June 15, 2010
What's on the Menu?
The File Menu: Part 1
Last week, I gave you a top-down overview of the FCP File Menu and had you take a closer look at how each menu is separated into different parts by a thin gray line. (If you missed that blog, check it out here.) For example, when you click the File Menu and look at the upper most section, you see options grouped together for opening, closing, and creating new things. Since there are options in this section that are probably very familiar, let's zero in on those that are less familiar.
Let's begin with the first option, File > New. When you click New, a submenu appears with choices to create a new Sequence, Bin or Offline Clip. You've probably chosen New > Sequence and New > Bin lots of time. But have you ever chosen New > Offline Clip? Let's say you originally captured or transferred your footage at a lower resolution to minimize disk space and then wanted to recapture one or more clips at a higher resolution, perhaps to do your online editing or final pass. This is one way you might approach that process.
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June 8, 2010
What's on the Menu?
Welcome to my new blog series – What's On The Menu? Have you ever been to a restaurant that has a menu the size of a small book? In Los Angeles, there are a few restaurants like that such as The Cheesecake Factory and BJ's Restaurant. When I go, I sometimes enjoy rereading all the delicious options before picking one. But other times I just want to find something quick and be done with it.
It can be that way in Final Cut Pro as well. With over 840 FCP commands, it's not always easy finding the one you want. But if you knew a little more about how each of these menus was organized – maybe get a 'top down' view of the bigger picture for each menu – you just might start to feel a little more comfortable. At the very least you could begin to anticipate where to look for what and speed up your editing.
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May 25, 2010
Save, Revert, Restore - Oh My!
In the Final Cut Pro File menu, there are 5 different options you can use to either save your changes in open projects or bring a project back to life. Let's take a closer look at these options. Don't ever underestimate the power of saving frequently. You may have just spent a few hours simply organizing and naming bins and clips. But unless you want to redo that work, save what you've done. The easiest way to save is simply pressing Cmd-S to save the changes you make to the current project as you edit. But don't forget to use the other Save options when you need them. Read more
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April 22, 2010
It's All in the Numbers – A Report from the 3D Gaming Summit, Los Angeles
It may be that I’m tuning into 3D more than I ever have, ok of course that's part of it. But every week I see another 3D seminar, workshop, or summit pop up somewhere. This week I attended the 3D Gaming Summit at the Universal Hilton in Los Angeles where the topic was, needless to say, 3D gaming. Several early developers and creators of 3D games and 3D gaming technology were on hand to discuss their philosophies and plans for our 3D future.
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April 15, 2010
Don't Despair Over the Disparities!
One of the products that caught my attention at NAB this week was Panasonic's new 3D camera, the AG-3DA1. This camera, priced for the pro-sumer at $21,000, won't be available until the fall. But it is certainly part of the discussion of how to capture 3D content.
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April 12, 2010
NAB 2010: 3D Lessons Learned
There aren't a lot of people making good looking 3D productions yet, so when some of the best and brightest of the industry talked at NAB about the lessons they've learned making their films, I listened. Here are some tips from Burbank-based 3ality Digital's, Steve Schklair (Founder and CEO, 3ality Digital Systems).
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April 9, 2010
Storytelling with Final Cut Pro Webinar
Yesterday we recorded our live webinar - STORYTELLING WITH FINAL CUT PRO 7. It was a really successful event with over 1,500 people signed up for it. You can find information on how to purchase the archive copy here if you missed it, as well as some of the comments we received. Also, there were lots of questions we didn't get a chance to answer because of time constraints, so we're going to blog about them in the future, since the questions were great and I'm sure other people will benefit from hearing them.
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March 25th, 2010
Author Book Signing
The Book Store is hosting author book signing in Las Vegas at next month's NAB Convention, so if you're going to be there, I'd love to meet you. Come join me and some other great authors at this fun event. All Book Signings are held at the NAB Store in the Central Lobby. Click here for schedule. |
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