I just wanted to announce my latest venture, Nilo Post: affordable, high-quality video post-production services such as video editing, mastering, color-correcting, creative color grading and audio post for broadcast TV, short and feature films, corporate media, and web content. I’ve been building up a client list and have completed some great projects recently. Additionally I’ll [...]
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Thanks for everyone’s messages and patience pointing out the Google Malware Warning one would see when visiting this site in Safari, Firefox or Google Chrome. The problem vexed me for a long time, but finally I figured it out. I was hacked! There was some code pointing to a known malware site in one of [...]
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Ceiling and walls are painted! The ceiling has a nice texture called “knock down” and it’s painted white. I decided to go with a 10% gray for my walls. I choice the highest quality paint (Valspar from Lowe’s, but I would guess any premium paint would do) and had them create a gray with no [...]
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I wanted to share a little tip I decided to try today, and I’m quite pleased with the outcome. Searching for work as a video editor can be tiresome. After updating websites, demo reels, Facebook pages, blogs, Twitter status, etc., then sometime you have to pound the payment and find video editing gigs in classified [...]
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Another great tip from the Tips for Final Cut Pro Editors blog regarding the conform function in Soundtrack Pro: So I made the changes in FCP, exported the sequence to STP again, but this time with a different file name. Then, once in STP, I clicked the conform button, and in the dialog box that [...]
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While reading a great article all about the ProRes 422 format, I found the following nugget of info: While comparing the software-converted files I noticed a couple of interesting issues. My testing found that when the camera native codecs DVCPROHD, HDV or SxS were converted to ProRes in software they universally ran better when using [...]
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Quite a “bloggy” title to this post, I know, but I’ve been thinking about these techniques that I do over and over in Final Cut Pro that I think add to better video editing.
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Paste Attributes is the most awesomest command in Final Cut Pro. At least in my opinion. It allows you to copy certain attributes of one clip and paste them on another clip. This technique can really kick your video editing productivity up a notch and help you become a Final Cut Pro Guru. Copy the [...]
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Fascinating article / tutorial on getting creative with composite modes in Final Cut Pro . . . Composite Modes (also known as Blend Modes, Blending Modes, or Transfer Modes) provide alternate ways to blend together the pixels in two overlapping clips. They take some properties of the clip on top (such as its color or [...]
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I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been burned doing what I thought was a web-only project for a client, but then they decided they wanted DVDs to play on TV, or wanted to broadcast some or all of the project. Then I had to go back and fix everything that was not broadcast-ready. [...]
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