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FCP X, Photoshop, and RAW

2013-05-21T13:33:00+00:00

This week on MacBreak Studio, Steve Martin from Ripple Training gives us some tips on working with RAW images in Final Cut Pro X.

We've talked about RED RAW workflow in an earlier episode of MacBreak Studio - how you can work with these RAW video files natively in FCP X,...

What’s In a Name?

2013-05-20T17:47:00+00:00

In this week's somewhat detail-oriented "Answers Occasionally Given," I start out tackling the differences among color and contrast controls with similar names; in particular, the difference between Lift, Shadow, and Offset controls. Then, I move on to a reader's question about the best stage of a multi-operation color adjustment in which to adjust Luma. It's GRIPPING, I tell you…

Archiving Final Cut Pro X Projects and Media

2013-05-14T13:23:00+00:00

This week on MacBreak Studio, Steve Martin from Ripple Training talks about archiving your projects in Final Cut Pro X.

Once you've delivered your edit to your client, they've approved it and you've been paid, how do you go about saving that project and storing it...

Adobe Moves Creative Suite To The Cloud - What You Need To Know

2013-05-09T17:17:00+00:00

Adobe announced this week at the MAX conference that Creative Suite will no longer be upgraded with new features, the future of all their creative software now lies firmly with the subscription service Creative Cloud. Alongside this announcement they unveiled new versions of all their...

Text Animation in Motion

2013-05-07T13:08:00+00:00

This week on MacBreak Studio, I show Steve Martin from Ripple Training a few tricks for animating text in Motion.

Text, like shapes, particles, replicators, cameras, and other objects in Motion, has a dedicated set of behaviors available for animating it in various ways. In...

JVC commits to adding SFTP (Secure FTP) to GY-HM650 camera

2013-05-01T15:16:00+00:00

After an Open Letter in 2009 about the importance of using SFTP (Secure FTP) in order to have our passwords travel through the Internet encrypted, followed by two short articles about JVC’s GY-HM650 news camera, I am glad to report that JVC has now committed to adding SFTP to the GY-HM650...

Creating a DVD - Without the DVD

2013-04-30T13:18:00+00:00

This week on MacBreak Studio, Steve Martin from Ripple Training shows us a neat trick for creating a "diskless" DVD straight from Final Cut Pro X.

Although DVDs are becoming less prevalent due to the rapid rise in web-delivered HD video, some clients still require them. Plus,...

Aspera Announces New Unified File Share Experience at NAB 2013

2013-04-24T18:13:00+00:00

Francois Quereuil, Aspera Director of Marketing, talks to us about the numerous announcements they had for NAB. He details the new versions of their current software as well some new products and services.

Aspera - NAB 2013 from ProVideo Coalition on Vimeo.

Using Behaviors in Motion

2013-04-23T13:06:00+00:00

This week on MacBreak Studio, I talk with Steve Martin from Ripple Training about using behaviors instead of keyframes for creating animation in Motion.

Almost everything in Motion can be animated either with traditional keyframing methods or by using procedural objects...

Telestream amends key response for recent WireCast article

2013-04-16T14:43:00+00:00

On April 1st, 2013, I published an article called How to pick your ideal HDMI or HD-SDI interface for WireCast (Pro). The article was based upon facts received after several sessions of detailed emails exchanged with the covered manufacturers (Blackmagic, Matrox, and...

Mark, Replace, Slip

2013-04-16T13:21:00+00:00

This week on MacBreak Studio, Steve Martin from Ripple Training shows us a cool trick for performing a particular kind of replace edit in Final Cut Pro X.

Replace edits are quite powerful tools for swapping out one clip in a project for another or adjusting (slipping) an...

Open Text Shows off the CEM Lab

2013-04-15T03:44:00+00:00

John Price and Ed Durst from Open Text tell us about their CEM Lab, which stands for Customer Experience Management. The lab has several different stations which allows users to see and experience what an efficent and effective workflow can look like and how it can function. Durst...

NAB 2013: Matrox shows standalone streamer/recorder appliance

2013-04-13T19:10:00+00:00

Aimed to connect to existing video mixers (“switchers”) which don’t already have streaming capabilities (or to connect to a single camera), at NAB 2013 Matrox announced and showed a standalone streamer/recorder appliance. When I say standalone, I mean that in normal...

Copying Keyframes in Motion

2013-04-09T19:58:00+00:00

This week on MacBreak Studio, I show Steve Martin from Ripple Training several different ways that you can transfer keyframes created on one object onto another.

It's easy to animate layers in Motion using keyframes, and to then adjust the animation by working in the...

Time Lapse Workflows and Final Cut Pro X

2013-04-02T13:36:00+00:00

This week on MacBreak Studio, Steve Martin from Ripple Training explains his workflow for creating time lapse movies from a series of photographs using Final Cut Pro X and other applications.

Timelapse photography has become very popular recently - and with the advent of...

Working with Keyframes in Motion

2013-03-26T13:38:00+00:00

This week on MacBreak Studio, I get back to the basics in Motion by showing Steve Martin from Ripple Training how to create animation with keyframes.

Keyframes are the basic building blocks for creating custom animations and Motion has a variety of tools for working with them...

Batch Renaming Clips in Final Cut Pro X

2013-03-19T13:07:00+00:00

Depending on your source footage, Final Cut Pro X may assign clip names based on the metadata associated with the clips, such as the date and time each was shot. Folks used to logging clips before import may find this automatic renaming confusing, but it's actually very easy to...

Come Learn Final Cut Pro X and Motion at NAB

2013-03-15T15:33:00+00:00

So what's the deal with Final Cut Pro X now that it's been out for almost 2 years? Can you actually use it for "professional" editing? Is it really just "iMovie Pro"? Why do some people seem to love it and others seem to hate it?

Why not find out for...

Retiming a Generator in Final Cut Pro X

2013-03-12T12:54:00+00:00

Generators in Final Cut Pro X are Motion projects that are stored in the Generators Browser. Many of the built-in generators are animated and can be used as background elements. By default, most of these generators are "looping": if you trim the generator in your project to make...

Why did Apple drop Castilian video subtitles and soundtracks in iTunes 11.02?

2013-03-01T22:50:00+00:00

When I published two separate Open Letters to Apple less than two weeks ago (links ahead), I didn’t expect to be publishing a third to the same company so soon. With the “update” to iTunes 11.02, Apple has just downgraded a function in the iTunes which I have...