My First Year
A few months ago, my hard drive crashed and I lost some important footage of my son Chase. Over the weekend, I recovered one of my favorite videos that I thought was lost forever. Here is his first year.
Walter Murch and Final Cut Pro
Walter Murch was vocal about his disdain for Final Cut Pro X, telling the Boston SuperMeet “I can’t use this” and “I’m cautiously optimistic, but still a little traumatized by what happened over the summer. Because it makes you…you start to wonder, well…do they love us? – No. They like us. They say they love ...
Crazy Driving!
Explore tips for shooting Car interiors for Post Production with Andrew Kramer from VideoCopilot. I’ve been experimenting with some advanced chroma keying methods to specifically deal with reflections and subtle details like this car plate. Often times we use keylight to get rid of everything that is green but in some cases we want to ...
Foolcut AE
Attention FCPX editors! A very cool and useful tool for all of us: http://foolcolor.net/foolcut FCPX to AfterEffects and R3D conform tool. Foolcut AE features: Anchored clips, secondary storylines, compound clips, speed effects, audition, animated geometry (scale, position, anchor, rotation opacity), cross dissolve transitions, colored solids, image flip/flop, audio clips, audio levels, mixed framerates. Conform RED ...
Very Useful App for Editors
A lot of these apps are total time wasters, but this new BorisFX software is a dream for video editors. Boris Soundbite quickly and accurately finds any word or phrase spoken in recorded media. Video editors, producers, and journalists can instantly play all occurrences of a spoken phrase in their media, then insert the perfect ...
Promo Video: Songs of Farewell and Departure: A Tribute to Hum
SONGS OF FAREWELL AND DEPARTURE: A TRIBUTE TO HUM from MDfilms.net on Vimeo. I recently did the promo video for Pop Up Records exciting new tribute album, Songs of Farewell and Departure: A Tribute to Hum. Hum was an underrated alternative rock band in the 1990s that released two critically acclaimed albums, You’d Prefer an ...
Final Cut Pro X
Editing geeks– let’s unite in the glory of the latest FCPX news! Recently, the new FCP was unveiled at the SuperMeet at Bally’s Hotel. Click read more to view the main features of the new FCP, which will be available in June for $299. There are a few bootleg videos of the presentation too. Here ...

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