January 2012
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A Basic/Unorthodox FCP (R.I.P) Workflow
It’s no secret, I am disappointed in the “end of life” of Final Cut Pro as a professional editing program. Despite the cool new features of Final Cut Pro X, it cannot (yet?) be a welcome upgrade to FCP 7 in the professional filmmaking/television community.
So what’s next?
There’s always AVID which is an amazing databased oriented program that is more...
December 2011
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Waiting for the "Pro" in "X" means putting the...
So, if you follow my friends like @JokeandBiagio on Twitter, you’ve figured out that we started out in Hollywood making docs and television shows - basically (and literally) in our apartments.
We used Final Cut Pro and we used it like crazy. Had Final Cut Pro not existed I wouldn’t have been able to do so many things that I’ve gotten to do. I am grateful.
Now over 10 years...
July 2011
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"X" Terminator Day - International FCPX Refund...
As you already know, on April 12th in Las Vegas during the NAB convention for Broadcast Professionals, Apple choose to demo FINAL CUT PRO 10 (X) at the LAFCPUG’s SUPERMEET to a crowd of broadcast professionals that use Final Cut Pro 7 (and previous versions) for actual broadcasting work - YET the software they were actually promoting ironically lacked the functionality used by that group...
May 2011
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Larry Holden 1961-2011
It was 10 years ago that I met Larry Holden…
When I moved to California in 2000, I didn’t know very many people. I worked on a lot of projects for free. Uneventful pilots, so called television shows, and a few really poorly done films. Whatever. Everybody at the time was saying they were a “producer” on their way up and I was too new and broke to...
March 2011
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What is Best Editing?
Best Editing*
What does that mean exactly?
Best costumes? Sure. Best Visual Effects. Right, got it. Heck, there can even be a BEST COSTUMES or BEST VISUAL EFFECTS winner for a film that hasn’t even a chance at a BEST PICTURE award. (Alice in Wonderland or Independence Day for example)
But there’s never a BEST EDITING award for a movie like… say… Scooby Doo? **
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February 2011
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120hz Television "Smoothing" MUST DIE!!!!
For almost 20 years, filmmakers have been trying to make electronic image recording (non- film) actually LOOK like film. Sure, there were ways to add grain or splotchy imperfections or gamma shifts to create a so so aesthetic of what was film-ish… but it was the motion or frame rate of video capturing that killed the actual “look”…
Methods like shooting on European PAL (25fps) and...
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BatChmod! - Get Permission Now! →
Having a computer go down during a project gets you renting another one right away BUT the permissions to many of those folders, files, and subfolders could now be locked. Enter BatChmod!
What is BatChmod?
BatChmod is a utility for manipulating file and folder privileges in Mac OS X.
It allows the manipulation of ownership as well as the privileges...
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SPLICE - Video Editing on the iPhone 4/3gs done... →
I’ve been Twittering recently about this little iphone app - even though for awhile it had a little bit of a random and unexplainable black screen issue in it’s first release.
The black screen issue has now been fixed and you seriously can do a decent job of editing clips, adding voice over and adding music on this better than sticking two VHS recorders together little...
Macworld ShrinkIt shrinks your PDFs Review |... →
Nifty little utility to shrink your .pdf’s a little more….
September 2010
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Colorista II is AWESOME!!!! →
http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/all/magic-bullet-colorista-II/
July 2010
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