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Apple – Final Cut Pro X – Software Update

Sep 20, 2011 at 4:45 pm in broadcast, delivery, editing, post audio, post production, post visuals by Josh Mellicker · Leave a Comment »

Version 10.0.1 introduces some new features that, while not addressing Final Cut Pro X’s major flaws, include XML import/export and a Camera Import SDK, both good things. And a highly uncharacteristic promise of two more features coming in “early 2012″, showing that someone at Apple wishes to send a vague ray of hope to those of us who believe that FCPX could  [read more →]

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Get Final Cut Pro X for $255 (Update: sale is over)

Jun 10, 2011 at 2:29 pm in editing, post production by Josh Mellicker · 3 Comments »

Want to get Final Cut Pro X for $255?

Buy three of these (reportedly redeemable in the Mac App Store)

Apple® – iTunes $100 Gift Card – APPLE.

The Mac App Store certainly looks like you can redeem Gift Cards, though I have never tried it:

(Obviously, you’ll have to wait until it is available!)

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Images of Motion 5 and Final Cut Pro X?

Jun 8, 2011 at 9:33 am in post production, post visuals by Josh Mellicker · Leave a Comment »

“New Rig”… Hmmm… did one of those “you got peanut butter in my chocolate” moments happen with Motion 5 and Shake? I hope so!

(Click on images to enlarge)

Ah, dropzones are still alive and well! Yay for that!

These pics were posted by a Canadian fellow on Twitpic, and apparently Twitpic not only removed the pics, but his Twitter account is now gone! And, he’s been missing since this morning. Okay, that last part was a  [read more →]

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What’s the best way to deinterlace in Final Cut Pro?

May 5, 2011 at 4:45 pm in editing, post production by Josh Mellicker · Leave a Comment »

Interlacing looks bad on a computer screen. Even if your footage is progressive, if you’re editing in an interlaced timeline, elements like motion keyframing and transitions will still be interlaced. Let’s set up a deinterlaced Master Sequence to get the best possible quality.

1. First, right-click in your Browser and create a new Sequence.

2. Name it “Master”.

3. Open the “Master” Sequence and drag your edit Sequence into it.

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CoreMeltFREE! – 33 Free plugins for FCP, FCE, Motion and AE

Mar 18, 2011 at 8:42 pm in editing, post production, post visuals by Josh Mellicker · Leave a Comment »

CoreMeltFREE! Offers 33 plugins from all our products including:

Click on the plugin names for more info.

ImageFlow FX:
Multipop Forward, Filmstrip, Carousel, Continuous Random Pan, Image Grid

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How do I export a high quality movie from Final Cut Pro 7 or Express?

Mar 3, 2011 at 4:09 am in DVD, editing, web video by Josh Mellicker · 104 Comments »

How do I export a high quality movie from Final Cut Pro 7 or Express?

Once you’re finished with your edit, how should you export?

Well, it depends. Here are three methods:

METHOD #1. Reference movie

If you want to export a temporary movie as quickly as possible, export a reference movie.

1. File > Export > Quicktime Movie

2. UNcheck “Make Self-Contained”

Pros:

  • Fastest export
  • The file size is small – it only contains audio and pointers to  [read more →]
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How does the Smoothcam filter in Final Cut Pro work?

Feb 6, 2011 at 2:03 pm in post production, post visuals by Josh Mellicker · Leave a Comment »

Abba Shapiro, from Future Media Concepts, shows in this movie:

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HDSLR Encoding Wars – Premiere Pro vs Final Cut Pro | Paul Joy

Dec 14, 2010 at 10:14 am in cinematography, editing, post production by Josh Mellicker · Leave a Comment »

Browsing the web reading various reports and reviews about Premiere Pro I keep coming across the statement that because Premiere Pro works without the need to transcode H.264 DSLR files the footage inherently retains more quality.

After using Premiere Pro for a week or so I decided to spend some time investigating this theory and came up with some interesting results that I thought I’d share with you. Firstly let me describe the workflow involved in each  [read more →]

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Final Cut Pro Foundations

Jan 5, 2010 at 1:04 pm in digital video news, editing, editing products, self-paced training by duncan · 26 Comments »


Final Cut Pro Foundations is the quintessential Final Cut Pro editing course, guiding users through every step of the essential editing process from organizing projects through capture, basic editing and fine-tuning to exporting the final project for delivery in the highest possible quality. Complete with student project files, Final Cut Pro Foundations is the only chunkalized Final Cut Pro training in the world!

 

$59.95

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Why are my titles and graphics pixelated in Final Cut?

Jun 1, 2009 at 10:51 am in editing, post visuals by · 9 Comments »

This is a common question and there are several answers:

First, the Final Cut Pro Canvas usually shows titles and graphics more pixelated and lower quality than the actual quality. Render a title and play it on a real monitor – or render and export a 10 frame test to disk and view to see the true picture.

Read these articles on monitoring: http://www.dvcreators.net/tag/monitoring/ for more info.

If you are rendering to the DV codec, you will see an instant drop in  [read more →]

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Happy 10th birthday, Final Cut Pro and DVcreators.net!

Apr 19, 2009 at 6:23 pm in digital video news by . · 6 Comments »


In 1998, I remember hearing about a new editing program called “Key Grip”, written by Randy Ubillos, the creator of Adobe Premiere. It looked like a nice blend of Avid/Premiere-style non-linear editing and After Effects-style keyframing, two programs I had been using for years.

At NAB 1998, I was ushered to an underground room at NAB, where Randy was demoing the program on Mac and Windows, since renamed “Final Cut”. I met Randy and some of the development  [read more →]

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Where can I find free fonts?

Apr 1, 2009 at 11:49 am in digital video news by · 2 Comments »

http://www.webpagepublicity.com/free-fonts.html

http://www.grsites.com/fonts/

1001freefonts

http://www.alvit.de/blog/article/20-best-license-free-official-fonts

fontfreak

downloadfreefonts

katsfunfonts

absolute fonts archive

Blue Vinyl Fonts

nicksfonts

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macfonts

fuelfonts

chank

a-t-i

This article lists others

WARNING: Do not go crazy and download every free font, then spend days organizing them and printing sample sheets. You will become obsessed with your font  [read more →]

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Apple may add storyboarding to Final Cut Pro?

Feb 3, 2009 at 8:17 am in editing, planning by · 3 Comments »

I remember heading to dinner 6 or 7 years ago with Randy Ubillos, creator of Final Cut Pro, telling him my vision for a future FCP update- incorporating some pre-production elements like storyboarding, in which the user would link captured clips to a storyboard frame, then FCP would rough cut the project together automatically, with multiple takes being multiclips so they could be easily compared.

Now, it’s possible Apple is patenting some storyboarding processes to incorporate into FCP?

Check out the whole  [read more →]

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This movie shows how Final Cut Pro deals with timecode breaks in tapes

Jan 4, 2009 at 6:03 pm in editing by · Leave a Comment »

Click on the movie to launch.

For more info, check out:

Final Cut Pro Foundations

Final Cut Express Foundations

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Free closing credits plugin for Final Cut

Oct 13, 2008 at 5:24 pm in post visuals by · Leave a Comment »

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

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How do I get Final Cut to recognize my camcorder?

Aug 8, 2008 at 10:09 pm in editing by · Leave a Comment »

If you notice a loss of connectivity between Final Cut Pro or Final Cut Express and your camcorder or deck after upgrading your versions of Mac OS X and QuickTime, here’s what you can do to resolve the issue.

  1. Remove QuickTime receipts:
    1. Go to /Library/Receipts/
    2. Locate the QuickTime receipts files.
    3. Select all QuickTime receipts that have version numbers as part of their names (but don’t select the other QuickTime receipts). Here’s an example of what they look like (you may have different receipts on  [read more →]

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Why does audio sound bad, or need to be rendered, in Final Cut Pro, Avid, Premiere or iMovie?

Apr 28, 2008 at 1:45 pm in editing, post audio by · 2 Comments »

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 12-bit), you will often hear clicks, pops, and audio dropouts while editing, which is distracting for your creative process,  [read more →]

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Final Cut Studio Warp Speed Workflow #3: Changing the font of all titles at once

Feb 1, 2008 at 3:38 am in dvcTV, editing, post visuals by · 4 Comments »

I want to change all the titles in my Final Cut Pro project to a different font. What is the DVcreators.net secret method?

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Warp Speed Workflow #8: There you Glow

Nov 21, 2007 at 7:10 am in dvcTV, editing, post visuals by · Leave a Comment »

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

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Monitoring your work in Final Cut Pro

Sep 27, 2007 at 10:41 pm in broadcast, cinematography, DVD, editing, film, post visuals, web video by · 12 Comments »

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 truth.

Think of all the ways viewers might watch your project. If you’re delivering on DVD, your show might be watched  [read more →]

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HD Monitoring ideas

Sep 24, 2007 at 10:04 am in broadcast, cinematography, editing, film by · 10 Comments »

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 three different purposes:

1. While shooting, you can run component (like from the Canon XL H1 or [read more →]

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Warp Speed Workflow #7: Changing Captured Clip Settings

May 17, 2007 at 7:08 pm in dvcTV, editing by duncan · Leave a Comment »

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.

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Final Cut Studio Warp Speed Workflow #4: Batch Rename Files

May 4, 2007 at 12:19 pm in digital video news, dvcTV, editing, post visuals by · 2 Comments »

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

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Do I need a studio monitor?

Apr 25, 2007 at 11:24 pm in broadcast, cinematography, DVD, editing, film, lighting by · 9 Comments »

If your projects are going to be delivered on DVD or broadcast, it’s important to have an accurate studio monitor on your desk so you can see your project as your viewers will see it while you’re editing.

Why?

First, many editing programs show you a low quality “proxy” of your timeline, so you can’t judge color correction, brightness, saturation, contrast, how titles or graphics will look, or any other aspect of the picture accurately.

Can I just enable a second computer  [read more →]

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Final Cut Studio Warp Speed Workflow #2: Restoring Audio or Video parts of edited clips

Apr 21, 2007 at 4:41 am in dvcTV, editing by · 12 Comments »

Find how to quickly and easily restore audio and video clips in your Final Cut timeline.

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Apple announces Final Cut Studio 2 – Final Cut Pro 6 – Motion 3 – Soundtrack 2 – etc.

Apr 15, 2007 at 6:53 pm in digital video news, editing, post audio, post visuals by · 4 Comments »

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 format for uncompressed HD quality at SD file sizes and support for mixed video formats and frame rates in a single Timeline- nice feature. ProRes 422 will run  [read more →]

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Final Cut Studio Warp Speed Workflow #5: Changing Reel Names

Apr 9, 2007 at 8:45 pm in dvcTV, editing by · Leave a Comment »

If you’ve ever chosen the wrong reel name, or entered the wrong reel name on accident here is a cool tip to show you how to fix that.

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Editing a title in Final Cut

Apr 4, 2007 at 8:46 pm in dvcTV, editing, post visuals by · Leave a Comment »

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

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Nattress releases Big Box of Tricks plugin set!

Mar 1, 2007 at 9:08 pm in digital video news by · Comments are closed.

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  [read more →]

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Logic Keyboard for Final Cut

Jan 13, 2007 at 7:00 pm in editing by Josh Mellicker · Leave a Comment »

Logickeyboard’s custom keyboard for Apple Final Cut Pro / Express, is based on the original Apple Pro keyboard. It offers plug-and-play setup with any current or recent USB-equipped Apple computer, with good feel and stylish appearance.

The custom keyboard for Final Cut Pro / Express makes Final Cut editing with the keyboard a lot simpler and faster. It is ideal for post-production facilities, professional video editing houses, and anyone else who requires all the custom key commands to readily accessible from  [read more →]