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
FCP in use in Beijing. Key word: workflow
Check out the role and workflow with FCP that one company from Hong and rationale behind using FCP in the Olympics.
Link: FCP in Olympics
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
Guide to current cables…
Here’s a useful guide to current computer cables – often essential to post-production needs. Link: Gizmondo cable guide
FCP -> YouTube: best settings
Look to Phillip Hodgetts, an expert editor and consultant based around FCP, if you’re seeking to upload your video(s) to YouTube. Phillip has a short write-up and a link to an example of pretty rock-solid settings that will get you closer to the quality you want to show (but that YouTube doesn’t want to support as it’s $$ in bandwidth).
Link: Phillip Hodgett’s YouTube article on the LA Final Cut Pro User Group (LAFCPUG) site.
Great Color Correction ‘Looks’ examples
Here’s a post of a videographer (it looks like he’s shooting with the indie favorite, Panasonic’s HVX200) who posted a number of still images on his site. They really show a great range of how strongly you can shape perception and influence the mood of a movie with the colors you choose to work with…
Link: One Image – Many Visions
