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Monthly Archives: April 2010
Scope Out the Scopes & Memorize All the FCP Tools
Bring up the all-important Video Scopes with OPT 9
The scopes are a critical tool for use with any kind of serious color correction work and I believe should, along with the Three Way Color Corrector, be used with every project that leaves your shop. Not cutting for broadcast, you say? Well, if your work will [...]
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Using the Frame Viewer
Let’s continue our examination of the Tools menu with a brief discussion of the Frame Viewer, which is accessed by hitting OPT 7
The Frame Viewer opens over the Viewer by default and if you’ve never played around with this interesting tool, you should today. You are probably at least aware that it allows you to [...]
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The Audio Mixer’s Secret Weapon
If you’re not using the Audio Mixer, you should be. Bring it up with OPT 6 and let’s talk about it a bit.
You are probably aware that the Audio Mixer gives you separate controls for each track of audio in your timeline, can be controlled by a peripheral “control surface” and offers a great way [...]
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How I Use the VO Tool
The Voice Over Tool is accessed with the shortcut OPT 0 (that’s a zero):
Now the VO Tool is a pretty nifty thing to be sure (I love the levels meter, input options and queueing features), but, given the fact that I could not seriously record clean a VO track in my editing bay with my [...]
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The Artistry of Shortcut User Francisco Campos-Lopez
Chilean-born Filmmaker Francisco Campos-Lopez has been shooting and editing video since early childhood and has racked up quite a few achievements both in Latin America (where he formed his own production company in Argentina) and in New York where his fim Acassis won “Best Thriller” at the New York International Independent Film Festival in 2007. He [...]
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Get to Those Sequence Settings Fast
Here’s a relatively easy, but essential shortcut for a Saturday: CMD 0 (that’s a zero) to open the Sequence Settings window:
This one’s so basic that I and a couple of my regular FCP colleagues actually say “could you ‘command zero that’ for me so we can check the codec?” Since FCP 6 came out and the [...]
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Live the SHIFT-Q Lifestyle (and our first “Goodies” Giveaway)
Consider the lowly SHIFT Q shortcut:
You probably know that it brings up the System Settings panel. Big deal, right?
Well, it really is a big deal to me and it’s the first command I hit every single time I open Final Cut Pro. In fact, using the System Settings panel effectively is, for me at least, one [...]
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Become an Audio Levels Keyframing Ninja