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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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 joke.  Real  [read more →]]]> http://www.dvcreators.net/images-of-motion-5/feed/ 0 http://www.dvcreators.net/whats-the-best-way-to-deinterlace-in-final-cut-pro/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=whats-the-best-way-to-deinterlace-in-final-cut-pro http://www.dvcreators.net/whats-the-best-way-to-deinterlace-in-final-cut-pro/#comments Thu, 05 May 2011 23:45:57 +0000 Josh Mellicker http://www.dvcreators.net/?p=7921 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.

4. Answer  [read more →]]]> http://www.dvcreators.net/whats-the-best-way-to-deinterlace-in-final-cut-pro/feed/ 0 http://www.dvcreators.net/coremeltfree-33-free-plugins-for-fcp-fce-motion-and-ae/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=coremeltfree-33-free-plugins-for-fcp-fce-motion-and-ae http://www.dvcreators.net/coremeltfree-33-free-plugins-for-fcp-fce-motion-and-ae/#comments Sat, 19 Mar 2011 03:42:50 +0000 Josh Mellicker http://www.dvcreators.net/?p=7572

Click on the plugin names for more info.

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

[read more →]]]> http://www.dvcreators.net/coremeltfree-33-free-plugins-for-fcp-fce-motion-and-ae/feed/ 0 http://www.dvcreators.net/how-do-i-export-a-high-quality-movie/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-do-i-export-a-high-quality-movie http://www.dvcreators.net/how-do-i-export-a-high-quality-movie/#comments Thu, 03 Mar 2011 12:09:14 +0000 Josh Mellicker http://dvknowledgebase.org/?p=5

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

Well, it depends. Here are three methods:

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

• Fastest export
• The file size is small – it only contains audio and pointers to your video  [read more →]]]> http://www.dvcreators.net/how-do-i-export-a-high-quality-movie/feed/ 104 http://www.dvcreators.net/how-does-the-smoothcam-filter-in-final-cut-pro-work/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-does-the-smoothcam-filter-in-final-cut-pro-work http://www.dvcreators.net/how-does-the-smoothcam-filter-in-final-cut-pro-work/#comments Sun, 06 Feb 2011 22:03:45 +0000 Josh Mellicker http://www.dvcreators.net/?p=7296 Abba Shapiro, from Future Media Concepts, shows in this movie:
  ]]> http://www.dvcreators.net/how-does-the-smoothcam-filter-in-final-cut-pro-work/feed/ 0 http://www.dvcreators.net/hdslr-encoding-wars-%e2%80%93-premiere-pro-vs-final-cut-pro-paul-joy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hdslr-encoding-wars-%25e2%2580%2593-premiere-pro-vs-final-cut-pro-paul-joy http://www.dvcreators.net/hdslr-encoding-wars-%e2%80%93-premiere-pro-vs-final-cut-pro-paul-joy/#comments Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:14:30 +0000 Josh Mellicker http://www.dvcreators.net/?p=6900

  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 process.

  For  [read more →]]]> http://www.dvcreators.net/hdslr-encoding-wars-%e2%80%93-premiere-pro-vs-final-cut-pro-paul-joy/feed/ 0 http://www.dvcreators.net/final-cut-pro-foundations/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=final-cut-pro-foundations http://www.dvcreators.net/final-cut-pro-foundations/#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:04:43 +0000 duncan http://www.dvcreators.net/final-cut-pro-foundations-shipping-today/ 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

  ]]> http://www.dvcreators.net/final-cut-pro-foundations/feed/ 26 http://www.dvcreators.net/why-are-my-titles-and-graphics-pixelated-in-final-cut/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-are-my-titles-and-graphics-pixelated-in-final-cut http://www.dvcreators.net/why-are-my-titles-and-graphics-pixelated-in-final-cut/#comments Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:51:33 +0000 http://dvknowledgebase.org/?p=19 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 quality.  [read more →]]]> http://www.dvcreators.net/why-are-my-titles-and-graphics-pixelated-in-final-cut/feed/ 9