This tip is all about timeline cleanliness… And render times… And possibly some other stuff thrown in there too. I have long looked for something in FCP similar to precomp in after effects. What that does is to take multiple files, create a new composition out of them and then place the new composition in [...]
The other day I ended up on a website that offers a red camera service that includes dailies available on ipod and via podcast. The second half of that idea really intrigued me. I know that it ought to be doable, so I set out to figure out how to do it. Within a few [...]
Normalize effect This isn’t the primary use of normalize. The primary usage is to even out audio so that it has a more uniform volume. This usage is still very very useful. The timeline only allows you to change audio levels up to +12dB. Sometimes you have a very low clip that needs more of [...]
Here are two scripts that I recently made. I use one script at work that is remarkably similar to this, so I wrote these two up to share. FCPFolderMaker is a simple app that builds a folder structure for you to organize your project with. The structure is as seen in the photo below. It [...]
This one is also short and sweet, since last weeks tip turned out so well! Shift z – zoom timeline to fit project. No more words are needed! These are the kinds of tips and tricks you usually learn by watching someone else edit. If you have something that drastically speed up your editing, let [...]
So what happened? Maybe fcp crashed, or maybe you accidentally made some severe deletions to an edit and want to go back in time. Either way the autosave feature in final cut can be an honest to god savior – if you have it configured correctly. This is a two part post. I’ll start with [...]
This one is short and sweet. Not all of these tips need to be needlessly complicated. Control-V – Control-V cuts a selected clip at playhead, or cuts all clips at playhead if no clip is selected. It only does one job, but it does it well. It is also much quicker than constantly toggling between [...]
Ok, so contest isn’t really the right word, but I would like to propose a project. I intend on choosing a movie and editing a movie trailer for it… with a twist! I am sure we have all seen a few examples of these. The first two I can remember made the shining out to [...]
This script is from macworld, (osx only) but the way they posted is not only horribly un-user-friendly, it also wouldn’t compile without a lot of text massaging. I decided to put it up here to save you the trouble and explain 3 ways it can be used. What it does is to look at a [...]