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Anxious to download this. Perfect timing too since I'm hoping to start production on my next short in August. Just hope the audio editing isn't completely neutered compared to Soundtrack Pro.

Hahaha! Zombonies! Nice. A few random ideas: 1.) Last of Life 2.) Mad to the Bone 3.) Stumbling Block 4.) Nom Nom Nom (ok, j/k) Sorry, I'm horrible at coming up with titles.

After seeing some incoherent art film unfairly win a competition at a local film fest, beating out much better films that actually followed the rules of the fest, I decided to see if I could make something artsy (with a tinge of sarcasm added in). Just shot this with my iPhone in a few minutes...

I don't feel so bad about my production problems. You guys have had it much worse! My worst was back in 2008. We spent 2 months planning a night shoot at a creepy mobile home out in the "country," only to get there to discover the air conditioning condenser unit was dead. It was working 2 weeks...

I've lost count of the number of times I've watched TRON Legacy. Easily over 20. Absolutely loved it. Daft Punk definitely did an amazing job with the soundtrack. Looks great on Blu-ray 3D at home. The movie inspired that sense of wonder, imagining what was over that horizon and at the bottom...

I've edited full HD in Final Cut Pro on an iMac Core 2 Duo (2GB RAM), a Macbook Pro 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo (4GB RAM), and my current iMac i5 quad-core (16GB RAM). FCP always ran smoothly, with just an occasional hiccup on the older iMac. However, the problem has never been the computer, but my cheap...

Your sequence settings are set to 720x480, and thus that is what you are getting when you render it. The video above leaves out an important step that you do BEFORE you start your edit: make sure your sequence settings are correct. The sequence settings should match the resolution of your...

Modern Myth, I feel your pain. This just happened to me. 2 of my leads backed out 2 days before the shoot. I almost gave up, but I just pressed on and did a quick re-write to accomodate the change. And in hindsight, that was a great decision since I found that the scene that I thought they would...

First, check your bitrate. By default, Final Cut sets an automatic bitrate, which is based off of the bitrate of the source material. For Youtube, try setting a constant bitrate (start around 600-1200kbps). That will SIGNIFICANTLY reduce the filesize.

So, they are bringing in Soundtrack Pro and Color inside FCP? If so, I welcome that, providing they still support all the filters and precise editing tools. The background rendering and 64-bit support alone makes this tempting.

Saw Insidious last weekend. Absolutely loved it. It was a creepy ghost story with a slow burn. With the exception of one very fake-looking CGI shot, it felt very old-school, with nods to films like The Entity (it had Barbara Hershey in it) and a little bit of Poltergeist. Definitely seeing this...

Haha, I wish. While I do have the speakers arranged properly and use acoustic treatment in my editing room, it is no where near Dolby-certified. I should have said "I mix in surround and encode to a Dolby Digital 5.1 bitstream and hope it sounds good." I have a calibrated home theater setup...

I cut all my dialog and most ADR in FCP. I'll balance the audio as best as I can there. Too lazy to separate each actor's dialog into it's own track (but that is an excellent idea). Then export that to Soundtrack Pro, where I'll add all the sound FX and music. I'll then send my music, dialog...

I have the HD-DVD Matrix set (yeah, yeah, I know). After I installed the new AVR, I watched the first film and my only thought was "um, where's the LFE channel?" The soundtrack is so weak. So, I rented the Blu-ray version from Netflix, and wow, what a huge improvement! Definitely double-dipping...

Nice setup! Next upgrade (if you don't already have one) is a receiver or amp/pro with HDMI inputs for the high-res audio formats on Blu-ray (like Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio). You will hear a SIGNIFICANT difference compared to the downmixed, compressed bitstream from Dolby Digital / DTS...

Forgot about posting some stills from my melodramatic, cheesy horror short. The mask really gave me the creeps. She was scarier until she started doing some funky dancing between takes. lol

I have recorded audio with the iPad 2 and GarageBand. While I love my Apple stuff, I don't think I'd use this for film audio. Yes, you can have up to 8 tracks, but you can only record to one track at a time. Honestly, I'd get something like a Fostex FR-2 instead. The LE version is the same...

One of my filmmaking friends once asked me how I got that "film" look when we were both using identical cameras (Canon HV20). He said his footage looked like typical "home video", whereas mine had a more cinematic look (comparatively speaking, that is). He didn't believe me when I said I was...

I can definitely see both sides of this. The first few 3D movies I saw in theaters just didn't do much for me. But after Avatar, I started to see the potential. My wife still hates all 3D. It gives her a headache. I recently bought a 3DTV. Only got it since it was on sale and was the same price...

Sorry, missed your post. It's done, but it's going into a festival, so I can't put it online. I can, however, message you with some screenshots of the character in the mask if you want. I just love the way she looked, especially with the super-saturated background lighting that was used. Dario...