| | | |
November 20th, 2009
Final Cut : Final Cut Pro Home
| | | | |
| | | |  NEWS: | | | | |
| | | | nanoFlash Enhanced with 280Mbps CODEC, 64GB Cards
Convergent Design will release this week new firmware adding a 280 Mbps I-Frame-Only CODEC for their popular nanoFlash HD/SD recorder/player. Additionally, the company qualified three new 64GB Compact Flash cards, doubling the record/playback time.
published 4 days ago read more | | | | |
| | | | EditShare Partners With Dixon For Major League Baseball
Collaborative shared storage and advanced logging systems deliver winning combination for Cincinnati Reds' HD workflow at the Great American Ball Park
EditShare®, the technology leader in cross platform collaborative editing and shared media storage, and Dixon Sports Computing, the sports video management experts since 1992, have deployed a new HD production workflow at the Cincinnati Reds' Great American Ball Park.
published 1 week ago read more | | | | |
| | | | Noise Industries Releases Free Pan and Zoom Photo Animation Plug-in
Flexible parameters of new Pan and Zoom 2 freebie enable the effortless creation of stunning photo animations inside both Apple and Adobe host applications
Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the postproduction and broadcast markets, announced that it has released an update to its popular freebie generator plug-in, Pan and Zoom.
published 1 week ago read more | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Announces Premiere Pro CS4 version 4.2 Update
Adobe today announced Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 version 4.2, a free update for existing customers of Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium, and Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection software. The new version provides compatibility for Panasonic’s AVC-Intra format along with updates for leading post-production hardware, including IO support.
published 1 week ago read more | | | | |
| | | | "Where the Wild Things Are" Taps AJA KONA 3 for Digital Workflow
AJA Video Systems, a leading manufacturer of professional video interface and conversion solutions, announced that its KONA 3 digital video I/O cards were used by the "Where the Wild Things Are" editorial team to build efficiencies into their digital production and post workflow.
published 1 week ago read more | | | | |
| | | | NewBlueFX Introduces “Video Essentials III” Effects Plugins
The Video Editor’s Wish List of Tools & Techniques in One Package
NewBlue, Inc. today launched Video Essentials III, the third and latest offering in its best-selling Video Essentials series of video effects and transitions plugins. NewBlue Video Essentials III provides highly-practical video tools designed to solve everyday production issues.
published 1 week ago read more | | | | |
| | | | 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.
published 2 weeks ago read more | | | | |
| | | | 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.
published 2 weeks ago read more | | | | |
| | | | | 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 | | | | |
| | | | Apple Final Cut Pro
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 | | | | |
| | | | Apple Final Cut Pro
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 | | | | |
| | | | Apple Final Cut Pro
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 | | | | |
| | | | Apple Final Cut Pro
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 | | | | |
| | | | Apple Final Cut Pro
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 | | | | |
| | | | Apple Final Cut Pro
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 | | | | |
|
| | | | THREADS: | | | | |
| | | |  | Asterisk in time code
by Mitch Jordan in the CatDV - NEW ! Forum
I just purchased CatDV, so I am a beginner with a lot of questions. My first is: on some of my clips in the summary, there is an asterisk after the timecode. What does that mean? I suspect it means that CatDV is unsure of the timecode. If so, can...
10 minutes ago read more |
| | | | |
| | | | | Re: Burning sd dvd correctly
by Raymond Tuquero in the Apple DVD Studio Pro Forum
What are your settings in DVDSP? ? Look under your Preferences and see what you have for encoding SD DVDs. And how did you export your video from FCP? My workflow is export of out FCP through Compressor then in DVDSP make sure it does 2 passes instead of one....
12 minutes ago read more |
| | | | |
| | | | | Re: Buttons DVD Studio Pro
by Raymond Tuquero in the Apple DVD Studio Pro Forum
Twisted somewhat 3D-ish ?? as if it was in a tornado? Or just canted? I would recommend building custom buttons like that in Photoshop and then importing them in. You really don't have a whole lot of control for DSP buttons. -Raymond Tuquero- Houston Based Freelancer www.rtuqvidere.com...
14 minutes ago read more |
| | | | |
| | | | | Re: Seeing Through Layers in 3D
by Jim Johnson in the Apple Motion Forum
Howdy, It sounds like the 3D group that you probably have your cube walls in is getting rasterized. This means that it's forced to comp into the scene in layer order (i.e. the order in the Layers List). It will still respect the camera and be depth-sorted unto itself, but...
46 minutes ago read more |
| | | | |
| | | |  | kernal panic
by Michael Harrington in the Apple OS X Forum
I guess I WAS one of the lucky ones, been using MAC since the days before my MAC SE20, more recently G4 then G5 and have never had a kernal panic till now. I'm now on a, see specs below, and have had 3 kernal panics, 2 just now as...
49 minutes ago read more |
| | | | |
| | | | | Re: Motion Tracking with Moving camera vs. object
by Jim Johnson in the Apple Motion Forum
Howdy, What you're asking to do has 3 solutions: 1. Hand animate the corner-points that move out of frame, because they can't be tracked when the feature (i.e. object being tracked) is no longer visible. This can work fine, depending on the length of the shot and how prominent (or...
56 minutes ago read more |
| | | | |
| | | |  | Re: The right thing?
by walter biscardi in the Apple Color Forum
[Miguel Mendoza] "I would like to know if I do get the 1770W, also getting Matrox MXO2 to plug it with my Imac, will it make a difference with the quality of my work for this SD project??" As I've posted in another thread, the issue isn't your monitoring, it's...
2 hours ago read more |
| | | | |
| | | | | Re: Motion Tracking with Moving camera vs. object
by Erik Boles in the Apple Motion Forum
Jim, I appreciate the input, but this isn't something that complex, and I have seen it done in motion many times, so this is just something I am doing wrong, not something that is going to be solved by another $100 worth of software after spending $1,200 on FC Studio....
3 hours ago read more |
| | | | |
| | | | | Re: Motion Tracking with Moving camera vs. object
by Jim Johnson in the Apple Motion Forum
Howdy, This is the kind of situation where a good 3D track makes the shot a no-brainer, rather than a potentially-tweaky 2D four-corner pin. PFHoe, which is a "lite" version of Pixel Farm's 3D tracker, is cheap and can export 3D matchmove for Motion (as well as a bunch of...
3 hours ago read more |
| | | | |
| | | |  | Re: Version function not working
by Hans Damkoehler in the Apple Final Cut Server Forum
Well, I believe I have found the problem but I have no idea how to solve it. When I go to the Preferences section in the Administration area there is NO device or location listed under the Version Control Section. Take a look: http://files.me.com/fcp.video.editor/c3p1lk Any idea how to get the...
3 hours ago read more |
| | | | |
|
|
