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That Post Show: Unstoppable Hydraulic Pressure

Thursday, August 25th, 2011

A few weeks ago I happily recorded a new episode of That Post Show called Unstoppable Hydraulic Pressure. On this episode we talked at length about NLEs, how a good NLE is an extension of the editor and how editors often have an emotional connection to their tools. Of course we talk about Avid, Apple and Adobe along the way. Guests included Shane Ross, Steve Cohen, Paul Zadie, Paul Del Vecchio and host Kanen Flowers. You can subscribe to That Post Show in iTunes and give it a rating. That always helps.

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FCPX Hands on Tour webinar now available

Saturday, July 2nd, 2011

On Thursday of last week I hosted another webinar with FilmmakingWebinars.com called Final Cut Pro Hands On Tour. It was a wild hour as we attempted a full tour of the software in that short amount of time. We went just a bit over and while it was fast and furious I think we gave a good overview of Final Cut Pro X. I also think it was an honest overview that pointed out some of the good, bad and missing from FCPX. It’s now available on-demand for $15. For $25 you get the webinar as well as bonus materials that include a podcast where we answered questions asked during the webinar, two bonus videos (one is how to use the batch renaming in FCPX and one is a few timeline tips I like) and a PDF cheatsheet of the FCPX menus. I made the cheatsheet as a way to try an learn the FCPX menus as well as the default keyboard commands. I thought it might be helpful.

There’s a big 4th of July sale happening at FilmmakingWebinars.com through July 6 so you can pick up any webinar for half off. Check out the on-demand page for details. If you attended the FCPX Hands on Tour I hope it was helpful and if you purchase the on-demand version … thank you!

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London SuperMeet is just over a week away

Monday, June 13th, 2011

It’s hard to believe that the NAB SuperMeet was some two months ago. That’s two months that we’ve all had to speculate and rumormonger about Final Cut Pro X! A week from this Thursday, on June 23, the London version of the SuperMeet will happen. From the looks of the agenda there’s a few topics that were cut from the NAB SuperMeet (when Apple took over the agenda) that are going to be presented on London. Alexis Van Hurkman will demo DaVinci Resolve 8 and there will be a presentation on Demystifying Smoke on Mac OS X with Joe Billington. There’s quite a few other presentations scheduled as well (including FCP guru Larry Jordan talking about something) plus the world famous raffle. There’s an iPad listed in the raffle prizes so that’ll be a nice non-production/post win for someone. Grab your tickets now if you’re going to be in London on June 23 … I’d love to be there too if that wasn’t my birthday.