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Author Archives: Shortcutter
Copy Color Corrector Filters to Other Clips With Ease
When you are working with the 3-Way Color Corrector (as well you should be), you will find that once you have corrrected the color for a particular clip, that same correction will likely work for all the other clips on your timeline that were shot with the same camera in the session (unless the camera [...]
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Creating a New Project Shortcut Should Be Easy to Remember
Here’s a super-basic Saturday shortcut: creat a new project by hitting SHIFT CMD N
Now a dedicated Mac shortcut user might recognize that this is the same shortcut that creates a new folder in the Mac Finder, so this should be pretty easy to remember.
If you are a Mac user who does not use SHIFT CMD [...]
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Setting a “Poster Frame” for Clips and Why You Would Want To
There’s a neat functionality in the Browser that allows you to see “thumbnails” (“poster frames”) for each clip in your Browser and it has a very cool scrubbing feature to boot. To enable this, right-click on any Browser column header and toggle on the “Thumbnails” column and you will now see the thumbnails. Pretty cool, [...]
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A Modest Browser Nicety For Log & Cap Tasks
Depending on your personal preferences, today’s simple shortcut might be worth remembering for whenever you are ingesting content. When you begin a log and cap or log and transfer operation, hit OPT B to set up the “logging” Browser column layout:
This will arrange the columns with the most useful information to the far left side [...]
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The Sweet “Log Clip” Workflow [UPDATED]
In another post, I talked about using SHIFT C to “capture now” and I discussed the scenarios where that was appropriate. I also alluded to the fact that, if you have lots of “takes” or repetitive material where you will only actually need to ingest some of the footage, you might prefer to “log” clips [...]
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Access Log & Capture or Log & Transfer
Following on with yesterday’s post about using SHIFT C to “capture now,” it’s worthwhile to review the commands for initiating a tape or solid state media capture. Whenever you have to initiate a Log and Capture from a tape deck or attached video camera in FCP, simply hit CMD 8:
Just add SHIFT for Log and [...]
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Make “Capture Now” Just a Little More “Now”
If you cap a lot of tapes (and I still do), perhaps, like me, you often simply start the tape rolling and hit “Capture Now” to ingest everything and you sort out the bodies later in the Browser. This is especially useful when capping tapes that are comprised of many clips due to broken timecode.
Capture [...]
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Toggle Range Check
When you’re finishing an edit it’s important to make sure that your luminance levels are “legal.” This ensures that your brightest whites won’t be “hot” and cause problems in a broadcast scenario (and that really applies to any video that might be shown on a consumer TV even if it’s not being broadcast per se).
Most [...]
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A Nearly Archaic Shortcut?
Post production guru, commentator and all-around nice guy Philip Hodgetts recently declared in his excellent blog that “tape is dead” (or, more accurately, he said “deadish” but he promised that it was getting deader all the time). Although I have lots of work that still comes in on tape (I get DVCAM and HDV from [...]
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Copy All Filters From One Clip Back or To The Next Clip