Blog Posts For The ‘Mac’ Category



 Save, Revert, Restore in Final Cut Pro – Oh My!

  By Diana Weynand

In the Final Cut Pro File menu, there are 5 different options you can use to either save your changes in open projects or bring a project back to life. Let’s take a closer look at these options.

 
 

 Minimum Specs To Successfully Run Autodesk Smoke on Mac OSX

  By Barry Goch

Event though Autodesk lists some heavy specs required for Smoke on Mac there are ways to run Smoke on Mac with a much less powerful machine.

 
 

 Using X264 Plugin In Compressor

  By Andy Beach

I admit it, I’ve had a love hate relationship with Compressor pretty much since day one. I love the convenience of having an app tied directly to the timeline for encoding, but have always felt a little disappointed by the options and quality of what was offered for encoding that it offered.

 
 

 Helpful Tips for Getting Started in Final Cut Pro 7

  By Diana Weynand

If you’re new to Final Cut, or even if you’ve been using it for a while, there are a bunch of tips to remember that I’d like to share with you that will help you speed up your editing session or even teach a thing or two. Here’s my first ten.

 
 

 Multimedia File Analyzer For The Mac

  By Andy Beach

When you encode video for a living, you invariably spend a chunk of time trying to reverse engineer the work of others. How the heck did they make that trailer? What makes that You Tube clip look so good.