Oceana Digital is a recognized leader and systems provider for digital production, post-production, broadcast, new media and high-end digital computing. Oceana represents best-in-class products with a commitment to providing the highest level of customer satisfaction.

Founded on the basis of providing the highest level of customer support in a highly customizable environment. Oceana works with each customer to ensure the best solution for their specific needs.

Oceana combines system expertise and business experience to guarantee that your individual and corporate needs are met. From software upgrades to system installation or full facility integration, we are ready, willing and able to improve your workflow and productivity to enhance your customer’s experience and your bottom line.

Oceana serves the New York and the Eastern US from offices in Manhattan

AUTODESK reseller for SMOKE – editorial finishing software for the MAC OS X Platform. Here is a link to the “About Smoke Essentials Tutorials”

With editorial finishing and visual effects tools, Smoke helps save you time while expanding your creative capabilities, and now it’s available as a software-only application for Mac OS X. Move quickly between creative disciplines in a single application with a comprehensive creative toolset that spans editorial, color correction, paint, cleanup, titling, 3D compositing and finishing. Take a closer look at Smoke and see how you can differentiate your facility in a crowded market.

11 May 2010 – Oceana Digital is our featured guest
8 June 2010 – AJA is back for a post NAB highlights update
13 July 2010 – DC goes to Toon Town – featured guest is one of our own – Charlotte Rinderknecht, President of Studio Kinate (animation studio in Fairfax Virginia)

SAVE THE DATE and come out to support YOUR usersgroup! Spread the word…

Rod – DCFCPUG

Motion – Matching Fonts Between Motion and Final Cut Pro

Inspector

If you’ve tried to match a font in Final Cut to a font you are using in Motion, you’ve probably been surprised that they don’t match.

I did some research and discovered that while Motion and Final Cut calculate the font SIZE the same, but they don’t calculate font TRACKING the same.

To match fonts between the applications, create a text clip in Final Cut with the font you want to use and set the tracking to 1.8 in the Controls tab of Final Cut Pro. They won’t match perfectly, but they will match pretty darn close. So close, that if I took a screen shot at 50% scale, you would not see a difference.