I am hearing that automatic duck is now free. Interesting… From Wes and Harry: October 28, 2011 If you missed our mail last month you should check it out as it got a lot of people talking. Today we have a follow-up. Our web site has relaunched* and while the overall look of the site [...]
I’ve waited as long at I could to put in my two cents on this one. I’m tired of hearing people moan about how they are switching from FCP to something else. I’m tired of this being the reason why people dig up the age old saws about “professionals use AVID.” Lastly I’m tired of [...]
1) price: $299 2) release date: June 3) no interruption for rendering. everything (including transcoding) is done in the background. 4) sample level precision for audio (FINALLY!) for more insights, check out the logs of @fcpsupermeet as he was live tweeting (via text) better than even a teenage girl during the announcement, or just look [...]
Just in case you didn’t know, the rumors are deafening that apple will be demoing/unveiling the new final cut at the LA FCP supermeet. That will be happening tonight (april 12) at 7pm pacific. In case you can’t make it and want to try to get a live stream of the happenings, then we’ve got [...]
I just got back from one of the most interesting shoots I have ever been on. Our client wanted multiple short pieces shot, edited, and uploaded daily with a 12 hour turnaround. To make things more complicated we would be traveling 6-12 hours per day and every day we would wake up in a new [...]
Today a co-worker and I were discussing the need for a word to describe a video that is simultaneously letterboxed and pillarboxed. I dislike that particular lapse in effort so much that the word “Litterboxed” seemed to be the best fit. So there. Run wild with it, internets.
I have thankfully not needed to ever use compressor repair before. It has always lived in the back of my mind as one of those backup plans, like triple-a, or life insurance. At work my tower somehow really tweaked itself and compressor was the hardest hit. This was the first sign that something was amiss. [...]
I spend a lot of words here showing how to automate things so that editors can “set it and forget it”. The reason for that is that there is nothing worse than having to wait around for an hour watching your computer work. Well, there sometimes isn’t any way to automate the “next step”, but [...]
Canon recently updated their eos plugin for final cut pro to give it much better metadata reading capabilities. Now you have access to the Av, Tv, ISO, Lens, Focal Length, Camera Model name Camera Serial Number, and it give REAL timecode based off the cameras internal clock. They also say that it should be much [...]
