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Movement on Stills

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Shane Ross discusses creating movement on stills in Final Cut Pro. Many people call this the Ken Burns effect, but Shane wants to point out that this effect is been used long before Ken Burns made it so popular. In fact, Shane would like to someday have it called the 'Shane Ross Effect.' Click here for video tutorial  Read More

DVCPRO Frame Rate Converter

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Shane Ross discusses taking 60p footage shot with DVCPRO HD and slowing it down to 23.98 so that it's slow motion. Please note that this only worksif you are working in a 23.98 or 29.97 timeline. Click here for video tutorial Read More

Smooth Cam Node

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Contributor Michael Mench begins a series called ''Shake is Money'' in which he will discuss how Final Cut Pro editors can quickly learn how to integrate Shake into their workflow for added flexibilty in the studio. In this first video in the series, Michael demonstrates the 'Smooth Cam Node' in Shake. Click here for video tutorial  Read More

Slow Motion

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
In this second video in the series, ''Shake is Money'', Creative Cow Contributor Michael Mench demonstrates Slow Motion in Shake. Click here for video tutorial  Read More

Smoothing DV Jaggies

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Andrew Shanks demonstrates cleaning up DV/HDV chroma compression artifacts in Shake to allow for better keying. Click here for video tutorial  Read More

Keying 101: Edge, Core & Garbage Mattes

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
Going beyond the one click keying technique most beginners use, this tutorial from Creative Cow Leader Andrew Shanks shows a common technique and includes tips for other ways to tackle pulling a key. Click here for video tutorial  Read More

Keying 101: Light Wrap and Edge Blending

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
This tutorial from Creative Cow Leader Andrew Shanks shows common techniques to better blend your keyed foreground element with the background plate. Click here for video tutorial  Read More

Keying 101: Spill Suppression

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
This tutorial from Creative Cow Leader Andrew Shanks demonstrates various common approaches to getting rid of colour spill after keying. Click here for video tutorial  Read More

Motion Tutorial – “Cops” Revisited

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
Learn how to obscure the identities of your on-camera subjects. This tutorial was originally produced in 2000 using Final Cut Pro and now gets a complete makeover using Motion's toolset. Click here for video tutorial Read More

Final Cut Pro Tutorial – In the Spotlight

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
Learn how to call attention to an individual in a photograph, illuminate text in a book, or emphasize an item on the screen for a training demo. Click here for video tutorial  Read More