Digital Video Editing & Effects

mishavideo — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:59:27 +0000

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

mishavideo — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:05:49 +0000

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

mishavideo — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:43:57 +0000

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

FCP X and Motion 5 top 5 features (done right)

mishavideo — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:48:38 +0000

Great review of FCP X
Top 5 features in Motion 5

Check out Red Giant on YT!

mishavideo — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:29:01 +0000

Here a link to Red Giant’s YT Channel: Red Giant on YT

Skills for beginning editors

mishavideo — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:16:34 +0000

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…

mishavideo — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:08:53 +0000

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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