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
OpenCut 2.0 Opens today – do have the time/focus to practice with RED camera footage??
OpenCut 2.0
OpenCut 2.0 is poised to open up for registration today. Check this out – if you’re really into editing and you’re hungry to work with new, high-resolution (think Digital Cinematography) formats this might well be the jumping off point for you. Note that there is a small fee involved ($75/individual competition submission or $25/per individual if part of a school group).
If the silver screen is calling your name louder that the LCD’s or CRT’s beckon, find out more about this new round of editing competition here: OpenCut
Also, I you install Azureus, a free, BitTorrent application, and search among their offerings you can view and/or download the just completed group of entries to the first OpenCut competition. I’ve also added a link to a variety of tests and interviews that were shot with the RED camera.
Link:Azureus
Link:OpenCut 1.0: Susannah
Link:Vuze:RED Camera
Pro Video Coalition – gem of a blog/community site
ProvideoCoalition
Photoshop for Video – the authoriative site/podcast for using & preparing images for video space
Check out Richard Harrington’s site, “Photoshop for Video” to garner all you ever wanted/needed or thought might be good to know about working with digital image files alongside video editing.
Link: Photoshop for video
