FCPX plug-ins maker Pixel Film Studios recently released FCPX Storyboard: Corporate, adding to FCPX’s native storyboarding feature. The plug-in adds storyboarding characters suitable for corporate assignments, more appropriate shot types such as over-the-shoulder as well as indoor and outdoor scene elements.[adrotate group="6"] Storyboards created by…
Australian-born plug-in developer CoreMelt recently updated what many moviemakers consider to be the best stabilization plug-in, Lock & Load. This latest version is 30 percent faster, up to 3 times speedier than FCPX’s native stabilization and now has rolling shutter presets for 29 cameras.[adrotate group="6"]…
The surest test of any moviemaking software or hardware product is in using it throughout the making of a major motion picture. Final Cut Pro X was put to the test doing exactly that in the latest Will Smith star vehicle, Focus, and Apple’s sometimes…
Compressor now offers Terminator/SkyNet-level computing in the form of a render farm: the ability to harness the power of multiple networked computers – not just drives – to parallelize CPU-intensive tasks. Yeah, OK: maybe not exactly SkyNet. Yet.[adrotate group="6"] Hawaii filmmaker and planet5D reader Jeff…
FCPX plug-in maker CrumplePop is offering a $120 discount right now on the Koji DSLR film emulation LUTs designed by Dale Grahn, acclaimed colorist for Steven Spielberg amongst many other Hollywood greats.[adrotate group="6"] That’s $79 off the usual price of $199 for this set of…
You may be familiar with kaizen, the Japanese practice of continuous improvement. You may be less familiar with its origins as an American concept brought to Japan after WW II by, among others, W. Edwards Demming. [adrotate group="6"] No matter its origin or current chief…
Ever wonder what it is like to watch a professional editor edit footage he's never seen before? Dave Dugdale conned Chris Fenwick to do some editing [adrotate group="6"] for him at NAB and filmed the entire event (yes Chris obviously knew he was being filmed…
[adrotate group="6"]Apple has finally released their promised 10.1 upgrade to Final Cut Pro X (FCPX) and surprisingly, the upgrade (assuming you already own it that is) is free! If you haven't purchased FCPX, now's the time to give it a try (that's me plugging my…
For FCPX (and many other apps) under the new Apple OS X Mavericks, apps will by default, attempt to save processing for foreground apps by doing something new called "App Nap" - and that will cause background rendering to STOP unless you turn it off.…
Chase Reggee sent us a copy of this note this morning... Technicolor has just announced their recently launched color grading product (that competed with Red Giant's Magic Bullet Looks) has suddenly been shut down and will no longer be supported (as of Sept 30) nor…
