This video is a tutorial on Screencasting secrets - how to make a great screen capture or screencast presentations on your Mac.
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www.HDCameraLensGuide.com Enables Broadcast and Professional Videographers to Select the Correct HD Lens for Their Camera and Application
(Great Neck, New York–February 19, 2008) As High Definition video (HD) becomes the standard for broadcast and professional videographers, as well as a wide range of filmmakers, manufacturers are introducing a growing array of HD cameras that […]
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Great article from the always-great KenStone.net about creating proper SD footage from the new Sony XDCam EX1. A good read whether you own the camera or not, and are interested in HD / SD workflows.
Whenever a new technology hits the market there are always teething problems. In the case of new video cameras there are […]
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Apple has a page available to help troubleshoot the (problematic at best) Compressor that we’ve all grown to love/hate. The most exciting adventure is the last step — Remove and Reinstall Compressor, which has you searching the depths of your system for all of Compressor and Qmaster’s little droppings. I’ve done this more times than […]
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Another great Final Cut Pro Quick Tip from Genius DV:
Ever wonder what the color circle with the arrow in when you get to a color selection decision in Final Cut Pro. It is called the Hue Direction Control. What it does is control the direction a change in color […]
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Here’s a quick tip on Audio Mixdown in Final Cut Pro that I found on the Final Cut Help blog.
When outputting material to tape, an Audio Mixdown feature was a recommended precaution to ensure you didn’t drop frames. Choose Sequence > Render Only > Mixdown (or press Command + Option + R).
You can also map […]
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I read about a great new and exciting (to me, at least) product from Gridiron Software called Flow. It has not yet been released, but it has won a “Best of Show” award at this past MacWorld 2008. Here is a great description of the product, but I recommend watching the overview video here:
“Flow is […]
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I found this great read over at Rougly Drafted Magazine, giving a great alternative viewpoint to the rumors that Apple might be selling its Pro Apps suite to a third party. A further interesting tidbit is the list below of the past release schedule at NAB’s gone by:
NAB 2000 Final Cut Pro 1.2.5 with support […]
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Media Manager Overview
I realized recently that nobody ever talks about one of the most powerful tools in Final Cut Pro– the Media Manager. Here’s a quick overview on how to properly use the Media Manager:
Right Click on any sequence in your bin and choose “Media Manager”. The tool will pop up and give you information about your sequence and options for what to do with it. From top to bottom:
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Perian is a swiss-army knife QuickTime plugin (hence their friendly little icon) that allows playback of many non-native codecs in QuickTime.
The latest update touts the following fixes / additions:
Major performance improvements
TrueAudio, MP1, and DTS audio support
Slice-based multithreaded decoding for MPEG-1/2/H.264
Apple H.264 now handles AVCHD/interlaced vide
Compatibility fixes for QuickTime 7.4 and Leopard
Objective-C GC compatibility
Fixed a crash […]
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A regular subscriber to the podcast & emailer with great tips — Phoenix-Brian — wrote to me his experiences and findings with some recent problems with Compressor. Having experienced these issues firsthand (haven’t we all wanted to throw our Mac out the window in dealing with Compressor?) — I wanted to share his email, which […]
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The Editblog » Bottom 10 FCP Tips … revisited
Over a year ago I followed up a post about my top 10 Final Cut Pro tips with a lost of the “bottom 10 tips.” Really it was all about stuff that just annoyed me about FCP. That was written way back around v. 5.1.1. Over a […]
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Squared 5 - MPEG Streamclip video converter for Mac OS X The great freeware video utility MPEG Streamclip has released a new beta with the following enhancements:
added compatibility with DivX 6.5-6.6
improved AVI and DivX playback, encoding and editing
added an internal AVI importer
improved iPod compatibility
added the Open URL command with the Download button
added an internal audio […]
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For those of you who are “mystified” by the ins, outs, and quirks of HDV editing, the best remedy is this article from Creative Cow: Demystifying HDV Workflows
Definitely not for the faint of heart or the technically challenged– this article digs into the mechanics of HDV as a format and how to better use it […]
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Top Keyboard Shortcuts for Final Cut Pro (from Genius DV):
When it comes to learning shortcut’s for Final Cut Pro, there are hundreds of them. If you are new to the software, it is going to take some time to learn keyboard shortcuts.
I’ll focus on a couple of important ‘keyboard shortcuts’ that are easy to understand, […]
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Troubleshooting Your Final Cut Pro System
I found this great page with a bunch of Final Cut Pro-related troubleshooting information.
The author covers:
• Regular maintenance
• Simple things to check
• Simple ways to prevent problems
• Optimizing your system preferences
• More advanced ways to prevent problems
• Upgrades
• Helpful repair utilities
In spite of the article’s date (2004) this is a […]
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Baughan Productions is proud to announce its simple video stabilizer, “Levelcam”. Designed and manufactured in the USA, “Levelcam” is a valuable asset for amateur and professional videographers who use palm-sized camcorders.Small camcorders are perfect for grabbing quick shots, but they’re hard to keep steady. Abrupt movements like jerks, shakes and twitches spoil otherwise great video. […]
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From GeniusDV:
Restoring an Autosaved Project in Final Cut Pro
When you begin work on a Final Cut Pro Project, the first thing you should do is give your project a name and save it so that the autosave function can work. Autosave will not work until you have named and saved your project first. If your […]
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Quicktime Pro, Components, and the iPhone … at Podcast Academy
Paul Figgiani has written a great article at the Podcast Academy blog about some of the technical details regarding QuickTime video on the iPhone. As always from Paul, it is thorough, informative, and well-written.
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Tags: iphone, quicktime, video, apple, mac, macintoch
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HD For Indies has an article on in-field advice on using the Panasonic HVX-200 HD camera. This is the camera we use at the Mac Mediacast and recommend most to people asking about a great prosumer digital video camera. A great read!
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Aero Quartet has released version 3.1.1 of SimpleMovieX, the Mac OS X
movie editor. With a feature set roughly similar to QuickTime Pro,
SimpleMovieX extends editing capabilities to other popular video
formats AVI, Google Video, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4. The main
advantage of native editing is speed and quality, since no re-encoding
is required to save edited movies.
This new version […]
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Understanding Digital Video Architecture from Videomaker Magazine
MPEG-2, DivX, AVCHD: These are just a few of the confusing acronyms of digital video. Let’s clear the air a bit
To understand Digital Video Architecture, you need to start at the beginning. The beginning in this case is known as Video Compression. That is the start of this article; […]
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Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, announced that Boris Continuum Complete 5.0 for FxPlug (BCC 5.0 for FxPlug) is now shipping.
Developed specifically for Apple’s new FxPlug plug-in architecture, BCC 5.0 for FxPlug is a brand new member of the Boris Continuum Complete product family. BCC 5.0 for FxPlug […]
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Here at the Mac MediaCast we spend a lot of time talking about Final Cut Pro and Apple’s ProApps, but we’ve got to occasionally give some love to the industry-standard motion graphics powerhouse After Effects. I’ve compiled a couple of tutorials I’ve found lately into this post. For more great After Effects information and tutorials, […]
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Final Cut Pro Trouble shoot basics | IndiesHD
If Final Cut Pro isn’t starting up properly or performing normally, try these basic troubleshooting steps to remedy the situation. Please note that these steps aren’t exhaustive, and are not intended to cover any specific issue. They are fundamental, basic steps that are most effective in getting […]
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Apple Color: Auto Balance Feature
Walter Biscardi from Creative Cow gives us another basic-level tutorial on the Auto Balance feature in Apple’s Color. (don’t worry, I’m not going to accidentally podcast the video this time). A must see if you’re a Final Cut Studio user curious about the new powerful color-correcting application.
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Tutorial From Creative Cow
When it comes to greenscreen compositing, most people know that a clean and natural-looking matte is crucial to getting good results. Hours are spent tweaking the various controls, and many cups of coffee are drained trying to get that “perfect” key. The truth is that our elusive “perfect composite” is rarely […]
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From GeniusDV
When you first open LiveType, you will see within the Canvas Window a blue line representing an empty track. Type something into the Text Entry box located to the upper right of the Canavas In the Inspector Window.
Making a Curved Track
1 While pressing the control key or right clicking if you have a two […]
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From GeniusDV:
One of the new features in the Final Cut Studio 2.0 suite of programs is the ability to integrate motion templates directly within a Final Cut Pro sequence.
This new feature really enhances the integration between Apple Motion 2.0 and Final Cut Pro 6.0.
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I found this nice tutorial over at GeniusDV. This is […]
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I recently came across this article, and it got me thinking about the Ken Burns effect, a.k.a. animating still photos for video:
From Poynter Online - Meaning in Motion: Ken Burns and His ‘Effect’
Few of us will ever develop a technique distinctive enough to have it named after us, but most people serious about visual storytelling […]
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