Compressor: Troubleshooting basics

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 [...]

Quick Tip: Audio Mixdown in Final Cut Pro

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 [...]

Perian 1.1 Released

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 [...]

How to Make Reference Movies in Final Cut Pro

[From Reference Movies | Weekly Tip | Final Cut Help]
Need to save some space? Reference movies allow you to work with your video clips or
sequence files in other applications. Think of a reference movie as a pointer back to the
original media, a lot like a link on a web page

Learn More
Reference movies are [...]