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BBC TV Fast Train

Fantastic, well organised day on Wednesday. I had great chats with the TV in the Wild Masterclass people. Good to be on emailing terms with Dale Templar, Olly Steeds and John Conroy. They are all interested in the OUT (Open University of Tanzania) project that I'm involved with, and had some great advice to help it move forward. Watch this space as they say.

Also got some really good training on the Canon XF 300, production workflows and a 2 hour session with Brigit Osborne of Hard…

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Posted by Barbara Keating on May 18, 2012 at 15:01

BBC TV Fast Train

I'm very excited to be going to this event in London next week. We'll be catching up on the latest industry workflows and going to masterclasses...and a cheeky network drinks sesh later on of course! Can't be all work in that there London.

Posted by Barbara Keating on May 10, 2012 at 19:25

Motion recipes and Level 2 FCPX ?

Well, the ball has started rolling, with requests for text effects and masking over video.

Gunfire is another one!

Keep 'em coming, it's early days yet!

Anything you always wanted a simple explanation for in Motion 5 folks!

Level 2 FCPX is now available, and it's a really nice course. Well structured with a lot on colour correction and audio features, more about using compound clips for complex workflows, truly lovely multicam....on and…

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Posted by Barbara Keating on May 1, 2012 at 17:30

BECTU camera training ?

BECTU are doing camera training peer to peer on the Canon CF 300. WOuld anyone like to this kind of event as part of the Toon group meets ?

Any other requests ?

Posted by Barbara Keating on April 30, 2012 at 20:43

Links for general cheery news! I will keep on updating folks

For the confused about editing terminology ;-)

XDCAM Plugin news via Christina Jones

Everyone who is having a problem with ingesting from XDCAM memory card based and are having to use XDCAM Transfer / export your footage out then import it into FCPX, Sony has created a PLUG IN for this problem.

Now you can just use the import camera option and it will open up all your clips sort of like imovie. You can select your clips, create in and outs, and while importing you can still scrub through them. You can choose the "project" or create a new project for your clips to go into. It will directly go into FCPX wrapped as an mov. But it stays native.
This is only memory card based.

If you are using optical disc, you still need to go through XDCAM Browser. However, now they have added a feature where you use a shortcut and go straight into final cut after you have imported into XDCAM Browser, rather than having to export then re-import into final cut. A new feature, is that through XDCAM Browser since you are going right into final cut after, is you can store meta-data, water marks, etc. within your clips that you have added in XDCAM Browser and it will transfer over with your clips.

This is helpful when you have assistant editors / interns and you want your editor to find clips easier / faster.

All of the upgrades are free on the sony download site.

Ripple Training Callout plugin looks useful

Blackmagic Cinema Camera review A camera made by people who understand post. Deffo worth a look.

ClipExporter is in the app store see a demo on Vimeo

TWIXTOR for FCPX

Hiding events and projects in FCPX so everything doesn't load each time

Handheld 4K, yes please ! http://www.studiodaily.com/main/news/headlines/13621.html

http://youtu.be/nFjzN1pHvR4

FCPX Update !

Better permissions repair for Lion!

Transition Pack for X from Digital Heaven

Really good high end panel discussion

FCP 7 on release again!