One of the features that makes Final Cut Pro X so exciting isn't even created by Apple. It's the thousands of third-party plug-ins and applications that work with Final Cut. These add effects and capabilities far beyond the basics shipped w...ith the software.

In last month's "3rd-Party Plug-ins for Final Cut Pro X" webinar, we had a chance to showcase some of the latest technology and effects that you can add to your own projects. First, we look what these can do, then show you how to do it yourself. If you've been looking for ways to animate data, spice up your animation and effects, or track the untrackable, you need to see this webinar!

What you can do with plug-ins today is nothing short of amazing and this webinar will show you a few ways to get started!Meer weergeven

Here are two very fast ways to test the look of an effect in Final Cut Pro X without first applying it to a clip in the Timeline.

Hover your cursor over the effect you are considering in the Effects Browser. After waiting a few seconds for... the effect to load, you’ll see what the effect looks like when applied to the currently selected clip, WITHOUT actually applying it to the clip.

But… the double-secret way to test an effect is to press the Option key while hovering over the same effect in the Effects Browser. Now as you slowly drag from left to right, you’ll see the principal setting for that effect slowly increase. This second method allows you to see whether adjusting the settings will improve the effect.

Learn more in this recent (& popular) article!Meer weergeven

Adobe Prelude CS6 is designed for speed for working with tapeless media. Plus, it is optimized for both Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 and Apple Final Cut Pro 7.

Prelude is designed to review, import, log, and export tapeless media. It is ideally ...suited for an editorial workflow where one person is logging and capturing for a team of editors, though it can easily be used in a one-person shop as an extremely efficient way to ingest media.

Starting with an orientation to the interface, this training provides clear, step-by-step instruction on how to review and import media, log files, build rough-cuts (which are collections of clips to send to an editor), and specific steps to export files directly into Premiere Pro or Final Cut.Meer weergeven

The Melbourne International Film Festival (@MIFF) is one of the oldest film festivals in the world and the most significant screen event in Australia.

An iconic Melbourne event, the festival takes place annually in the heart of the city, p...resenting an acclaimed screening program alongside industry and celebratory events.

Learn more about the all-star line-up of screenings and panels at this year's festival, as well as how to get your passes today!Meer weergeven

There are few educational resources for cinematographers that are as rock-solid as the various publications, blogs, and podcasts from the American Society of Cinematographers.

In this video piece, accomplished Danish cinematographer Eric K...ress DFF, (who shot the fantastic Swedish version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) walks us through his approach to shooting matched closeups in this excellent workshop from Gokinema & thefilmbook.Meer weergeven

If you ask a colorist what they do to make actors look good on screen, they’ll tell you that they just watch the monitor and make them look “right” for the scene. While truthful, that advice doesn’t help the rest of us that don’t have their... experience at seeing and adjusting color.

The purpose of this article is to give you some guidelines you can use to fix color problems to help your actors look “normal.” While every actor looks a bit different, if you have a color problem, these guidelines will help you fix it.

Just as actors wear makeup to look good on camera, we can use these guidelines to help our actors look as good as possible in post. Whether you use Final Cut, Premiere, or other video editing software, these guidelines apply.Meer weergeven

This year's @NABShow is one-stop-shopping for new and established broader-casters on the hunt for the latest tools and technologies to create and deliver content in a digital world…on air, online, on screen and on the go.

No other event of...fers you the opportunity to meet with such a vast array of audio, video, and film professionals – decision makers with purchasing plans across multiple industries and from around the globe.

Use our Promo Code "LV6239" when you register for this massive networking event and receive a FREE 3-Day Exhibits-Only Pass ($150 value)!Meer weergeven

Amazing time-lapse footage isn’t as hard to produce as one might think. In fact, you can get highly professional time-lapse footage from your DSLR camera if you know the basics.

In the following video tutorial from Adorama, Corey Rich pro...vides a great primer on the basics of shooting time-lapse.

Take a few minutes and learn about time-lapse theory, setting up your camera, using a remote trigger, simple time-lapse techniques, and deciding on the exposure for time lapse.Meer weergeven

Refresh. Reconnect. Recharge. The ever-changing media and entertainment landscape has raised the bar for every professional seeking to create, manage, distribute, and monetize content.

With more than 500 sessions produced in partnership wi...th dozens of industry organizations, the @NABShow Education Program is the largest and most comprehensive offering in the world.

Hear from thought leaders, technologists, show runners, and industry rock stars – the big names with the fresh ideas and best strategies you need to succeed in a digital world.

(And, while you're signing up, make sure to use Promo Code LV6239 to get a FREE Exhibits-Only Pass ($150 value)!Meer weergeven

The latest update to Apple Compressor – 4.1 – brings with it a whole new interface, faster performance, more compression presets, and a different way to monitor your work.

Larry Jordan's recent "New Features in Compressor 4.1" webinar expl...ored the latest enhancements to this dynamic software and shows you how to put them to work in your projects. Virtually everything we create today ends up on the web, which means that the quality of your video compression makes all the difference in how your projects look.

Examine the new capabilities of video compression and how the new features in Compressor can help your images look even better!Meer weergeven

The 23rd Arizona International Film Festival (@AZFilmFest), the longest running and largest film festival in Arizona, will run from April 11 to 27, at exhibition venues throughout Tucson and southern Arizona.

Staying true to its mission o...f showcasing independent film, the Arizona International Film Festival has exhibited over 2,260 films representing 90 countries to over 138,000 patrons in southern Arizona.

Take a look at how to be a part of this great fest!Meer weergeven

With the overwhelming interest in Premiumbeat's article offering FREE After Effects templates, they decided to put together another batch of slick motion design project files that you can get gratis!

These FREE AE templates are great to ...have in your video editing and motion design toolkit, for those times when you need good looking effects cheap and fast! Modify any of these After Effects project files to create your own cool effects.

Check them out!Meer weergeven

Video engages the mind. Audio captures the heart. The best thing you can do to improve the quality of your pictures is to improve the quality of your sound.

And nothing does that better than Adobe Audition CC. Whether you edit with Adobe P...remiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, Avid Media Composer, or other video editing software, you can use Adobe Audition for your projects.

In this training, join Larry Jordan as he showcases the latest Creative Cloud version of this rock-solid audio powerhouse. Whether you are just getting started, or want to jump into all the newest features, you will learn how to use Audition to setup, record, edit, repair, and mix your projects to perfection. With training designed for video editors, every movie is filled with step-by-step techniques, shortcuts, secrets and solid advice that you can put to work immediately.Meer weergeven

Recently, Indiewire compiled lists of 40 Female Filmmakers to Follow on Twitter and 100 Filmmakers to Follow on Twitter, but they felt it was time to highlight some of their favorite documentary filmmakers on Twitter. It's an eclectic and i...mpressive group responsible for some of their favorite documentaries, including, most recently, "Stories We Tell," "The Armstrong Lie," "Valentine Road," "The Act of Killing" and "The Punk Singer."

Note that this isn't a comprehensive list, but that all of these filmmakers are active on Twitter -- and whether they're promoting their own projects or debating the merits of various documentary techniques, these cinematic rabble-rousers are consistently informative, entertaining and engaging.

If you're looking for tips about how to crowdfund your film, which festivals are best for documentaries or other insights into the doc world, don't just follow these folks, interact with them.Meer weergeven

The Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition for 2014 has begun. Up to five winners will be announced in November for a $35,000 screenwriting fellowship – competition is sure to be tough considering that last year alone saw ...7,251 scripts for a record number of submissions.

Established in 1986, the competition is open to anyone who has not earned a total of more than $25,000 from the sale or option of screenplays or teleplays or received fellowships or prizes of more than $25,000 that include a "first look" clause, an option or any other quid pro quo involving the writer's work. Winners are required to complete a new feature-length screenplay during the fellowship year. The Academy does not acquire rights to or become commercially involved with any of the scripts.

To enter, writers must submit a completed application online, upload one PDF copy of their original screenplay in English and pay the entry fee before the regular deadline at 5:00 p.m. PT on April 10, 2014.Meer weergeven

Today, everything we create ends up on the web. This means that if we don't know how to compress our media to make our images look good, all the work during production and editing will be wasted. To make matters worse, compressing video see...ms like rocket science.

Not any more.

Join Master Trainer Larry Jordan as he takes you step-by-step through the latest version - 4.1 - of Apple Compressor. This updated training, which is designed for both beginning and experienced users, starts by explaining terms and concepts to build a firm foundation for the rest of this training. Then, Larry illustrates virtually every feature in the program - from simple settings to full-on automation - that Compressor 4.1 offers to simplify your compression tasks.Meer weergeven

Freelance video editing can be an exciting and financially rewarding career. Successful freelancers enjoy flexible schedules and the ability to choose which projects they have a hand in. However, with the current economic situation it can... also mean having difficulty finding consistent video editing work work.

Many corporate in-house production departments have dissolved in recent years, with these employees joining the freelance market pool. As a result, it seems that now more than ever there are more individuals vying for the same freelance video projects.

In this dog-eat-dog world, freelancers must actively seek out the job opportunities and connections to succeed in this business. Whether you’re an experienced video editor or you’re just getting started, the editing and post-production job resources contained in this Premiumbeat article may give you a leg up in finding new freelance video editing work.Meer weergeven

Studios vs. theaters. NATO vs. Netflix. AMC Theaters vs. Universal. The stakes are high and the rhetoric is getting more heated as old economic models give way to new. And while the independents have more flexibility to experiment and chall...enge the established order, there are Big Guns in the indie world too: iTunes, Amazon, Netflix and Hulu.

Indiewire Influencer Marc Schiller, CEO of BOND360, is taking what he learned about fan engagement online in the early '90s, when he helped to launch the House of Blues concert business and later launched Electric Artists, to the indie film world. Now all artists are figuring out how to be entrepreneurial and deploy digital tools to reach out to fans and build an online community.

Now applying his DIY music strategies to film, Schiller talks with Indiewire in this piece about how he has learned the digital film marketing ropes on such innovative releases as "Exit Through the Gift Shop," Formula 1 racing doc "Senna," and VOD hit "Indie Game: The Movie."Meer weergeven

Last year I received a lot of emails from editors with problems uploading (Sharing) files to YouTube directly from Final Cut Pro X.

So, I did some checking and discovered that the problems were caused by Google.

Last April, Google changed... the APIs that control uploading to YouTube. These changes broke all automated upload systems – meaning uploads originating anywhere except a Browser – including Final Cut Pro X. Learn more about it in this article!Meer weergeven

All the technical skills in the world won't pay the bills if you can't find a job. That's where this webinar can help. Whether you are just getting started or looking for work - yet again - this webinar is filled with tips you can use today....

Job hunting no longer means sending out metric tons of resumés, nor haunting CraigsList or the "Help Wanted" ads. Job hunting today is about communication, networking, understanding what clients want and how the whole process works.

Take a look at our "Job Hunting in Today's Economy" webinar, as we share one of our most popular classes in this webinar: "How to find work, negotiate a salary, and keep clients happy."Meer weergeven

Held annually in Sarasota, FL., The Sarasota Film Festival (MySFF) emphasizes the best in cinema alongside exciting programs and events, with more than 180 films screened each year including features, documentaries, shorts, and kid-friendly... picks.

Their 16th Annual festival (April 4th - 13th) brings the best new and veteran independent filmmakers, showcasing with local and kid-friendly programs that exhibit the idyllic Gulf Coast community.

Learn more about their terrific line-up and how your can get your passes today!Meer weergeven

One tell-tale sign of an amateur editing job is haphazard editing that has no regard for the music beneath it.

You can significantly improve the “feel” of your video projects by using music to your advantage — and accordingly, cutting to... it. This works especially well when you’re cutting montages or action-heavy sequences.

Got rhythm? Use the trick outlined in this Premiumbeat article to quickly line up clips to music beats in Final Cut Pro X.Meer weergeven

One of the benefits of using graphics files with Final Cut Pro 7 was that when you updated the graphics file using Photoshop, or another image editing program, as long as you saved the file using the same name it would instantly update insi...de FCP 7 without having to reimport it.

Because of the more robust method Final Cut Pro X uses to link media files with the program, we seem to have lost this benefit.

Except, I discovered a way to make it work.Meer weergeven

Screen Pump is a great free title effect plugin that does away with the need to build screen pumps manually with keyframes in Final Cut Pro X. This is great not only for gamers who publish videos, but any production where a 'pump' or 'bump'... can be used to enhance a recording or video footage.

It's exceeding easy to use, just drag the title effect above the clip you wish to pump and adjust the duration. Published parameters include the amount of zoom, the pause at full zoom and the acceleration curve of the zoom.

The effect can dragged up and down the timeline for accurate placement and it can also be copied and pasted to make a new screen pump.

And the best part? It's been made FREE to download to the FCPX community from the good folks over at Idustrial Revolution!Meer weergeven

Adobe Prelude CS6 is designed for speed for working with tapeless media. Plus, it is optimized for both Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 and Apple Final Cut Pro 7.

Prelude is designed to review, import, log, and export tapeless media. It is ideally ...suited for an editorial workflow where one person is logging and capturing for a team of editors, though it can easily be used in a one-person shop as an extremely efficient way to ingest media.

Starting with an orientation to the interface, this training provides clear, step-by-step instruction on how to review and import media, log files, build rough-cuts (which are collections of clips to send to an editor), and specific steps to export files directly into Premiere Pro or Final Cut .Meer weergeven

Here is an updated list of the top 10 documentary film festivals from all over the world.

It’s interesting to note all of the different methods of entertainment outside of the screenings of the documentaries themselves.

Each festival broa...dcasts the summits, workshops, and parties that are hosted as a part of the festival. Some are mere distractions from the main event; others provide interesting or helpful information for cinephiles and documentary professionals alike.Meer weergeven

Final Cut Pro X is a major new update from Apple. So, Larry Jordan went back to the drawing board and totally redesigned all of his video training. All new movies with all new training. More focused. More complete. Yet, with our trademark c...onversational approach and sense of humor.

His training is recognized around the world as the best and most complete video training covering Final Cut Pro X available. Hosted by Larry Jordan, in this update, Larry took everything he's learned about running Final Cut over the last two years, added in training about all the new features, and created this brand new, totally revised and comprehensive new title.Meer weergeven

Of the many excellent films to hit theaters last year, few were as powerful (or as well shot) as the Best Picture Oscar winner, '12 Years A Slave'.

It’s one of those rare films that transcends its utterly brutal subject matter and makes a ...powerful statement about the resiliency of the human spirit. Although much of that power is derived from terrific acting and direction, Sean Bobbitt’s masterful cinematography plays a critical role in allowing the emotionality of the story and its characters to emanate from the screen.

In an excellent interview with Cinefii, Bobbitt explains not only how he managed to craft such a gorgeous film, but also his theories behind portraying violence through film, working with Steve McQueen, and much, much more.Meer weergeven

This next tip was suggested by Ian Stubbs, an Apple-Certified Trainer who teaches at the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield, UK. Ian and I spent a lot of time chatting about editing and Final Cut during my recent training s...essions there.

ou probably know that you can add keywords to clips in Final Cut Pro X (Cmd+K). And those keywords appear in the Libraries panel attached to the event that clip is stored in. (These keyword listings are called “Keyword Collections.”) To see all the clips that were assigned the same keyword, simply click the keyword collection text. All clips that are associated with that keyword are displayed in the Browser.

However, Ian suggested an even faster way to work, and it's the subject of this brand-new article!Meer weergeven

Refresh. Reconnect. Recharge. The ever-changing media and entertainment landscape has raised the bar for every professional seeking to create, manage, distribute, and monetize content.

With more than 500 sessions produced in partnership wi...th dozens of industry organizations, the @NABShow Education Program is the largest and most comprehensive offering in the world.

Hear from thought leaders, technologists, show runners, and industry rock stars – the big names with the fresh ideas and best strategies you need to succeed in a digital world.

(And, while you're signing up, make sure to use Promo Code LV6239 to get a FREE Exhibits-Only Pass ($150 value)!Meer weergeven