http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane Shane Ross's library of tutorials, articles, reviews and more for media professionals world wide. en-us Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:00:00 GMT PHP Script webmaster@creativecow.net webmaster@creativecow.net http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/Archiving-for-Tapeless-Media.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/Archiving-for-Tapeless-Media.php Thousands of members of Creative COW were at the 2011 NAB Show, and we are pleased to bring you some of their reports. In this entry, blogged from NAB 2011, Shane Ross had a mission, which was to search for a reasonably priced archiving solution of tapeless media that all of us not-so-big production Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:44:38 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/fcp_copying-sequence-content.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/fcp_copying-sequence-content.php In this FCP video tutorial, Shane Ross shows how to get a section of cut footage from one sequence to another in Final Cut Pro. Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:00:02 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/tapeless-workflow_fcp-7.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/tapeless-workflow_fcp-7.php This tutorial gives an overview of the tapeless ingest workflow using Log and Transfer in Final Cut Pro 7. It encompasses a handful of the supported formats that FCP works with... including XDCAM EX, P2 AVCIntra, P2 DVCPRO HD, AVCHD, and Canon DSLR (5D, 7D). Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:22:14 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/slow-motion_cinema-tools.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/slow-motion_cinema-tools.php This tutorial shows you how to convert 720p60 footage into very smooth slow motion using the CONFORM option of Cinema Tools. Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:37:19 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/multi-audio.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/multi-audio.php In this video tutorial, Creative COW leader Shane Ross details how to export multiple channels of audio, both to tape and to a Quicktime movie. If you want to export more than just the standard of two channels that Final Cut Pro is set up to do by default, this is the tutorial for you. Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:44:05 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/visible-timecode.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/visible-timecode.php In this video tutorial, Creative COW leader Shane Ross details how to export a Quicktime movie with Final Cut Pro with burnt-in Timecode. Let Shane guide you through the easy steps of three different ways to adding visible Timecode to Quicktime Exports. Wed, 25 Aug 2010 02:40:59 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/tapeless_online.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/tapeless_online.php In this video tutorial, Creative COW leader Shane Ross details how to manage offline and online workflow with tapeless format. Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:39:44 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/aja_kona3.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/aja_kona3.php Need SD upconversion for HD projects, and HD cross-conversion? Broadcast editor and Final Cut Pro community leader Shane Ross recently had a DVCPRO HD project shot with the Panasonic Varicam and HVX-200 at 23.98 that had to be converted to 1080psf 23.98 for delivery on HDCAM. After long research and Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/fcp_faq3.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/fcp_faq3.php Creative Cow Leader Shane Ross is one of a very small handful of the worlds most respected FCP experts. Over the course of years answering questions, hes compiled a real-world list of the questions that are truly the most frequently asked. He calls them Shanes Stock Answers. We call them the informa Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/fcp_faq2.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/fcp_faq2.php Creative Cow Leader Shane Ross is one of a very small handful of the world's most respected FCP experts. Over the course of years answering questions, he's compiled a real-world list of the questions that are truly the most frequently asked. He calls them Shane's Stock Answers. We call them the info Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/fcp_faq.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/fcp_faq.php Creative Cow Leader Shane Ross is one of a very small handful of the world's most respected FCP experts. Over the course of years answering questions, he's compiled a real-world list of the questions that are truly the most frequently asked. He calls them Shane's Stock Answers. We call them the info Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/filter-transition.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/filter-transition.php Apple Final Cut Pro has a lot of great filters, and Creative Cow leader Shane Ross found a number of them that he thought would look great as transitions. It turns out that really do! In this video tutorial, he shows you just how easily you too can build truly unique transitions with filters. Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/p2fcp6.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/p2fcp6.php P2 workflows are among the very hottest topics at the Cow, and with extensive experience with P2 in broadcast editing, leader Shane Ross is one of the industry experts in the new features to support P2 in Final Cut Pro 6. In this video tutorial, Shane covers new techniques for bringing in captured f Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/MXO.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/MXO.php Creative Cow Leader Shane Ross wasnt convinced that the Matrox MXO could really provide the CRT-accurate monitoring through an Apple Cinema Display he demands for his HD broadcast workflows. After working with it for nearly a year, through multiple upgrades and in a variety of configurations, he tel Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/leopard.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/leopard.php You know you want to install OS X Leopard as soon as you can. For your production machine, though, you probably also know that you should wait. You also know that you're probably going to do it anyway. Whether you do it at the right or wrong time, there's a right way to do it. Creative COW Leader Sh Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/P2.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/P2.php In this reprint from Creative COW Magazine, Creative Cow leader and broadcast editor Shane Ross uses his work for The History Channel to illustrate end-to-end workflow using P2 media and the Panasonic HVX200: from a multi-camera shoot in the middle of blazing gunfire, all the way to your living room Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/ibc07.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/ibc07.php Creative Cow leader Shane Ross saved you a trip to Amsterdam -- further for some Cows than others, but pretty far for most. As always, you can count on Shane to tell you exactly what he thinks about what he saw: AJA, Sony XDCAM EX, Edit Share, and That Other Camera. Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/caldigit_hdpro.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/caldigit_hdpro.php Creative Cow Leader Shane Ross shares the great news: both performance and protection with CalDigits new HDPro RAID! Supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, and 6, the HDPro even works with your laptop. Its the answer to Shanes prayers. He thinks it might be the answer to yours too. Tue, 04 Sep 2007 07:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/magazine_p2_tapeless.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/magazine_p2_tapeless.php In this real world camcorder review from The Creative COW Magazine, editor Shane Ross uses his work for The History Channel to illustrate end-to-end workflow using P2 media and the Panasonic HVX-200. Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:10:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/dvpro_hd.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/dvpro_hd.php In this Final Cut Pro video tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Shane Ross discusses taking 60p footage shot with DVCPRO HD and slowing it down to 23.98 so that it's slow motion. Please note that this only works if you are working in a 23.98 or 29.97 timeline. Mon, 12 Jun 2006 07:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/movement_on_stills.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/movement_on_stills.php In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Shane Ross discusses creating movement on stills in Final Cut Pro. Many people call this the Ken Burns effect, but Shane wants to point out that this effect is been used long before Ken Burns made it so popular. In fact, Shane would like to someday have it Mon, 22 May 2006 07:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/p2_workflow.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/p2_workflow.php In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Shane Ross gives users a quick tutorial on how to import footage from a Panasonic P2 card into Apple Final Cut Pro. Wed, 10 May 2006 07:00:00 GMT