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Article: Simplifying Your On-Lining

Article: Simplifying Your On-Lining: "Techniques: Tips for Successful On-lining"

Good article on workflow tips for painless online/finishing.

(Via http://www.larryjordan.biz .)

Spymac :: World :: Magazine

Cheap video hosting with minimal bandwidth cost: "MPEG NATION brings broadband streaming video service to the masses 03/30/2005 13:35 | Judy Westcott

Digital Silo, Inc. has launched MPEG NATION, a 'one-price-fits-all solution' for placing video in blogs, auctions, personal and corporate websites.

The new service supports Microsoft Windows Media, RealNetwork's RealPlayer and Apple's QuickTime video formats.

A one to sixty minute video uploaded to MPEG NATION, encoded into Microsoft Window's Media Format (150k, 300k & 700k), costs just $4.95 including unlimited streaming (viewing) bandwidth and storage for six months."

(Via http://www.spymac.com .)

Hidden Tricks in iDVD 5

Hidden Tricks in iDVD 5: "Hidden Tricks in iDVD 5"

(Via http://www.presentationmaster.com .)

SATA Raid, HDV editing in FCP

Two Works In Progress - Pt.1 - HDV Editing With FCP HD. Roll Your Own SATA Raid

Good article over at LAFCPUG aobut editing.

'The questions are still basic to the HDV transition, though, are how do we edit, how do we monitor and how do we deliver? Are we going to shoot and edit HDV and then present a broadcaster a mini-dv tape and say, "Here's my documentary in HD." How do we edit in FCP considering that Sony, Canopus and Pinnacle already offer native HDV editing on the PC side?'

Neat article on using Panasonic Varicam in FCP

Workflow With Panasonic HD and Final Cut Pro HD

Andrew Balis goes over the setup/headaches in working with a Panasonic Varicam Camera.

From http://www.kenstone.net

Clean titles with 'Title Cleaner'

While working with subtitles there are normally some "favorite" errors, like multiple spaces or "extra" ones at the beginning or the end of a line, also additional returns may occur. TitleCleaner can be used to quickly clean titles from Final Cut Pro sequence XML, eliminating duplicate/extra spaces, additional carriage returns, and more. An “auto check spelling” of titles allows to find bad spellings very fast even in a huge amount of titles.
TitleCleaner automates the tasks with a few clicks and also allows users to perform a custom "Find/Replace" within the text of the generators in the XML as well as batch renaming of clips based on the titles themselve.

Pricing and Availability
The software requires a Macintosh computer running Mac OS 10.3.x and above and Apple Final Cut Pro 4.1 and above. The current version is available "as is" for 15 EUR per license/computer. All licenses come with a one year suscription for standard updates and free tech support.
A fully functional 30 day trial version is available at http://www.spherico.com/filmtools/TitleCleaner
Cost? 15 EUR

The iPOD and HD - A New Use for a New Technology

The iPOD and HD

Want to try something different? Blackmagic did.

'The testers filled it up with 9GBs of HD video and checked out the data rate. The iPOD played back HD footage for 24 hours without a single dropped frame'

Free plugins!

Free Plugins

Some very cool plugins for free at Graham Nattress's site.

Get 'em while they're hot!

G Man Video Background Review (stock footage)

Review - G Man Video - Animations

G Man Video
Quicktime Looping Video Sets - $49.99 on CD or DVD
Clips can be bought individually for between 3 and 10 dollars
downloaded directly from the site using pay pal.

Review By Steve Douglas

Apple - Pro/Video - multi-stage Bonnaroo festival

Apple - Pro/Video - Jesse Rosen, p. 1: "Normally, it’s out of reach for small production companies to do such a large-scale, multi-camera project with high HD production values on a budget like that. But Final Cut Pro allowed them to do the entire post-production in-house"