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Free Effect Friday – Final Cut Pro X: Alex4D Inset Transition
My contribution to this week’s Free Effect Friday is a new kind of plugin – a transition that can be applied to more than two clips at once. Alex4D Inset Transition is a special kind of title that has...
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Coming soon: Apple’s desktop Retina display – which would you choose?
When Steve Jobs launched the iPhone 4 in March 2010, one of the big new features was a much higher resolution screen. The iPhone 3GS 3.5″ screen displayed 320 by 480 pixels. The new phone displayed 640...
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Free Effect Friday – Final Cut Pro X: Alex4D Leaves title plugin
My contribution to this week’s Free Effect Friday free Final Cut Pro X plugin is a lower third title: Alex4D Leaves. It blows the letters onto the screen to form the title, and then blows them off....
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Free Effect Friday – Alex4D Shape Grid plugin coming soon
Yesterday I mistakenly published a blog post about my next plugin a few days early. Sorry about that. Here is a preview of what the plugin can can do: It isn’t long until Friday!
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Apple’s timeline animation patent: Final Cut Pro with a little more Motion
Four years ago, Apple applied for a patent that is relevant to animating parameters of clips and other content in a timeline. They were awarded patent 8,458,593 today. I’m not reproducing this to start...
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Free Effect Friday – Final Cut Pro X: Alex4D Shape Grid plugin
My contribution to this week’s Free Effect Friday free Final Cut Pro X plugin is a graphic generator: Alex4D Shape Grid. It draws a grid of shapes and animates the colours over time. Here are the...
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NeedCreative Post production podcast Ep. 56: Pure Logic
Recently Ben Consoli of Anticipate Media asked me to take part in the NeedCreative podcast. My episode was published this week. My interview includes a brief history of my Final Cut Pro plugin creation...
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Plug4D: 100 free Final Cut Pro X plugins so far…
For the last 19 days I’ve been regularly tweeting using a new Twitter account: Plug4D. I’m using the account to post information on free Final Cut Pro X plugins: free effects, titles, transitions and...
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Links: Logic Pro X, animation, porn, Thunderbolt 2…
Links covering Logic Pro X, animation editing, Final Cut Pro X porn, Thunderbolt 2, XSan, plugin sharing, iMac video cards and the most prolific free plugin maker for Final Cut Pro… Logic Pro X Apple...
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Free Effect Friday – Final Cut Pro X: Three new plugins
My contribution to this week’s Free Effect Friday is three new free Final Cut Pro X plugins: Alex4D Pull Focus, Alex4D Transparent Blur and Alex4D Wide Angle Fix. For more information and download...
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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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