Category Archive: Tutorials

These are embedded links to tutorials.

Apr
13

It’s Here!

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Well unless you use FCP and live under a rock, you know that FCP X was announced yesterday evening at the Supermeet at NAB.   I culled through lots of the posts and comments and I must say it looks quite interesting.   Here are the videos that have been posted from the event: Part …

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Feb
07

Compression Charts

In addition to the shortcut sheets I also found these charts on Audio and Video Compression. Like the keyboard shortcuts, these were compiled by Zac Ray.  If you are a visitor of the Apple Discussion Forum for Final Cut Pro you will find that Zac is a frequent contributor. I uploaded all of his compression …

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Jan
21

Final Cut Pro Shortcuts

I found a number of great shortcut sheets on the web.  These were compiled by Zac Ray.  If you are a visitor of the Apple Discussion Forum for Final Cut Pro you will find that Zac is a frequent contributor.  I uploaded his shortcut sheets and they are available for download.  Here are the various …

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Apr
15

Next FCP “Awesome?”

So lately in case you don’t follow a lot of blogs, Steve Jobs has been pretty vocal when it comes to his email. He’s replied to critics that emailed him about policies and now he has responded about what is going on with Final Cut Pro. The Unofficial Apple Weblog has this story where Steve …

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Apr
05

Get the Grand Perspective of your system’s hard drive!

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This is a brief writeup of a nifty little Mac utility that I use quite often.  In my previous engineering days, I spent most of my time on a Linux OS system.  One of the utilities built into that OS (using KDE Desktop for those geek inclined) is that their file manager had a built …

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Mar
01

Bitrate Pro – A Free Mac App for calculating Data Rate, File Size or Duration

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As a compliment to last weeks post on the AJA Data Rate calculator for the iPhone, we are going to talk this week about a free Mac app that accomplishes the same thing for your desktop. If you go to Daniel Pimley’s Projects you will find his application called Bitrate Pro. Bitrate Pro is a desktop calculator for figuring out either the Data Rate, File Size or Duration of a movie file given two of the three parameters.

Feb
25

Increase The Number of Undos in FCP

Ever wanted just one more CMD-Z? Well, here’s how to get it.

Feb
21

iPhone tools: AJA DataCalc

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Do you need to determine storage requirements for video projects? There’s an app for that!

Feb
19

Plug-In Meeting Presentations – 2/18/10

Here are the presentations from Thursdays AZFCPUG meeting. They have been broken into 10 min or less parts so that we could upload them on to UTube. If you click on the expand symbol on the bottom right corner they will expand to fill your screen for better viewing. Wes Plate – Automatic Duck – …

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Feb
11

Motion Tutorial – Lighting in 3D

Here is a tutorial on lighting in 3D using Motion 3