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THE DOLL and LOUISVILLE short films will be screened THIS week.

For details go to this Facebook link Please Login or Register to see the link.… This is the actor I referred to in my January meeting minutes.

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Film Descriptions:

The Doll (2008, 20 min) A young barber faces the temptation of avenging his father’s murder in Dante James’ powerful short film, based on a short story by turn-of-the-century writer Charles W. Chestnutt, starring Clayton LeBouef. Washington, D.C. premiere.

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Louisville (2005, 18 min) Fathers, sons, and grandsons click and clash in this short film featuring Andre Braugher, produced by Joy and Scott Kecken/The Film Foundry.

Introduced by actor and producer Please Login or Register to see the link.

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Given the travel conditions, it will be extremely difficult to get anywhere this week.

Stay tuned to this site for any last minute updates due to the snow events wreaking havoc on transportation options…

Thanks Nnamdi for the update. Clayton and I talked about this before I traveled to San Francisco on Thursday.

Rod – DCFCPUG

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Final Cut Pro – Creating Split Track Audio

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Here’s how to create a split-track audio output from Final Cut Pro

If you need to create split track audio where, say, dialog is on the odd track and music is on the even track, Final Cut makes it easy – if you know where to look. Here’s how:

1. Open the Sequence you want to change.
2. Choose Sequence > Settings > Audio Output
3. From the pop-up menu, select the number of tracks you need to output.
4. Set each track to Dual Mono, which pans both tracks center, as opposed to the default setting of Stereo. (By the way, the gain reduction on each track of -3 dB is appropriate and should be left alone.)

This can be set as a preference or customized for each sequence. Preference settings are set in User Preferences > Audio Outputs. The process is the same.

[See tomorrow's tip for how to assign tracks to an output.]

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Courtesy of Larry Jordan