If you’re new or relatively new to Apple’s FCP, download this PDF. The Knight Digital Media Center publishes a very solid and free guide to getting started. Download it via the link below or head over to check them out. What I find very useful (and correct) about there work is that it is a soup-to-nuts approach to creating a journalistic video in the digital realm.
FCP7_KDMC_Full
146 Syllalbus and Research assignment 1
Hey Folks, attached are 2 documents for BCST SP12 – the syllabus and the research assignment (PDFs).
Misha
BCST146_SP12_Antonich
BCST 146 Research #1-1
Philip Hodgett’s oldie but goodie on Text for Video
What is a “pre-ditor” or producer/editor to do in a 72 ppi world when it’s hard to read your titles, colors bleed or lines obscure the text? For one, you could do worse than heed the advice of one Mr. Philip Hodgett’s as posted on every FCP editor’s favorite web site, Kenstone.net. Simple, graphical, but invaluable advice starting out: http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/perfect_titles_phil.html
And here’s Adobe’s tips on getting good titles from a computer to video playout…link
Check out Red Giant on YT!
Here a link to Red Giant’s YT Channel: Red Giant on YT
Skills for beginning editors
Oliver Peters, the author of the excellent blog digitalfilms.com writes a succinct article about the skills a new editor should have entering the field (and they go beyond using FCP to make psychedelic effects as if you didn’t that already….). Link: article
Calculate the drive space you need for various video formats…
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Go to the good folks at Digital-Heaven, creators of FCP plug-in packs, to quickly end the guesswork on how much space you’ll need to capture you video. Presets are available for calculating in DV, HDV, and various flavors of HD video (both NTSC and PAL standards).
Link: videospaceonline
