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Rayz O Lite – free half-hour course on programming awesome light rays in QC

Learn how to create your very own rays of light for your Final Cut projects!

By 22-02-1989|November 28th, 2007|dvcTV, editing, post visuals|22 Comments|

Nattress releases Big Box of Tricks plugin set!

Nattress Big Box of Tricks includes the existing filters from the discontinued Nattress Set 1 and Set 2, as well as several new filters.
The package consists of eight groups of filters, one group of generators and one group of transitions:

Blurs: These filters give you several different ways to blur your image, or parts of your image. Includes: G [...]

By |March 1st, 2007|digital video news|Comments Off|

Noise Industries FxFactory Pro

FxFactory Pro is first choice for any FxFactory user looking for the richest combination of plug-ins and [...]

By Josh Mellicker|January 5th, 2007|editing|0 Comments|

How do I cut a subject out of the background?

To separate a subject from a background, you can either:

1. shoot in front of a greenscreen/bluescreen, then key out the background in postproduction

You can also key out a background that is much darker or brighter than your subject, but it usually takes a little more work, because often your subject will have pixels that are darker and/or lighter than [...]

By |October 14th, 2006|editing, post visuals|1 Comment|

Apple announces Final Cut Pro 5.1.2

Apple this week at the IBC tradeshow announced an update to its professional video editing application. According to Digit Magazine, the company announced details on an forthcoming update update: Final Cut Pro 5.1.2 will bring support for Motion’s FxPlug plug-ins and more capture formats, enabling Motion’s real-time plug-ins — including those bundled with the application – to be used [...]

By |September 11th, 2006|digital video news|0 Comments|

50 Point Bezier Matte

50 Point Bezier Matte is a filter for Final Cut Pro (and Final Cut Express) that lets you create a garbage matte with up to 50 points. Unlike the 4 and 8 point garbage matte filters that come with Final Cut Pro, 50 Point Bezier Matte lets you create curves between [...]

By |June 24th, 2006|post visuals|2 Comments|

Final Cut Pro plugins

This page and this one have great lists of free Final Cut Pro plugins.Here’s a list of plugins from Toolfarm.Here are some free FCP Transitions and Filters from Graeme Nattress.

Twixtor 4.5 could be the best option for filmlike slow motion

One big difference between video and film is that some film cameras can be cranked up to much higher than 24 frames per second, capturing full frames 75 or 100 times per second, making for perfect, silky-smooth slo-mo.

The only way to approach this effect in video is to interpolate pixels between frames. (Most programs simply dissolve between slower frames [...]

By |December 31st, 2005|digital video news|0 Comments|