Category Archives: Final Cut

Final Cut Pro

Time-Stretch with After Effects

Final Cut Pro X and Adobe Premiere CS 6 both offer modern time remapping tools, but those of you still using Final Cut Pro 7 may find the included speed adjustment tool a bit lacking in quality. Users looking to slow down or speed up a clip in FCP7 will often change the speed of [...]

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Improving so-so footage with Color Correction and Film Grain in Final Cut

In this tutorial, I will use Final Cut Pro 7 to transform footage from not so pro cameras into more professional (IE Hollywood style) movies.   Not everyone has access to one of those awesome thousand dollar video cameras, so for anyone who only has a video camera good for everyday footage, there is Final [...]

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Eye reflections in Final Cut

Written by Austin Powers Assuming you have some basic experience with Final Cut, such as adding and adjusting filters, here you’ll learn how to create a simple yet effective eye reflection effect that just might launch your film career. Or at least make your mother proud. We’ll start with two clips: a close-up shot of [...]

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How to Use Multi-Clip for your Music Videos on Final Cut Pro

Written by Hanna Metaferia Ever see music videos that have multiple shots running on the screen in sections, playing different video clips at the same time? It’s called Multiclip; this great special effect can be used for music videos, or any other film-project of yours on Final Cut Pro 7. The first step is to [...]

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Basic Keying in Final Cut Pro

Written by Billy Baumgartner Although Final Cut Pro is not as powerful (and wasn’t designed to be) in the composite realm as software like Adobe After Effects, most filmmakers can achieve the basic result they desire using filters within Final Cut. This avoids messy exporting and outsourcing to the other slower programs, and saving valuable [...]

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Split Screen in Final Cut

Written by MPS Consultant Erica Duh – for more help with this topic, visit Erica at the MPS during her scheduled hours, visible on our Live Schedule. If you have ever seen split screen projects completed in Final Cut Pro you know it’s a great way to format any montage video projects into something more [...]

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A Primer on Scratch Disks in Final Cut Pro

Written by MPS Consultant Andrew O’Rourke – for more help with this topic, visit Andrew at the MPS during his scheduled hours, visible on our Live Schedule. What is a scratch disk? A scratch disk is where Final Cut stores all the assets and generated content for a project.  You can spread different asset classes across multiple [...]

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Importing Flip Video footage into Final Cut Pro

Learn how to edit footage taken on a Flip in Final Cut Pro.

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HD video export tutorial: Compressor 3 to Vimeo

Vimeo was the first mainstream video site to allow high-definition video uploads. And while YouTube and Viddler both now offer this functionality, Vimeo (in our opinion), remains the best. Plus the community on Vimeo is generally more artistically inclined. For those that like analogies, Vimeo is to YouTube as Flickr is to Facebook. The following [...]

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