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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 StudioGet 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 ProMake 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 SystemsSAS 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
Apple Color
Apple Color: Auto Balance FeatureApple Color: Auto Balance Feature
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In this short Apple Color video tutorial, Walter Biscardi demonstrates the auto balance feature in color. This is a basic level tutorial.

Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Walter Biscardi
Apple Color
Should you use Final Cut Pro or Color?Should you use Final Cut Pro or Color?
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Should you use Final Cut Pro or Color? In this short video tutorial, Walter Biscardi demonstrates some of the differences and why you might use one program over the other. This is a basic level tutorial.

Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Walter Biscardi
Indie Film & Documentary
Formats, Color Bit-Depths, Data Rates and Storage Requirements

Formats, Color Bit-Depths, Data Rates and Storage Requirements

In this chart, Creative COW Magazine shows readers the various data-rates, formats and codecs in use in video production and how much hard drive space is required when using each of these formats.

Tutorial
Ron Lindeboom
Apple Final Cut Pro
EDIT TO TAPE - A STEP BY STEP GUIDE

EDIT TO TAPE - A STEP BY STEP GUIDE

In this Apple Final Cut Pro tutorial, CreativeCOW.net leader and filmmaker David Battistella shares a good basic technique for ''FCP - Edit to Tape'' first timers.

Tutorial
David Battistella
Apple Final Cut Pro
Recapturing HDV, Can it be done?

Recapturing HDV, Can it be done?

CreativeCOW.net contributing editor and leader, David Battistella, explores the question of recapturing HDV. He'd seen so many posts, so much talk about HDV format and the problems incurred, so David has taken the time to test a couple of workflows. Here's David's report.

Tutorial
David Battistella
HDV Format
High Definition for the Road

High Definition for the Road

Thanks to formats like DVCPro HD and HDV, High Definition can now be edited pretty much anywhere on just about any computer. Yeah, this is cool and you can really make your friends jealous just cutting away with your super slick laptop. But you know what's really slick? Editing Uncompressed High Definition anywhere. How about an Uncompressed editing workstation in a 25'' square box? No way? Way! Read on to find out about Wally's Traveling Box of Mystery and Intrigue...

Tutorial, Feature
Walter Biscardi
G-Tech
The G-Tech G-Raid

The G-Tech G-Raid

For years Medea Corporation has been the hallmark of reliability when it comes to storage for the media industry. If you wanted big, fast storage with mission critical reliability, Medea was the drive array for you. Now comes its little brother, G-Technology Corporation. In this article, Creativecow leader reviews the G-Tech G-Raid and concludes...''This is the most versatile unit I've ever used with its ability to work seamlessly with anything up to 10bit uncompressed and just remain solid no matter the situation or machine it's connected to. '''

Review
Walter Biscardi
Authors

Iain Anderson (1)
David Battistella (3)
Walter Biscardi (9)
Wayne Carey (1)
Jeremy Garchow (2)
Jiggy Gaton (3)
Walter Biscardi and Richard Harrington (1)
Philip Hodgetts (1)
Tim Kolb (2)
Ron Lindeboom (1)
Kevin P. McAuliffe (4)
Charles McConathy (1)
Sam McGuire (3)
Rob Mize (1)
Andy Neil (2)
T Payton (1)
Luke Price (1)
Shane Ross (7)
Ron Shook (1)
Stephen Smith (5)
Marco Solorio (1)
David Roth Weiss (1)
Tim Wilson (1)
Bob Zelin (2)


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