Category Archives: Video

Avid Versus Final Cut Pro

By Eric Peacock | Published: March 14, 2007

Avid2FCP is a web site that is for Avid editors that have switched to Final Cut Pro. The NLE holy war rages on, but the site requests that users keep it friendly and simply share information. And like almost all things the comparison is more of an apples-to-oranges than folks might think. The site echoes [...]

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The Tools I Use

By Eric Peacock | Published: January 25, 2007

Inspired by a post on the 37 Signals blog I’m going to detail the core tools I use in this post and hopefully update it from time to time. Just for fun and all that… Video & Motion Graphics: Non-linear editor: Final Cut Pro 5.x Titler: Livetype Special Effects: Adobe After Effects 7.x, Motion 2.x [...]

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Fun with the Star Wars title sequence

By Eric Peacock | Published: January 22, 2007

Darel Rex Finley has put together a fun and actually pretty slick title generator that mimics the 20th Century Fox/Lucasfilm Ltd./Star Wars text sequence. Check it out The app is OS X only. It does seem to leverage some of the operating system’s graphics API abilities, so I can see why. The program can save [...]

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Adobe Returns Premiere To The Mac

By Eric Peacock | Published: January 4, 2007

Adobe has officially announced the return of Premiere (which now is “Pro”) to the Macintosh platform since dropping it in 2003 after releasing the lackluster version 6.5. Pretty big news for the unification and competition of the video production sector. This announcement also adds other new additions like Encore and Audition, the new audio editor [...]

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The Microsoft Zune in the Media

By Eric Peacock | Published: November 14, 2006

I actually found this CNN video review of the Microsoft Zune entertaining: CNN Business: Microsoft’s Zune released. It’s a good reminder that even lucrative markets can be saturated with too many of the same products, and in the end the pre-existing users of the already popular iPod aren’t going to feel inclined to switch unless [...]

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Cinema 4D

By Eric Peacock | Published: November 3, 2006

For years I’ve worked with all sorts of low-end or high end 3D apps, though it’s often been limited to the low end for budgetary reasons. I once did a freelance project over a weekend where I had to learn an obscure (and discontinued) 3D app in order to create a flyby using the client [...]

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Neon Brown Music Video on YouTube

By Eric Peacock | Published: September 7, 2006

Well, I gave in and decided to try posting the previously mentioned Neon Brown Static music video on YouTube. You can see it in glorious Flash video here.

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Tips For Working With Corrupted Media with Final Cut Studio (AKA the “General Error”)

By Eric Peacock | Published: August 25, 2006

Every so often I’ll come across a Final Cut Pro sequence that won’t render or can’t be exported at all. When this happens FCP will either spit out an error box with the string “General Error” or it’ll simply stop when doing a render or export – frustrating and unclear as to what the problem [...]

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