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Posted in Editing, Technology on Sep 1st, 2008
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or get my latest posts directly in your mailbox. Thanks for coming to the Foo!On a current job the client wants the videofiles on an external harddisk in FAT32. One of the problems with FAT32 is of course that it doesn’t [...]
Posted in Editing, Film, Technology on Aug 7th, 2008
It is easy to lose track as to which version of Final Cut should go with the plethora of Quicktime and Mac OS versions. But help is at hand.
Jon Chapell at the Digital Rebellion has put together a nice recommendation of which Final Cut Studio/Final Cut Pro versions go best with which QT and Mac [...]
Posted in Camera & Eye, Cool Sites, Editing, Film, Technology on Jan 25th, 2008
Just came across a one-page site by Jan E. Schotsman which offers a couple of video tools for the Mac, and at zero cost.
Fix your video
The JES Deinterlacer does a fine de-interlacing job, but despite its name, it does more. It lets you slow down the frame rate, interpolating the in-between frames. Click here for [...]
Sometimes you have to produce photographs from films, so-called frame grabs. In Final Cut Pro this entails several clicks for each frame, something that becomes tiresome after a while. Also, if your material is anamorphic, you have to resize it in a separate programme, adding yet more clicks.Enter Movie Frame Grabber, a simple programme for [...]
Posted in Editing, Technology on Apr 15th, 2007
Up to last year, Apple has released a new version of its powerful editing programme every new NAB. Thus, expectations are even higher as to what they will present today. There doesn’t seem to be a live feed available, but the nice people at MacRumors will have a live text feed.
I wish there was a [...]
Posted in Camera & Eye, Cool Sites, Editing, Technology on Feb 22nd, 2007
Over at the Apple discussion board, I stumbled upon this gem:
I’m a film editor who’s had the privilege to work on $100 movies to $100 million movies.
Story is king. If your story is working, and crafted well, and paced properly, you can get away with almost whatever you want. For instance, when I cut scenes, [...]