There are more choices now than just the “you have to get the fastest Mac available” approach when purchasing an editing sytem for Final Cut Studio. If you don’t need PCI expansion cards (like AJA, Blackmagic, or Matrox), then you don’t have to pony up for a MacPro. MacPro’s are great machines….very fast, very expandable, [...]
The new Sony NX5U does not do overcranking or undercranking. The smooth slow-motion is for very short (3, 6, or 12 second) slow motion recording with stabilization applied. There will be an image quality drop when using this function. Sony recommends using it for golf swings. So if you are looking to shoot sunsets, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Had a question sent my way this morning that comes up in class…Why does FCP make a freeze frame of 12:12 when the Still/Freeze Duration preference under User Preferences: Editing is set to 10 seconds? I don’t have a technical explanation from Apple on this, but here is my theory:
This original part the FCP code [...]
If you want searchable access to all 800+ commands of Final Cut Pro 7, this is the app for you. This is the reference tool for every editor’s iPhone or iPod Touch when it comes to keyboard shortcuts.
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LiveType has been around awhile and available to you even before Final Cut Studio 1 or 2. But in FCS3, LiveType disappeared from the install DVD. If you clean installed Final Cut Studio 3 on your edit system, you lost LiveType. Find your FCS2 install DVD and give it a run to re-install LiveType. Ensure [...]
The Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro 7 Quick-Reference Guide is now available. This small format book gives you the essential tasks required in any Final Cut Pro post-production workflow. The book covers how to ingest (whether tape-based or tapeless), to the various editing tools to efficiently create your video project, to how to [...]