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Links: Producer’s Best Friend, Final Cut Studio, 3D…
Links covering a new application from Intelligent Assistance, legacy Final Cut Studio tools, a 3D future, Final Cut Pro X 10.1 update price, the Amsterdam Supermeet, a step towards black level...
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Final Cut Pro X: Autumn’s 10.1 update
As part of the MacPro preview at this year’s Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple mentioned that “The Final Cut Pro team is hard at work on a version of Final Cut Pro X that will support all the...
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Free Effect Friday – Final Cut Pro X: Two new plugins
My contribution to this week’s Final Cut Pro X Free Effect Friday is two new plugins: Alex4D Blurred Coloured Glass and Alex4D Circle Tunnel. They’re available from: Alex4D.com There are many more free...
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Links: 3D, Final Cut in odd places, Motion 5, 4K…
Links covering Final Cut Pro X 3D, Final Cut running on odd devices, Motion 5 animation, 4K, end credits …a Simon Ubsdell special. 3D competition Last week I posted a link to some FxPlug test movies...
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HDMI 2.0: Another piece of the 2013 Mac Pro Puzzle?
Today the HDMI Forum announced a big upgrade to their video connectivity standard: HDMI 2.0. What does this mean for this autumn’s ’4K’ Mac Pro? HDMI 2.0: 4K and more HDMI (High Definition Media...
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Final Cut Pro X Free Effect Friday: Alex4D Inside-Outside plugin
My contribution to this week’s Free Effect Friday is a new free Final Cut Pro X effect: Alex4D Inside-Outside. For more information and download links, visit my website: Alex4D.com Inside-Outside is...
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Apple’s TV future: Hardware or software?
Many people are waiting for Apple to fully commit to ‘fixing’ TV. Following on from disrupting the music industry with the iPod and iTunes Music Store and the mobile phone industry with the iPhone and...
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Final Cut Pro X Free Effect Friday: Alex4D Switch Channel plugin
My contribution to this week’s Free Effect Friday is a new free Final Cut Pro X transition: Alex4D Switch Channel. For more information and download link, visit my website: Alex4D.com Switch Channel...
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Run my plugin installers – even though they’re not from the Mac App Store
Mac OS X has many security features – the most important of which are default settings that protect Mac users. A recent addition is ‘Gatekeeper’ which has a function of preventing some applications...
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Final Cut Pro X Free Effect Friday: Alex4D Random Move Horizontal plugin
My contribution to this week’s Free Effect Friday is a new free Final Cut Pro X title: Alex4D Random Move Horizontal. For more information and download link, visit my website: Alex4D.com This title...
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Final Cut Pro X Free Effect Friday: Alex4D Timecode 35mm 4-perf
My contribution to this week’s Free Effect Friday is a new free Final Cut Pro X effect: Alex4D Timecode 35mm 4-perf. Last week an editor emailed me with a request: could you build a generator that...
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Final Cut Pro X Free Effect Friday: Alex4D Flashback plugin
My contribution to this week’s Free Effect Friday is a new free Final Cut Pro X transition: Alex4D Flashback. For more information and download link, visit my website: Alex4D.com Flashback is a Final...
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How would you demo the new Mac Pro?
Three or four times a year Apple has press events that are designed to get media coverage all over the world. Although they cost up to a few hundred thousand dollars to organise, they get millions of...
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Final Cut Pro X, Apple Motion 5 and iMovie 2013
Although many Final Cut Pro X users were disappointed that Apple didn’t announce a new version on October 22, the day’s launches provided some interesting news. The first of which is that most of the...
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BruceX: Try this new Final Cut Pro X benchmark
To help people work out which Macs work best with Final Cut Pro X, it is useful to refer to a standard speed test. All but one of the MacBook Pros with Retina configurations do not have dedicated GPUs....
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Editing 4K on the new 15″ MacBook Pro
When the new Mac Pro was previewed at this year’s WWDC, Apple said it would be great at editing 4K. 4K is the next size up from HD – twice the pixels horizontally and vertically: four times the...
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Alex4D Notes: Final Cut Pro X 10.1, 4K, iMovie, new Final Cut Pro X podcast
From now on I’ll be posting more regularly on my main site at Alex4D.com/notes. I’ll summarise recent notes from there here on my old blog. To see my latest news, notes and links, bookmark my new...
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Final Cut Pro X 10.1: Resources
I’m maintaining a post on my new blog where I’ll add Final Cut Pro X 10.1 update resources. http://alex4d.com/notes/item/final-cut-pro-x-10-1-resources
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Alex4D Animation Transitions: 120 transitions for Final Cut Pro X
This week I’ve launched my first big plugin pack for Final Cut Pro X. Drop Alex4D Animation Transitions onto titles, images, videos and generators to animate them on or off the screen. Instead of a...
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