| | | | Re: Video Grid / Alignment
by Mark Dobson on May 4, 2012 at 6:12:17 pm
in the Apple FCPX Techniques Forum
The grid generator I use is:
http://www.digital-heaven.co.uk/dh_grid
It's free and very easy to use. You can adjust both the number of divisions, the thickness of the lines, and the colour of the lines.
They also have a plugin called DH Box | | | | |
| | | | Re: Repairing Footage
by Shane Ross on Apr 24, 2012 at 5:43:03 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
DO you have the rights to use these videos? Depending on how you are presenting this footage, there might be legal issues galore in doing this. Recutting stuff on youtube to put back on youtube as a compilation that you do as a hobby...people might t | | | | |
| | | | Re: Performance and Speed vs Motion
by Oliver Peters on Apr 1, 2012 at 7:47:11 pm
in the Apple FCPX Techniques Forum
[Jim Giberti] "What a cruel suggestion."
LOL. Just giving you a tweak ;-)
My issue right now with Motion and FCP X for that matter, is that the current state of FxPlug filters is very poor. If you stick to the built-in effects, it's fine. Most | | | | |
| | | | Generating shot list w/thumbnails
by Benjamin Ausmith on Mar 6, 2012 at 8:23:15 pm
in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum
Hi there. My company's used a cool piece of software for a while called Final Print. It connects with Final Cut using XML and prints out a lovely shot list with thumbnails and metadata, great for communicating between producers and editors, super hel | | | | |
| | | | Re: Digital Heaven LegalText replacement?
by Andreas Kiel on Jan 17, 2012 at 11:19:54 pm
in the Apple FCPX Techniques Forum
Simon said
The difference in time taken between rendering the timeline (alarmingly slow) and simply exporting an unrendered timeline (remarkably fast) is very dramatic, to the extent that not rendering is clearly the most desirable option in most ca | | | | |
| | | | Re: Digital Heaven LegalText replacement?
by Mitch Ives on Jan 17, 2012 at 11:16:10 pm
in the Apple FCPX Techniques Forum
[Michael Sanders] "If you do a lot of caption work and haven't tried the FCP X/Motion 5 combo yet, may I humbly suggest you give it a go. Certainly in this respect FCP X isn't just there it way past FCP 7 and speeding along the motorway."
Haven't | | | | |
| | | | Re: Digital Heaven LegalText replacement?
by Simon Ubsdell on Jan 17, 2012 at 8:45:09 pm
in the Apple FCPX Techniques Forum
[Andreas Kiel] "The handling of Motion Templates didn't change that much - it's been somehow easier with the new version. And it didn't become anymore professional in a standard environment."
Exactly - I think people have got excited about somethi | | | | |
| | | | Re: Digital Heaven LegalText replacement?
by Simon Ubsdell on Jan 17, 2012 at 8:38:03 pm
in the Apple FCPX Techniques Forum
[Andreas Kiel] "I love that you don't need to render while working on an edit, that save a lot of time - though you've to render anyway if you want to export."
I don't know whether you have observed this but a lot of people seem to be finding that | | | | |
| | | | Re: Digital Heaven LegalText replacement?
by Andreas Kiel on Jan 17, 2012 at 3:09:10 pm
in the Apple FCPX Techniques Forum
I like the image quality as well and it seems to be more reliable than before. I love that you don't need to render while working on an edit, that save a lot of time - though you've to render anyway if you want to export.
I love all the search optio | | | | |
| | | | Re: Digital Heaven LegalText replacement?
by Michael Sanders on Jan 17, 2012 at 9:14:38 am
in the Apple FCPX Techniques Forum
Mitch,
If you do a lot of caption work and haven't tried the FCP X/Motion 5 combo yet, may I humbly suggest you give it a go. Certainly in this respect FCP X isn't just there it way past FCP 7 and speeding along the motorway. | | | | |
| | | | Re: Digital Heaven LegalText replacement?
by Bill Davis on Jan 17, 2012 at 12:06:18 am
in the Apple FCPX Techniques Forum
[Simon Ubsdell] "My point was based on my observation of the majority of users of FCPX who post on the various forums - for now the hobbyists vastly outnumber those who may or may not be using FCPX to make a living. From looking at the take-up on FCP | | | | |
| | | | Re: Digital Heaven LegalText replacement?
by Mitch Ives on Jan 16, 2012 at 11:11:54 pm
in the Apple FCPX Techniques Forum
[Michael Sanders] "But would't that way require you to make each caption up in motion wouldn't it?
This way I make up a base caption and change the words at will from within FCP."
I suppose that depends on how you set it up, but yes probably. I | | | | |
| | | | Re: Digital Heaven LegalText replacement?
by Simon Ubsdell on Jan 16, 2012 at 8:55:43 pm
in the Apple FCPX Techniques Forum
[Mitch Ives] "More professional would be"
Yes, there are aspects of the workflow that are less "professional" (and it's a big frustration still) but for my money the quality of the rendered output is quite clearly superior, especially in terms of | | | | |
| | | | Re: Digital Heaven LegalText replacement?
by Mitch Ives on Jan 16, 2012 at 8:42:22 pm
in the Apple FCPX Techniques Forum
[Michael Sanders] "Quickly went into Motion and added the logo and saved this back to the FCP X titles. Then I simply dropped the re made slide over the existing ones and FCP X copied the text and transitions over.
Job done.
I wonder where it | | | | |
| | | | Re: Digital Heaven LegalText replacement?
by Michael Sanders on Jan 15, 2012 at 8:52:06 pm
in the Apple FCPX Techniques Forum
Totally!
A client asked me to change to all the slates (about 10) on a video this week, they decided they did, after all want their logo on them..
In total honesty it was no more than 10 mins from starting the process to finishing it.
Quickl | | | | |
| | | | Re: Digital Heaven LegalText replacement?
by Mark Dobson on Jan 15, 2012 at 9:54:21 am
in the Apple FCPX Techniques Forum
[Craig Seeman] "Major kludgy especially when there are times when the ticking seconds are critical. Also the more steps one takes, the greater the possibility of a mistake along the way. To do this kind of work effectively and expeditiously is to be | | | | |
| | | | Re: Digital Heaven LegalText replacement?
by Simon Ubsdell on Jan 14, 2012 at 5:23:43 pm
in the Apple FCPX Techniques Forum
[Craig Seeman] "
Yet is very close to ideal for certain kinds of work like this."
I totally agree - and when broadcast monitoring arrives I will definitely look to cut TV spots on FCPX. Which is the main reason I bothered to make these templates | | | | |
| | | | Re: Digital Heaven LegalText replacement?
by Simon Ubsdell on Jan 14, 2012 at 5:16:53 pm
in the Apple FCPX Techniques Forum
[Andreas Kiel] "But you should disable the background - that will make the templates more flexible."
Thanks for the suggestion, Andreas. Here, for anyone who is interested, are the new versions without background:
3537_tkycaptionheight.zip | | | | |
| | | | Re: Digital Heaven LegalText replacement?
by Craig Seeman on Jan 14, 2012 at 4:34:19 pm
in the Apple FCPX Techniques Forum
[Simon Ubsdell] "... but my guess is that most FCPX users are not doing broadcast spots."
Yet is very close to ideal for certain kinds of work like this. The close ties between FCPX and Motion allow for fast FX work. Turnaround time often has to b | | | | |
| | | | Re: Digital Heaven LegalText replacement?
by Craig Seeman on Jan 14, 2012 at 4:28:49 pm
in the Apple FCPX Techniques Forum
[Mark Dobson] "Have you tried contacting Digital Heaven? They are very responsive. I just contacted Martin Baker over an other issue and he got back to me very quickly."
I did that first. I posted here once he honestly responded.
[Mark Dobson] | | | | |
| | | | Re: Digital Heaven LegalText replacement?
by Mark Dobson on Jan 14, 2012 at 8:39:26 am
in the Apple FCPX Techniques Forum
[Craig Seeman] "Seems this isn't a high priority port for FCPX. I"
Have you tried contacting Digital Heaven? They are very responsive. I just contacted Martin Baker over an other issue and he got back to me very quickly.
There is a contact li | | | | |
| | | | Digital Heaven LegalText replacement?
by Craig Seeman on Jan 13, 2012 at 9:10:28 pm
in the Apple FCPX Techniques Forum
Digital Heaven LegalText replacement?
http://www.digital-heaven.co.uk/dh_legaltext
Seems this isn't a high priority port for FCPX. I do local political spots and I live by this plugin for disclaimers. I can imagine the few people who'd never admit | | | | |
| | | | Re: How Much Space Does Pro Res Proxy Save You?
by David Roth Weiss on Nov 30, 2011 at 7:51:54 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Here's the answer to your prayers Sandy... A free widget from Digital Heaven that does exactly what you want. i.e. calculates very precisely how much storage a given running time of the various codecs will occupy on your hard drive.
http://www.d | | | | |
| | | | Re: Look for good Text PlugIn for FCP 7
by Wayne Marx on Nov 28, 2011 at 9:16:39 am
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Thought I'd add....
In terms of general titling, these are my two go-to titlers for fast, good-looking titles in FCP:
http://www.digital-heaven.co.uk/dh_subtitle
http://alex4d.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/free-final-cut-plugin-lower-third/
Wayn | | | | |
| | | | Re: dead pixels on my 7D
by Michael Sacci on Nov 12, 2011 at 6:49:59 pm
in the DSLR Video Forum
Not an answer to your question but if you have footage you need to fix, take a look at this plug-in
http://www.digital-heaven.co.uk/dh_reincarnation
they have a free trial so you have test it out.
I would call Canon and get an estimate on rep | | | | |
| | | | Re: Location of Transitions and Effects
by Shane Ross on Nov 12, 2011 at 12:54:40 am
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
[Bob Davies] "You sound like you make a living selling these things for $100 a pop."
I'm not. But I know many people who do. MANY people. Who earn their living making plugins. So, you'd like it if people took that video you edited, worked hard | | | | |
| | | | Re: FCP X Effect: BG Pixel Blaster
by Michael Birkland on Nov 8, 2011 at 12:09:32 am
in the COW - Files Forum
I'm cutting with FCPX but I don't have motion. Does this effect work like Digital Heaven's 'Reincarnation' plug-in where it'll fix an entire clip for you, or do you need to manually fix each frame one at a time? Thanks. | | | | |
| | | | Re: Can't Submit Batch in Compressor 3.5.3
by Brad Elliott on Oct 18, 2011 at 8:55:54 pm
in the Compression techniques Forum
For consideration:
http://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/20/868212
I was unable to clear my history after following these steps but it did seem to help.
If Apple says to do a reinstall they probably know more than they are sharing. Some of | | | | |
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