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...
Category - Editor’s Tools
Useful tools for film and video editors
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...
Incredibly useful and free tool – BMD Disk Speed Test
Via aotg.com here’s a quick pointer to BlackMagic Design’s free (via the App Store) Disk speed test. Now you can see if your hard drives will handle what you want to throw at them….
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...
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…
How to convert .mts/m2ts footage on a mac for free
A client has given me stacks of footage shot using the AVCHD codec. This won’t export through Mpeg Streamclip (ever faithful though it normally is) but a work around is this… 1. Drop the...
The Social Network – Cut on FCP
A podcast from digitalcontentproducer.com interviewing The Social Network’s two editors Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter
Understanding Thunderbolt
Best of the web for understanding the newly announced Thunderbolt. Macworld Thunderbolt FAQ Digital Rebellion on why Thunderbolt is a ‘game-changer’ TidBITS Breakdown – loads of...
11 things to think about in 2011
Found this interesting site earlier this year and came back to look at this post again… stimulating stuff. Attentionomics – Marketers begin to realize the value of attention and not just reach...
Free plugins & a decent fcp text generator
Free plugins for FCP The text generator in fcp is terrible. It’s been terrible for a long time. Noise Industries – makers of FxFactory platform give away freebies from time to time...
The new big thing for indie filmmaking
This is incredible. Like every other player you’ve seen on the internet but hooked up to pay-pal. Dynamo take care of the transaction process (pay-pal and amazon), the hosting and bandwidth...