Izzy Hyman, of the website Izzy Video, interviewed me yesterday for his “Meet the Shooter” series. We spoke for about an hour about my career and related issues. You can listen to the interview here. This must be the season for interviews; I gave one to Canon recently that is still in post. I’ll let […]
Normally I probably wouldn’t post an announcement about the formation of a new user group since there are film/video user groups all over the country but this one is just down the road a couple of hours from my home turf so I wanted to point it out. Atlanta Cutters, Atlanta’s post-production group will have […]
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If you been a Final Cut Pro users for any real length of time you’ve probably heard of FCS Maintenance Pack, that was a suite of tools from Digital Rebellion to help diagnose and fix Final Cut Studio issues. Recently Digital Rebellion has been making their tools less FCP centric (and the FCPX update probably […]
There’s been a small rush of extra activity on scripting and scripts for After Effects. FeltTips returned with a few tutorials on expressions, After Effects Random Expression Shenanigans and Quick After Effects Expressions #1 – Camera Targetter, and Lester Banks unearthed a 16-tutorial series on expressions by Arun Latvia on YouTube. Tim Clapham (@helloluxx) collected […]
As a recovering technoholic-cameraphile, I am desperately trying to make my way out of the addiction cycle of endless camera tests and back toward the rest of humanity. I want to be a part of the species that just wants to viscerally respond to a beautiful, spirit-moving image of light, shadow and color. I want […]
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We’re going through our book Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects 5th Edition (CMG5) and pulling out a few “hidden gems” from each chapter. These will include essential advice for new users, plus timesaving tips that experienced users may not be aware of. In this final chapter on motion tracking, we explore using the planer […]
Read More… from CMG Hidden Gems: Chapter 31 – mocha and mocha shape
A large portion of the focus for stereoscopic 3D production has been on major motion pictures, where a person usually pays extra to see a special version of the film, and expect to be wowed by the action literally flying off the screen. However, with consumer electronics manufacturers trying to sell stereo 3D TVs, pressure […]
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Watch live streaming video from cat5tv at livestream.com Last night’s Cutting It Close Live! webisode on Final Cut Pro X is now available on Mastering Multicam author Mitch Jacobson’s Category-5 Livestream channel. It was a couple of hours of good FCPX discussion. It was a loose, fun show that had Mitch Jacobson in the studio […]
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In 48 kHz Audio Can Cause Loss of Synch with Flash Playback, Jan Ozer notes previous observations that “Flash Player resamples all sound sources to 44.1 kHz during playback.” This is the apparent culprit for loss of audio sync in some live playback, and there might be distortion introduced as well. For some of us, […]
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When I began publishing my FCP-exodus articles last year, even some other ProVideo Coalition magazine writers thought and commented that my words were an exaggeration. However, now some of them are defecting from Final Cut Pro, and several other award-winning editors are doing the same. Part of the enticement to jump ship are the special […]
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