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Apple Final Cut Pro
Tapeless Workflow with Final Cut Pro 7

Tapeless Workflow with Final Cut Pro 7
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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).

Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Shane Ross
Apple Final Cut Pro
Smooth Slow Motion with Cinema Tools

Smooth Slow Motion with Cinema Tools
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This tutorial shows you how to convert 720p60 footage into very smooth slow motion using the CONFORM option of Cinema Tools.

Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Shane Ross
Apple Final Cut Pro
FCP: Export Multiple Channels of Audio

FCP: Export Multiple Channels of Audio
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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
Apple Final Cut Pro
FCP: Add Visible Timecode to Quicktime Exports

FCP: Add Visible Timecode to Quicktime Exports
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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.

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Shane Ross
Apple Final Cut Pro
FCP: Tapeless Offline / Online Workflow

FCP: Tapeless Offline / Online Workflow
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In this video tutorial, Creative COW leader Shane Ross details how to manage offline and online workflow with tapeless format.

Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Shane Ross
Lightworks
Lightworks

Lightworks

Professional editing goes open source: top editors describe a powerful editing tool being unleashed on the public.

Review, People / Interview
David Battistella
SAN - Storage Area Networks
Fast Enough? Data-Driven Broadcast Infrastructure

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
Broadcast Video
Best Nonlinear Editing System Report

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
CoreMelt Plug-ins
CoreMelt Creative Transitions in FCP

CoreMelt Creative Transitions in FCP
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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
Apple Final Cut Pro
Final Cut Studio 3 is here, and all is good!

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
Apple Final Cut Pro
Get Your FCP Timelines in Motion with Final Cut Studio

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
Apple Final Cut Pro
Make Your FCP Timelines Sing By Roundtripping to Soundtrack 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
Event Videographers
Stack Tracks: Layered Digital Music

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
Event Videographers
How to Add Video, Photo and Audio Assets to your Digital Toolbox

How to Add Video, Photo and Audio Assets to your Digital Toolbox

Who doesn't love high quality free stuff? Let Creative COW Contributing Editor Stephen Smith be your maitre d'. He'll provide a menu that will show you some of the best places to get free video, photo and audio assets that will benefit every media professional.

Feature
Stephen Smith
Apple Final Cut Pro
The Ultimate Real-world FCP FAQ, Part 3

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
Noise Industries
Luke Price reviews Noise Industries FxFactory Pro 2Luke Price reviews Noise Industries FxFactory Pro 2

FxFactory Pro includes 130 filters, generators and transitions for Final Cut Pro, Motion and Final Cut Express and in this review, CreativeCOW contributing editor, Luke Price writes a comprehensive review from an editors perspective.

Review
Luke Price
Apple Final Cut Pro
Preparing Your Sequences to Go From FCP to ColorPreparing Your Sequences to Go From FCP to Color
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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
Apple Final Cut Pro
Five Free Plug-ins for 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
Apple Final Cut Pro
A Few Bugs in Apple Final Cut Pro 6

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
Apple Final Cut Pro
Announcing! Money Making Graphics & Effects for Final Cut Studio 2Announcing! Money Making Graphics & Effects for Final Cut Studio 2

The Creative Cow Master Series of DVD training presents a closer look at the finer points of graphics and animation inside Final Cut. Hosted by Creative COW.net Contributing Editor Stephen Smith, this disk contains over 3 hours of energentic, informative lessons.

Feature
Stephen Smith
Art of the Edit
The Sonnet D800 RAID: Speed and Safety

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
Adobe After Effects
Interlacing Progressive FootageInterlacing 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
HDV Format
Demystifying HDV Workflows

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
Apple Final Cut Pro
Wayne Carey Reviews Getting Organized in Final Cut ProWayne 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
Apple Final Cut Pro
SAS RAID from Dulce Systems

SAS RAID from Dulce Systems

Creative COW Contributing Editor Bob Zelin talks about the latest step in the Serial Attached Storage revolution: full RAID 5 protection with read speeds over 350 mb/sec. from Dulce Systems. At least that's what Dulce claimed. When he heard the rest of what Dulce had to say, Bob simply didn't believe them. When he put those claims to the test, he got a lot more than he bargained for. Will you?

Review
Bob Zelin
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Charles McConathy (1)
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Rob Mize (1)
Stephen Nakamura (1)
Andy Neil (3)
T Payton (1)
Luke Price (1)
Shane Ross (7)
Ron Shook (1)
Stephen Smith (5)
Marco Solorio (1)
David Roth Weiss (1)
Tim Wilson (2)
Bob Zelin (2)


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