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  • Tip from FCPDaily – Playback Unrendered Video

    Tip from FCPDaily – Playback Unrendered Video

    Here’s a great tip from the folks over at FCPDaily.com. So you’ve got a big render and you want to preview some of the motion you just keyframed… There is a way to watch all the frames of video (even those that are unrendered) without having...

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  • Final Cut Pro Close Gap Feature

    Final Cut Pro Close Gap Feature

    Every editor, famous or not, has a few features they really like in FCP. I use one on occasion as I move clips around in a sequence. As I move clips around, I end up spaces between each of the clips. Not a big deal,...

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  • Credits – FCP, Boris Title Crawl and

    Credits – FCP, Boris Title Crawl and

    I don’t go to the movies very often. With three kids on a single income, its often hard to come up with cash to cover the tickets and the treats. But, when I go, I really like to watch the credits. Sometimes I wonder what...

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  • Editing a DVD – A Tough Edit

    Editing a DVD – A Tough Edit

    I had the privilege over this last weekend to edit a video. It wasn’t the normal editing (like there is anything normal about editing video) that I usually do. Normally, I mount my HDV camera to my Macbook Pro, start up Final Cut Pro, make...

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  • Video Is Not 72 Dots Per Inch

    Video Is Not 72 Dots Per Inch

    Taken in part from the Final Cut Studio 3 Help system: There are many things to struggle with in the video world.  One item that, for one reason or another, has been difficult for me to wrap my mind around is how to prepare images...

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