LAST WEEK'S WEBINAR:
COOL, BUT WEIRD, MOTION 5 EFFECTS

Apple updated Final Cut Pro X last week and my email lit up with questions.

So, I went digging for more details. This article details what I learned, as well as my thoughts on the update.

(Remember, all FCP X updates are free and available through the Mac App Store.)

Read my commentary here.

Earlier this month I was hired by a cable network to help their editorial team get up to speed on Adobe Premiere Pro CC.

During our conversation, they asked a number of questions that I couldn't answer. So, I bounced them up to Adobe.

This article is a summary of what I learned.

Promise Technology has released their smallest RAID yet - the Pegasus 2 M4 RAID.

In this review, I take a close look at the unit and let you know how well it works.

There's a lot to like in what I see here.

I released the first version of this review last week.

Except, I realized that I forgot to include a bunch of useful stuff - like how it does for multicam editing, and how important speed really is.

With the review I published today covering the Promise Pegasus2 M4, now, you have a good way to compare the two units.  And the comparison should be on more than just speed.

In this short video excerpt from last week's Motion 5 webinar, I show you how to motion track a graphical object in Motion 5.

Motion tracking is the process of taking an image in one clip - say, text - and moving it in sync with something - say, the side of a truck - in another image.

When I first learned Motion, I thought the Throw behavior was the coolest thing.

I mean, Motion Paths are nice, but hardly exciting.

Boy, was I wrong! In this short video tutorial, I illustrate a whole lot of very interesting things we can do with Motion Paths that I didn't know till last week.

Best of all, these are easy to do.

In this short video excerpt from last week's Motion 5 webinar, I show something I haven't worked with before now: image masks.

Now, at first blush, an image mask hides a portion of an image with another image. Interesting, perhaps, but not very exciting.

Except... the image masks in Motion allows you to combine images, masks and textures in ways you can't imagine that create some stunning effects.

Here are the most popular articles, webinars, and audio interviews for the past seven days across all my websites.

Articles

This list expanded to the Top 4 to add some variety:

• CAUTION! SSD Drives and Yosemite
• Why Should Final Cut Pro 7 Editors Consider Adobe Premiere Pro CC?
• FCP X: When to Use Optimized, Proxy or Camera Native Media
• Why Should Final Cut Pro 7 Editors Consider Final Cut Pro X?

For an index of all our articles, visit here.

 

Webinars

• #141: Advanced Color Correction in FCP X
• #140: Audio in Final Cut Pro X
• #73: Audio Filters and Editing in FCP X

This list is based on the webinars watched most often by our monthly subscribers. For a list of all our webinars, visit here.

 

Digital Production Buzz Audio Interviews   

• David Colantuoni: News and Insight from Avid
• Larry O'Connor: Problems Between Yosemite and SSD Drives
• Robert Neivert: Net Neutrality, Individual Privacy and the Web

For a list of all Buzz audio interviews, click here. 

Apple continues to update Compressor with an all new interface, improved compression settings and better monitoring. This application has some much new stuff inside that we went back and re-did all our training for the new version.

• Better organized
• More informative
• Tighter focus on making your images look great.

These days, everything we do ends up on the web.
Which means that if we don't know how to compress our video to make it look good, all our work during production and post is wasted.

In this in-depth video training, Larry Jordan shows you how to make the most of Apple Compressor 4.1.x.

Whether you are a new or experienced, this training will help you make your media look and sound great!

Larry Jordan

Larry Jordan & Associates

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