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Audio Unit Converter widget for sound editors
As its name suggests, the Audio Unit Converter is a Mac OS X widget useful for converting between a variety of sound units. Probably most useful for sound designers and editors specifically, this little app features the following conversions: Distance …
A Magic Bullet Suite 2007 review
Magic Bullet Suite 2007, including the immensely popular special color effects plugin for Final Cut Pro, has been recently reviewed by Steve Douglas. Magic Bullet Suite includes not only Magic Bullet Looks, but also Magic Bullet Colorista, Magic Bullet Frames, …
CompactFlash card media utility for Sony cameras
The recent Sony HVR-Z7U and HVR-270U cameras both use CompactFlash cards to record HD video. Unfortunately, this technology is currently limited to an invidivual 4GB of storage, as FreshDV notes: One of the issues with the CompactFlash media workflow introduced …
Useful Tools for Editors: FCS Remover (and others)
If you ever have the need to remove Apple’s Final Cut Studio then you can get ready to dig all around your system and trash a lot of stuff. Or you can just grab this little tool from the folks …
Getting quality SD video from your HD Sony EX1
Ken Stone has a useful tutorial for outputting quality standard definition video footage from Sony’s XDCAM EX1 using Final Cut Pro. As is noted, there are still many instances where SD footage is still desired (by clients, for example), but …
Useful Tools for Editors: SupaWipe
If you’ve ever taken an object, animated it across a video frame and then put a wipe under it to create the effect of the object wiping the frame then you know it isn’t a terrible difficult thing to achieve. …
Stop the speculation! Roughly Drafted explains why.
Is Apple Shedding its Final Cut Pro Apps at NAB? — RoughlyDrafted Magazine All talk, discussion, speculation, rumor-mongering, pontificating and blogging about any thought, rumor or idea that any of the big three A’s of post-production will do anything to …
VisualHub encoding application review
You may remember Scott’s fairly recent rant about Apple’s encoding application, Compressor, with its numerous and frustrating error messages and glitches. In his post, Scott recommended several other alternative apps that make appropriate replacements for Compressor, including VisualHub. Despite being …