Articles Around The Web

At kenstone.net:

• Ken Stone details the advantages and how to setup the popular Matrox MXO for monitoring SD and HD video with color accuracy on an Apple Cinema Display or other LCD display. Its not only a great article for how to use it, but its also helpful for knowing why we would need it.
  
• The Language of Film is an excellent article by Michael Wohl that's more like a novella than an article. For anyone looking to increase their knowledge of the craft of editing, and how to understand how everything fits together to aid in successful storytelling, this is a must-read.

• Yours truly (Andrew Balis) has written an article that covers how to work with different types of video sources in Color, which covers four main workflows, depending on your particular needs- Color Workflows With Different Types of Sources.

• Ken Stone reviews The HD Survival Handbook (2008) by Philips Hodgetts which covers a wealth of information on HD technologies, camera formats, how to work with HD, and alot more.

   
At lafcpug.org (LA Final Cut Pro User's Group):

• Philip Hodgetts reviews the CalDigit HDPro, a RAID drive system that connects directly to a PCIe slot in a G5 or MacPro.

• What about encoding? Brian Gary reviews Cinema Craft Encoder MP Plug-In for Compressor 3.

• Johan Polhem writes about creating alpha channels in Shake. Here are Part 1 and Part 2 of his tutorial.

• Jared Picune discusses options for high-end video storage systems in the article HDPro vs Xserve RAID.

   
At creativecow.net:

• In the article The Forbidden Kingdom: Jackie Chan. Jet Li. FCP  Zed Saeed of DigitalFilm Tree discusses the post workflow they designed for the feature film utilizing Final Cut Pro.

• In this video tutorial by Stephen Smith, Stephen's Five FCP Time Saving Tips, learn how to work with Motion Master Templates, perform a Swap Edit and more.

   
At 2-pop.com:

• Oliver Peters outlines your workflow options in the article Post Workflow Options for the RED ONE Camera.

   
At Digital Heaven:

• In this follow-up video tutorial (part 2 of 2), Martin Baker of Digital Heaven shows how to use Paste Attributes to paste "content" to replace footage in a video composite in Final Cut Pro. This is Episode 10 of Hot Tips.

   
At Pro Video Coalition:

• Software Scope Shootout is an article by Steve Hullfish that does what the name suggests. He tests and analyzes different software video scopes and how they compare with hardware video scopes.

• Adam Wilt writes an interesting article called How Important is Resolution? in which he looks at just how critical (or not) is the ever-driving push for higher resolution for acquisition when it comes to HD TV viewing.

• Mark Spenser in conjunction with Ripple Training has a handy quick tip called Motion Quick Tip: Importing Illustrator and Photoshop Files.
  
  
Past Articles Still Worth Mentioning:

At kenstone.net:  David Saraceno shows us some options for working with tapeless based media like from P2 cards in Three Tools for Tapeless Video Media Backup/Editing.

At kenstone.net: Mark Spenser details how to animate photos in the Ken Burns' style in a video tutorial Ken Burns Redux - Putting Your Photos in Motion.

At kenstone.net: Philip Hodgetts writes about When to stay in the native codec of the source, and when to convert to something else. This article can answer a lot of confusion with the myriad of choices we're offered when working in Final Cut Pro.