Sean John model Isaac J. Sullivan aka IZEK lands a leading role as Markus in the new movie “At the Top of the Pyramid.”

The story shadows a teenage cheerleader, and her adventures in discovering courage, trust and first love.

I worked for Cirina as her lead audio editor for the Las Vegas based, NABshow Digital Production BuZZ this year!  Cirina is also the Producer for the Digital Production BuZZ featuring Larry Jordan. Also George Kennedy worked as a roving Reporter and Xhibo Lai work as an audio editor rounding out the DCFCPUG support to the event.

Cirina Catania is on board to direct from a script penned by Richard Willis Jr. Karen Bolt, Melvin Butters for SLAMGATE PRODUCTIONS in association with Elkins Entertainment will produce. Mark A. Peterson will serve as Executive Producer.

Shooting is schueduled to begin in June 2010 in Fairfax, VA.

Issac recently appeared in the Off-Broadway play “The Road” and walked in Michael Bastian, Live Mechanics and St. Wobil Collection’s New York Fashion Week 2010 shows.

The model/actor will next appear in a layout in Blue Magazine and Apollo Male Fitness & Fashion Magazine.

Rodney Mitchell – DCFCPUG Leader

Wanna see the pics… become “friends” with our DCFCPUG Facebook page to see the album of Exotic Cars!
Hey, its Friday… have an awesome day in the Edit Bay…

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Click HERE to download your digital, iPad ready magazine now…
Read your very own’s PUG Leader’s article in this year’s magazine!!!

Check out the digital SUPER Magazine… We are headlining the opening article for the contributors this year!
Looking forward to seeing everyone at the May DCFCPUG meeting in Washington DC!

P.S: Janie James Briggs…. this is for you!

Rodney DCFCPUG Leader

In case you missed it, our meeting last month was mentioned on the training site, LYNDA.COM.

Here is the link, click HERE.

Enjoy,

Rodney

Due to Autodesk availability of their top talent, and my desire to bring the best to the DC metro area, we are adjusting the “Smoke on a Mac” meeting to another month. Tentatively, that new date will be 10 August.
Once I close on the swap, check the EVENT calendar in the LEFT sidebar on this page for the most current updates for our May event.

I have contacted our August speaker to consider swapping dates, so stay tuned…

Respectfully,

Rodney Mitchell
President and Apple Ambassador
DC Final Cut Pro User Group (DCFCPUG)

P.S: Don’t forget to read the SUPERMAG… we are in it this year!!!

Final Cut Pro – Copying and Pasting Clips

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If you copy a clip in the Viewer and paste it into the Timeline, the Patch Panel on the left side of the Timeline controls which track the clip goes to.

If you copy a clip on the Timeline and paste it back into the Timeline, FCP pastes it to the same track from which it was copied. To paste it to a different track, change the Auto-Select buttons. The clip now goes to the lowest numbered track who’s Auto-Select button is dark.

Final Cut Pro – Auto-Render

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Wouldn’t it be nice if Final Cut could do it’s rendering “in the background,” while you’re working in Photoshop, checking your e-mail, or updating your accounting? This timesaving tip shows you how.

Auto-Render is essentially a timer that tells Final Cut to do something when FCP isn’t busy. And that’s the key word: “busy.” Final Cut considers itself not busy when there are no mouse clicks or key presses.

To set it, select Final Cut Pro > User Preferences > General tab. In the lower right corner is Auto-Render. Change the default setting from 45 to 15. This means that Auto-Render kicks in after 15 minutes of inactivity.

Here’s the secret. When you switch to another application keep Final Cut open. Since Final Cut doesn’t see any mouse or keyboard activity it figures it isn’t busy, so, after 15 minutes, it renders all open sequences, even though you’re busy working in another application.

Save time. Keep busy. Very Cool!

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Enjoy… more to come

Rodney

Final Cut Pro – Ripple Delete

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A ripple delete removes clips and pulls up all downstream clips so that there are no gaps in the Timeline. Here’s a neat shortcut for performing quick ripple deletes in FCP:

1. Set an In and Out in the Timeline.

2. Press Shift+X, and Final Cut performs a ripple delete between the In and Out.

Cool!

Final Cut Pro – Multitrack Rolling

Multitrack Roll

I often employ this technique to adjust the timing of when an edit point occurs when using clips on multiple tracks.

1. Turn Snapping off by pressing N.

2. Select the Roll toll by pressing R.

3. Click the edit point to select both the In and the Out of the clip on V1. This selects both the audio and video.

4. Hold the Command key and click the edit point of the clip on V2. Since audio and video are linked, both audio and video edit points are selected.

5. Drag the Roll tool to adjust the timing of where the edit point occurs.