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Enjoy!

Rodney

Final Cut Pro – Control Your Chroma Levels

Check Chroma Levels

If you aren’t careful, you can easily create colors on your computer that can’t be displayed in video. Remember, computers use an RGB color space, while digital video uses the more restrictive YCrCb (Apple calls this YUV, but YUV is only an analog video format).

To see if your chroma levels are too hot, select either the Canvas or the Viewer, and choose View > Range Check > Excess Chroma.

If you see a yellow warning triangle, your levels are too hot. A green check-mark means they are OK.

Note: If you type Control+Z, this will warn you if your luminance levels are OK, but does NOT indicate excessive chroma levels.

Final Cut Pro – Setting Just One Keyframe from the Timeline

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Using the Add Motion Keyframe button in the Canvas sets fourteen different keyframes. What if you want to set only one type of keyframe, instead of all fourteen?

1. Select a clip(s), and position the playhead where you the keyframe to appear.

2. Control-click the Add Motion Keyframe button and UNcheck Keyframe All to deselect everything in the menu.

3. Control-click the Add Motion Keyframe button again and select the type of keyframe you want to create.

4. Ta-DAH! Notice how only the type of keyframe you selected has been applied to your clip(s).

Final Cut Pro – Unnesting Clips

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Here’s a fast and easy way to unnest a group of clips.

Normally, if you drag a sequence into another sequence, it appears as a single clip.

If, however, you drag the sequence from the Browser into another sequence, and press the Command key after you’ve dragged the sequence into the timeline, but BEFORE letting go of the mouse, the sequence automatically deconstructs into its individual component clips.

You can then edit it as either an overwrite or insert edit.

Sweet!

This is public information on the Mandy.com site so I a relaying it here on DCFCPUG for our membership to see and respond to if interested…

All Production Crew-ALL DEPTS with Slamgate Productions

Apply to: Robert Brooks

(Fairfax – USA Dist. Columbia), 6/1/10 for 30 days. Movie Production CREW Wanted!!! June 1, 2010 – July 1, 2010 Fairfax County, VA SLAMGATE PRODUCTIONS, LLC is seeking production crew for PAID POSITIONS in ALL DEPARTMENTS (Camera, Sound, Lighting, Electric, Art, Location, etc) for a movie shoot starting June 1, 2010.
You will have the opportunity to work on a professional production set, working closely with veteran Hollywood filmmakers.

Film Project: AT THE TOP OF THE PYRAMID: Family, Friendship, Cheerleading Duration: 1 Month

• Start date: June 1st
• End date: June 30th
• Application Deadline: Immediately!
• Compensation: Negotiable. Based Upon Experience.
• Requirements: * College and/or short film and/or low budget independent film experience
• Very reliable and eager
• Willing to listen and learn
• Punctual
• Strong Integrity Perks * PAID POSITION!!
• Food will be provided during days on set

* Name will be listed in the credits If interested, please contact us at: pyramidprods@gmail.com

In the subject line of your email, please include the following:

ATTENTION: CREW POSITION- (department and title)- [Your First and Last Name]

Include in your email all contact information, especially your cell number and CURRENT direct email address. Not the school or work email address.]

What to include in your submission: * Resume
* Any additional materials (ie, work samples) with your submission such as hs/res
* Availability Dates (if there are conflicts within the 30 days)

YOU WILL BE CONTACTED IF YOU ARE SELECTED.

Good Luck!

Rodney Mitchell
President and Apple Ambassador
Washington DC Final Cut Pro User Group
http://www.dcfcpug.org

To better understand and meet the needs of clients like
you, we are conducting a brief survey and would appreciate
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the products and level of service we offer to companies such as
yours.

As a thank you for your time, we will send you a free
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This invitation is only going to a select audience and we are
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To complete the survey, please use the link below or copy
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This survey should take approximately 10 minutes to complete.
Please note that all responses will remain entirely confidential to
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Thank you for your participation,

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CEO, Digieffects

Note from Equation Research:
Any communication outside of this survey in the form of emails to Equation
Research may be shared with the survey sponsor.

OS X 10.4 or higher – System Memory Usage

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Curious to see how much memory your applications are currently using? Wondering if adding new memory will give you a noticeable performance benefit?

To find these answers, go to Utilities > Activity Monitor. Click the System Memory tab to display four different memory states. (I modified the screen shot to make it smaller – yours will look different.)

Wired = memory that is assigned to active RAM and cannot be paged out to disk (usually assigned by your OS).

Active = memory assigned to running programs that is currently busy.

Inactive = memory assigned to a program or process that is not busy at the moment. Essentially this is memory in reserve.

Free = unassigned memory that is available for use.

Use the graph to make a quick system assessment. If it’s predominantly red and yellow, consider adding more memory to avoid taking a performance hit. If it’s mostly blue and green, you’re probably fine.

Isn’t it nice knowing these things?