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Two lots of Alexis Van Hurkman on BlackMagic Design's Resolve, MacBreak Studio & MacBreak Studio Live!
The first part of Alexis's introduction to BlackMagic Design's DaVinci Resolve was extremely popular. He's back with part two of three and we've also posted his appearance on the live version of MacBreak Studio where he goes into more detail about the job of a colorist.
An introduction to DaVinci Resolve Part One on MacBreak Studio
Steve Martin is joined by Alexis Van Hurkman this time on MacBreak Studio to talk about Blackmagic Design's DaVinci Resolve. A great 15 minutes worth of information.
Final Cut Studio 3 plugin bundle on offer from Nattress
Graeme Nattress has announced a specially priced bundle of FCP plugins for sale. Grab a potential saving of over $250 on these FCS3 products.
Final Cut Pro X grade presets from Color Grading Central
When Denver Riddle from Color Grading Central posted his excellent 15 part grading tutorial, we overlooked the range of presets he had made for FCPX. He's offering free presets as well as a $49 pack of looks.
New FCPX screengrabs leak out, more speculation starts
15/6/11 Ripple Training Inc. issue cease and desist letters, MortGoldman2 twitter account suspended
14/6/11 MortGoldman2 continues to publish more screengrabs of FCPX
13/6/11 Another update. The owner of the screengrabs has contacted us or a second time to say that they images were obtained by·unauthorised access to his server. ·We will be more than happy to pass on any information you might have to help find the culprit.
A bit of a sad update. We have been contacted by the author of the screengrabs and have been asked to take them down. In the spirit of trying to keep the peace within the FCP ecosystem, we have decided not to continue displaying them or mention the originating company. However the genie has long left the bottle, we picked up the story some 3 hours after the pictures were uploaded and tweeted by MortGoldman2 (Family Guy character) to the world. The grabs were still there last time we looked but no doubt will be removed at some point. We also noted that MacRumours were running the story, so if you must see the grabs then please head over to their article.
You should never check your emails before you go to bed. Thank you to everybody who mailed in saying these new FCPX screengrabs have appeared online late on Sunday night. Doubtless more speculation from everybody tomorrow! More pics and links to original highres grabs after the break
FCPX and Motion 5 or X - Analysing the screengrabs. Will we be able to build our own custom effects and transitions?
On taking a closer look at the screengrabs from yesterday, we found out some interesting new functionality. Can we build our own effects, generators and transitions with the Motion5(X) FCPX partnership?
Back to the craft. An informative article about color grading from Oliver Peters
With all the articles about FCPX floating about the internet, it is nice to get back to the craft of what we do. Oliver Peters does exactly that with this informative article on color grading.
Walter Biscardi on the Baselight Final Cut Pro plugin - "It's just crazy good"
Walter knows his stuff, he grades using Color on a regular basis and has produced a top selling Color instructional DVD. He managed to squeeze some demo time at NAB to take a look at Baselight and the FCP plugin.
Welcome to the new Final Cut Pro X - On the App Store in June for $299
FCPX - It was the news we've been waiting a few years for but it was worth it. Awesome, jaw dropping call it what you want FCPX (10) takes editing to a new level. All the new features after the break.
Filmlight have announced a Baselight colour grading plugin for Final Cut Pro
Hot news indeed. This plugin gives editors direct access to Baselight functionality within Final Cut Pro. You can render the Baselight settings within Final Cut or export them as an XML list to load into a Baselight system. Could this just last 4 days before the new FCP is announced?
Use the best broadcast safe filter in Final Cut Studio
Walter Biscardi shows us how to use the broadcast safe filter in Color to get your Final Cut Pro timeline legal.
Free grading presets for Color
This is a library of user created presets for Apple's software Color. From coloruser.net. The presets listed here are stored in the .colorgrade format. It's a community of color accolytes so as well as allowing you to download for free, they also want you to upload your own color presets. You can recreate the 'magic hour', get that greenish Kodak 400 look or go for Film Noir. Lots of Canon 5d Mark II Presets available.
AirGrade - Control colour correction from your iPhone
We all got a bit excited when we saw this free App from the VFX tracking experts The Pixel Farm. More info & download links after the break.
Control Color on your iPad with vWave-Lite
vWave-Lite allows you to control Color as distributed in Final Cut Studio.
