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 [...]
So this isn’t new news, but I seem to have missed it. We all remember when Canon announced that they were releasing a fcp plugin for ingesting dslr footage. Then we waited. and waited. They finally released it! You can go here to download it straight from canon. Select your os and you are on [...]
I recently found a weird glitch exporting an animation file from MPEG streamclip 1.9.2. For whatever reason it really bogged down nuke, making the tracker take 4x longer. This didn’t happen with prores, and it didn’t happen with an animation video exported out of compressor. It only bogs down with the animation codec from streamclip. [...]
Based on this post by Dylan Reeve I have put together a list of mac apps that I carry around on a usb drive in order to get myself and others out of sticky situations. There is a bit of overlap, but I think that this is a great start to making a final cut [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Rename Compressor presets for web compatibility. This is another smack-your-forehead tip. By default Compressor has lots of spaces in the default filename suffixes it adds to your compressed files. This turns out to be a problem when you upload those to the web because the spaces turn into “%20″‘s and sometimes can split a link [...]
This is something I have been going back and forth on for quite some time. I love the idea of a drag and drop upload to ftp. I absolutely hate the idea of having to hard code the ftp password into a piece of applescript. If that script accidentally ends up in the wrong hands [...]
Export as quicktime movie, then go to compressor. This is good for two reasons: It is faster than exporting straight to compressor (try it out if you don’t believe me) and it gives you a full res export to work with in the future. Here is an example : I decide to export my project [...]
This post is kind of like a love letter to final cut pro. I love it enough to want to change it. In fact I must love it a lot, because there are a lot of things I would like to change. Admittedly I am still on FCP 6, so hopefully they read my mind [...]