Questions to Ask at the Beginning of a Project

February 1, 2011, 09:11 AM

http://blogs.creativecow.net/blog/4178/essential-q...

Through the years, we’ve learned a lot of lessons the hard way. While every project is unique, it often seems that the problems remain the same. Here are a few questions we always encourage asking at the start of any video project...

Three Useful Tools Updated

February 1, 2011, 09:09 AM

http://www.studiodaily.com/blog/?p=5514

It has been an eventful past few weeks for useful tool post-production software as three products that we’ve discussed here before had major releases or updates...

33 completely Free Final Cut plugins

February 1, 2011, 09:06 AM

http://www.coremelt.com/products/v2/coremelt-free....

If you are looking for free Final Cut Pro plugins, CoreMelt is a place to stop by. CoreMeltFREE package offers great selection of 33 plugins which includes Filmstrip, Advantage Vignette, OldTV, 3D Shatter and many others. It's available at CoreMelt website

Dublin FCP Users Group

January 31, 2011, 05:28 PM

http://www.dublinfcpug.com/

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SF SuperMeet – Part I

January 31, 2011, 04:52 PM

http://www.joyoffilmediting.com/?p=3398

Friday January 28 saw approximately 600 filmmakers from San Francisco’s Bay Area show up for the SuperMeetFCPUG and SF Cutters tenth annual SuperMeet. Having relocated from LA to the North Bay last July, yours truly was on hand to glean the latest for her update of book #1 Cut by Cut: Editing Your Film or Video and meet some area filmmakers.

AJA Ships Ki Pro Mini Portable Flash Disk Recorder

January 31, 2011, 04:51 PM

http://www.studiodaily.com/main/news/12901.html

AJA Video Systems is now shipping Ki Pro Mini, the smaller, lighter version of its breakthrough portable tapeless recorder that captures to the Apple ProRes 422 codec directly from camera. With its miniature form factor and ability to mount easily to a range of digital cameras and accessories, Ki Pro Mini makes for the smallest camera and recorder package available for the capture of high-quality 10-bit 4:2:2 files that are immediately ready for editing.

After Effects CS5 Demo at B & H Photo - Februa

January 31, 2011, 04:49 PM

http://manhattaneditworkshop.blogspot.com/2011/01/...

Introducing Roto Brush, After Effects' new time-saving tool that creates a matte to separate foreground from background. In this demo featuring our Certified Adobe instructor Justin Madden, we will take you step by step through the Roto Brush workflow, such as creating a base frame, tweaking the propagation parameters, locking segmentation boundary, and refining the matte.

28 Days of Quicktips Coming Again for 2011

January 31, 2011, 04:48 PM

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/ssimmons/st...

Way back in the year 2009 when I started this channel on PVC I published the 28 Days of Quicktips. It was exactly what the title says, one Quicktip a day for the entire month of February that usually pertained to either Final Cut Pro or Avid Media Composer. It’s now 2011 and February is almost upon us so I thought I’d do it again for 2011. One tip a day for the entire month. FCP, Avid and maybe a few for Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.

Matrox Announces HD-SDI Scan Converter

January 31, 2011, 04:45 PM

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/news/story/...

Working with stories in Final Cut Pro/DVD

January 31, 2011, 04:44 PM

http://digitalcontentproducer.com/videoencodvd/rev...

This is an introductory-level discussion for DVD Studio Pro newbies on using stories. (Hey, newbies need love, too!) I’ll cover inserting chapter markers in Final Cut Pro (and why you want to add them there, rather than in DVD SP), what stories are and why you need them, and then how to create and deploy them.