TV Producer & Director
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 […]
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 […]
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.
There are so many things in Final Cut Pro you can’t ever learn every one of them but there are a good few that will increase the speed you edit dramatically, I will be listing them over the next week or two, firstly here are a couple to get you started…
Knowing how to read video scopes is critical to a variety of tasks with Final Cut Pro. This technique is designed to give you a basic understanding of how to read them, because in […]
Well I have been having people asking what exactly my workflow is in terms of post production (esspecially in Final Cut Pro) as I have both a Macbook Pro and Mac Pro based FCP HD suite. Here is basically the post production stages from planning through to the Transmission copy (full offline & online) workflow.
Final Cut Studio is now available on the iPhone… surely this is the biggest development in Post Production in recent years. At the moment most editors (incl) myself carry our macbooks to locations for doing quick offline edits on the go and edit away while travelling but how about editing on your phone? and ‘touch’ […]
Shortcuts in editing are critical to fast editing and the faster you are, the more employable/ better you are at editing, wasting time in post production costs the client more money and therefore they will go for someone who can work faster thus cheaper…
Well as the title suggests, one of the best finishing programmes is now on mac and what a joy to be able to use Final Cut Pro through the offline process then into Autodesk Smoke for the finishing stage, basically taking post production back to the traditional offline/ online phases.
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