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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, Film on Jun 14th, 2008
I finally got around to re-do my showreel, which I hadn’t updated in years. Thing is, it is already outdated again, but that’s just how these things go…
Anyway, if you have quicktime installed, have a peek.
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 Advertising, Camera & Eye, Cool Sites, Film, Humor on Sep 25th, 2007
When I was a kid, I loved making flipbooks. They could have between 2 and 100 pictures. Flipbook.info is a great site that has many videos of antique flipbooks.
I was delighted to find out that there is software to print out your films, and make a thumb-able movie. For the Mac there is the free [...]