Luminoir

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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Tools for the remote editor

There are times you wish you could teleport to your office to make that small change and render the sequence, burn the dvd, or export to the ftp.
Or, you might have set the project to render and headed out for dinner hoping to return to see it done, only to realize [...]

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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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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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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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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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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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