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Technique: Exporting Using OMF

Technique: Exporting Using OMFThe great part is that Final Cut and ProTools (and, for that matter, Bias Inc.'s Deck) all work together to make swapping audio files painless. And its done using an interchange format called, 'OMF,' to get it out of Final Cut, then exporting a stereo AIFF out of ProTools to get it back into FCP."

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

shinydv : products - Stock backgrounds

shinydv : products: "Announcing the new Quantum Motion Graphics Collection. This collection gets its inspiration from the wonderful and wacky world of subatomic particles. You can now get 62 high-quality motion graphics backgrounds for about forty cents each.

Each collection is $9.99 each, or you can buy all four collections on one DVD-ROM for $24.99.

Tera Patricks' Mac 360 - " Apple's Final Cut Studio: Oh My Freakin' Gawd! "

Praise for FCP...but a fluff article.

Tera Patricks' Mac 360 - " Apple's Final Cut Studio: Oh My Freakin' Gawd! ": "Apple's Final Cut Studio: Oh My Freakin' Gawd!

Apple made media headlines a few years ago by buying a video editing suite from Macromedia. Then they bought eMagic and the famed Logic audio application. All the pieces have finally arrived in one huge (17 pounds) package in Final Cut Studio. Prepare to be impressed"

(Via http://www.mac360.com/ .)

Macworld: News: Xserve RAID driver update 1.0 released

Macworld: News: Xserve RAID driver update 1.0 released: "All Final Cut Pro users using an Xserve RAID should install the Xserve RAID Driver Update, Apple said in the release notes.

The update reduces I/O WRITE latency by overriding behavior to periodically force the Xserve RAID to write its buffer cache to the hard drives. Lower I/O WRITE latency improves performance during video capture and is required to avoid dropping"

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

Apple - Mac OS X Downloads - Video - CameraMover

Apple - Mac OS X Downloads - Video - CameraMover: "Allows you to create video from a single image by zooming or by moving a camera window over it— as if you owned an expensive animation stand. This type of animation is used in many television productions and is an excellent technique for making high-quality video for the web or your own movie making. CameraMover even allows high-resolution input and output for professional-quality work.

Apple - Mac OS X Downloads - Video - TOKI Shot

Apple - Mac OS X Downloads - Video - TOKI Shot: "A tool for creating shot lists, it can be used for breaking down movies, TV films, documentaries, TV series, etc. It is a tool for picture and sound editors, music editors and musicians."

Apple - Mac OS X Downloads - Video - FootTrack

Apple - Mac OS X Downloads - Video - FootTrack: "An application for Mac OS X that allows you to capture, catalog and then search all your video tapes. Capture your footage directly from your video camera. You can also compress your footage so you can keep many tapes permanently on your hard drive for easy viewing or planning when you are making/planning a movie.

Apple Final Cut Pro Keyboard by WorldTech Devices

Apple Final Cut Pro Keyboard by WorldTech Devices: "USB, Wireless Keyboards, and Keycaps Kit for Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express. Designed with more shortcut commands than any other Final Cut keyboard, our keyboard will help users locate important shortcut commands quickly, and maximize the use of shortcut commands built into the Final Cut program. Includes more than 115 clearly laser-etched Final Cut commands icons. Color keycaps help the user locate commands including Navigation, Editing, Timeline, Tools, Markers, and Miscellaneous."

(Via New Mac OS X Products.)

Five Questions - Mike Vitti

Michael Vitti
Leader, New York City Final Cut User Group
http://www.nycfcpug.com future - http://www.nycfcug.org
email- mikev at nycfcug.org

1) What do you consider your primary role? Do you consider yourself
an editor? A shooter? a Prodcuer?

Long range planning, storytelling goal, marketing

Shooter, editor and producer in that order


2) What sort of projects do you normally work on?

Currently corporate communications, traditionally, narrative & documentary



3) What is the biggest feature and biggest headache with the pro apps?

interconnectedness, since you cannot expect any one app to do everything a project may require, app do not communicate with each other in the most productive ways.



4) What's the most exciting thing you think the next year will bring?

new format that really is visually oriented.



5) What one piece of advice would you liked to have given yourself 5
years ago?

save your money, be a librarian or a research scientist.

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