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Cool interview with master editor Walter Murch by MacVideo’s Rick Younghere >>>
You can always learn a thing or two about editing or just life from Walter. Enjoy!

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I recently completed color correction on a “Jewel” live concert video for Nissan Live Sets, which you can see on Yahoo! and MHD, MTV’s HD music channel. Take a look at the above video if you are curious about the work.
The job entailed matching audience shots with the onstage shots as some didn’t match due [...]

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Kevin Monahan’s Demo Reel from Kevin Monahan on Vimeo.
Hi All,
Check out my demo reel. I have a new one waiting in the wings so stay tuned!
Cheers,
Kevin

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Cool tutorial on animating Photoshop layers in Z space using Apple Motion from Mark Spencer.
Check it out here >>>

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Do you have the desire to see your rendered graphics at top quality right inside of the Final Cut Pro Canvas - without the use of a video monitor?
If you have your Canvas set at 100% precisely, it’ll give you a good idea about how your rendered graphic may look after it’s output to [...]

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Chroma keying is a really useful skill to add to your effects creation toolset. The only trouble is that it is rather a black art. That is, keys are rarely achieved with precisely the same settings and it takes skill and practice to do it well. However, it helps to follow certain basic procedures to [...]

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I’ve found that if you try to judge an exported QuickTime movie from FCP, in QuickTime Player - it looks pretty bad. If you judge it on a video monitor - it is clean. (Things that make ya go, “hmmmm…..”) True, this confuses a lot of folks, especially the masses that don’t use a [...]

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I love the flexibility of going back and forth from FCP to Motion to jazz up my sequences. The problem lies in the stalling of .motn files in your sequence. More often then not, you’ll get a “Preparing Video for Display” progress bar or a good old fashioned SBBOD (Spinning Beach Ball of Death). 
Since rendering [...]

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I’ve been creating lots of cool graphics in Motion lately, some quite complex. The only problem is after adding tons of layered effects, you’ve got quite the wait ahead if you render in Motion. 
If you’re like me, you’ll want to speed up the rendering process. The way to do this is to avoid rendering in [...]

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Hi Folks,
It’s time to make fcpworld compliant for web 2.0 standards. fcpworld first started as a Dreamweaver site, but grew unruly and difficult to manage. I then went to iWeb, which was easy to update but I couldn’t get Google ads to work nor could I get the search engines to recognize my site easily. [...]

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