Autodesk Smoke for Mac OS X Beta Sight By Alexandre Domingue, owner, Post-Moderne, Montreal
We at Post-Moderne were approached by our fellow Montrealers at Autodesk in September 2009 to see if we'd be interested in beta testing Smoke for Mac OS X...
Using Motion Templates in Apple Final Cut Pro, Part 2 By Jan Ozer
Back again working with Apple Motion. When I last left you, you had just finished customizing a Motion template in Final Cut Pro. You liked the effect, but decided that you wanted to change the font and font color, activities that you can only perform in Motion...
Editing for Slow Motion By Jan Ozer
To illustrate the process of editing for slow motion, I'll work through two test cases using two editors--Apple Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere Pro--and using footage shot with a JVC GY-HM700U and a Canon EOS 7D...
A Decade of Vanguards, #7 By Franklin McMahon
Different postproduction suites, such as Apple's Final Cut Studio and Adobe's Creative Suite, have by and large evolved in the same ways...
Sundance Production: Casino Jack and the United States of Money By Trevor Boyer
The new documentary Casino Jack and the United States of Money, directed by Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) got a very timely premiere on Sunday at the Sundance Festival...
Using Motion Templates in Apple Final Cut Pro, Part 1 By Jan Ozer
After shooting, color-correcting, editing, sweetening the audio, and performing other similarly time-consuming project tasks, it's intimidating to think about adding customized animated text...
Apple Soundtrack Pro Tutorial By Jan Ozer
As with video, it's hard to capture audio perfectly. Fortunately, Apple Soundtrack Pro makes it easy to correct many common problems. In this article, I'll detail how to remove pops and clicks from your audio file, boost volume via normalization, and remove background noise...
Microsoft Windows 7 Test Drive, Part 3 By Jan Ozer
Back again with Microsoft Windows 7 tests. I received the 64-bit Windows XP system hard drive from Puget Systems I mentioned earlier this week and ran my comparative tests. I'll include the test descriptions (again) for those who jumped directly to these results...
Microsoft Windows 7 Test Drive, Part 2 By Jan Ozer
Last issue, I wrote about my experience installing Microsoft Windows 7 on a Windows XP 64-bit system. In this issue, I’ll compare the rendering performance of Windows 7 with that of Windows Vista...
Optimizing Encoding Performance with Apple Final Cut Pro, Part 2 By Jan Ozer
If you have a multiple-processor computer, you can use Apple Qmaster to help spread the encoding load over those multiple processors, which can dramatically boost encoding performance...