As I’ve posted before, the commoditization of the NLE market threatens to steal valuable R&D resources from future development. It is obvious some thinking outside the box is needed here. So I’m throwing down the gauntlet to all of you hobbyist programmers out there, build us a better NLE! If you’re not familiar with open […]
Day: June 1, 2008
mocha AE to CC Power Pin
Imagineer Systems’ mocha AE is a stand-alone planer motion tracking application that creates keyframe date which you can in turn use in After Effects. If you are performing a perspective-style track, you will paste the resulting data into a Corner Pin effect already applied to the to-be-pinned layer in After Effects. However, some prefer using […]
Get Photos from Aperture to Final Cut Pro
Sometimes third-party plug-ins fill obvious holes… this is truly the case here. Wouldn’t it make sense to be able to quickly send photos from Apple Aperture to Final Cut Pro? You’d think that sort of thing would be built right in (its not). Fortunately the fine folks over at Connected Flow over an elegant (and […]
Motion Templates in Final Cut Pro
For the past few years Apple has been pushing Motion as a tool that should be in every editor’s toolbox. The problem has been, not every editor has had the time or patience to learn Motion. In Final Cut Pro 6, Apple recognized this and has integrated Motion templates directly inside of FCP. To launch […]
The Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update
I know a lot of folks who are hesitant to upgrade…. I admit, I’ve been burned by installing updates as soon as they come out… but hey, that’s why I’m an early adopter. The latest Mac update looks to include several important bug fixes and enhancements. Here’s a few that tip the scale in favor […]
Angelina and Lindsay battle over their favorite RED scopes!
Let’s face it: if I didn’t start with a title like that, there’s no way you’d read a story about waveform monitors. They’re boring! They’re not creative! They’re all the same! They’re not sexy. They’re not RED. Scopes are important if you’re doing real work that gets duplicated, broadcast or color corrected. They can be […]
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