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March 2008

Mar 26, 2008

Apple - Support - Downloads - Plugin Manager 1.7.3

This update improves reliability for Apple's professional applications and is recommended for all users of Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Express, Aperture, Logic Studio and related SDKs.

[From Apple - Support - Downloads - Plugin Manager 1.7.3]

Mar 24, 2008

Philly UG meeting - Wends Mar 26th

Wednesday Night - Philadelphia Final Cut Pro User Group Meeting.

6:30 Stump the Chumps (bring your problems)7:00 meeting starts.
On our Agenda:
Pre NAB Discussion (Who is going? What do you think Apple will be doing? What do you want to know about?)
Plugin Talk (What plugins do you use every day?)
A Close Look at Either Red Giant or Noise Industries (still to be determined)
....and the infamous much much more!

Of course, we can't do it without you...
Where?
Springboard Media
2212 Walnut St
Philadelphia, PA 19103
(215) 988-7777
6:30 pm, Wednesday, March 26th.

Usual raffle and $5 suggested donation.
RSVP only if you're attending before Tues. March 25th to jeffg at philafcpug dot com

Mar 15, 2008

Videospec

Something to add to your toolbox. Videospec allows you to analyze a QT file via a drag and drop analysis. (You could probably also do this via QT Pro)

VideoSpec is an AppleScript studio App making use of MPlayer, FFmpeg and MediaInfo CLI binaries to display informations on video files. The lastest version (v. 0.6.0) has been tested on Mac OS X Tiger (untested in Leopard) and is compatible with PowerPC and Intel Mac (Universal Binary).

[From index_intl]

Mar 14, 2008

Scene Detector

Frank Capria mentioned the After Effects Scene Detector -

John brought to my attention the Final Cut Scene detector. (Thanks John!) Way too cool!

Why is this useful? If you've ever had to perform color correction on a finished item, this tool saves you from having to find each edit. You do a little round trip dance with the clip (send it out with some XML, bring the XML back....and have markers).

Now, you're ready to use the 3 way color corrector, Colorista, or even Apple's Color.

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Scene Detector is advanced utility for automatic detection of scene boundaries in a movie. Scene detection is performed using only frame image data, no timecode or audio metadata is used.


It opens Final Cut project file (exported in XML format), asks user what clip to detect scenes in, and exports project file (in XML format) with markers added at scene boundaries. User has to import the XML it outputs back into Final Cut. The clip file is not changed during this operation, so it can reside on read-only device.
Current version of the product is 1.1.
[From Scene Detector | Contacting us]

Mar 08, 2008

dvGarage - Training and Tools for the Next Generation

dvGarage announced that dvMatte Pro 3.0 Studio, the newest version of the company’s powerful chromakeying software, is now available for Apple Final Cut Pro 5.1.2 and Apple Motion 2 or higher. Conduit (the node based compositor) was updated too.

[From dvGarage - Training and Tools for the Next Generation]

O'Reilly -- Exporting QuickTime Movies with Simple Video Out X

How to export QuickTime video directly to a VCR or DVD recorder without going through iMovie or Final Cut

[From O'Reilly -- Exporting QuickTime Movies with Simple Video Out X]

Mar 07, 2008

Squared 5 - MPEG Streamclip video converter for Mac and Windows

MpegStreamClip - that open source swiss army knife has been updated.

[From Squared 5 - MPEG Streamclip video converter for Mac and Windows]

Mar 06, 2008

Digital Heaven - The Hottest Tools for the Coolest Apps

Updated for 10.5.2

VideoSpace is a free widget for Mac OS X Tiger (or later) which calculates the disk space required for a given duration, codec, frame rate and audio setting. It works in both directions so you can calculate time to space or space to time as indicated by the direction of the arrow between the two input areas.

[From Digital Heaven - The Hottest Tools for the Coolest Apps]

Mar 02, 2008

List of QuickTime downloads - Digital Rebellion

Jon Chappell of Digital Rebellion has all of your quicktime versions (old ones too) lying around just in case you need to downgrade. They're also on Final Cut User

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