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Mark Peysha on Jul 30, 2008 at 3:40:01 pm
Hey Dustin,
Thanks for your entry on automator.
Have you ever heard of anyone making an interface with automator, so that for instance you could trigger your mac to perform an automator function remotely?
Thanks
Mark
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There are a couple of ways to achieve this.
First of all, you [...]

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Please note that these posts are now shortened versions and the full versions are up on Creative Cow.
Standardized filenaming conventions (What we can learn from Bittorrent)
Get Fast FAST
Be Replaceable, Have A Life
The following post is also being reversioned into a print article for the Creative Cow Magazine.
Working with Video Game Footage
That’s the reason the posting [...]

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There are some tools I use to make my life easier. YMMV and there may be other software that works better for you. If so, leave a comment on what you think is better and share your favourite time savers (or wasters)
Just yesterday, I left a long export of a quicktime movie to go with [...]

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I recently had my venerable Quad Core MacPro replaced with a new Octocore machine, because I use processing power like that.
Anyway, the Geforce 8800 GT seems to have an issue with support Quartz Extreme only on my secondary display.
My system profiler essentially shows Quartz Extreme as Supported on Display 1 and Not Supported [...]

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Here’s a bit of software for those of you that need a little PIP (Picture in picture)  action.
It only does quarter screen PIP, but it’s free and beats manually doing it in the motion tab.

http://web.mac.com/piero.fiorani/PieroF_FCE_Effect/Quarter_PIP.html
Here are some other useful free plugins available.
stibs’s
Too Much Too Soon Free Plugins
50 point Bezier Matte
Andy’s Plugins for Final Cut Pro
Digital [...]

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Multiple Versions of FCP
I keep with me on my portable harddisk, at all time these copies of FCP application files.

v5.0
v5.0.2
v5.1
v5.1.2
v5.1.4
v6.0
v6.0.1
v6.0.3

There are many reasons for doing so.
Recently, I encountered an error for FCP v6.0.2, which I covered in the end of this post (Be Replaceable, Have a Life).
Essentially, what I needed was to use v6.0.1 instead [...]

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