Good Final Cut Pro X tutorials never get old and this one is quite new actually. It was recorded at a L.A. Final Cut Pro User Group meeting in April and it shows Michael Wohl describing some advanced techniques, tips and tricks on editing audio in Final Cut Pro X.
The event was hosted by Michael Horton. For more tutorials by Michael Wohl, make sure to visit this website.
Source: http://www.macprovideo.com
Is there any updated practical functionality in FCPX has not yet been touted? Steve Martin from MacBreak Studio has found and discuss one more. He calls this function as ‘HUGE ONE’. Learn how you can use user-defined meta tags to improve search your favorite and rejected clips.
This could be really interesting and convenient tool for all who work on very large databases clips. Unfortunately, meta tags always require consequence and regularity in the creation of descriptions. Am I a regular enough?
Source: http://www.pixelcorps.tv/
Lightroom 4 for Mac is another Adobe software which together with Photoshop Elements 10, Premiere Elements 10 and the Revel is available from today on Mac App Store. This is a “convenient way to research and purchase software for your Mac computer” as Adobe announcing on the blog but on the other hand Lightroom is a natural rival to Aperture. Meybe if one of the key professional Adobe product is already in the Mac App Store, entire Creative Suite will follow the same way soon.
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4, released in March brought a few major new features compared to version 3 including support for video editing and geotagging, a refined selection of adjustment controls, local white balance, noise and moire adjustments, soft proofing, photo book creation via blurb.com, support for video uploading to Facebook and Flickr, and simplified emailing. Pricing of Lightroom 4 on the app store is the same to the retails box product $149. The condition for use of this offer is to have a Mac carrying a 64-bit processor and running OS X 10.6.8 or later and to live in North America.
You can purchase Lightroom from Mac App Store here: Lightroom
Source: http://www.adobe.com/
Apple published today the financial results for its fiscal 2012 second quarter that ended March 31, 2012. The company can be pleased as it posted quarterly revenue of $39.2 billion and quarterly net profit of $11.6 billion! Last year in the same quarter Apple posted revenue of $24.7 billion and net profit of $6.0 billion. The gross margin was 47.4 percent compared to 41.4 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 64 percent of the quarter’s revenue.
And now come some incredibly tasty numbers. Apple sold 35.1 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 88 percent unit growth if you compare this number to the same period of last year! The company also sold 11.8 million iPads during the quarter, a 151 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. And last but not least - Apple sold 4 million Macs - it is a 7 percent unit increase. The company also sold 7.7 million iPods, a 15 percent unit decline from the year-ago quarter.
“We’re thrilled with sales of over 35 million iPhones and almost 12 million iPads in the March quarter,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “The new iPad is off to a great start, and across the year you’re going to see a lot more of the kind of innovation that only Apple can deliver.”
“Our record March quarter results drove $14 billion in cash flow from operations,” said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO. “Looking ahead to the third fiscal quarter, we expect revenue of about $34 billion and diluted earnings per share of about $8.68.”
Apple will provide live streaming of its Q2 2012 financial results conference call beginning at 2:00 PM PDT on April 24, 2012 here. This webcast will also be available for replay for approximately two weeks thereafter.
Source: http://www.apple.com
Apple revealed that it will hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) from June 11 to June 15 at San Francisco’s Moscone West. If you attend, you will learn a lot on the future of iOS and OS X and, according to the company, this will allow you to build incredible new apps. WWDC will also feature more than 100 technical sessions presented by Apple engineers as well as the popular Apple Design Awards, a showcase of the most outstanding apps from the past year.
“We have a great WWDC planned this year and can’t wait to share the latest news about iOS and OS X Mountain Lion with developers,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “The iOS platform has created an entirely new industry with fantastic opportunities for developers across the country and around the world.”
If you visit the conference, you will be able to explore the latest innovations, features and capabilities of iOS and OS X Mountain Lion and learn how to greatly enhance the functionality, performance, quality and design of your apps. What's quite amazing is that developers can even bring their code to the labs and work with Apple engineers, applying development techniques and best-practices to enhance their apps! This is a really nice move by Apple!
Activities at the 2012 conference include (via Apple):
If you want to purchase tickets, well, you're too late, as all tickets are sold out. But Apple should publish all technical sessions on this website, and of course the video materials will be posted for free.
Source: http://www.apple.com
It's all about the cloud. At least in the future. Adobe announced that Adobe Creative Cloud will be relased soon (with the CS6 suite). According to the company, it will be a radical new way of providing tools and services that will change the game for creatives worldwide. We've heard it before, but cloud storage and computing services seem to offer a lot of new possibilities. Adobe Creative Cloud will be a subscription-based offering for making, sharing and delivering creative work and it will be centered around Adobe CS6.
Here's the list of highlights of the new offering (via Adobe):
The company stated that the urge to be creative is universal, and harnessing the creative spark – in everyone from school children to creative pros – has never been more important. Shantanu Narayen, president and chief executive officer, Adobe, said that wherever and whenever inspiration strikes, Adobe will be there to help capture, refine and publish your ideas.
The Creative Cloud membership will include access to Adobe Muse and Adobe Edge preview, new tools for HTML5 design and development that demonstrate Adobe’s commitment to the latest Web standards. It will also enable the syncing, sharing and storing of files across mobile devices and desktop. Creative Cloud membership will initially include up to 20GB of cloud storage, with additional storage purchase options coming soon.
Adobe Creative Cloud is scheduled to be available within 30 days and can be pre-ordered now. Adobe Creative Cloud membership will be available to customers in 36 countries and in many languages. Pricing for the membership for individuals is $49.99 per month based on annual membership and $74.99 per month for month-to-month membership. A special introductory offer of $29.99 per month for CS3, CS4, CS5 and CS5.5 individual customers is also available.
Source: http://www.adobe.com
If you are a Photoshop user, and you probably are, you will be keen to know that Adobe announced Photoshop CS6 and Photoshop CS6 Extended! Both bpackages bring new features and enhancements, the software includes many innovations and performance improvements. Additionally Photoshop CS6 Extended includes tools for 3D design, image and video editing, and quantitative analysis which address the needs of the graphic design, video, Web, architecture, medical, manufacturing and engineering industries. Here's a nice video describing the most interesting new features:
“Creativity is at the very center of our efforts – both in developing exceptional tools, and enabling our users to create beautiful imagery that stands out from the visual clutter around us,” said Winston Hendrickson, vice president products, Creative Media Solutions, Adobe. “Photoshop CS6 is unrivaled in capabilities and power and – as we have seen from the astonishing reception of our recent public beta – has once again captured the imagination of the worldwide creative community. ‘Photoshop magic’ is alive and well with CS6.”
Here's the list of Photoshop CS6 features (via Adobe):
Photoshop CS6 Extended includes all Photoshop CS6 features and:
Both versions of the suite will be available within 30 days and can be pre-ordered now. Photoshop CS6 wil cost $699, Photoshop CS6 Extended will cost $999. Subscription pricing for Photoshop CS6 is also available at $19.99 per month for an annual contract and $29.99 for a month-to-month contract.
Source: http://www.adobe.com
Here's the second part of the video tutorial on Motion's camera - Mark Spencer dives more into using it within Motion's 3D space. He shows Steve Martin how to use the camera to navigate around a 3D set and animating the camera to simulate real camera movements. You can watch this video below:
In order to watch the first part of this video tutorial, please follow this link.
Source: http://www.pixelcorps.tv
You can do a lot more in matter of motion if you shoot in 3D - at least according to the famous duo Mark Spencer and Steve Martin, who join their forces once more to bring you a new Motion tutorial. This time they concentrate their attention on working inside a 3D plane in Motion. Steve Martin shows how to set up a camera and navigate around Motion's 3D space to fully utilize its capabilities.
This is the first part - two more are coming!
Source: http://www.pixelcorps.tv
XMiL Workflow Tools is a company that develops solutions and tools that facilitate workflows leveraging the power of metadata in film and video post-production. Today XMiL announced that it is developing an interesting application that might be useful if you are a Final Cut Pro X user. The tool is called EDL-X, and it will allow users to generate industry-standard edit decision lists (EDLs) based on XML information from Final Cut Pro X. The EDLs will be formatted to comply with CMX 3600, a standard used in post-production to supply timecode information.
(please note - this screenshot presents a different XMiL's product)
The company assures that it is dedicated to developing solutions that simplify postproduction workflows, and this tool should, according to Rainer Standke, Principal at XMiL Workflow Tools, help editors simplify their Final Cut Pro X to EDL workflows and thus streamline color correction and final picture and sound assembly.
EDL-X will be available on the Mac App Store in May, 2012. Stay tuned for more info.
Source: http://www.xmil.biz
