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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'hardware'
FCPx and what it means for all of us
July 2nd, 2011 · No Comments
Tags: FCP · editing · hardware · opinion · software
Sneak peek at Red Epic in Singapore
November 5th, 2010 · No Comments
We had the good fortune of having Ted Schilowitz from Red in Singapore to give us a demonstration of the new Red Epic, some interesting photos from Red’s past (including their first prototype which was enclosed in a applebox like wooden crate), a 4K projection of their Mysterium X showreel and their HDR motion picture [...]
Tags: camera · epic · hardware · hdr · hdri · red · workflow
Hardware Review: Planex MZK-W04G
September 10th, 2008 · No Comments
I love this router.
We bought it to replace the Planex BLW-HPMM-G router we had and it is brilliant.
Firstly, the combination of Gigabit ethernet and Wireless Draft N mean our file transfers are going so much faster than they used to.
A 1 GB file that used to take me 2 or 3 minutes to transfer over [...]
Tags: hardware · networking
Using Automator’s Watch Me Do function to automate FCP commands
June 27th, 2008 · No Comments
I thought you all might be interested to know how I’ve managed to use Automator’s new “Watch Me Do” feature to automate a rather complex sequence of events.
It’s pretty useful for repetitive tasks like the one I’m doing now which is replacing a set of 4 pictures in a simple animated sequence.
The steps executed are [...]
Tags: FCP · automation · editing · hardware · plugins · workflow