Category: Final Cut Pro
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Before Ctrl+Z: Exploring Film Editing’s Golden Age with Walter Murch’s ‘Her Name Was Moviola’
Currently in post-production, Oscar-winning editor Walter Murch is working on a passion project, ‘Her Name was Moviola‘, a documentary about cutting film the way it “used to be done”. What is a Moviola? Well, simply put the Moviola was a tool used in the process of editing film from the 1920 all the way to…
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Trim video without re-encoding using ffmpeg
I’ve been taking the time to learn ffmpeg and some of the really useful stuff you can do with this command line tool (CLI). Here’s one example of a situation I find myself in frequently and have not had a great solution until now. The ability to trim a video file without re-encoding! “Re-encoding” means…
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SMPTE Presentation & WCVB Tour
On December 14th I attended the SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) New England Section chapter meeting. The presentation was titled “THE LATEST IN HIGH DEFINITIONTELEVISION MOBILE UNIT DESIGN”. Two local companies made presentations, Little Bay Communications and Thistle Communications. Below are photos from the event, mostly from the WCVB Station tour which…
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Exploring Final Cut Pro 10.0.1
On Sepetember 20th Apple released the first update to Final Cut Pro X (10.0.1) and announced that additional updates will be released in early 2012. The PixelCorps video below is long, but provides great information on the new features and fixes: Updates Include: Rich XML Support Xsan Support Media Stems Export Custom Starting Timecode One-step…
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Final Cut X – Apple’s Response to Criticism
I’m still in a state of denial. Â How could the Apple screw up Final Cut so bad? Is Apple really dumbing down the software in order to hit a larger market? Â Is this really iMovie Pro? Maybe, but I remain hopeful (note my denial)…hopeful the Final Cut Pro team can perform a course correction and…