Entries for January, 2010

Stop the Rendering: Part 1 – Transcoding Before Ingest

Jan.19, 2010 in Final Cut Pro, Tutorials Comments Off

AKA stop shooting yourself in the foot
Way too many new users of Final Cut Pro are griping about having to constantly render clips in their timeline. Rendering a sequence clip just to playback that clip points to a codec issue. Though Final Cut Pro 7 (and version 6) support Open Format Timelines, you must use [...]

Why I don’t care for Save As

Jan.03, 2010 in Final Cut Pro, Tutorials Comments Off

You will often see in the forums a suggestion to perform a “Save As” for your FCP Project File to avoid corruption. If avoiding corruption is your only goal, then FCP is taking care of this automatically. FCP creates a backup copy of your project every 30-minutes by default. These copies are kept in the [...]

Quick reference guide for FCP6

Jan.02, 2010 in Final Cut Pro, Tutorials Comments Off

I got a question regarding using my new Final Cut Pro 7 Quick-Reference Guide with FCP 6. Is the FCP7 guide applicable to FCP6? Yes. Where the FCP7 guide shows something specific to FCP7, there is a highlight tab that says New Feature.

The New Features that do not apply to FCP 6 are:
Timecode Viewer window [...]

  

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