100 Common FCPX Questions Answered Great post from the provideocoalition detailing 100 answers to common FCPX questions.
Category - Editing
Baz Luhrman & his editors on Australia post…
Nice ‘podcast’ on the shooting (and more interestingly) post for Australia. A thoughtful 10 minute piece on the evolving technical and creative post process… free on Itunes.
Free DaVinci Resolve (Lite)
Blackmagic Design are doing the world a favour again (aside from a range of great products, releasing DaVinci Resolve for £700 was generous) with a free version of their fantastic colour grading...
Working with XDCAM and FCP7
Here is a handy link to Sony’s UK download site for all the tools you’ll need for working with Sony XDCAM and XDCAM-EX with Final Cut Pro 7. For XDCAM 1. XDCAM Browser (v1.2) 2. SxS UDF...
Working with FCPX
Here is a handy blog tracking some of the initial quirks of fcpx. See also Larry Jordan’s blog on his thoughts on sticking/switching/praising/despising FCPX. Personally I’m sticking...
Audio Explosion
Resonance is 11 minutes of animated audio exploration combining the creativity and talent of 20 international animators and 11 of ‘the best sound design studios’ around. My personal...
How to make your showreel great…
Make it like my friend Neil Edwards, who is the best editor I know and has a brilliant showreel for his shooting skills. This showreel is not only the funniest one I’ve seen but a great sales...
Download your learning
I’m all about learning. I love learning. I don’t know anyone who will ever tell you to stop learning. When you stop learning, you get boring very quickly. Here are some links to get you...
Working with ARRI Alexa footage
Oliver Peter’s at Digital Films has a great article (among a huge, and equally great, back catalogue) on working with Arri Alexa footage in a variety of NLE’s. Useful free downloads...
Newsletters – casting wide the net.
Newsletters are a simple way to stay abreast of the latest news and tech developments, viral videos and cool new sites. Here are three of my favourites… 1. Studio Daily – If it passes by...
If you really wanted to, you would have already…
A great post from Filmmakermagazine.com about the trap of being shackled to the idea that you need any money to make a film. If you really wanted to do it, you would just get out there are do it. The...
Final Cut Pro X – The Sneak Peak
If you were as hungry as me for the best the web has to offer on Apple’s recent announcement of the new Final Cut Pro 10, then here they all are… Larry Jordan’s Blog Blow by blow...
Online Distribution Vs The Festival Circuit
Promote Your Film Online – Not at Festivals The mighty folk from shortoftheweek describe how they promoted their excellent animated opus online – and how that compared with their festival...
5+ places to learn new things…
When I don’t know how to do/fix/work-around/create/hack/solve something here are the first places I go… 1. Google – always quickest and most likely to come up with a good few...
Useful Layouts in FCP
Great little post from Walt Biscardi (don of the creativecow.net forums) on useful layouts for different tasks in fcp…