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A Shining Example of Superb Editing

Not sure if he used FCP or not, but this is one heck of a great piece of editing! Starting only with the existing footage from Kubrick’s classic “The Shining” (link to the actual trailer here), this ingenious editor created a spoof trailer that very effectively depicts the Shining as a light romantic comedy. To [...]
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5 mins, 23 seconds and Not a Single Edit Point to be Found

This gorgeous piece of work from BBH London has been kicking around since last fall, but if you haven’t seen it yet, pour yourself a nice glass of scotch and enjoy some very high-end commercial excellence: There may not be an edit point per se, but there sure is a lot of first rate post-production work [...]
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Everyone does the “Ken Burns,” so why not try the “Jack Cole Effect?”

For our Sunday post, I’m going wildly off-topic, but it’s been a long week and we need a study break. We’ll be back with the usual shortcuts and endless lecturing tomorrow. In the FCP editing world, the term “Ken Burns Effect” has become ubiquitous for the description of the technique of presenting still photo content powerfully [...]
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Follow The Shortcutter on Twitter!

I’m a bit of an old fart who has never really gotten the hang of Twitter, but by golly, I’m going to jump in with the Shortcutter! From now on, I will be posting a link to the day’s shortcut on my Twitter feed, so if you’re tweetingly inclined, you can get a heads-up as [...]
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Time is money.

And a tip o’ the propeller beanie to the Batman Comic Generator.
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Welcome to the FCP Shortcutter!

Today I launch the FCP Shortcutter, a blog that takes a new and unique approach to learning keyboard shortcuts:  a daily focus on just one shortcut at a time. FCP editors who visit this blog daily can assimilate and put into practice just one new key combination per day and we believe that is the [...]
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