May 16

Ken Stone’s FCP by Richard Taylor
The iPad looks to be another big hit device for Apple. Over one million sold so far in the USA alone. At some point you probably will be producing videos for this device. I’m going to show you how you can make Compressor settings and Droplets to encode video optimized for the iPad. Continue reading »
Tagged with: Apple FCP • Compressor • FCS3 • H.264 • iPad
Mar 24

Little Frog in High Def by Shane Ross
I’ll take a moment of of my day editing on an Avid to deal with something in the Final Cut Studio world. Specifically, Apple just released an update to the entire package today. Get it HERE. Continue reading »
Tagged with: Apple FCP • Compressor • FCP • FCS3 • Final Cut Pro • Final Cut Studio • Motion
Feb 17

BrightDawn is a strategic marketing firm serving a variety of political, industrial, and commercial entities from its Richmond, Virginia headquarters. Along with his responsibilities as senior managing partner, Dana Love also has special involvement in the creative side of the business. His experience as a Steadicam operator, video editor, and field producer was instrumental in bringing production and post-production expertise in-house over the past two years. He’s created a boutique facility to help BrightDawn’s clients cost effectively promote and extend their messages by capitalizing on new opportunities in the rapidly evolving media market. Since he discovered Matrox MAX H.264 encoding technology, the firm’s bottom-line has been greatly enhanced. “I can easily say that we are 20 times more competitive than we were six months ago.” Continue reading »
Tagged with: Compress HD • Compressor • CS4 • FCS3 • Final Cut Pro • HDMI • Matrox • MAX • MXO2 • MXO2 Mini • ProRes
Nov 22

Compressor
We use Compressor for two different tasks; to encode files to make them smaller and change their codec to a delivery format for distribution, and to transcode source video to different codecs to improve or facilitate workflow. Continue reading »
Tagged with: Apple FCP • Compressor • FCS3 • Final Cut Pro • Final Cut Studio