digital creation
Final Cut Pro 5 – with one of these, please!
The Siemens experts at the Remote Expert Center for Power Plants in Karlsruhe, Germany, has some NASTY monitors! Wow! Imagine Final Cut Pro 5 on that one! (Via Mike’s list) (Siemens press picture).
Two new Automator gems
First there’s the “Add spotlight tags” from Adam Rice. There’s no download, you make it yourself in Automator. Save it as a plugin in Finder, for right-click tagging. Next time you download a file, choose it in Finder, ctrl-click it and choose Automator>Add spotlight tags. Let’s say you’re working with a project, and the file [...]
Using iChat AV when editing
According to sources who saw the Apple FCP5 demo at NAB, iChat AV will be able to show what you play in FCP while videochatting. What a great feature! If your boss or client is somewhere else, you can use iChat AV to show your progress to him/her.
ProTools 6.9 out
Version 6.9 of DigiDesign ProTools is out. And I’m using the occasion to ask: Why isn’t it possible to see several graphs for a track at the same time in ProTools? I must have mailed DigiDesign this feature wish 20 times the last 10 years. If you’re looking at a volume graph in ProTools, you [...]
What I hope for in Final Cut Pro 5.0
Everything points to a new version of Final Cut Pro at NAB, starting 16th of April. I will eat this post if Final Cut Pro is the “latest version announced” the day after NAB, 22nd of April. Here’s what I would like to see in FCP 5.0:
Final Cut pro feature wish #1
One of my top wishes for Final Cut Pro 5, is a check box somewhere at the import files dialog box. This checkbox would say “Move to Capture scrath before importing”. With it checked, Final Cut would move the file you are about to import, from wherever it is located, to the current Capture scratch [...]
Final Cut Pro – the Larry way
The March 2005 Larry Jordan’s Final Cut Pro HD Newsletter is out. You can subscribe to the newsletter at Larry’s site too.
