Yesterday Apple released the latest version of Final Cut Studio, which contains over 100 new features. Here’s a rundown of a few of them: Final Cut Pro 7 : Render to multiple formats or devices at once, new ProRes options, improved rendering when resizing clips on timeline Motion 4: 3D shadows and reflections, new filters, [...]
Last week JVC announced the pending release of two new camera models; the GY-HM100 and GY-HM700. But new cameras get released every month, so what’s the big deal with these models? Well, they are the first cameras that record the footage in the QuickTime format…ready to drag and drop from the camera into a Final [...]
One of the common tasks when creating video…especially for the web…is adding special effects like transitions, filters, generated media and things of that sort. And while Final Cut (both Express and Pro) offer a nice suite of built-in special-effects, I usually find myself wanting more. And that means…I usually end up key framing my own [...]
Creating quality green screen effects with digital video is not an easy task. Digital video is comprised of pixels, which cause artifacts or “stair steps” around people or objects used in green screen video. Many video editing applications claim to provide near-perfect green screen effects with just a click of the mouse. In reality, achieving [...]
Every so often these days you’ll see a commercial done in black and white…but where a person or an object appears in color. For example, the commercial will show traffic in New York City with everything black and white. But then, a yellow taxi moves through the scene. In fact, the 1998 film Pleasantville (starring [...]
