Some sample clips and behind the scenes video of the 2012 Chain Reaction Cycles TV commercial for Century TV’s ‘The Cycle Show’. Thanks to Shove-it Design for the behind the scenes video!
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The Speed Booster adaptor from Metabones comes is various forms. The sample footage here uses the Canon EF to Sony E mount version. The Speed Booster definitely is a step-up in terms of design from the Metabones mki. Tolerances have been changed on the mounting rings so there is less play between the lens and [...]
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Video of the 2012 Giant’s Causeway Coast Sportive cycling event.
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Every once in a while you come across a product that just works, and works well. Neat video noise reduction is one of them. It comes in the form of a plugin for all of the most popular editing and motion graphics packages including After Effets, FCPX, Premier, and FCP7. The results are astonishing and, [...]
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I was working on a project recently where I was bringing in some rendered After Effects layers with alpha channels. I layered the imported ProRes 4444 files in the FCPX timeline but I was getting a weird black line around the mask blur. It turns out the problem is way FCPX interpolates alpha channels. By [...]
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I was recently asked to edit a commercial shot with a Phantom high speed camera, so was presented with the task of figuring out some kind of work-flow. The commercials had to be delivered on a tight deadline so whatever method I used, it had to be fast. After a bit of research, GlueTools Phantom [...]
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Canon UK and Ireland were kind enough to invite me down to their video demo day in Dublin. They had a 5d mkii and an XF305 there, but the product that I was interested in was the C300 EOS Digital Cinema Camera. I had already been very interested in purchasing a C300 but really needed [...]
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A video produced for 26extreme, the event organisers of the 2011 Causeway Coast Marathon.
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I just recently purchased a Sony HX9v compact camera so I can take some photos while out on my bike. The camera also shots 1080p video at 50fps which is amazing for this price. I just had to test this out, so took a mixed bag of shots out and about Belfast. The video quality [...]
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Apple’s Motion 5 makes it easy to create filters for FCPX so I decided to have a go myself. I’ve made three so far: Alpha channels, giving a retro look as default Letterbox with offset and opacity control Simple levels adjustment If you’re interested you can download them below. To make your own you need [...]
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This is a quick tip and not necessarily the best way of managing multiple versions of edits but so far I find it works well. Just like you can audition specific clips in the FCPX timeline you can also audition a group of clips and also a full edit. Just select all the clips in [...]
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Update July 20 2012 Since it’s initial release, FCPX has had some welcomed improvements in performance and usability including the ability to reconnect footage. Why Apple did not include this in the first release I do not know, but it’s now there, so if you have any unconnected media it’s fairly straightforward to reconnect using [...]
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