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Apple Soundtrack | Audio Noise Reduction in Soundtrack Pro
A "how to guide" for removing audio noise in Final Cut and Soundtrack Pro. In this video tutorial Sam McGuire demonstrates how to use many of the noise reduction tools found in FCP and Soundtrack.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Sam McGuire |
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Apple Final Cut Pro | Tapeless Workflow with Final Cut Pro 7
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 P2 AVCIntra, P2 DVCPRO HD, AVCHD, and Canon DSLR (5D, 7D).
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Shane Ross |
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Apple Final Cut Pro | FCP: Export Multiple Channels of Audio
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.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Shane Ross |
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Apple Final Cut Pro | FCP: Add Visible Timecode to Quicktime Exports
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.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Shane Ross |
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COWmunications feedback | Lightworks
Professional editing goes open source: top editors describe a powerful editing tool being unleashed on the public.
Review, People / Interview
David Battistella |
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SAN - Storage Area Networks | Fast Enough? Data-Driven Broadcast Infrastructure
We can always can count on Bob Zelin moving fast enough to keep up with the crazy number of new options for data-driven broadcast infrastructure. Read on for Bob's review of his findings - enthusiastic and exhausted (er.. exhaustive) - at the super-charged, super-fast NAB 2010.
Review, Feature, People / Interview
Bob Zelin |
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Broadcast Video | Best Nonlinear Editing System Report
As the three companies showing their best wares in the Nonlinear Editing System category vie for attention in the broadcasting and post-production world at NAB 2010, some of the glitter caught Walter Biscardi's eye, but others left him wondering if they can keep up. Read on for more insight on what he saw at NAB...
Review, People / Interview
Walter Biscardi |
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CoreMelt Plug-ins | CoreMelt Creative Transitions in FCP
Iain Anderson takes us through adding variety to your edit in creative ways with transitions. Some unusual uses of transitions for text or product overlays are covered, instantly jazz up titles or pack shots using these simple techniques. We cover many of the transitions included in CoreMelt PolyChrome Transitions as well as simple FCP tricks.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Iain Anderson |
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Apple Final Cut Pro | Final Cut Studio 3 is here, and all is good!
Our man in Nepal, Jiggy Gaton, likes to live for danger. He installed a major software upgrade mid-project, with virtually no preparation, just to see what would break. Lo and behold, it all worked! And the more Jiggy works with it, the better he's liking it. Join him in this Creative COW, Real-world, Real-time Report on Final Cut Studio 3.
Review
Jiggy Gaton |
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Apple Final Cut Pro | Get Your FCP Timelines in Motion with Final Cut Studio
Having both FCP and Motion in Final Cut Studio means more options for effects creation with your video projects -- and FCS integration makes it easy to work with them together. Having Motion projects sitting on your FCP timeline even helps keep your projects organized! Our man in Nepal, Jiggy Gaton, shows just how easy it can be to take advantage of it all.
Tutorial
Jiggy Gaton |
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Apple Final Cut Pro | Make Your FCP Timelines Sing By Roundtripping to Soundtrack Pro
The COW's Jiggy Gaton owns an audio studio -- but has created a tutorial for those of us who don't have an audio studio within earshot when editing video in Final Cut Pro. He's not sure if he's being lazy, or just efficient, to use an integrated Soundtrack Pro project inside FCP. Either way, read on to learn how to do it yourself.
Tutorial
Jiggy Gaton |
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Event Videographers | Stack Tracks: Layered Digital Music
In need of some high-end royalty free music that can fit any media professionals budget? Creative Cow Contributing Editor Stephen Smith explains why Digital Juices StackTraxx layered music library can be the perfect solution for your next project.
Review
Stephen Smith |
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Apple Final Cut Pro | The Ultimate Real-world FCP FAQ, Part 3
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 information you really need for working with FCP. Here in Part 3, he covers QuickTime issues, timecode management, P2 tips and much more, including one of the most frequently questions of all: how to open new projects in older versions of FCP.
Tutorial, Feature
Shane Ross |
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Apple Final Cut Pro | Preparing Your Sequences to Go From FCP to Color
Yes, Apple Color is connected to Final Cut Pro...but not exactly integrated. Creative Cow leader Walter Biscardi, one of the worlds most respected experts on the connection between the two, will help guide your sequences safely from FCP to Color -- and show you why its worth the effort.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Walter Biscardi |
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Apple Final Cut Pro | Five Free Plug-ins for Final Cut Pro
If you love plug-ins for Final Cut Pro, youll love free plug-ins even more. CreativeCow.net Contributing Editor Stephen Smith highlights his five favorite free plug-ins for FCP, everything from eye candy to the ones that save your bacon.
Feature
Stephen Smith |
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Apple Final Cut Pro | A Few Bugs in Apple Final Cut Pro 6
Creative COW Leader Jeremy Garchow is one of the COW's most frequent posters. "I work in Final Cut Pro all day every day," he says, "and often all night too. These are a few of the issues I've found with Final Cut Pro 6. I assume that Apple will take care of these soon, but until then, here are some tips to help you watch where you step."
Editorial, Feature
Jeremy Garchow |
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Art of the Edit | The Sonnet D800 RAID: Speed and Safety
Jeremy Garchow's business is growing. So was his storage, and the potential for disaster. SATA array are less expensive, but were they safe, even with redundancy? With the Sonnet D800 he's got a terabyte of uncompressed HD, with full protection, for a great price. Read on to see the details of his set-up, and see if SATA and the Sonnet D800 will work as well for you as it has for Jeremy.
Review, Feature
Jeremy Garchow |
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Adobe After Effects | Interlacing Progressive Footage
Weve all heard of de-interlacing footage, but what about re-interlacing? Marco Solorio of OneRiver Media shows us how -- and why -- to create interlaced footage from a progressive source. The results are picture perfect!
Tutorial
Marco Solorio |
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HDV Format | Demystifying HDV Workflows
Creative COW Leader Tim Kolb uses his HDV expertise to explore the technology behind HDV, and show how it applies inside Final Cut Pro and other NLEs, with a special focus on longer projects. As Tim notes, this is a modified version of a post he made in the HDV forum responding to a question about FCP, but anyone who wants to know about editing HDV needs to check this out.
Tutorial, Feature
Tim Kolb |
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Apple Final Cut Pro | Wayne Carey Reviews Getting Organized in Final Cut Pro
Frequent COW contributor and Final Cut Studio editor Wayne Carey takes a look at Getting Organized in Final Cut Pro by Shane Ross, the first FCP title in The Creative COW Master Series. Shane shares the secrets to media management that he's developed in his film broadcast editing career. Wayne takes a close look at what Shane has to say -- and a close look at Shane's iPod -- to discover workflow advice that works for every project, large or small.
Review
Wayne Carey |
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