I found a cool blog called Tips for Final Cut Pro Editors, with great posts. A must add to your RSS feeds. A recent tip regarding Self Contained vs. Non-Self Contained QuickTime or Final Cut Pro Movies: A “Self Contained” movie is a video file. It’s got all the information it needs, you can move [...]
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We reported recently about P2 cards now shipping with HVX-200 Cameras, now (troublesome) P2 management just got seemingly easier. I found this blog post recently: This is just awesome, Calibrated Software has a bunch of new plug-ins on tap that make it possible to work with MXF and DVCPRO HD codecs. This will streamline P2 [...]
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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 [...]
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[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 [...]
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