finalcutpronews

WMV-9 Component - Video

WMV-9 Component - Video: "About WMV-9 Component Lets you import, view, and export WMV-9 files with QuickTime. It support export to any file format that QuickTime supports and WMV-9 Component 2.0 also runs on both PPC and x86 Macintosh computers.

The evaluation version has no limits in regards to import and viewing of VMW-9 files, making it the first Windows Media plug-in for QuickTime that runs on both x86 and PPC hardware."

w

MacBook Pro Benchmarks: Final Cut Studio 5.1

MacBook Pro Benchmarks: Final Cut Studio 5.1: "Conclusions When I set off to benchmark the MacBook Pro, the question I wanted answered was how close the MacBook Pro could come to matching the performance of a common G5 tower. That it matched or exceeded the performance of the G5 in the vast majority of tests was quite surprising to me. Even though the MacBook is rated slightly higher in GHz than the G5, it does use a mobile chip, which you wouldn't expect to match the chip in a desktop system. Plus FInal Cut Studio has been in development on the PowerPC platform for five generations, whereas the Universal Binary release is just in its first incarnation."

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

Final Cut Pro 5 technotes

Final Cut Pro 5: Color artifacts with the QuickTime > Sharpen filter: "In Final Cut Pro 5.1, the QuickTime variant of the Sharpen filter may produce undesired coloring artifacts when used with images or video clips that contain an alpha channel. This only happens on Intel-based Macs. "

Final Cut Pro: "File Error: A file of this name already exists": "When exporting a sequence from Final Cut Pro using Compressor, you might encounter an error message which says:

'File Error: A file of this name already exists.'

This can occur if certain anti-virus software is installed and active on your computer. To prevent this from occurring, try these steps:

1. Save your work and quit Final Cut Pro.
2. Disable or remove your anti-virus software (consult manufacturer for details).
3. Open Final Cut Pro and try the export to Compressor again."

Final Cut Pro: Unexpected timecode breaks encountered with Batch Capture: "In some instances, while batch capturing sequence clips, this alert message may appear:

Batch capture encountered timecode breaks in sequence items. To protect your edits, these clips were left offline and not divided into separate clips.

This dialog usually indicates that Final Cut Pro encountered non-sequential timecode when attempting to capture a clip. The timecode break might have been in the clip itself, in the requested media handle sections, or in the pre-roll segment of the tape leading up to the clip."

Final Cut Pro: Dual mono audio channels in HDV clip appear as stereo when sent to Soundtrack Pro: "An HDV clip captured as dual mono and sent from Final Cut Pro to Soundtrack Pro may have the wrong audio channel assignments. Rather than two independent mono tracks, the clip appears to have a single stereo track, with the first channel duplicated to both sides of the stereo track.

Mossberg on Boot Camp

Personal Technology -- Personal Technology from The Wall Street Journal.: "Yesterday, Apple took a historic, and potentially huge, step to remove that obstacle to switching. It introduced free software that makes it easy to install and run Windows on the latest Mac models as a complement to the Mac operating system. With this new software, called Boot Camp, you can turn your Mac into a fast, full-fledged Windows computer for those occasions when you must run a Windows program. That makes the iMac, the Mac Mini and the MacBook Pro laptop the only computers in the world that allow mainstream users to run both operating systems at full speed."

Meeting

Philadelphia FCP UG Meeting

A pre NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) discussion.

	Are going going to make it to Vegas this year?
	Is there something you want to hear about from Vegas?

	If you're going, we're giving away a day at Post Production World.
	If you're not going we're giving away a Class at Future Media Concepts.

Either way, you have a chance to be a winner.

Oh yeah, and there's that Intel Universal Binary FCP stuff, Mac Books Pro and more!

Where:

Springboard Media

2212 Walnut St. Philadelphia, PA 19103

Ph 215.988.777

When:
Wends, April 19th, 6:30 pm.

Map

Please RSVP ONLY if you can make it.

Musicbed DV and Season One - Video

Musicbed DV and Season One - Video: "About Musicbed DV and Season One Musicbed DV is an easy-to-use music customization application designed for visual media professionals. Season One is a cinematic stock music library encoded for customizability. "

BetaNews | Final Cut for Mac Goes Universal

BetaNews | Final Cut for Mac Goes Universal: "Apple announced Thursday that it had begun shipping Final Cut Studio 5.1, the first version of its video production suite to ship as a Universal Binary. The announcement follows February's release of Logic Pro 7.2 as a Universal application, and will be followed in April by Aperture 1.1, the company's photo editing tool. According to benchmarks by Apple, the new version runs up to two and a half times faster on MacBook Pro laptops."

(Via www.betanews.com .)