New Site Design

by CJ Bruce on May 1, 2009

The new site design has been launched, as you can tell. I have been working on this for some time now and I think it’s finally ready to rock and roll. I will be rolling out a couple other new features here and there and I will post about them as they come up.

Please cruise around the site, see whats new.

Let me know in the comments any thoughts you might have about the new design, especially if you are experiencing any problems.

Thanks for your continued support!

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Video Tutorial: Basic Motion Keyframing

by CJ Bruce on May 1, 2009

This tutorial contains all the information you need to get started animating motion in Final Cut Pro. Included in the download is the project file and associated media for the project.

We start with a simple task of making some text move across the screen, then we add rotation and scale into the mix to see how all the basic features work. [CLICK TO CONTINUE…]

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A couple weeks ago I got an email from Final Cut Professional user Shurwin Harewood talking about a decade of Final Cut Pro and asking me my thoughts. I thought I would share it will everyone and see what you all think. Please comment

From Shurwin: [CLICK TO CONTINUE…]

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Complete Keyboard Shortcut Guide PDF

by CJ Bruce on April 21, 2009

Sweet little PDF download over at The Final Cut King site that lists the keyboard shortcuts. You can view the article and download the shortcuts here.

Pretty helpful to download and print out as a reference.

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Aspect Ratio Calculator

by CJ Bruce on April 15, 2009

Digital Rebellion has a free online aspect ratio calculator. It’s simple, quick and effective. You can use it when someone asks you what is the aspect ratio of that clip? You just punch in the height and width and this program will tell you. Its also great for when you need to blow up or shrink a clip.

Another great use for this is when you want to embed video online. Say the standard YouTube embed is something like 500×311, but where you want to embed it is only 300 pixels wide. You can use this tool to first determine what the aspect ratio of the original embed is, then adjust the width to what you want and it will automatically tell you the height to keep the aspect ratio the same.

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