We welcome HDTracks as a active sponsor of the DC Final Cut Pro User Group family.

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We welcome ToolFarm as a active sponsor of the DC Final Cut Pro User Group family.

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We welcome APress as a active sponsor of the DC Final Cut Pro User Group family.

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Rodney – DCFCPUG

We welcome G-Tech as a active sponsor of the DC Final Cut Pro User Group family.

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We welcome Crowd Control as a active sponsor of the DC Final Cut Pro User Group family.

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Rodney – DCFCPUG

Watch Walter’s talk – Click here!

At the FCPUG Supermeet in London, June 25th 2009, Walter takes to the stage to talk about Tetro, the latest film written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The conversation extends to other work Murch has done and reveals the heart of modern day filmmaking using Final Cut Pro as the editor. Walter has won three Academy Awards: best sound for Apocalypse Now (1979) and a double Oscar, best sound and best picture editing, for the English Patient (1996). He has been nominated for Academy Awards on six other occasions.

Walter Murch’s career began in the 1960′s when he was editing and mixing sound with Francis Ford Coppola’s The Rain People (1969). Subsequently, he worked on George Lucas’s THX 1138, American Graffiti and Coppola’s The Godfather before editing picture and mixing sound on Coppola’s The Conversation, for which he received an Academy Award nomination in sound. Murch also mixed the sound for Coppola’s The Godfather Part II which was released in 1974, the same year as The Conversation. In 1985 he directed his one film, Return to Oz, which he co-wrote with Gill Dennis.

Other credits include: Julia (1977), Apocalypse Now (1979), Ghost (1990), The Godfather, Part III (1990), The English Patient (1996), Jarhead (2005), and most recently Youth Without Youth (2007).

Walter has won three Academy Awards: best sound for Apocalypse Now (1979) and a double Oscar, best sound and best picture editing, for the English Patient (1996). He has been nominated for Academy Awards on six other occasions.

Murch has earned a reputation as being innovative and daring with his approach to technology. He used Final Cut Pro to edit Cold Mountain in 2003, at a time when Final Cut Pro still had to prove itself suitable for feature film production.

[Source: MacVideo]

Enjoy!

Rodney – DCFCPUG

We welcome Design Pro Video (DPV) as a active sponsor of the DC Final Cut Pro User Group family.

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Rodney – DCFCPUG

[Source: Ken Stone.net - Interview with Academy Award winning editor, Chris Dickens]

If you like the film, check out five part series posted on Larry Jordan’s HDFilmTools.com site.  Larry interviews the “triple crown” winning editor for his work on Slumdog Millionaire. See some of the stills from the film at Ken Stone’s Final Cut Pro Website. Larry sponsored us earlier in the year when he came to DC for this training seminars.

Enjoy!

Rod – DCFCPUG

We welcome FocalPress Books as an active sponsor of the DC Final Cut Pro User Group family.

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Rodney – DCFCPUG

Given the move from Carbon to Cocoa 64 in FCS, the rewrite of FCS 3 will be interesting to watch for the Snow Leopard release of OS X. Read more at the Apple Insider at this link.

Another article goes further in explaining the general version breakdown in the new upcoming suite:

Final Cut Pro 7.0: for real-time editing for DV, SD, HD and film.
Motion 4.0: for real-time motion graphics and animation design.
Soundtrack Pro 3.0: for advanced audio post production and sound design.
Color 1.5: for real-time professional color grading.
Compressor 3.5: for high-performance encoding with output in various formats.
DVD Studio Pro 4.2.2: for professional authoring, encoding and burning of DVDs.

The codename for the upcoming suite is SIDEWAYS and will be about ~3 gigabytes (2.8 GB image)

Rod – DCFCPUG