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Final Cut Pro freebies for a better edit experience

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

It seems no matter how mature and complex creative software tools become, particularly non-linear editing systems, there always seem to be the extra things you find yourself wishing for. The technology trickle-down effect has seen enormous changes over the past decade where the tools that were once the sole domain of high-end turn-key systems - with appropriate astronomical price-tags - are now stock standard.

Diana's Top 10 Final Cut Pro 7 Features #7 - Improved Markers

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

You know those little post-it note pads that come in multiple colors? Ok, admit it now. Do you ever color-code your notes? Maybe yellow notes are financial, pink ones are hot to-do items. Well with Final Cut Pro 7, you can now use color to label your markers in a very similar way. There are several other marker improvements as well.

Diana's Top 10 FCP 7 Features #8 - iChat Theater Preview

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

In the past, if you wanted to share some portion of your work with another set of eyes, it was a somewhat time-consuming business of exporting a QuickTime file or transferring a sequence or a portion of a sequence to another drive or server for someone else to access. That's no longer the case. Welcome to iChat Theater Preview-the quick and easy way to share and discuss your sequence with someone down the hall or around the world in real time.

Sorenson Squeeze 6

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

These days, it seems as though every company has an application for taking your edited files and processing them for the web, and many of those applications are included with the editing bundle you purchased. Adobe has Adobe's Media Encoder, Final Cut Studio has Compressor, and there are the standalone applications such as Episode, and even QuickTime can do it as well.

Get AVCHD M2TS and burn M2TS to DVD on the Mac

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

The .m2ts(AVCHD H.264,VC-1, MPEG-2 HD) file format is given to video/audio files created by certain Sony Camcorder models. How to Burn M2TS to dvd on Mac?

Diana's Top 10 Final Cut Pro 7 Features #9 - The Timecode Viewer

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:00:00 PDT

Look at the image below. Something new has been added in FCP 7. It's the Timecode Viewer, a floating time code window, which will really come in handy as you share your screen or sequence with others. And taking notes by jotting down time code as you view your footage has never been easier.

Diana's Top 10 FCP 7 Features: #10 - Color Coding Tabs

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:00:00 PDT

The ability to utilize the operating system's color-coding capabilities for organizing and easily identifying bins, clips and sequences has been a standard feature in earlier versions of the software. However, Final Cut Pro 7 now raises the bar by implementing the color-coding of bins, clips and sequences to their respective tabs in the Timeline, Canvas and Browser windows.

Coremelt Complete V2

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:00:00 PDT

You can never have enough plug-ins. Trust me, as an editor/graphic designer you always have clients that want something "cool," but have really no idea what they are looking for, so you end up finding yourself going through the plug-ins on your system to try and put something together to really "wow" them, your plug-in collection needs to have three traits.

Working with QuickTime X

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:00:00 PDT

Snow Leopard, Apple's sixth release of OS X, includes a dramatic upgrade to QuickTime. In one swift move, Apple jumped from QuickTime 7 to X. In this article you will find out why Snow Leopard is worth the upgrade just for QuickTime X, what new features abound throughout QuickTime and how you can take advantage of them.

Australian conservationist and adventurer Malcolm Douglas

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:00:00 PDT

Conservationist, adventurer and raconteur Malcolm Douglas is well known to most Australians and many overseas via his Channel 7 films on Australia and the stunning Kimberley in particular. David Hague took a spin through Broome recently and caught up with Malcolm for a chat.