly adding a soft glow to titles in Final Cut Pro or Express.

Motion PowerStart is an extensive training course for Motion containing a to-the-point interface orientation and three clear, fun and practical hands-on tutorials written by a member of the official Apple documentation, Michael Wohl, along with Josh Mellicker of DVcreators.net.

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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 [...]

Tiffen Dfx suite represents a major technological breakthrough and introduces a new and exciting way of unleashing ones creative use of filters into the digital environment. Tiffen Dfx offers the user an extensive simulated optical experience expanding and complimenting Tiffen’s optical filter range, blurring the lines between traditional and digital workflow. Tiffen Dfx software offers [...]

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 [...]

After Effects 7 PowerStart is the world’s best learning experience for mastering After Effect’s unique and sophisticated motion graphics creation environment, whether you are a professional graphics artist, video or film editor, or new to digital media. Written by After Effects guru Stephen Schleicher and Josh Mellicker of DVcreators.net.

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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 [...]

Here is a Warp Speed Workflow showing how to change hundred of files names in one click.

Notable points: Final Cut Studio 2 will be available in May for $1,299, or $499 for the upgrade Final Cut Pro 6 has an Open Format Timeline that lets editors mix and match virtually any video format and frame-rate in a single Timeline without transcoding. Hope this works with nesting and media management! ProRes 422 [...]

The answer to a frequently asked question about creating titles and not being able to see changes as they make them. $4

Here is a packet of freebie FX from the DVcreatorsFX labs… a snowy blizzard! Just add a windy sound effect from Soundtrack Pro and you’ll want to huddle around the fire. These animations are each a minute long and include an alpha channel so you can drag it right into Final Cut Pro (or Motion) [...]

The Motu V4HD Feature highlights HD/SD FireWire video interface for Mac and Windows — provides HD and SD capture and playback for any current-generation FireWire equipped computer Plug-and-play connectivity via FireWire 400 or 800 — connects to either a desktop tower or a portable laptop Supports Apple Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere Pro Captures [...]

To separate a subject from a background, you can either: 1. shoot in front of a greenscreen/bluescreen, then key out the background in postproduction You can also key out a background that is much darker or brighter than your subject, but it usually takes a little more work, because often your subject will have pixels [...]

Free morphing software for OS X here.

50 Point Bezier Matte is a filter for Final Cut Pro (and Final Cut Express) that lets you create a garbage matte with up to 50 points. Unlike the 4 and 8 point garbage matte filters that come with Final Cut Pro, 50 Point Bezier Matte lets you create curves between the points instead of [...]