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
Apple ProApps Certification info
As mentioned in class, it seems like an increasingly worthwhile idea to get FCP certification so as to be confident in yourself that your skills are up to par and to have the paper to prove this differentiation from the masses dabbling with FCP.
Here’s general info about Apple’s multi-step certification program for their Multimedia applications: ProApps
Also, test yourself to see if you could pass the FCP 101 test – the only test that can be taken without taking a certified class in conjunction with the test. Here’s the link to the PDF file for download:
FCP6 Level 1 Practice
