Final Cut Server Update

Apple today announced that Final Cut Server, a powerful software solution for media asset management and workflow automation, is now shipping. A scaleable server application, Final Cut Server automatically catalogues large collections of assets, allows searching across multiple disks and SAN volumes and enables viewing, annotation and approval of content from anywhere using a PC [...]

Free Apple Motion Templates

Peter Wiggins has released a series of excellent templates for Apple’s Motion application. Motion comes as part of the Final Cut Studio package and has a reasonably steep learning curve. The free templates (outlined below) are a great way to learn Motion as you use it. Peter has asked for readers to submit additional ‘good [...]

Chroma Keying in Final Cut Pro

Chroma keying is a really useful skill to add to your effects creation toolset. The only trouble is that it is rather a black art. That is, keys are rarely achieved with precisely the same settings and it takes skill and practice to do it well.