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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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In April 2008, I wrote a forum post in the Creative Cow forums about using automator to automate the creation of some image sequences for a football quiz show.
Tim Wilson eventually contacted me about making that post an article for Creative Cow.
Since then, I’ve continued using Automator to ease my workload of repetitive tasks but [...]

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You will need to configure your control surfaces to output timecode to the application via MIDI.
It works only when your mix tool is open (opt 6)
TimeCode

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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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