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Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: the Ars Technica review: Page 1

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: the Ars Technica review: Page 1:

The heavy geeky Leopard Review

Philadelphia Final Cut Pro UG meeting

Happy Halloween Editors!

The Philadelphia Final Cut Pro User Group will meet on:
Monday, October 29th @ Springboard Media
2212 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103

Call Springboard for Directions if you need them: 215-988-7777
<http://www.springboardmedia.com>

Agenda:
Color Correcting for web - what you need to know.
General Discussion HDV
and of course LEOPARD, LEOPARD, LEOPARD.

RSVP
Please RSVP no later than Sunday Oct. 28th.  Even RSVP to let us know you can't make it!

Other Macintosh Upcoming Events
New York Post Production Conference - Final Cut User Group SuperMeet!  (Contact me for details, as I'll be at the show)
Springboard Media - Leopard Release Party.  From 6-9 PM Friday 26th
PPUG (Philadelphia PowerBook Users Group) will hold their third 2007 meeting on Saturday, November 3, 2007 <http://www.ppug.net/>

P.S. No, you don't have to dress in costume.

Renders disappearing?

Final Cut Pro 6: Rendered items may require re-rendering after opening project

Media Management technotes

Final Cut Pro: Error 12 message when performing Media Manager operation on clip with long file name

Media Manager File Trim" issue resolved by Mac OS X 10.4.10 Update

Final Cut Pro: Media-Managed projects with .stap files may not open on other computers

Template and drop zone headaches

Final Cut Studio 2: Tips for creating and using templates

Final Cut Pro: Drop zone content is lost if project is moved to another computer

Compressor troubleshooting.

Compressor: Troubleshooting basics

Enough people have problems with compressor that I thought this was worth posting.

HD technotes with FCP

Final Cut Pro: Additional RAM may be recommended for High Definition video formats

Compressed HD needs 2 gigs.  Uncompressed 4

Final Cut Pro 6.0.1: About transferring AVCHD footage

AVCHD footage transfers like P2 - through a special version of capture. SD won't work.  Neither with DVD recording AVCHD. It'll be USB 2, and last it'll get transcoded to either AIC or Prores

Final Cut Pro 6.0.1: Incorrect AVCHD clips may be transferred

Long clips 'span' across a number of files (and will likely 'hiccup' with each jump from file to file.)  Make sure you shoot in smaller moments.

Final Cut Pro 6.0.1: HD ProRes 422 capture requires Mac Pro or Power Mac G5 Quad 2.5 Ghz

It seems that if you want to capture directly into Prores, you just need a powerful machine.

Final Cut Pro 6: 1080p24 workflow for Canon HV20 camcorderFinal Cut Pro 6.0.1: Working with spanned AVCHD clips

How to work with Canon's flavor of 24p with this camera.  Have this camera?  Must read.

Speaking at the Chicago FCPUG group.

In Chicago?

I'll be talking at the Chicago Final Cut Pro Users group on Wends night.

Don't Panic - great summary of all the RED stuff out there.

Don't Panic:
"So hey, that RED One camera is in the hands of its first customers, and there has been an explosion of traffic, images, enthusiasm and confusion about it.

Mostly confusion."

From Prolost.

Image editing Redux.

Thought it's only about photoshop?

There's Acorn and Pixelmator.

Jon Whipple compares the two.

Studiodaily asks if Pixelmator supports Alpha Channels

(the answer is yes, but it does some other funky stuff.