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A lot of bile and vitriol has been spilt over the last few days over the launch of FCPx, the sudden freeze on FCP7 and has left many editors who work on FCP in broadcast and film for a living at a crossroads.
What’s the big deal? FCP 7 still works, just use that.
Not that simple [...]

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Here’s a link to a quick video I made to show what you can do with the Macro buttons on any Wacom Tablet.
View it in HD so you can see the details.

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I’ve recently been doing a few talent showreels and was asked to give some advice to an acquaintance with no editing experience how to get her showreel done with another editor.
The resulting email was so detailed I thought it would be a great template for me to send out to anyone thinking of cutting their [...]

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Just concluded a 4 day editing workshop with Kris Trexler, and it was a great experience.
He had great photos of film and video technology from the days of tape splicing and hilarious anecdotes from his 40+ years of working as an editor. He also kindly brought footage from his sitcom According to Jim for us [...]

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My new creative cow article is out.
http://magazine.creativecow.net/issue/the-games
Page 34

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IN THE TIMELINE

Zoom Tool

Press z to activate the Zoom Tool.
Hold cmd to toggle to the Hand Tool.
Opt click toggles the zoom out.

Track Tool

Press t to activate the Track Tool
Hold shift to toggle it to All Tracks

Blade Tool

Press b to activate the Blade Tool.
Hold shift [...]

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http://www.spherico.de/filmtools
Marker tool is a great find, it allows you to transfer markers from clip level to sequence level with many options.
Been busy of late working on the Creative Cow print article, look out for it in 6 weeks or so on the Creative Cow magazine.
In the meantime, I’ll be updating with more tutorials and writing [...]

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