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We’ve been having conversations very much like the one here at our office about Final Cut Pro X. For low end users like myself who shoot video on a DSLR and produce 2 minute documentary style videos, FCPX is a great tool. We also have a very accomplished video editor who’s been using Final Cut ... read more
CrumplePop makes effects for Final Cut Pro and they’ve just released a new lens flare and light leak effect created with an actual vintage lens, the Paul Irmiter Series Dacar, a German lens from the 1950’s that fit onto folding cameras. Paul Irmiter took that lens and created a custom mount to allow it to capture ... read more
Digital Film Tools announced that their plugin, which creates “realistic” light rays for film and video editors, now works with all the major editing platforms, including Avid, Adobe and Apple’s Final Cut up through and including Final Cut Pro X.Press ReleaseWe are pleased to announce that our Rays visual effects plug-in now supports video/film hosts ... read more
Apple, after much, ahem, feedback from users has begun offering Final Cut Studio (i.e., the previous version) again. The software isn’t available on the Apple Store (at least not as of this writing) but customers who call 1-800-MY-APPLE can order the software over the phone. As a recap, when Apple released Final Cut Pro X it ... read more
[h]CrumplePop: Using an iPad as a Secondary Monitor for Final Cut Pro X[/h] I found a post on the [b]CrumplePop[/b] blog that had an embedded video from Daniel Freytag on Vimeo[url=http://vimeo.com/25682920][/url]. The video shows how to use an iPad as a seconary monitor using the AirDisplay app. Here’s a link to the[url=http://www.crumplepop.com/blog/?p=361][/url] [b]CrumplePop[/b] blog. [img]http://finalcut.maccreate.com/files/2011/07/media_1310451191680.png[/img] http://vimeo.com/25682920[url=http://vimeo.com/25682920][/url]read more
The website BareFeats.com has done some testing on Final Cut Pro X and found that the app runs better on the new crop of iMacs than it does on the current crop of MacPro desktops. That’s not terribly surprising, giving that the MacPro hasn’t been refreshed recently (and rumors indicate it’s likely to be updated in ... read more
TUAW is reporting that Apple had a meeting in London on July 6th that was tweeted by a Final Cut editor who was at the meeting, who goes by the handle of @apostengineer. Some interesting points, summarized in the article. 1. FCP XML in/out is coming via 3rd party soon…no FCP 6/7 support project support coming ever ... read more
In an effort to address some of the criticism and complaints about Final Cut Pro X, Apple has posted a FAQ page to their website. To save you from having to jump to the document, we’re including it here as well There are many important things here (and we’ll be making tutorials on the key ones) about ... read more
For the last few weeks, the Internet and popular TV alike have been abuzz with criticism over Apple’s new Final Cut Pro X. If you’ve not been keeping up with the hoopla, here’s a summary: • A few months ago Apple showed off a “beta” of Final Cut Pro at a trade show, the world went ga-ga. Smooth, ... read more
Final Cut Pro x has the ability to automatically stabilize a clip with too much jitter or motion by analyzing the clip and cropping around a steady center point. iMovie had this ability as well, but it was limited to an all-or-nothing approach. Either stabilization is applied or it isn’t. Final Cut Pro is much ... read more
Final Cut Pro x has the ability to automatically stabilize a clip with too much jitter or motion by analyzing the clip and cropping around a steady center point. iMovie had this ability as well, but it was limited to an all-or-nothing approach. Either stabilization is applied or it isn’t. Final Cut Pro is much ... read more
Final Cut Pro X performs a great deal behind the scenes in background tasks, enabling editors to keep working on a project while a less-important activity happens in the background. Some things (the moving of Events between drives, for example) can’t happen while Final Cut Pro is performing background tasks, so it’s sometimes advantageous to ... read more
Final Cut Pro X uses a graphical interface for file organization that’s organize according to the name of a drive and then the year content was created. To move content between drives simply drag it from one drive to another in the Event LibraryThings Out of PlaceHere we see that I’ve got a number ... read more
Final Cut Pro X doesn’t provide a direct-import path for previous Final Cut projects, but it does provide one for iMovie convent. Final Cut Pro allows for direct import of either iMovie Projects, or iMovie Events.Select a Project or EventEvents are the raw footage used in iMovie and Final Cut Pro X, while Projects ... read more
Final Cut Pro X utilizes a new system for specifying the location for video clips brought into the program, one that’s inherited from iMovie. For seasoned Final Cut Pro users this might appear as if the program doesn’t allow things to be saved outside the Documents folder. It does, (although like with iMovie it’s ... read more
Consider it one of the drawbacks of having an application available only via an online (and therefore inherently social) distribution system, but Final Cut Pro X is getting fairly hammered in reviews on the App Store, and those reviews are rather visible thanks to the nature of the store. Reviewers seem to fall into two camps, ... read more
