Final Cut Pro and Avid provide full suites of colour correction tools, from waverforms monitors, vectorscopes to a variety of colour correction filters (FCP). The trick though is knowing how to use these tools effectively and to be able to understand colour in general.
Sometimes audio is too low to be as foreful as you’d like, even after you crank it up on Avid or Final Cut Pro with the audio level controls. Whether it is background noise or someones voice being a bit too low then there is always this quick fix solution which will boost your levels in a quick manner - esspecially useful for factual/ news editing where you have little time to edit and theres no or very little dubbing time later.
Any editor will tell you that cutaways are the most useful shots. You can never have too many, and you never seem to have enough! No editor will ever complain that you have shot too many cutaways as a director. A cut-away shot shows a subsidary action or reaction that you can use to bridge an edit, like the shot of the interviewer nodding in response to the answer or listening closely.
I’ve been playing about with various compositing functions of Final Cut Pro lately on a music video project and I’ve heard from others that one problem that many users encounter with using Photoshop alongside their chosen editing application - in this instance Final Cut Pro - the image effects added, such as drop shadows to any text layers or any of the hundreds of image effects that Photoshop can do.
Over the last few recent years the industry has been making its ‘big switch’ and preparations for the move from Tape based digital/ analogue media to new tapeless technologies, whether on Sonys XDCAM range, Panasonic P2 Cards and/ or Ultra Speed SD Cards, but not to forget actual firewire hard drives built onto some cameras from JVC.
But what about the price? Are so-called ‘Pro’ cameras providing really that much more than so called ‘consumer’ cameras on the market these days? I review an offering from Toshiba that a friend recently bought and the picture quality it provides compared to the likes of the Sony PD-170 and Canon XL2 series, albeit this ‘consumer’ camera also records in Anamorphic H.D. unlike the ‘pro’ cameras which record only in Standard Definition.
My Adobe CS5 reviews continue and todays review is of one of the most well known graphics creation packages for video and is used in nearly every post production house across the globe, it is ofcourse After Effects. The latest version is fully in line with the changes made to its brother and sister products from Adobe and it has been re-designed from the ground up…
Well Adobe released their CS5 range of products a few weeks back and ever since I recieved the creative suite I learn a new thing every time I open this latest incarnation from Adobe. Over the next few posts I will be reviewing the ‘must have’ Adobe CS5 products to enhance your projects and productions, in this first post I will start with Adobe’s Photoshop Extended - the ‘fuller’ version of Photoshop from Adobe. 
Well this blog is really to do with television and editing but its also for the wider media interest and I really am a believer of social media and all forms of media eventually converging to form what I like to call MEDIA 3.0, seeing as everybody has already tapped the web 2.0, social media 2.0, radio 2.0…yeah you get the idea.
Found an interesting article written by Dan Brockett on how they shot a television network pilot programme with the Panasonic HVX-200, see everything is possible and as budgets are lower than ever in this industry it is the time we need to make the changes! Also becoming quite a fan of tapeless technology myself.
It is Wednesday morning and while sat pretty bored with nothing to do until Lunch I have decided to put up a really interesting and handy article on More Final Cut Pro shortcuts and ways to make you edit faster, a must read for new editors to FCP and experienced editors alike.
