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New Useful Tool for FxFactory: PulpFx Abstract
Recently FxFactory added the PHYX keyer to the FxFactory tool box and now comes another, PulpFx Abstract. While PHYX is a tool aimed at higher end production with several nice green screen keying tools, PulpFx Abstract hits a different post-production …
Hand Held Hollywood–Keeping Track of iPhone Production Apps
It was at some point early last summer when I finally abandoned an idea I had been working on for several months. I had taken a page of a WordPress blog and was attempting to catalog all of the iPhone …
Useful Tools for Editors: Final Cut Assistant
There are several utilities out there, designed to help with your Final Cut Pro install, that will back up user data, reset cache files and help with other system maintenance issues. A new one that I saw mentioned via Twitter is …
Useful Plug-In for FCP Editors: MyMusicSource
Hot on the heels of the YouSendIt plug-in for Final Cut Pro comes another FCP option. BorisFX, creator of effects software and plug-ins, has partnered with MyMusicSource on a plug-in that allows direct access and importing of tracks from the …
New Useful Tool for FxFactory Users: PHYX
Noise Industries recently added a new partner to their developer program called PHYX. Their first partnered release is the PHYX Keyer, a $199, five-plug-in package that appears to try and simplify the keying process, while still providing a lot of …
Useful Tools for FCP Editors: YouSendIt Plug-In
Do you use YouSendIt? For those who haven’t, it’s a file sharing service that allows the user to send, receive and track files up to 2 gigs in size. You can upload a single file for pickup or use a …
Useful Service for Editors: Dropbox
Dropbox is an online, “cloud-based” file storage, sharing, backup and synchronization service that works with Macs, PCs, the iPhone and even Linux. Online storage options like Dropbox aren’t new and there are plenty of them out there. But since I’ve …
Useful tools for PAL editors: 5DtoFCP
Idiot proof. Those are two words that I often like to hear when it comes to doing a technical operation that has to be repeated over and over. Often one can become lazy with repeated tasks and not check proper …
Sorenson Squeeze 6: a whole new Squeeze
Those video encoding stalwarts over at Sorenson today announced the availability of Squeeze 6. It looks to be a whole new product from the ground up. There’s a newer interface, faster encoding, better H.264 quality (yep, the actual Sorenson codec …
Useful tools for editors: GridIron Flow
This looks like a very interesting application … GridIron Flow is what the developers call the “world’s first Visual Workflow Manager.” From the GridIron website: Flow gives you a total understanding of your project, visually and intuitively. In one simple …