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When I was in the UK late last year and I saw this clip from Apple UK that I thought our members would enjoy.

Peter is a friend of DCFCPUG as he is the brains behind Idustrial Revolution’s plugins…. His claim to fame is his skills as a MASTER FCP EDITOR.  He’s very well-known in the UK as an editor of sporting video. It easy to see that Peter has a passion for the edit and a penchant for sports in general as you will find his work at the snooker table, Tour de France and yatchting events to name a few.  Peter has a strong eye for the art of storytelling and invoking emotion from his work. In this MEET THE EDITOR, Apple UK discussion, he shares tidbits about working with sport footage on a tight deadlines, editing to audio, and so on. It’s a very interesting video and interview that we can all learn something from and apply in the edit bay.

So without further delay, enjoy Peter talking about his editing of the Tour de France and his workflows over time.

Cheers!

Awesome job, Peter…

Watch it here !

Enjoy!

Rodney – DCFCPUG Leader

With Snow Leopard (10.6), Apple adopted the standard usage of terabyte (TB) which equals 1,000,000,000,000 bytes = 10-to-the-12th bytes. Hard drive manufacturers have always specified drive capacity with standard usage which will now match what Mac OS X reports.


WIth Leopard (10.5) and previous versions of Mac OS X, Apple used the binary interpretation of terabyte, (technically a tebibyte) = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes = 2-to-the-40th bytes. Windows also uses binary interpretation.


Under Snow Leopard, drive capacity will be shown per drive specifications. For example, under OS X 10.6, a 1TB drive will appear as a 1000 GB capacity drive (but under OS X 10.5 as a 909 GB capacity drive).


For additional information see http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2419.


What does this mean in real terms? Do I get an immediate increase in storage space?
Formatting or actual capacity does not change at all, only the \f1 reported\f0 capacity because of the change from base-2 to base-10.


Should I reformat the drives before attempting to plug in a previously 10.5 formatted unit into a 10.6 machine or vice versa?
Reformatting is not necessary at all.


What happens if I plug a 10.6 formatted unit into a 10.5 machine or vice versa?
The volume is seen normally. It is completely compatible and can be transparently moved back and forth.

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Martin, looks like a great environment to design, build and manage iPhone apps.  Can’t wait to see what you do for the iPad!

System Requirements

• Mac computer with Intel Processor, 1 Ghz or faster
• Mac OS X 10.6 (SNOW LEOPARD) or newer.
• 512 MB RAM
• 100 MB free disk space on your hard drive

Rodney – DCFCPUG Leader

The Apple User Group Resources website is now updated. This new and improved blog is also WordPress based like our DCFCPUG site.  Take a look and you might find a discount or two.

If you find one with a password requirement, just let me know as I am your ambassador to Apple for these discounts.

Rodney
DCFCPUG Leader

Final Cut Pro – Changing A Clip to Anamorphic in the Browser

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Yesterday’s tip showed how to change the display of an anamorphic clip in QuickTime. However, sometimes a clip gets imported into Final Cut and Final Cut does not realize that it needs to be 16:9.

Remember, what anamorphic video does is change the shape of the pixels so that, rather than displaying an image as 4:3, it displays it as 16:9. The pixel counts are the same for both 4:3 and 16:9.

If you haven’t yet edited the clips to the Timeline, they are easy to fix in Final Cut Pro’s Browser:

• Select the clip, or clips, you want to change in the Browser.
• Scroll to the right in the Browser until you final a column headed: Anamorphic.
• Holding down the Control key, click in the Anamorphic column for a clip you want to change and select Yes.

Note: If you just have a single clip you want to change, just click in the Anamorphic column without holding down Control.

If you have already edited the clip to the Timeline:

• Select the clip
• Go to Edit > Item Properties ? Format (press Command+9)
• Scroll down till you see the Anamorphic line and check in the appropriate column.