I run into a lot of situations where I put music under an edit and I have vo on top. This combination ends up failing on almost every piece of music that has vocals because it sounds like a trainwreck. Often I will have creatives ask me if I can “turn down the vocals” as [...]
So, for those who haven’t been following long at home, this is the third creative controller that I have put together. I promise this isn’t going to become a “Combine X with Y and use it to control Final cut Pro!” blog. This one is clean and simple so I figured I’d put it up [...]
I have had a lot of problems with instability using protools. Come to think of it, I have had a lot of problems with instability not even using protools but having it installed. Generally what I record is used as a scratch vo track anyways and will eventually be replaced with something recorded by an [...]
This is one of those tricks that I’ve never seen written anywhere, but it save me a TON of time. It works on 90% of the file import /save / open dialogs across all programs. If you want to export a file from say, FCP. You start out by hitting command-E and then you get [...]
The more you use your mouse, the slower you work. Some tasks are impossible to do without a mouse, but maximizing keyboard shortcuts is the clear path to speed. Keyboard shortcuts, key remapping, and droplet creation are all designed to reduce the number of steps required to do something. The difficult thing is trying to [...]
This has been one of my biggest complaints about Compressor; when you switch to it from another app by clicking into one of the compressor windows, only that window rises to the top. The rest of the windows remain mixed in with the finder windows and other apps you have open below. My big hope [...]
I haven’t been super caught up in it, but there has been a lot of talk this year in hollywood and beyond about how most blockbuster vfx driven movies don’t pay their artists very well, give them points or royalties, and how that practice is driving the entire industry in a race to the bottom. [...]
Yesterday I reviewed Magic Bullet’s Grinder and I got all excited about finally getting free run time code in my 7d footage. It turns out that app didn’t deliver what I was looking for, so I went out in search of something that did. In the end I found a great app called QtChange that [...]
Cranston P.K. Tewksbury III commented in my review of Magic Bullet Grinder that he would like to see a review of the proxy creation feature. Here it is! Proxies can be used for a variety of reasons, but the biggest one is to reduce render time by feeding your editing platform lower res / data [...]
I woke up this morning to an email from the fine folks at Magic Bullet. It had all kinds of info about their new helper app “Grinder” It is a new app designed to help batch convert your output from a canon 7d/ 5d/ 1d / t2i…. etc. It will convert the h.264 native files [...]
