Final Cut Studio: August 2010 Archives
It's extremely easy to create animated masks using Final Cut Pro in conjunction with Apple Motion. Take a look at this color correction example.
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Continue reading Tracking a Mask in Apple Motion.
Learn how to create a light zoom effect in Final Cut Pro using a moving mask shape.
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Continue reading Moving Mask to create Light Zoom Effect in FCP.
There are many free Final Cut Pro filters and transition effects that you can download. In Final Cut Pro, you can create a cool effect by using a 'wind blur' effect in conjunction with a 'whoosh' sound effect.
To do this exercise, you'll need to intstall a free set of plugins called 'Too Much Too Soon' You can visit the site directly to download the plugins. Please send him a small donation if you find the plug-in useful.
To do this exercise, you'll need to intstall a free set of plugins called 'Too Much Too Soon' You can visit the site directly to download the plugins. Please send him a small donation if you find the plug-in useful.
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Continue reading Wind Blur effect for Final Cut Pro.
Check out this video tutorial for creating a transporter effect using Final Cut Pro in conjunction with Apple Motion. The concept is quite simple.
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Continue reading Transporter effect for Final Cut Pro.
In most cases, professional editors will know most of the common aspect ratios for film and video formats, but those of you who didn't think math was going to be a part of this job, here's a handy-dandy Aspect Ratio Calculator from the folks at Digital Rebellion.
The tool helps you calculate aspect ratios and pixel dimensions of video footage and will ensure that you are working with the correct resolution. It gives you height, width, and ratio.
The tool helps you calculate aspect ratios and pixel dimensions of video footage and will ensure that you are working with the correct resolution. It gives you height, width, and ratio. 
If you're using multiple markers in a Final Cut Pro project and use them to confer with another editor or producer or your client, you can export your marker list as a text file to use in a spreadsheet application such as Numbers or Excel. We use markers as a visual cue to ourselves on a clip or sequence to make notes or comments or assign functions such as compression or scoring. Use markers as you edit along using the M key. Then you can export your marker list as text. We do this by going to the File Menu > Export > Marker List as Text
You will then be prompted to Save As and choose where you want to save it to. Your markers list text file will have a .txt extension. You can open that txt file in Numbers or Excel, and now you can print a list of your markers that will tell you the kind of marker, color, title, timecode, notes you made, etc. 
If you can't hear your audio while working in Final Cut Pro, but can see the levels pulsating in the meter, you may want to first be sure that your volume level is up, and not muted. Otherwise it is most common that the Audio is being routed through the Firewire, or another output choice. To reset the Audio to the system you need to go to the View menu, and change the Audio Playback to Default.
If you are going out via Firewire, you will need to have the camera or deck connected to speakers. It is also possible that you will need to separate the Audio from the Video by choosing to uncheck Audio Follows Video, which is the top choice at Audio Playback.
