http://www.makefilmwork.com For navigating the world of digital video production Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:00:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you've already seen it, you probably know the story. The HPX-170 is one of Panasonic's new P2 offerings, shedding it's MiniDV baggage while checking off wish list features HVX users have been compiling. The 170 is a solid state system. This is huge for me. I'm so sick of tape ... http://www.makefilmwork.com/2008/04/16/why-i-love-the-new-hpx-170/ Today Apple announced that Final Cut Server is finally shipping. Final Cut Server was announced nearly a year ago, with a projected ship date sometime last fall. That didn't happen, and it looks like the extra time may have been spent sprucing up the user interface. It appears that Server carries ... http://www.makefilmwork.com/2008/04/08/final-cut-server-and-the-future-of-final-cut-studio/ Photo by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid If you're not already familiar with B&H I suspect you soon will be. For many it's considered the Mecca of the imaging community. Countless travelers make the journey north every year, just to stand among the superior camera technology. I once heard that at ... http://www.makefilmwork.com/2008/03/25/bh-gives-you-hot-tips/ I'm not an After Effects user, but that doesn't mean I don't love seeing what people can do with it. Video Copilot is one of my favorite After Effects centered sites for viewing the latest and greatest from some talented artists. They consistently deliver fantastic tutorials (that Motion people can ... http://www.makefilmwork.com/2008/03/05/video-copilot/ The most publicized feature in Mac OS 10.5 Leopard can also be one of the most useful for your Final Cut Studio workfow. This, of course, is Time Machine. My setup right now consists of two external hard drives. Both are 500GB FireWire 800 drives. One is for capture and all ... http://www.makefilmwork.com/2008/03/01/including-time-machine-in-your-final-cut-studio-workflow/ Final Cut Pro is a huge application. It has loads of options, oodles of customizable features, and even a talking yak. For real. It also has something called Media Manager. What does it do? Lots. Why should you care? Because if you're like me and you do all of your video work ... http://www.makefilmwork.com/2008/02/22/the-media-manager/ If you're the kind of person that spends any amount of time in Final Cut Studio, and you're also the kind of person that went out and bought Apple's 30in Cinema Display, chances are good you're somebody who is a fan of keyboard shortcuts. So here's one I think you'll ... http://www.makefilmwork.com/2008/02/16/quickie-soundtrack-pro/ You probably already know this, but I also work on a podcast called SOLMI. If you haven't seen it, it's a (mostly) weekly comedy podcast made up of scripted episodes, a-la sketch comedy. Although I don't really think we've every really called ourselves sketch comedy people. We don't know what ... http://www.makefilmwork.com/2008/02/08/solmi-makes-film-slam-debut/ If you've ever tried to do it yourself, keying DV footage can ruin your day. The out-of-the-box offerings in Final Cut Studio 2 don't really cut it, and trying to make a keyer yourself is, to put it mildly, insane. After spending some fruitless nights with the keyers in Final ... http://www.makefilmwork.com/2008/01/31/dvmatte-pro-3/ A few months back I decided it would be neat to have a tape logging system that I could take with me while I was out shooting something. I took some time to get into Ruby on Rails, and eventually Tapes was born. Tapes is free, iPhone compatible, and works pretty ... http://www.makefilmwork.com/2008/01/23/tapes-for-iphone/