Produxion

I’ve had the chance to play with a new filter in FCP called SmoothCam. It’s great, and creates delicious results.

It’s basically a camera stabilisation filter which has been ported from Shake. It processes your footage to create a vector map of all of the objects and movements, then using that data to manipulate the original footage to create smooth camera motion.

I love Nattress Film Effects. I bought this set of Final Cut plugins last year for use on a kookie little DV film project, and they created a really great film look for footage which as shot on a rally cheap Canon camera. What’s so super-duper about them? Well, there are ways to create a (…)

Things got so busy recently that it became time to expand the number of workstations in the office. The G5 Mac I’ve been running for the past few years has been chugging along reliably, but it was causing a bottleneck in our workflow as the only machine which could handle any serious rendering jobs. Plus, (…)

I remember the first time I was able to experience the magic of Final Cut and real-time HDV editing.  It was like a revelation; an epiphany in my editing life.  I didn’t have to think about working in a different way from DV – it just worked the same: same disk usage, same real-time effects (…)