Thursday, May 08, 2008

Final Cut Pro – The Dividing Line

Richard Harrington | 05/08- 07:19 PM

When dragging tracks in the Timeline, where you drag is as important as what you drag

When dragging tracks in the Timeline, where you drag is as important as what you drag. Careless dragging may result in an unintended overwrite edit when you intended
an insert edit.

If you look closely at the Timeline, you’ll notice that it’s divided by a thin gray line. When dragging, look to see which region you enter to determine the edit type.

When dragging from the Viewer or a bin, use these tips:

* Dragging to the upper-third of the track results in an insert edit.
* Dragging to the lower two-thirds of the track results in an overwrite edit.

Several different options are available when dragging within the Timeline.

When dragging in the Timeline, use these tips:

* Dragging in the Timeline horizontally results in an overwrite edit by default.
* Dragging in the Timeline horizontally results in an insert or swap edit when you hold down the Option key.
* Dragging in the Timeline vertically results in an overwrite edit by default.
* Dragging in the Timeline vertically results in an insert edit when you press the Option key after you start to drag.
* Pressing the Option key and then dragging in the Timeline vertically results in a cloned copy added to the Timeline via an insert edit.
* Pressing the Option and Shift keys and then dragging in the Timeline vertically results in a cloned copy added to the Timeline directly above the clip.

Like this tip? It comes from the book
Final Cut Studio On the Spot from Focal Press.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Adobe’s NAB Sneak Peaks

Hart Shafer | 04/24- 03:35 PM

Another NAB has come and gone and it appears everyone at Adobe survived the crazy/great week. Well, I’m at home nursing the traditional post-NAB cold, and my feet took days to get their feeling back, but that’s all just par for the course. It was a great show for us--while overall attendance was definitely down, our booth was packed. I had the opportunity to get to know a lot of customers and partners all at once, which is the ultimate point of going at all.

During the show I had an opportunity to share a little sneak peak of some of the things Adobe is working on in our technology labs. We wanted to pull back the curtain just bit and show a little of what we are working on because it’s important for you to know where we’re going. You obviously choose the tools company you want to work with based on what they have available today. But because you invest a lot of time, energy, and money into adopting a toolset you’re also interested in where they’re going tomorrow. And so when you look at Adobe, you want to know we’re not just committed today, but that we’re thinking about the challenges you’re just starting to face, or will be facing soon.

If you weren’t able to make NAB, or were at NAB and missed my presentation, no worries. We just posted a bunch of our theater demos to the new Adobe TV site and my technology preview can be found in the video pro section. I won’t give away everything I show, but if you’re an editor at least watch until I get to the speech analysis part. Good times. Then again, the last thing I showed was definitely the most popular. How’s that for a tease? Enjoy!

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Snapshots - NAB 2008 Day 2

Adam Wilt | 04/15- 11:44 PM

Codex Digital, SpeedGrade, Tangent, SI2K, and Nila

Codex Digital Portable and disk pack

Highlights of my walking around the show floor on Tuesday…

Codex Digital showed working versions of their Portable digital cine recorder. $44K gets you the lunchbox plus a three-hour drive pack, and the superb Codex user interface.

Friday, April 11, 2008

Locking HDMI cables!

Adam Wilt | 04/11- 10:44 AM

Finally, a non-self-ejecting HDMI cable

Left: normal HDMI cable. Right: locking HDMI cable. Note the cantilevered paddle with two tiny retention hooks.

A colleague and I were discussing the sorry state of the physical HDMI connection; we call it a “self ejecting” technology. HDMI cables fall out of HDMI sockets with surprising ease. Fortunately there’s now a solution to this problem: a locking plug that works with any HDMI socket. 

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

RED? Or Cyan?

Adam Wilt | 03/25- 11:31 AM

Why the RED’s highlights went cyan and dark, and how to fix ‘em.

In my unfair comparison of three cameras, I found that RED’s overexposed highlights went cyan and got darker than surrounding, non-overexposed areas. Here’s why it happened, and how to fix it—it’s an easy fix, but you’ll appreciate it more if you see what happens if you don’t use it!

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Media 100 Mac Intel Codecs Available

Frank Capria | 03/25- 09:46 AM

After customer complaints, Media 100 relented and and is offering its latest codecs for Intel-based Macs as a free download. With these free codecs, editors and graphics professionals can playback and render modern and legacy Media 100 media files in any QuickTime-based application. The codecs include Universal Binary versions of the Media 100 i and Media 100 HD codecs as well as the PowerPC Instant Media 844/X codec. Download here.

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