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Ever wondered what each tool in Creative Suite does? Here's a great summary.
How to build a Thunderbolt Hackintosh
A guide to building a faster Mac Pro with Thunderbolt for half the price.
Smoke ConnectFX: Damage and Deform Nodes
Great overview of two useful nodes in Smoke 2013.
This is an overview of changes in the new DNG specification. DNG is an open alternative to proprietary raw still image formats such as Canon CR2 and Adobe offers a free DNG converter.
Performance Enhancing Visual Effects Techniques
List of various VFX techniques to enhance an actor's performance or improve story clarity. I seem to do #7 a lot, often having to add establishing shots or remove entire characters from the movie.
What could the new Mac Pro look like?
I'm not convinced Apple will go for a modular Mac Pro design (and the jury's still out on whether the Mac Pro will ever be updated) but it's an interesting and well-designed proposal regardless.
We've got more important, useful and bizarre bugs this week that you should know about.
A fix for the hang when scanning media folders is coming in 6.0.3.2
Various issues with ExFAT drives
Avid FX installer does not install the Avid FX plugin by default
Issues with AMA linking 24p CanonXF files
Despite what it says on Avid's site, the Artist Color only fully supports MC 6 and higher
New Mac NVIDIA drivers improve CUDA stability
Audio goes offline after pasting clips from another project
Application windows may appear offscreen if you disconnect a monitor (Windows but may affect Mac too)
Playback stops several frames after you pressed Space
Tip: to enable CUDA support, delete the entire cuda_supported_cards.txt file instead of editing it
QuickTime HDV file issues in Premiere Pro CS6 for Windows
Various issues with standard definition media
Today we released Video Space Calculator 1.0.5 for iOS and 1.0.3 for Mac.
These updates add 3K ARRIRAW support, along with Avid DNxHD 80, 100 and 444 codecs.
Video Space Calculator can calculate the disk space taken up by over 75 codecs including ProRes, Animation, ARRIRAW, DNxHD, XDCAM and DPX.
The app is available on the iOS App Store and the Mac App Store.
How to color correct a horror film
I love this idea: Patrick Inhofer introduces his first Grade-Along project.
Well thought-out list of Premiere feature requests from an FCP switcher.
An Exciting Post About File Management
Interesting discussion about project management (be sure to read the comments). Post Haste seems to be commonly used.
Dennis Couzin analyzes the Proc Amp filter in FCP 7 against the output a real Proc Amp should produce.
Autodesk Smoke 2013 Pre-Release 4
Smoke PR4 is out with several new features, including many UI changes.
Telestream releases Flip4Mac 3.0
Improved support for OS X 10.8 and AV Foundation, and also ships with a new standalone video player.
The Return of the Save As Command
This is good but you still need to hold down the Option key to access it. It's an example of Apple's constant efforts to simplify everything actually making things more complicated.
Here's more important, useful and bizarre bugs that we discovered this week.
Media Composer and Symphony 5.5.3.5 released
MC launches slowly unless network access is disabled
'Online Resources' window hangs Avid
Typing too quickly in Subcap causes characters to be swapped
Workaround for unsupported foreign characters in Marquee
Canon EOS clips appear blank when Perian is installed
Workaround for "Audio has attempted to overrun its buffers" error when capturing
Adobe has released updates for a security issue on Windows
The main problem affecting users of Adobe products is that the code signing certificate will now expire on October 4th, which could cause Windows error messages or problems with anti-virus tools. It is therefore worthwhile installing the updates before October 4th. Mac users do not need to update.
Problems with Adobe Application Manager on Windows showing applications not installed
Workaround for titles not appearing in exports
Retimed clips need to be nested in order to add additional effects to them
Need to restore a backup or import a project from another system into FCPX? It's not as simple as it seems at first glance. You would think that you could just double-click the project file but that produces the following error:
Final Cut Pro X is expecting projects to be contained in a folder inside your Final Cut Projects directory (or Final Cut Events if you are importing an event). The default locations of these folders are in ~/Movies.
To successfully import these files, you must create a new directory inside your Final Cut Projects or Final Cut Events folder and then copy the project to this new directory. FCPX will determine the project name from the name of the directory but the project file does not need to have the same name.
It's also worth noting that there is a difference between double-clicking an XML file and importing it via File > Import > XML.
Double-clicking seems to import the file without modifying it, so you will get errors if a project already exists with this ID or the event is not in the exact location as specified in the XML file. However, if you import it via File > Import > XML, it is more intelligent and will assign a new ID if necessary and find the new location of the event if it has changed.
Very useful list of frequencies you can equalize to remove or enhance certain elements of the sound.
What are secondary storylines in FCPX and how do you use them?
Macbreak Studio provides a great overview of this useful Final Cut Pro X feature.
David Bourne on his reasons for switching to a PC.
DaVinci Resolve: Which GPU provides the best acceleration on the Mac Pro?
Radeon GPUs seem to perform poorly with Davinci Resolve when compared with NVIDIA cards.
Demystifying the After Effects CS6 Performance Cache
Overview of the new caching system in CS6 that aims to improve performance.
Little fix to make using Premiere CS6 a little bit better
A set of smaller cursor icons for Premiere Pro CS6 to fix the problem where cursors appear large when zoomed in. Note that you'll probably need to re-add them whenever you install a new Premiere Pro update.
Here's another roundup of some of the important, interesting or bizarre bugs we came across this week.
Unable to relink to an image sequence from an EDL
OS X 10.8.1 approved for MC / Symphony 6.0.3.1 and 6.5
Background Tasks window not appearing after OS X update
SuperDrive not appearing when cards are in the third PCI slot
Kicking the Tires on Avid Media Composer 6.5
Scott Simmons tests and summarizes the main new features of Media Composer 6.5.
Adobe Get Nearer to a Bigger Slice of the Apple
Adobe seems to have capitalized very well on Apple's missteps. They say they have seen 40-45% annual growth on the Mac and 20% across all platforms.
Sorenson Announces Squeeze Premium
Squeeze Premium is a Windows-based encoding solution designed for a server environment but without some of the advanced features of the Server edition.
Dynamic Link: After Effects & Premiere Pro
Premium Beat has a great tutorial with the basics on Dynamic Linking between AE and Premiere. See also our Dynamic Link troubleshooting article.
Our various gamma filters
Detailed description of the differences between the gamma filters in FCP 7 and Compressor.
We've compiled another list of critical, interesting or unusual bugs you should be aware of.
You can no longer mark in and out to select an audio region for keyframe adjustment in MC 6.5
Clips in bin not staying highlighted
Corrupt audio transitions can throw duplicated sequences out of sync
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