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Product Review: CHV-Electronics Plugins for Final Cut Pro Part 1

May 29th, 2009 · No Comments

This is the first part of a few reviews for CHV-Electronics. In this review I concentrate on the Filters and Transitions, QC Integration FX V1.7.1. CHV-Plugins are great and allow you to open your imagination to create your own custom plugin with their Quartz Composer Developer Tool. What is Quartz Composer you [...]

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Plugin Review: Motype Is Worth All The Hype

November 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Yanobox the creators of Motype have created a text animation plugin that works in After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Motion and Final Cut Express. Motype is powered by Fxfactory Pro. So it is essential to download FxFactory for free in order to use the plugin.
For all the editors in the world [...]

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Back To Full Speed

July 24th, 2008 · No Comments

I want to thank Sara and Ryan Meader of macosrumors.com for the sweet video card they agreed to sell to me. The video card is an ATI Radeon X850 XT OEM Card the fastest card I could’ve gotten for my machine. Which I’m really happy to get. I’m in no shape to [...]

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FxFactory Pro: An Essential Plug-in Companion for Final Cut Pro and Motion

May 27th, 2008 · No Comments

This is the first time that I have done a product review on this site for a company that has reached out to me and asked me to do it. Nosie Industries asked me to test out and write a review for FxFactory Pro. I have to say that FxFactory Pro is candy [...]

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Motion 3.0.2 What Are You Doing To Me?

March 8th, 2008 · No Comments

I’m on set and my job is to archive footage and to organize the shots in each scene. That is easy and moving along well. When I got asked to put together a cool background to play on a HDTV in a scene. Well I can’t, because Motion is acting up and [...]

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Motion 3.0.2 Update Beware… Ozone Plugin

December 18th, 2007 · 4 Comments

Or else you will see this…

I have no idea what happened. I haven’t used Motion since updating to 3.0.2. I opened it up to work on “homework” for my interview and damned if it happened to me. So I went to Motion discussion board and it seems like everyone is having the [...]

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Learn Final Cut Pro 6 In Asheville Or Hire Me

October 25th, 2007 · No Comments

That’s right you can learn from the woman who writes the Apple Pro Training Series book on Final Cut Pro 6 Diana Weynand. She will be leading the class in Asheville, NC on November 6-8, 2007. This is also during the Asheville Film Festival. A great idea to have this along a [...]

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Mentor Me

June 25th, 2007 · No Comments

I just realized something. I don’t think I’ll be able to go back to school anytime soon to get a masters in graphic design. But I’m will to be someone’s prot?g?.
Is there anyone out there that would like take on this rewarding challenge? Suggest what books to read, have a [...]

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Tags: Art · Creative · Ideas · Personal

How to Configure a Final Cut Pro System for Jackson

December 12th, 2006 · No Comments

Earlier today I got an email from…let’s say Jackson. Jackson asked what configuration should he purchase to begin editing with Final Cut Pro. It’s not an easy thing to do. It really depends on which format you will be doing most of your editing. Luckily, Jackson knew what he had to [...]

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Final Cut Pro Users Upgrade to 5.1 NOW!!

December 9th, 2006 · No Comments

Time is running out. I had no idea Apple was being so anal about this switch.
But according to Digital Production Buzz:
Time is running out for people to upgrade, or cross-grade their current version of Final Cut Pro or Final Cut Studio. Apple’s generous upgrade/crossgrade offer requires that your package to Apple, with [...]

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