Color Tutorial on Creative Cow

Creative Cow (www.creativecow.net) has posted a video tutorial for Auto adjustments in Apple Color and how to make a subtle change to the video incomparison with Final Cut Pro 3-way color corrector and it seems the whole new world out there for indie film makers, Thanks to Apple for bundling Color in Final Cut Studio. Walter [...]

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iPhone in India

According to Apple press release iPhone will be available in Asia in late part of 2008. Which network will tie-up with Apple in India.I love to have either Hutch or Airtel to tie up with iPhone.
Which carrier you like to tie up with Apple in India.
Post your suggestions in comments.

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Final Cut Studio 2 Update

Apple has released software update for their Pro Apps today for Final Cut Pro 6.0.1, Sound TracK Pro 2.0.1,Color 1.0.1 and Compressor 3.0.1.
Final Cut Pro 6.0.1 contains several updates, including:
- Improved stability
- Support for the AVCHD format through the Log and Transfer interface
- FXPlug improvements with Motion and third-party applications
- Improved master template support
- Resolution [...]

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Compressor 3 faster encoding setup

Mike Curtis of HDforIndies.com has posted article on how to setup the system preferences to enable faster encoding for Compressor 3.
Courtesy Mike Curtis of HDforIndies for the below images.
System Preferences
….here’s System Preferences
QMaster icon
For all images step by step please visit here

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Apple MacBook Pro Update for Final Cut Pro 6

Apple today update MacBook Pro line of products with 2.2GHz and 2.4GHz Santa Rosa processor, 2GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 128MB/256MB of GDDR3 SDRAM and dual-link DVI, LED Display with 1920X1200, 802.11n wireless.

MacBook Pro Models
15″ 2.2 GHz Macbook Pro
2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
1440 x 900 resolution
2GB memory
120GB hard drive1
8x double-layer SuperDrive
NVIDIA [...]

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FCP Rescue for Final Cut Pro 6 for free

FCP Rescue for Final Cut Pro 4, 4.5, 5 and 6
Anders Holck Peterson of FCP Rescue has posted today FCP Rescue for Final Cut Pro 6. What FCP Rescues does is it can rescue, backup and trash FCP prefs. The application is free and if you like to donate him pls. do here by clicking [...]

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Silverlight brings Windows Media Streaming for MAC

Silverlight is Microsoft’s cross-platform, Flash alternative, which is now available in beta for both Safari and Firefox. Eddie Hargreaves point out in Apple blog post that Silverlight will return official Microsoft support for Windows Media streaming to the Mac, including HD video support up to 720p.
Microsoft stopped development of the Windows Media Player for Mac [...]

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Boris FX Plug-ins support for Final Cut Studio 2

Today i received mail from Boris FX Support team for their support for Final Cut Studio 2 immediately.

“Boris FX plug-ins are immediately available for the new Apple Final Cut Studio 2 release. Owners of Boris Continuum Complete 4.1, Boris RED 4.1, Boris FX 9.1, and Boris Graffiti 5.1 can move to Apple Final Cut Pro [...]

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Avid Xpress Pro 5.7 in Mac Pro and PC

Avid Xpress Pro 5.7 installed on Mac Pro seems to work well without any issues. Avid has sorted out the reverse playback issue of source clips in source monitor in this version.
In PC we had the issue of hanging. System hangs when the resolution motion is toggled to full green mode or choosing DV source [...]

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Final Cut Studio 2 on MacBook

Final Cut Studio 2 full set install requires 55GB of Hard Disk space.
Limited edition of Final Cut studio 2 except Motion 3 (which require graphics card support either Nvidia or ATI present in Mac Book Pro or Mac Pro and not intel 945GMA graphics present in MacBook) works well. As reported by Mike Curtis of [...]

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