Well, actually, he has two arms, but one is soon-to-be in a sling. One of my coworkers has to go in for shoulder surgery and will be in a sling for a few months. Sadly he won’t be able to take three months off from work. He knows I like to cut and solder stuff, [...]
This was one of the most talked-about features of fcp 7, but for some reason I didn’t start using it until recently. If you have a timeline with a gap in video and you would like to time scale (or speed change) a clip as it sits you have few options. What I had resorted [...]
yup. the nerds got to me again. Currently there is a redirect to nowhere that makes for an extremely unrewarding browsing experience. I ought to have it fixed in a bit. Nothing to fear, just some script kiddies…
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]