FCPX EFFECTS: Blur Focus

February 9th, 2012 by admin under Effects, Final Cut Pro X, Tutorials

I have created a new effect. I call it Blur Focus. For this effect, I spent some time to make sure it had plenty of functionality. So this effect has plenty of rigs and on screen controls to add functionality. Let look at the controls: First off is Enable Tint. – This is a check [...]

AVCHD Camcorders and Extracting 5.1 Surround Sound

January 18th, 2012 by admin under Blog, Tutorials

So a post on FCP.CO was asking how to import footage from an AVCHD camera that shoots with 5.1 surround sound. So after a little looking around I found that both iMovie and Final Cut Pro X, well and Final Cut Pro 7 do not support importing the 5.1 audio. The reason for this is the Apple’s [...]

Glass Slice Effect For Final Cut Pro X

January 15th, 2012 by admin under Blog, Tutorials

Tutorial Video for Glass Slice Effect     Here is a horizontal slice effect for Final Cut Pro X. You can use this slice effect on any photo or video, it adds a slice of the same video on top of the one you apply it too. With the effect you can control the size [...]

FCPX: Blend Modes on Storylines

January 6th, 2012 by admin under Blog, Tutorials

On Creative Cow today, someone was asking about blend modes and story lines. Well actually it was they had a connected clip with a blend mode then added a transition and BAM the blend mode no longer worked. Well I’ve run into this before and never thought to say anything about it because well it [...]