Creating a Dark and Stormy Night in Final Cut Pro X

Creating a Dark and Stormy Night in Final Cut Pro X 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yre-8CszJg&feature=push-u-sub&attr_tag=n6-pl49D4xNNiqS5-6 This week on MacBreak Studio, I show Steve Martin from Ripple Training how to create an animated outdoor scene using only a photo and a few effects built in Final Cut Pro X. The goal is to create an establishing shot of a scary-looking house at night in the rain. The starting point is […]

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Backup & Recovery: free tools from Paragon and AOMEI

Backup & Recovery: free tools from Paragon and AOMEI

The release of a new version of Paragon Backup & Recovery Free is a good excuse to present readers this new software, and some other solutions designed to protect data, as AOMEI Backupper. The Paragon Software Group believes that everyone has a right to protect their assets, create backups of individual files, partitions or the […]

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Noise Reduction-28 Weeks of Post Audio Redux

noise reduction

Editor’s Note: “28 Weeks of Post Audio” originally ran over the course of 28 weeks starting in November of 2016. Given the renewed focus on the importance of audio for productions of all types, PVC has decided to republish it as a daily series this month along with a new entry from Woody at the […]

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A Leap Into Medium Format with the Hasselblad X1D-50c

A Leap Into Medium Format with the Hasselblad X1D-50c 4

When Hasselblad offered me the opportunity to dip my toe into the world of medium format, I jumped at it. For most of my career I’ve been shooting moving images, but the promise of shooting stills with the truly gigantic 50MP 43.8mm x 32.9mm CMOS Sensor of the X1D-50c camera was just too good to […]

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Editing Dialogue

Editing Dialogue 12

Good editors tend to work viscerally; shot choice and cut points for dialogue scenes are chosen as often by instinct as they are by careful deliberation. So it’s not too surprising that when you ask an editor how they come to their decisions they’ll often respond with a blank stare. This is where the study […]

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