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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 »

This month we’ll look at the brand new speed controls in Final Cut Pro (FCP) 7. In Final Cut Pro 6 and earlier versions, the speed control function was called Time Remapping, but now it’s just called Speed Change. It’s also much easier and faster. We have four tools to work with: the Change Time window, the Speed Tool in the Timeline window, the Clip Keyframe control below each track in the Timeline window, and the Speed section of the Viewer window’s Motion tab. We’ll look briefly at each one and how they work. Using these four resources together can help you achieve complex speed changes and ramp them up quickly and easily. Continue reading »

During the years with Final Cut, I’ve accumulated a number of workflow steps to eliminate some of the “gotchas” and bottlenecks. I’ll share a few in this post and hope you find them to be helpful. Continue reading »

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 »