mocha AE to CC Power Pin

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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 […]

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Get Photos from Aperture to Final Cut Pro

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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 […]

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Motion Templates in Final Cut Pro

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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 […]

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Angelina and Lindsay battle over their favorite RED scopes!

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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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