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Free Final Cut Pro plug-in: Alex4D Zoom Four title
This Final Cut Pro X title template displays a series of four texts, zooming from one to the next: Here are the controls: The title defaults to starting by zooming towards the first text, and at the...
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Blue screen: Is your version of Final Cut Pro X new enough?
When first trying out downloaded effects, transitions, titles and generators in Final Cut Pro X, sometimes the viewer turns blue. If this happens to you, the most likely problem is that your version of...
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Final Cut Pro X: Use Compressor presets as Share Destinations
Over at the fcp.co forum, a user named ‘parchabg’ was trying to get better results when exporting interlaced PAL from Final Cut Pro X. I suggested using Apple Compressor’s ‘DV Stream’ setting. It...
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Free Final Cut Pro plug-in: Alex4D Basic – Keyframable title
This Final Cut Pro X title template is similar to the built-in Basic Title title template with the addition of keyframable parameters Here is initial part of the controls: In other Final Cut titles,...
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Free Final Cut Pro plug-in: Alex4D Magic Lantern HDR effect
This Final Cut Pro X effect is for combining HDR footage produced using the Magic Lantern tool for Canon DSLRs. Magic Lantern is open-source firmware that adds many useful features to cameras. This...
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423 Final Cut Pro 10.0.7 commands
There are 423 commands available in the Command Set editor in Final Cut Pro X. 279 have default keyboard shortcuts. I’ve designed a PDF listing all 423 commands with a short description of what they do...
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My 2012 Top 15 Plug-ins
As part of 685,000 blog views, visitors downloaded my Final Cut Pro plug-ins many thousands of times. If you follow my blog via email using the control on the top left of the blog page, you’ll get...
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My Webinar showing how to create effects for Final Cut Pro X
On Tuesday January 8th, 2013 I appeared on a webinar at Moviola.com hosted by Michael Horton of the Los Angeles Creative Pro User Group. The web broadcast was free to watch live. The webinar is...
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PixelConduit and Final Cut Pro X – first look
Today Finnish company Lacquer updated their Conduit Live product and made it free for Macintosh users. Renamed PixelConduit, it is a video effect development system for motion graphics designers. It...
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Could you use PixelConduit to make Final Cut Pro plug-ins?
Where does PixelConduit come when comparing the various methods for making Final Cut Pro plug-ins? The post powerful Final Cut Pro effects are FxPlugs: implemented in Objective-C, using the same kinds...
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Going to BVE 2013?
In just over three weeks, BVE 2013 starts in London. I’ve been looking forward to it for months. BVE is a production and post-production trade show with over 300 exhibitors and over 150 seminars. At...
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Apple is… Apple’s 9 definitions since 1995
Looking back, it’s interesting to see how the way Apple has described itself has changed over the years. Luckily for us, press releases usually include a definition of the company issuing them. I’ve...
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You don’t hype when feel like No. 1
According to The Wall Street Journal, Apple have decided to change their PR policy to counteract recent bad press: they’re ‘subtly increasing’ their activity. There does seem to be a correlation...
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Final Cut Pro + iBooks Author + iTunes + Game Center = The Future of TV?
On the latest episode of the Critical Path podcast Horace Dediu and Moisés Chiullan talked about the future of TV. Horace said that he thinks that the future of TV is in applying software engineering...
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If iPads are the new PCs, why make Macs?
In a recent market survey, Canalys claimed that Apple was number 1 when it comes to worldwide shipments of personal computers in the fourth quarter of 2012 with a share of of 20%. This figure includes...
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Free Final Cut Pro plug-in: Alex4D Ribbon transition
My new free Final Cut Pro X transition slices the outgoing clip into two parts and pulls them apart with a horizontal ribbon appearing based on the pixels at the slice position. The ribbon crossfades...
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Who’s who in post production quiz
Part of the deal for me to be an official blogger at next week’s BVE2013 in London is for me to have at least two blog posts mentioning the event. This is the second. Given my recent popular post on...
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Free Final Cut Pro plug-in: Alex4D Time Remap effect
Last year I made a set of generators that could be used on video clips to get more precise control over speed changes using an animation graph similar to that available in older versions of Final Cut...
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Technology companies – who’s who?
A few weeks ago I wrote about how Apple’s corporate definition has changed over the years. I took the definition from the paragraph that appears at the end of each press release – the text that...
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Final Cut Pro X 10.0.8 update
Today Apple released its Final Cut Pro X 10.0.8 update. It is 60% about fixing bugs, there are a few new features too. Although the NAB professional trade show is just around the corner, this isn’t a...
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