As Final Cut Studio comes with an optional install of templates for DVD Studio Pro, the application itself has fonts built-in to match the templates.
You can open up DVD Studio Pro and install these fonts in your system so you can use them in any other application:
— Control- (or Right-) click its icon and [...]
The html-based documentation in Final Cut Studio applications is convenient to access and simple for Apple to keep updated. However Apple’s Help Viewer can be slow to show pages.
If you have the new Final Cut Studio installed, copy and bookmark these links to access the help systems using your favourite browser. Make sure you select [...]
Not sure how useful this is, but this might help when friends from elsewhere would like to use your copy of Final Cut Studio on your machine. At the very least, this offers up an opportunity for pranks.
If you go to System Preferences and select the International panel and move another country up to the [...]
Here is a 15 minute tutorial showing the whole process – from extracting the help system from Final Cut to compiling the document in TextEdit:
I deleted 4-5 minutes of waiting for content to be inserted and pasted (on my MacBook Pro), so it shouldn’t take more than 20 minutes to finish. It’ll be faster if [...]
Final Cut Pro 7 comes with an html-based help system. Many people like to have a single document as a manual. Such a thing is not yet available for Final Cut Pro 7. As Apple own the copyright in the manual, those that have created a single document version cannot legally distribute it. However, if [...]
The FCP7 documentation system isn’t great, but there is a way of reducing many of your clicks. When you first go to a section with disclosure arrows, they default to being closed:
This means you have to click each blue arrow, or the words next to each arrow, to see what is hidden:
To have a version [...]
In Final Cut Pro 7, you can control playback while you edit marker information. To start and stop, you use Control-Space Bar. There are a few more shortcuts that are useful and one that works when you aren’t editing a marker.
It is useful for when you are reviewing your work: to jump back in units [...]
FCP7’s Timecode Viewer is straightforward when playing the sequence in the Canvas, it displays the timecode and the name of the sequence playing.
There are more options when you are looking at footage in the Viewer if you Control- or Right- click the timecode:
You can choose whether to show timecode with frames (useful when clients insist [...]
One of the great features of the new Final Cut Studio is the new members of the ProRes family. The one I’m using first is ProRes 4444. It provides almost ‘Animation’ codec quality at much smaller file sizes. Final Cut Pro 6’s ProRes 422 and ProRes 422(HQ) are great quality, but they don’t store the [...]
Alpha Transition is being marketed as one of the major new features of Final Cut Pro 7. It allows you to use a third clip as a transition between two existing clips. It uses the transparent parts of the transition clip, so that makes it an alpha transition.
This Alpha Transition effect is implemented in FxScript, [...]
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