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CreativeCOW Final Cut Pro Tutorials and Reviews:

Travel Mattes: Enhance Your Interviews In this short video tutorial, Walter Biscardi demonstrates the basics of travel mattes in Final Cut Pro. In this third lesson in a 3-part series, Walter will show us a real world application -- one of his favorite uses to enhance an interview. Final Cut Pro

Travel Mattes: Animation and Drop Shadows In this short video tutorial, Walter Biscardi demonstrates the basics of travel mattes in Final Cut Pro. In this second lesson in a 3-part series, we'll learn some simple animation and drop shadows.This is a basic level tutorial. Final Cut Pro

Travel Mattes: The Basics In this short video tutorial, Walter Biscardi demonstrates the basics of travel mattes in Final Cut Pro. Learn what travel mattes are and the difference between alpha mattes and luma mattes. This is a basic level tutorial and is lesson one in a 3-part series. Final Cut Pro

Compositing A Film Projector Jitter Effect In this tutorial, we'll like to welcome RunawayTraining.com's Steve Miller who joins the Cow team and offers this tutorial for Final Cut Pro users who want to know how those TV commercials and music videos make their footage look like there is a malfunctioning projector running amuck, serving up the footage with the kind of jitter and jump that was once so common in the silent movie era. This tutorial uses only the stock plug-ins that come in the box with Final Cut Pro HD. Final Cut Pro

Using Final Cut in Field Production Apple has really changed the face of Post Production with the power and affordability of Final Cut Pro. In Creative Cow leader Walter Biscardi's view, the real power of the product is its flexibility. From offline to uncompressed HDTV, from laptop to desktop, FCP gives unparalleled flexibility to production creatives. Recently, Walter took FCP on the road for a three day corporate shoot and found it to be a major tool in the project. Here's his report... Final Cut Pro, Field Editing

A Creative COW "Real World" Product Review:
	CinéWave 4 CreativeCOW leader Walter Biscardi takes a look at CinéWave 4 and lets inquiring minds know what it's all about. If you're even thinking about a Final Cut Pro system with all the trimmings, make sure you read Walter's article.  Pinnacle CinéWave, Product Reviews

How2 Upgrade to FCP 4 -- the Right Way! In this article, Philip Hodgetts walks you step by step how to upgrade to Final Cut Pro 4 -- the right way so that you'll save yourself mistakes and headaches. Final Cut Pro

A Creative COW "Real World" Product Comparison:

Capture Cards and Codecs Thinking of going uncompressed? This article focuses on the different uncompressed hardware solutions available for Final Cut Pro. Marco Solorio attempts to answers questions such as: "What Capture card should I buy and do I even NEED an uncompressed system?" Also included is a side by side evaluation of the quality and functionality of each uncompressed hardware solution on the market today. Final Cut Pro

A Creative COW "Real World" Product Review:

A Little Animated About 24p? Creativecow leader, Marco Solorio discusses producing, editing and delivering animated content at 24p with Aurora Igniter Film card option. Final Cut Pro, Aurora Igniter

A Creative COW "Real World" Product Review:

Philip Hodgetts takes a first 'hands-on" look What's New in Final Cut Pro 3 Philip Hodgetts presents the definitive 'hands-on' preview of Apple's new Final Cut Pro 3. Read on for everything you wanted to know, and some things you hadn't even thought of yet.

A Creative COW Book Review:

Jerry Hofmann reviews Tom Wolsky's book Final Cut Pro 2 Editing Workshop One of CreativeCOW's popular Final Cut Pro™ forum leaders, Jerry Hofmann takes a look at fellow leader Tom Wolsky's new 'Final Cut Pro 2 Editing Workshop'. Jerry teaches FCP at a university, so he's always on the lookout for good teaching resources and he concludes that Tom's book is a triumph for beginner and intermediate users of Final Cut Pro 2.

Final Cut Pro 2 Review by Philip Hodgetts Apple announced their long awaited, long anticipated update to Final Cut Pro after a prolonged period of development.  Throughout this period the only 'inside information' that anyone could get from Apple were enigmatic answers like 'We've heard that users would like that and it's been a priority with us'. Here, Philip Hodgetts gives the definitive review.

Monitor Canvas and Viewer with FCP Waveform Monitor and Vectorscope Philip Hodgetts Everyone knows that it's impossible to monitor the video waveform and vector levels from the timeline with the Final Cut Pro Waveform Monitor and Vectorscope! We know that it's not possible in any NLE! Right?....Wrong, In this excerpt from the DV Companion for Apple Final Cut Pro, Philip Hodgetts shows us the impossible.

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