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November 7th, 2009
Final Cut : Final Cut Pro Home
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| | | |  NEWS: | | | | |
| | | | Red Productions Eliminates Downtime with Small Tree’s Shared Storage and OS X Networking Capabilities
Workflow Interruptions Cease at Full Service Script to Screen Company
Frustrated by having projects continuously freeze up in the middle of editing sessions and having to rummage through multiple external drives to locate footage, Red Productions, a full service, script to screen video production and independent film development and production company, recently commissioned respected independent video engineer Bob Zelin to install a cost-effective Ethernet-based shared storage solution featuring Small Tree technology.
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| | | | Digieffects Launches Falloff Lighting Plugin for After Effects
Provides enhanced lighting for After Effects' built-in lights
Digieffects® a developer of visual effects software plugins, today announced that Falloff Lighting is available for purchase. Falloff Lighting provides enhanced lighting for After Effects' built-in lights.
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| | | | Boris FX XML Transfer brings Final Cut projects into Adobe After Effects
Seamlessly Transfer Apple Final Cut Pro Program Sequences to Adobe After Effects
Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, today announced Boris XML Transfer, a new Adobe After Effects plug-in designed for seamless transfer of Apple Final Cut Pro program sequences to Adobe After Effects. Boris XML Transfer preserves all aspects of a Final Cut Pro project including effects, audio, media clips, transitions, and geometric transformations.
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| | | | Sorenson Media Launches Sorenson Squeeze 6
Higher Quality, Faster, and Now the First Total Workflow Solution for Video Encoding and Publishing
Sorenson Media today announced the immediate availability of Sorenson Squeeze 6, a significant update to the gold-standard video encoding software application. Sorenson Squeeze 6 provides the first total workflow solution for video professionals, enabling customers to employ innovative tools – such as email and text notifications and a secure review and approval process – that simplify the overall workflow and allow them to more easily encode and publish video files on the Internet. Optimized video codecs and new filters have also been added, significantly improving video quality and encoding speed.
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| | | | Matrox MXO2 LE Now Shipping
Portable, Professional I/O for the Mac with Matrox MAX Technology for Faster Than Realtime H.264 Encoding
Matrox® Video Products Group today announced that Matrox MXO2 LE, an HDMI, SDI, and analog I/O device for the Mac, is now available from authorized dealers worldwide. Matrox MXO2 LE streamlines editing with Apple Final Cut Studio on Mac Pros and MacBook Pros. It provides all the features of an I/O card in a sturdy, portable breakout box with professional audio and video connectivity.
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| | | | AJA KONA and Io HD Keep Things Running for ‘And Then Came Lola’
“And Then Came Lola,” A fast-paced romp through the streets of San Francisco loosely inspired by the art-house classic “Run, Lola, Run,” stars Ashleigh Sumner as Lola, a talented but distracted photographer on the verge of success who could lose it all if she doesn’t make it to a crucial meeting on time.
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| | | | Media 100 Announces Support for Blackmagic Design Video I/O Cards
New Media 100 Suite Version 1.1 Now Available
Media 100, a leading provider of advanced editing systems for the corporate, broadcast, post production, and new media industries, today announced that Media 100 Suite Version 1.1 is now available. Media 100 Suite v1.1 adds support for Blackmagic Design's Intensity Pro, DeckLink SDI, DeckLink Studio, and DeckLink HD Extreme video cards.
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| | | | | TUTORIALS: | | | | |
| | | | Apple Final Cut Pro
Final Cut Studio 3 is here, and all is good!
 Our man in Nepal, Jiggy Gaton, likes to live for danger. He installed a major software upgrade mid-project, with virtually no preparation, just to see what would break. Lo and behold, it all worked! And the more Jiggy works with it, the better he's liking it. Join him in this Creative COW, Real-world, Real-time Report on Final Cut Studio 3.
Review by Jiggy Gaton on 08/17/2009 | | | | |
| | | | Apple Final Cut Pro
Trashing Preferences
 In this Final Cut Tutorial, Richard Harrington shows you how to clean up the Final Cut application when it starts acting up with bugs or other problems. Many times this can be caused by a corrupt preferences file or other user settings related to Final Cut Studio. These tips are also handy when performing an upgrade installation or reinstallation.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Richard Harrington on 04/20/2009 | | | | |
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iChat Theater Review
 In this episode of Final Cut Help, Richard Harrington takes a look at video sharing via iChat Theater Review, a technique for online video review that allows you to quickly share video via iChat. This can be helpful for showing a preview of a video to a client or a project partner.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Richard Harrington on 04/13/2009 | | | | |
| | | | Apple Final Cut Pro
Get Your FCP Timelines in Motion with Final Cut Studio
 Having both FCP and Motion in Final Cut Studio means more options for effects creation with your video projects -- and FCS integration makes it easy to work with them together. Having Motion projects sitting on your FCP timeline even helps keep your projects organized! Our man in Nepal, Jiggy Gaton, shows just how easy it can be to take advantage of it all.
Tutorial by Jiggy Gaton on 04/07/2009 | | | | |
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Keyframing Color Correction
 In this episode of Final Cut Help, Richard Harrington takes a look at keyframing the three way color corrector in FCP. As details change in a movie clip you can have the filter adjust its values over time. This example uses a video of a bird starting in a bright sky and ending in water which is darker, the contrast transition is controlled by keyframing the saturation and color correction.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Richard Harrington on 04/06/2009 | | | | |
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Make Your FCP Timelines Sing By Roundtripping to Soundtrack Pro
 The COW's Jiggy Gaton owns an audio studio -- but has created a tutorial for those of us who don't have an audio studio within earshot when editing video in Final Cut Pro. He's not sure if he's being lazy, or just efficient, to use an integrated Soundtrack Pro project inside FCP. Either way, read on to learn how to do it yourself.
Tutorial by Jiggy Gaton on 03/30/2009 | | | | |
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Fixing Exposure
 In this Final Cut tutorial, Richard Harrington discusses the common problem of backlighting, exposure and what can happen when shooting video outdoors. Proper exposure of all elements in a shoot can be a pain to achieve with a bright sun and blue sky but using the three way color corrector in Final Cut Pro, Richard is able to make all the elements pop.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Richard Harrington on 03/23/2009 | | | | |
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Correcting White Balance
 In this Final Cut tutorial, Richard Harrington discusses what to do to correct your film when you shoot footage with the wrong white balance setting. This is a common problem if you step outside after shooting inside and you forget to rewhite balance. Richard uses the three way color corrector to do a digital white balance on the clip inside of Final Cut Pro.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Richard Harrington on 03/16/2009 | | | | |
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Compression with Turbo
 In this Final Cut Pro tutorial, Richard Harrington take a look at the elgato turbo.264. This is a USB add on device that accelereates the h.264 encoding you can do on your Mac. The turbo.264 comes with its own compression software with presets for iPod, iPhone, Sony PSP, Apple TV and YouTube.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Richard Harrington on 03/09/2009 | | | | |
| | | | Apple Final Cut Pro
Gradient Wipe Transition
 In this Final Cut Pro tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a look at the gradient wipe transition. The gradient wipe transition is a highly customizable transition using greyscale patterns to create your own custom wipes.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Richard Harrington on 03/02/2009 | | | | |
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| | | | THREADS: | | | | |
| | | |  | Re: Depth Mattes
by james gervais in the Apple Shake Forum
Les thank a whole lot. the script u did is awesome and is going to save my hide from the producers and director. there's nothing like jumping into a new software you've never really used right in the middle of project that has a crazy and almost impossible deadline. also...
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| | | |  | Re: Ever get this error message?
by Sharon Knight in the Apple Soundtrack Forum
Hi All - I just logged in to say THANK YOU!! to a fellow named Charles Manson for solving a problem that I could not figure out for days and had given up out of sheer exhaustion. Apparently Charles' post got deactivated for some reason so I am reposting his...
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| | | |  | Color/tangent Wave bug or oversite?
by Baz Leffler in the Apple Color Forum
I have mapped 'Toggle playback' to a function key. I use this in conjunction with 'Mark in' and 'Mark out' to 'loop playback' over a scene change. So when I have finished this 'loop playback' I need to go back to full timeline playback. But I have noticed that the...
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| | | |  | Re: Animating website screenshots
by Stephen Smith in the Apple Motion Forum
I use Snapz Pro to capture my screen and then animate it's 3D space. Here is an example in my Creating a Hologram tutorial. Hope this helps. 600 ? 600: true);" src="http://www.lonepeakproductions.com/img/cow/Steve_COW.jpg" align="right"> Stephen Smith Utah Video Productions Check out the Graphics Demo Reel I did. Check out my Motion...
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| | | | | Re: Moving with Motion by S. Smith
by Stephen Smith in the Apple Motion Forum
Sorry Bruce, the Sales Manager said that everything is working and that it most be something with a discrepancy with your account. The DVD will go off of sale I think tomorrow. You may wan to try using a credit card instead or click on this link to ask Pay...
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| | | |  | Re: Change DPX header/frame rate
by Noah Kadner in the Apple Color Forum
Glue Tools- though I'd imagine there's also some sort of command line or hack you could find if you searched hard enough. But you can also simply change your frame rate in Color and DPX will fit to fill. Noah Check out my book: RED: The Ultimate Guide to Using...
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| | | |  | Re: need help setting RGB on my CRT
by Joseph Owens in the Apple Color Forum
"...and if possible, blue only. Doing this would get you pretty close. " As in... Hawaii is a sovereign state of the Union, so it must be "pretty close"? There is pretty much no way to set the overall light output without a calibrated probe. Well, you can turn it...
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| | | |  | Re: need help setting RGB on my CRT
by Loren White in the Apple Color Forum
There are no magic numbers you can punch in to achieve calibration. Is this a computer CRT...? Get a calibration puck and start from there, set to D65 and calibrate to bars, also use blue only (you won't have blue only as an option if this is a computer crt)...
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| | | |  | Re: Depth Mattes
by Les Stuck in the Apple Shake Forum
Well, I'm no expert, but this is what I came up with. I'm using the depth pass to do a depth-of-field blur and desaturation. Then I composed the result over your background plates. Les BACKGRD_SC05_SH12 = SFileIn("$HOME/Desktop/james_Sc05_Sh12/shot12/Env/BACKGRD_SC05_SH12.tif", "Auto", 0, 0, "v1.1", "0", ""); BACKGRD_ZDEPTH_SC05_SH12 = SFileIn("$HOME/Desktop/james_Sc05_Sh12/shot12/Env/BACKGRD_ZDEPTH_SC05_SH12.tif", "Auto", 0, 0, "v1.1",...
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| | | | | Re: Apple Motion and vector images
by mark pigott in the Apple Motion Forum
"Sorry Mark, it opened up with no problems on my machine. I looked at the manual and it doesn't say that the file needs to be created on Mac version of the program. See if this AI file works. " I took the 366_test.ai from the desktop and saved in...
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| | | | | Re: need help setting RGB on my CRT
by Peter Wollsey in the Apple Color Forum
use color bars through final cut pro.....see Color User Manual Page - 330 if you don't have a blue only setting you are pretty much screwed I believe there are some workarounds using blue gels over the screen - but this is delving into mad scientist DIY territory - google...
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| | | | | Re: button activation delay
by Noah Kadner in the Apple DVD Studio Pro Forum
Check your manual regarding loop points... Noah Check out my book: RED: The Ultimate Guide to Using the Revolutionary Camera! Unlock the secrets of 24p, HD and Final Cut Studio. Call Box Training now featuring the Sony EX1 Guidebook, Panasonic HVX200, Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Canon 7D, and Panasonic...
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