Solving Out of Memory Error in FCP7 The out of memory error in final cut pro 7 certainly is mysterious and very frustrating. I had this error today while working on a project with a lot of large jpg...
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Final Cut Pro 7 and X
Tapeless Workflow – Doing all the right things
Tapeless Workflow for Beginners Shane Ross of Little Frog in HD delivers a concise and complete workflow tutorial on how to work with tapeless media in FCP 7. This is well worth a watch for any...
Workflows for working with Arri & RED Raw footage
Arri Raw and RED Raw in Premiere Pro 6 Richard Harrington demonstrates in this short tutorial how to work with Raw footage in Premiere Pro. Offline-Online RED FCP7 Workflow If you’re looking to...
Correct footage in correct timeline still needs rendering?
FCP Timeline Gotcha The basic principle in Final Cut Pro 7 for having to do as little rendering as possible is to make sure that everything matches. The sequence settings of your timeline (select it...
Editing Tips from Alan Edward Bell
Editing Craft – Alan Edward Bell Alan Edward Bell editor of The Amazing Spiderman and 500 Days of Summer has started a blog where he shares some of his insights and tips into what it takes to...
Solving ‘General Error’ message in FCP7
How to fix ”General Error” message in FCP7 I had this ”General Error” message pop up in FCP7 the other day when my edit would no longer save (although thankfully I could save...
FCP7 editors moving to Avid or Premiere Pro
Moving from FCP7 to Avid MC6 If you’re thinking of moving to Avid Media Composer 6 then this free white paper from Avid should give you a heads up on what you’ll need to know to make the...
Post production tips from Larry Jordan
5 great tips for post from Larry Jordan Larry Jordan, the grandaddy of FCP editors/trainers has a hugely useful blog, forum and training warehouse, with excellent video tutorials on just about every...
Free 120 page Final Cut Pro 7 editing ebook
Over 170 tips, tricks and techniques for FCP7 Digital Heaven (a UK company that also runs finalcutters.com) has just added Final Cut Pro Killer Secrets (formerly a £9.99 ebook) to their selection of...
How to run a post production studio
How to run an edit facility Post Magazine has an interesting article interviewing different post production house bosses run their editing facilities with comments ranging from which software...
Getting started using LUTS
Using LUT Buddy from Red Giant LUT Buddy is one of Red Giants free tools (along with Colorista Free) and allows you to… Use LUT Buddy with host apps like After Effects and FCP to output LUTs...
Learning how to use Cinema Tools
Understanding what Cinema Tools does… Back in the days of Final Cut Studio 3, the most ‘legacy’ and often overlooked program was Cinema Tools. I often use Cinema Tools to conform...
How to make all fonts available in FCP7
How to access a full font family in FCP7 There is a bug in FCP7 which means that when you install a font family all of the weights and variances don’t appear in the Final Cut Pro text editor...
Compressor 3x Crash Service Down Error
Fixing Compressor 3x Crash Service Down Error Every now and then a mysterious error will appear whilst trying to compress a file with Apple’s Compressor 3.5. The mysterious error message just...
Working with Arri Alexa footage in post
Understanding Arri Alexa frame rates I was working on a project recently that was shooting on the Arri Alexa at multiple frame rates – 30fps and 60fps. As I was on set doing the card copying...