Category - Final Cut Pro

Final Cut Pro 7 and X

Automatic Duck – Free Tools

With Automatic Duck being bought by Adobe (and soon to be integrated into the next release) Automatic Duck have released its suite of tools for frees so snap them up while you can. They’re the...

Best free editing tools on the web…

Michael Cinquin has created some of the most useful free editing tools around. They’re amazing because they do obscure but vital things, really well. They’re also free. They’re a...

Layer disappears when rendered or exported?

Just encountered this little bug in FCP7 where I was creating a 4 way split screen and added some black bars to the horizontal and vertical crossing points to neaten up the edges. When un-rendered...

Is this the future?

Adobe Premiere Pro CC – The Future of NLEs? Personally I’m sticking with FCP7 and FCS 3 for the moment – its what I have, it works just fine for me now. Been looking into the...

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...

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 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...

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...

Useful Layouts in FCP

Great little post from Walt Biscardi (don of the creativecow.net forums) on useful layouts for different tasks in fcp…

The Social Network – Cut on FCP

A podcast from digitalcontentproducer.com interviewing The Social Network’s two editors Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter