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Free closing credits plugin for Final Cut

http://alex4d.wordpress.com/2008/10/13/final-cut-pro-my-free-closing-credits-plugin/



Rayz O Lite - free half-hour course on programming awesome light rays in QC

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 plugin API, and Shine no longer worked in Final Cut. (It works now, however!)

I’ve always liked the super-dramatic light rays effect, but the light rays filters in Motion and Final Cut Pro take too long to render… and frankly, …

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Nattress releases Big Box of Tricks plugin set!

Nattress Big Box of Tricks includes the existing filters from the discontinued Nattress Set 1 and Set 2, as well as several new filters.

The package consists of eight groups of filters, one group of generators and one group of transitions:

Blurs: These filters give you several different ways to blur your image, or parts of your image. Includes: G Cool Blur, G Directional Blur, G Horizontal and Vertical Blur, G H and V Blur Glow, …



Noise Industries FxFactory Pro

FxFactory Pro is first choice for any FxFactory user looking for the richest combination of plug-ins and features.

150 Plug-ins Included



How do I cut a subject out of the background?

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 that are darker and/or lighter than the background, so there there will be holes in your subject that must be “patched” with a garbage matte. If your subject is not moving much, this is much easier than if you have to do a lot of keyframing on …



Apple announces Final Cut Pro 5.1.2

Apple this week at the IBC tradeshow announced an update to its professional video editing application. According to Digit Magazine, the company announced details on an forthcoming update update: Final Cut Pro 5.1.2 will bring support for Motion’s FxPlug plug-ins and more capture formats, enabling Motion’s real-time plug-ins — including those bundled with the application - to be used within Final Cut Pro. The report also said the update will include support for Sony’s XDCAM, Panasonic’s P2 and HDV: previous releases of Final Cut Pro supported the 25Mbps CBR version of XDCAM, while the version will add support for both …



50 Point Bezier Matte

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 straight lines. This allows you to easily create a mask to extract almost any element you need.

http://homepage.mac.com/tomhenderson/beziermatte/



Final Cut Pro plugins

This page and this one have great lists of free Final Cut Pro plugins.

Here’s a list of plugins from Toolfarm.

Here are some free FCP Transitions and Filters from Graeme Nattress.



Twixtor 4.5 could be the best option for filmlike slow motion

One big difference between video and film is that some film cameras can be cranked up to much higher than 24 frames per second, capturing full frames 75 or 100 times per second, making for perfect, silky-smooth slo-mo.

The only way to approach this effect in video is to interpolate pixels between frames. (Most programs simply dissolve between slower frames which is definitely not the same thing!

Twixtor is a software plugin that enables you to speed up, slow down or frame rate convert your image sequences. Twixtor synthesizes unique new frames by warping and interpolating frames of the original sequence… employing …