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I completed another color correction job for Threshold Studios in Santa Monica. This was a live concert video featuring Moby for Nissan Live Sets, a concert series which you can see on Yahoo! and MHD, MTV’s HD music channel. Take a look at the above video or click here, to see this stripped down version [...]

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Apple has just released codecs so that anyone on any machine, Windows or Mac, can playback ProRes footage. This is great news for those of us working in enterprise environments where Windows machines are in the majority. I’m sure this will help things on the Final Cut Server end as well. Albeit a little “Better [...]

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Looks like AJA has announced new drivers for their products. These will support Red Camera workflow. Check it out.
From the AJA website:

*KONA New Features*
- RED Support added (KONA 3)
For more details on KONA 3 support for RED workflows, consult the version 6.0 manual, page 24.
*PLEASE NOTE* When working with RED Easy [...]

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In today’s production environment, both Macs and PCs can be found. Sometimes you find yourself in a bind where a producer or director cannot view your files because you work on a Mac.
It’s even worse if you’re working with P2 files that are not easily viewed on PCs. Fortunately, Calibrated Software has come to the [...]

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Over at kenstone.net, you’ll find a hardcore group of moderators that are hell-bent on being helpful and patient to all those learning Final Cut Studio.
One such person is Ronny Courtens. You can often find Ronny’s helpful comments peppered throughout Ken’s site.
Recently, Ronny created a tutorial for Apple Motion that is frequently asked for: animating [...]

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I was reminded today on LAFCPUG’s Café LA forum that people often want their video to look like aged film. There are a variety of Final Cut Pro techniques and third-party plug-ins which can fulfill this request, but many people do not have the time to invest in technique or the money to invest in [...]

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The crew at Noise Industries has retooled FXFactory to tap into Adobe After Effects CS3. This is great news that we can get the outstanding plug-ins from Noise Industries (and to others like CoreMelt) into this advanced compositing tool.
This offers a lot of flexibility in effects creation. For example, if you have an advanced [...]

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Were you aware that the Browser is the organizing “brain” of Final Cut Pro? Well, that’s the way I think of it. It is in this window where all your footage can be categorized, sifted, and gathered using certain techniques.
In this article I wrote for Ken Stone, I explain in detail how to get your [...]

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