We all know how tough it is to get smooth pans and zooms on stills and video in Final Cut Pro. Well now thanks to FxFactory you can download their free plugin and achieve those Ken Burns effects you’ve always wished for. Check out their site and demos and then download for free. Only runs on Leopard and FCP 6 and Motion 3. Time to upgrade!
Entries from October 2008
Free Pan and Zoom plugin for FCP
October 30, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Categories: Cool Stuff · final cut pro · motion
Tagged: effects pan, fcp, ken burns, plug-ins, zoom
Artbeats – RED Footage
October 23, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Need stock shots for your RED project. Now you can find them through Artbeats. Currently there are 355 clips available for purchase in either 2K, 3K, 4K and/or Raw format. Lots or scenic shots. Prices range from $299 to $399 per clip. Go get ‘em!
Categories: Content · Cool Stuff
Tagged: 4K, fcp, footage, HD, red, stock
All About Video Fields
October 16, 2008 · 1 Comment
Not the fields full of grass but the other kind, as in 60 of them per second.
Categories: Cool Stuff · Resources
Tagged: 3:2 pulldown, fields, interlaced, progressive
Digital Heaven announces Loader
October 16, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Here’s a cool little app from Digital Heaven the same people that brought you those free grid generators as well as many other useful plugins
Loader makes it easy to bring in music, sound effects and graphic files to your open Final Cut Pro projects. It converts mp3s to aif for you and places the clip into your choice of open FCP project. Take a look here…
Categories: Cool Stuff · final cut pro
Tagged: Cool Stuff, digital heaven, fcp
BIG MILK by Americanvirus
October 11, 2008 · Leave a Comment
An interesting video by someone I follow on Twitter. We exchanged tweets about FCP in the past and I’ve offered some tips to him. Very creative and quite disturbing too. All shot with a digital SLR. Take a look!
Categories: Content · Cool Stuff · final cut pro
Tagged: digital, fcp, stop motion, vimeo
VisualHub: We hardly knew yah!
October 3, 2008 · Leave a Comment
It was just a week and a half ago I lauded VisualHub for it being the one piece of conversion software able to handle some asf files I had to convert. Well, looks like I might need to find another resource….
“..After much soul-searching (it’s not you, it’s me), for personal reasons, Techspansion is closing its virtual doors.:
Categories: Compression · Cool Stuff · Resources
Tagged: asf, Compression, ipod, tools
ProLost: What Should Adobe Do With Premiere Pro?
October 1, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Interesting post that caught my attention, not because of Adobe Premiere but because it talks about the perceptions of finishing on high end systems like Flame and Smoke. It can be said producers and creatives believe the more expensive a room and operator the better it/he/she must be at “finishing”.
Categories: final cut pro
Tagged: adobe, autodesk, finishing, flame, premiere, smoke
