Reel | Late 2008
A short time ago I made this demo reel. It’s short and kind of amazing. Basically we’re talking win-win here.
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Florida in 93 Seconds
Formerly Floridian from Jason Hawkins on Vimeo.
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Salem, MA – The Cemetery
Salem, MA – The Cemetery from Jason Hawkins on Vimeo.
A video snapshot of a cemetery in Salem, MA.
On your iPod or iPhone? Watch it here.
UPDATE: You can download this video in black and white here (.zip file).
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Final Cut Keyboard Shortcuts
I haven’t posted anything in a while. You may have noticed. To make myself feel better about my own blogging failure I thought I’d pass along a tip that the people at Creative Cow recently wrote about; key bindings.
It’s a $10 name for describing how to create your own keyboard shortcuts within Final Cut Pro. This can be a huge time saver. For example, to get started in Soundtrack Pro I normally have to right click (or control-click) on a sequence in the Browser, select Send To, then choose Soundtrack Pro Multitrack Project. Alternatively, one could bind the action to their very own fancy-shmancy keyboard shortcut and accomplish the same task in a fraction of a second. On my system, I have this action set to Option-Shift-S.
The process of actually editing these shortcuts is as simple as you might expect something in FCP to be (meh). Start by hitting Option-H to open the keyboard layout editor, then click on the little lock icon in the lower left to allow changes. From there you can have at it by choosing the key combination tabs along the top of the window, and searching for the desired command in the search area. Simply drag the command onto the key you want to bind it to.
Creative Cow lists a bunch of great shortcuts in their post, but I’d also suggest setting Render All to the letter Y. It’s a letter that’s not used by default for anything, and it’s something you’re probably going to be doing a lot of. Consider also binding Send to Color and Send to Motion to Option-Shift-C and Option-Shift-M, receptively.
The last thing you’re going to want to do is to save your layout (and if you really want to blow your own mind, you can even set a keyboard shortcut for that too!). From the menu bar choose Tools > Keyboard Layout > Save Keyboard Layout… and give it a name. Something like, “Jason’s Keyboard,” or, “Master of space and time” would do nicely.
And finally, if things get too crazy in there, you can always hit the reset button to get yourself back to the Apple-supplied shortcuts.
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Salem, MA – The Build Guild
1 Salem, MA from Jason Hawkins on Vimeo.
Since moving to Salem I’ve been working on an idea to create video snapshots about some of the cool things I’ve seen here. This video highlights the The Build Guild, a meetup for people in the web industry, and is the first in (what will become) a series of similar snapshots.
Unfortunately, I was a little off my game when I shot this and as a result the audio suffered greatly. Sorry about that.
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