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...
Category - Editor’s Tools
Useful tools for film and video editors
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...
Free FCP X and helpful guide for FCP7 editors…
Apple released FCP X 1.01 today. A few helpful updates, but for me FCP 7, still isn’t broken, so why ‘fix’ it in a half-baked way. But you can get your hands on 30 day free trial to...
RED Thunderbolt Workflow
This is a really interesting little video from IBC 2011 demo-ing R3D’s new thunderbolt enabled workflow. Basically a 15′ MBP, a Lacie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt drive and a ‘yet...
How to use Twixtor
Twixtor is a cool plugin for a variety of NLE’s and post programs that ”intelligently slows down, speeds up or changes the frame rate of your image sequences”. Basically it makes...
LightWorks coming soon to mac…
Edit share have just announced that they will be releasing Lightworks on November 29th with the mac version being available on the 19th December 2011. The source code will become available at...
Free Motion templates
There is a mixed bag of free motion templates available on the net, sometimes useful in a tight spot when you’re short of time on an edit but more often than not it takes as much time to adapt...
FCPX Tips and Tricks – Macbreak Studio
Working in FCPX If you’ve got a spare hour and a half the latest podcast from pixel corps/macbreak studio is well worth the time to discover some of the day-to-day work arounds and hidden...
Exporting multi-track (split) audio files…
A simple but useful tutorial from editor Shane Ross on how to export multi-track or split-audio from FCP7.
XML exchange between FCP and Premiere Pro CS 5
How To XML Exchange between FCP and Premiere Pro Handy little tutorial from animotion.nl on moving sequences between FCP and Premiere.
5DtoRGB v1.5 – Free tool for HDSLR workflow…
Rarevision’s 5DtoRGB is a conversion tool to take your HDSLR footage out of its native format and into an edit friendly one. It does this without the quicktime based idiosyncrasies of gamma...
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.
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...