Final Cut Pro & Motion
Mark Spencer is a freelance producer, editor, teacher and writer based in the Bay Area. His company Day Street Productions is a production and post studio focused on corporate video. He is an Apple-certified instructor for Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, and Motion, teaching for organizations such as BAVC, Stanford University, DVExpo, MacWorld, and consulting for corporations and individuals. He is the author of the Apple Pro Training Series book Motion Graphics and Visual Effects from Peachpit Press and has written for print and online publicat...
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Recording & Editing Multi-take Voice Overs in Soundtrack Pro
By steve martin | July 30, 2008
In this excerpt from Ripple Training's "Sound Editing & Mastering in Soundtrack Pro" Steve will show you how fast, fluid and fun it is to edit voice overs in Soundtrack Pro using the Multitake Editor.Click here to watch tutorial
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Getting Video In and Out of Color
By Andrew Balis | July 22, 2008
One of the most confusing issues that comes up frequently with new users of Color is how to get in and out of Color with different types of video formats. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to clear up the confusion by presenting the four main workflows Color can utilize, as well as how each format can be handled by Color. This article relates to users of Color version 1.0.2 or later. We'll look at how to handle video formats captured via capture card, as well as how to work with "native" formats captured via FireWire such as DV, DVCPRO 50, DVCPRO HD and HDV.
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Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together
By Mark Spencer | July 15, 2008
Here's a free video tutorial that shows you how to quickly create an engaging animation by arranging the layers of a Photoshop file in 3D space in Motion, and then flying a camera through them. To see it, click here.
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It's getting cheaper and easier to find stock footage for your project
By Mark Spencer | July 09, 2008
istockphoto.com used to be my primary source for inexpensive stock photography and video. But just this past week I've come across two new stock video competitors that provide some interesting alternatives.
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A Two-Part Motion Tip
By Mark Spencer | July 02, 2008
In Part 1 of our exploration of Motion's Order of Operations, or OoO (which you can find here), we looked at a situation where a drop shadow applied to a layer would rotate with the layer because transformations are calculated after effects. Today, we'll look at another common issue that can arise when working with still images.
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Philip Hodget's Tome on All Things High Definition
By Brian Gary | July 01, 2008
Philip Hodgets has released a PDF (download) handbook via his Pro Apps Tips website that basically covers everything a digital video artist needs to enter into the High Definition video world.
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A Multi-part Motion Tip
By Mark Spencer | June 24, 2008
The OoO? Some sort of secret society? Almost - OoO stands for Order of Operations, and if you're not familiar how Motion calculates the changes you make to layers and groups, you might not get the results you want. Let's take a closer look.
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Motion Graphics and Creative Inspiration
By Mark Spencer | June 18, 2008
You are deep in the middle of a complex project, racing to beat a tight deadline, and you're stuck. Where do you find that creative spark? For me, the last place in the world is in front of a computer. I find that when I'm sitting at the computer, it's time for perspiration, not inspiration. In other words, if my idea is already at least partially formed, I can get busy executing and problem solving. But coming up with a new approach? Never happens in front of a screen for me.
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AMD Announces the HD 3870
By Mark Spencer | June 13, 2008
Yesterday AMD announced a new graphics card, the ATI Radeon HD 3870, which they say they expect to ship by the end of June.
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Apple Does It Again - But Where Have I Seen This Before?
By Mark Spencer | June 13, 2008
Apple's new iTunes ad featuring Coldplay performing Viva la Vida is IMHO just outstanding. The work gets better and better.
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Working With Fixed Resolution
By Mark Spencer | June 09, 2008
When working with Motion, you'll often import content that was created elsewhere. For example, Illustrator and Photoshop are two powerful applications for creating and manipulating images. They both work very well with Motion, but to get the best results, you need to know about setting in Motion that isn't necessarily obvious or easy to find.
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Manage Your File Names without Leaving the Browser
By steve martin | June 04, 2008
As any editor knows, good media management begins by establishing proper naming conventions. In a perfect world, proper clip names would be entered during the logging stage. However, due to tight deadlines or perhaps shear laziness on the part of the editor, media file names are sometimes injested or captured with non-descript file names such as "untitled" or, as is the case with the Panasonic AG-HVX200, transferred with their 6 digit camera-assigned file names. This article will show you how to rename your files directly in the Browser using Final Cut Pro 6.
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The key to dramatically faster render times
By Mark Spencer | May 20, 2008
If you have begun to explore Final Cut Studio's application integration by embedding your Motion project files into your Final Cut Pro sequence, you may have noticed a rather large increase in render time for that sequence.Part of the cause of the increased render time is due to the level of complexity of your Motion project, but there's a setting in Final Cut Pro that can dramatically reduce render times with little to no impact on the quality of your Motion project -- except for certain types of projects.
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High Quality MPEG-2 Encoding for Final Cut Studio 2
By Brian Gary | May 14, 2008
Cinema Craft, the industry leader in MPEG-2 encoding for DVD, is going to release a Compressor 3 plug-in by the end of this month. I wrote an article on Ken Stone's site that takes a look at both the plug-in itself and the technology behind it...the Cinema Craft Xtream encoding engine. The majority of Hollywood releases on DVD have been encoded using the Xtream engine, and it's the same engine that's at the core of the Cinema Craft Encoder MP plug-in for Compressor. In addition to high quality, Cinema Craft Encoder MP is a full Compressor plug-in (vs. a QuickTime Component) so it has access to all of Compressor's features like frame controls and geometry. If you're going to be in Los Angeles on May 21st, 2008, I'm going to do a demo of the software at the May LAFCPUG meeting.BG
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