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...
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Colour grading Cowboys & Aliens
Fxguide has a brilliant podcast with Steven Scott, colorist of many top features like Cowboys & Aliens, Captain America, Tree of Life, Iron Man 2, Jarhead to name just a few… He talks about...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
400 pages of FCP goodness
The Supermag from the LAFCPUG Super meet – totally free and totally necessary!