How To XML Exchange between FCP and Premiere Pro Handy little tutorial from animotion.nl on moving sequences between FCP and Premiere.
Category - Tutorials
How to negotiate
Listening to this entertaining and insightful talk by Owen Darbishire, from the University of Oxford’s Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation will help you make more money. Or ast least...
Actually editing with FCPX
Three great videos from Michael Wohl from the LAFCPUG. Funny and informative and very much nuts and bolts of real world editing with FCPX. Well worth making 45 minutes if you’re starting out...
100 FCPX Questions Answered
100 Common FCPX Questions Answered Great post from the provideocoalition detailing 100 answers to common FCPX questions.
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...
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...
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…