Creating That Old Film Look with Final Cut Studio 2

Great Tutorial - thank you for putting it up! Where did you get the film countdown reel stuff from? Also, we're doing an old film look for the opening 30seconds of a project, then transitioning into a regular present day look, would love to figure out how to have the film sit and burn out - revealing the modern footage. Any thoughts?

Finally, have you had any troubles with this look after compressing and posting to the web?

Tom Miller
Big Pictures Media
Denver, Colorado

www.BigPicturesMedia.com

I appreciate the tutorial but you talk to the audience like they are all 2 year olds. It couldn't be more annoying

when i go to download the CGM Aged Film LE v2.5.7 it says " there is a default application specified to open document CGM Aged Film LE.sit"

Then below it says choose application.

What should i do?

Hi, I am trying to download the (Creating That Old Film Look with Final Cut Studio 2) and add it to my plugins. However when i go to download it the text below pops up!

/Users/andrewstebulitis/Desktop/cgm_aged_film_le-1.sit could not be opened, because an unknown error occurred.

Can anyone tell me what this means and how to overcome this?

Or is thee anywhere else i can go to download & add this to my fcp plugins?

Thanks George, you're right. You can also click on the link called "download here" located directly below the button to play the tutorial. Once you're on CGM's website download the "CGM Aged Film LE" free plug-in.

Definitely does stuff the long way like importing audio and installing filters. Who can remember where the filters get installed? Just choose get info and install them there under the plug-ins pane. A lot of people don't realize you can add, remove, and turn on/off filters here. Why they don't just add this to the app itself, I have no idea.

And for audio effects from soundtrack, I wouldn't bother copying them to the project file since all FCP systems have access to these files. Even if not installed the can be. And instead of going through the import dialog, just drag the filters from the finder window directly to the bin. Ditto with any other imports.

I couldn't get past the delivery.
Nice try, but you appear quite smug and condescending.

"Dying is easy; comedy is hard" - "Alan Swann"

It's actually a good tutorial, I have liked the way the presenter says, "Mo-o-ove". I will recommend it to Russian video editors with pre-intermediary levels of English. Thank you Stephen!

I sympathise with JulieB about the presentation - maybe it was inspired by Russell Brown's "zany" Photoshop tutorials, which I enjoy despite me being British.
I'm more concerned about Final Cut itself - even this brand new version seems a bit low tech, particularly that palava of getting the sound effect in. I'm more and more tempted by Adobe's videosuite, but I need to persuade my boss to upgrade my G5 to an Intel Mac, as well as buying the software!