Tuesday, December 24, 2002

NeoTron Final Cut Pro KeyGuide™.
Timesaving keyboard commands.

Monday, December 09, 2002

QuickTime Development Resources - Tools.
QuickTime tools and Utilities.
Apple - Products - QuickTime.
In order for the controller to appear properly, add 16 pixels to the height of a movie.

Saturday, December 07, 2002

Saturday, November 30, 2002

The Kingdom of Squirrels.

Thursday, November 21, 2002

WeeklyDV.

Wednesday, November 20, 2002

Sony WV-DR7 DV and S-VHS editing deck.

Tuesday, November 19, 2002

DV Guys - FCP Tricks.

Monday, November 18, 2002

indieWIRE
Film Threat - Truth in Entertainment
DVfilmmaker.com - THE DV Film List

Friday, November 15, 2002

Monday, November 11, 2002

Sunday, November 10, 2002

WINTERFRESH NETWORK.
Make a TV commercial.
via [ JasonZada ]

Friday, November 01, 2002


EvoCam - A webcam using your Canon GL2 and a Mac.
I just found the easiest way to use your Canon GL2 as a webcam.

This software is so easy to use even a baby could install it!

These are the 3 steps I took to get my webcam going.

1. Download and copy the EvoCam software to your applications folder.
2. Open up EvoCam. Under the Options tab, set "Save image locally" to a folder on your .mac disk. I chose sites/webcam.
3. Copy the webcam.html file to your .mac sites/webcam folder.

That's it!

All you have to do now is attach your GL2 with the Firewire cable to your Mac. Then in EvoCam choose the refresh rate. If you want to select an image to display on your webcam, just click the 'Now" button and that image will be your webcam image.

Monday, October 28, 2002

Indymedia - Newsreal | Produce a Segment.
Never made a video segment before? Check out the sample segment below, and tips on how shoot and edit your own piece.
Good tips.

Friday, October 25, 2002

Personal Storage 5000DV.
Versatile add-on storage for video-editing and high-end graphic users. With 120GB, you'll have plenty of workspace for all your large projects, including over 11 hours of digital video.

Thursday, October 24, 2002

Amazon.com : An Interview with Michael Wohl, author of Editing Techniques with Final Cut Pro
Tell your stories! We all have stories to tell. Now the tools are cheaper than ever. You've got no excuse not to get out there and make your own films. Make a music video for your friend's band, make a Public Service Announcement for a cause you believe in, make a documentary or fiction film about the things that matter to you. As far as editing, learn your fundamentals, your editing ABCs. I strongly believe in breaking the rules, but you need to learn the rules in order to break them. The more you cut, the easier it gets and the more fun it is. Each film is an adventure, and above all, remember to have fun. This is your life, if you're not enjoying yourself, you're missing the point.
Buy the book: Editing Techniques with Final Cut Pro

Tuesday, October 15, 2002

Monday, October 14, 2002

BOB- Brief Original Broadcasts.

Saturday, October 12, 2002

October 29, 2002 - DV Revolution Free Seminar.
A top industry expert from DVcreators.net will shoot, edit and deliver a complete digital video project in 2.5 hours.

Thursday, October 10, 2002

HOW TO: Add B-Roll to a Talking Head in FCP.

Tuesday, October 08, 2002

Current Digital Video News.

Friday, September 27, 2002


Leica M3 digital camera.

Thursday, August 22, 2002


This is what a polarizer filter can do.

Thursday, August 15, 2002

Tuesday, August 13, 2002

Adbusters TV Contest.

Sunday, August 11, 2002

Canon GL2 Bag
The Greatest Canon GL2 Camera Bag.

Thursday, August 08, 2002

Photo to Movie.
Photo to Movie enables you to create a movie by zooming and panning over a photo.

Much easier than doing it in FCP. Drag Drop Click. You're done! Only $9.95.

Tuesday, August 06, 2002

StoryBoard Quick: Industry Standard StoryBoarding Software.
StoryBoard Quick helps all creatives accomplish the all important step between scripting and editing: StoryBoarding.

Saturday, August 03, 2002


KATA Innovative Carrying Solutions.
Nice.

Nice vest too.
GeeThree - Slick Transitions and Effects.

Friday, July 26, 2002

mini plug
Pre-Black With A Mini Plug.
Prior to recording on to a blank tape, pre-black it by recording onto it with the lens cap on. If you don't want your whole life recorded on audio, put a mini adapter into your cameras microphone terminal. Thanks Josh!

Tuesday, July 23, 2002

Firewire 6-pin to 4-pin.
$4.08 seems fair.
Canon Digital Creators Contest 2002

Friday, July 19, 2002

Apple - Final Cut Pro 3 and QuickTime 6.
QuickTime 6 has not been qualified for use with Final Cut Pro. Users should continue to use QuickTime 5.x

Saturday, July 13, 2002

Welcome to ExtremeFilmmaker.com - Home of the 48 Hour Film Festival.
Complete a film in 48 hours from the first shot, to the final edit.
SFDV - New Bay Area TV Ad Campaign Produced with Final Cut Pro.

Friday, July 12, 2002

iCurve.
The iCurve is a laptop stand designed specifically for the PowerBook and iBook. Its main purpose is to better position the iBook or PowerBook in your permanent desktop environment.
Hmm... That means I's need to buy a keyboard.

Wednesday, July 10, 2002

Joe's Filters for Final Cut Pro and his movie, All Day Ice Cream.

Monday, July 08, 2002

Use the force Luke.
Lightsaber effects and more.

Wednesday, June 26, 2002

Canon DV: Digital Video Camcorders: GL2.
The GL2 is a must-have for the person looking for the very best video-making experience. The GL2's excellence begins with its outstanding Fluorite lens and includes pro-level picture adjustment features found only in Canon's top-of-the-line, trend-setting XL1S camcorder.

Monday, June 24, 2002

Shoot Out Online.
Global Film School - Online Film Courses.

Sunday, June 23, 2002

Mastering Meta Synth - MetaSynth 2.7 Puts a Painter’s Palette in Your Sonic Toolbox
Not only can its Image Synth turn images into sound, but it also converts sound files to sonograms for graphic manipulation and resynthesis. MetaSynth?s assortment of standard and not-so-standard DSP tools offers a range of possibilities not found anywhere else. This makes it an essential tool for both sound designers and composers.
Commotion - The Complete Effects Solution for Moving Images
Commotion combines the power of the paintbrush with intuitive compositing and effects tools to deliver breakthrough performance and control on the desktop. Commotion is just what you need for all of your motion graphics, video effects, digital cinema, and web streaming media projects.

Sunday, May 19, 2002

Panasonic AG-DVX100.

Wednesday, May 08, 2002

Digital Video Editing.
So the time has come for mere mortals — even poor, starving artists — to produce fine-tuned documentaries, commercials, music videos, and other works of video artistic expression. It just takes equal parts desire, dedication, and creative talent.
Independent Feature Project.

Sunday, May 05, 2002

Funny Film Fest a laughing matter.
The program includes several films from local comics, among them Jamaica Plain's Ravi Jain, whose Web sitcom ''Three Abreast '' was the focus of a recent Associated Press story.

Sunday, April 28, 2002

Disinfotainment™

Friday, April 26, 2002

Macworld: Final Cut Pro 3
Final Cut Pro 3 is a first-rate sequel, and the only choice for day-in and day-out video production.

Thursday, April 25, 2002

dvspot - camcorder reviews & news.

Thursday, April 18, 2002

iPodHacks.com :: Embrace and Extend
Boston Final Cut Pro Users Group Meeting - TONIGHT
7:00 PM Wong Auditorium MIT Cambridge
Our next meeting will be held on Thursday, April 18, 2002.

Cool News! We'll be raffling off another copy of Final Cut Pro 3. We're asking for a $5 donation (give what you can), which includes 5 tickets to the Big Dig Raffle. And, in an effort to streamiline our event we will be merging the Big Dig Raffle and our Questions from the Hat together. Ask a question, win a prize!

What's in store for April? Our next meeting is going to be a post-NAB EVENT. Our "Man About Town" Tim Wilson will discuss what's new with BorisFX and demo the AMAZING new title 3d generator in FCP 3. Local FCP guru David Bigelow will focus on what's NEW at NAB and will present his 8 minute short, "5 Days to Sunday," filmed in 24P HDCAM and edited on FCP. And Don Berube from Canon USA will join forces with Focus Enhancements and Lacie to show how you can now CAPTURE WHILE YOU SHOOT by recording directly to a FireWire PocketDrive on the Canon Xl1S camera with the new portable FireStore.

We are also very pleased to announce that local indie filmmaker MARLO PORAS will join us. Marlo recently completed "Mai's America," a feature documentary edited in FCP and which recently won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the South by Southwest Film Festival. "Mai's America" will air nationally on PBS' P.O.V. series in August, and will be screened at the upcoming New England Film and Video Festival and Visions du Reel in Nyon, Switzerland (complete schedule at (www.marloporas.com). Marlo will show excerpts from her film and discuss the DV filmmaking process in a SPECIAL DV roundtable panel with Tim Wilson, author Charles Roberts, David Bigelow, and indie filmmaker Lorre Fritchy (www.masterpeaceproductions.com).

And don't forget the Big Dig Raffle, featuring a copy of Final Cut Pro 3!

Tuesday, April 16, 2002

iFilm Festival to honor student-made flicks.
There's an iFilm Festival being planned for students in grades 8-12 that will showcase digital movies made with iMovie or Final Cut Pro.

Saturday, April 13, 2002

Tracksounds:  The Film Music Experience.

Wednesday, April 10, 2002

DV - Broadcast Production.
Magic Bullet Makes DV Look Like Film.
The Magic Bullet technology -- which has been used in such projects as Cameron Crowe's Vanilla Sky and the Cher video "Song for the Lonely" -- will be available initially as a suite of five plug-ins for Adobe After Effects, offering film and broadcast post professionals, visual effects artists and independent filmmakers finishing tools to make material originated on digital video exhibit all the characteristics of celluloid film.

Tuesday, April 09, 2002

Tips, Tricks Abound at DV Workshop.
Do an initial lens-cap-on recording of every new tape in VTR mode to lay down a black background and avoid timecode burps."

Saturday, April 06, 2002

Scary Amateur Film Lands Makers In Jail.
Five people face charges in connection with an amateur film made of an attack on a 19-year-old woman.
This is why getting a release form signed is important.

Friday, April 05, 2002

Boston Comedy Festival Funny Film Fest: Call for entries.
Formac - studio DV/TV.
Formac studio provides input and output for Composite Video (RCA), S-Video, Stereo Audio and two FireWire ports.
Better Templates for iPhoto's BetterHTMLExport .
BetterHTMLExport, at version 1.3 at time of writing, provides significant improvements over the built-in HTMLExport filter, including the option for you to create your own templates.
The Omni Group: Applications: OmniWeb

Friday, March 29, 2002


Three Abreast: A Web Friendly Sitcom.

Hmm... A Second Episode!

Saturday, March 23, 2002

Free Library Music - CuePop ™ - "I Feel Like We Have Met Before".
Director's Cut Take 2.
Capture video and audio from any analogue source, like a camcorder or a VCR, edit the footage with any DV video application and output it back to a VCR or burn it onto a DVD-R.

Thursday, March 21, 2002

Let's Get Small.
The smallest and lightest camcorder in the world: Sony's DCR-IP5! Sony's revolutionary new MICROMV format delivers amazing video quality in an incredibly compact and portable design. This tiny camcorder is packed with amazing features, like a Carl Zeiss™ Vario Sonnar lens, a 2-1/2" SwivelScreen™ color LCD, 10x optical/120x digital zoom, and weighing in at only 12oz. The DCR-IP5 also includes Super SteadyShot® Picture Stabilization, all at a surprisingly affordable price!
No support for Final Cut Pro yet.

Wednesday, March 20, 2002

The User Group Report
Dan talks about the largest Final Cut Pro User Group on the East Coast, how they outgrew their meeting place in one meeting, the concept of digital storytelling and why it is important in today's world, what their group offers, how they hope to expand into the campus environment and much more.

Monday, March 18, 2002

Go to the Three Abreast Web Site
Three Abreast, is a web sitcom about BOSFCPUG member Ravi Jain and his two housemates. Acknowledging that the boundaries defining 'reality' and 'identity' on the web are blurry, he offer this as my expression of identity.

Each eight-minute episode has been drawn from actual events (to some degree) and thus the primary filming was done inside our house. Editing was done on Final Cut Pro.

Friday, March 01, 2002

The Boston Final Cut Pro User Group is an officially recognized Apple user group that builds connections between Final Cut Pro users, filmmakers and professionals who wish to embrace the Digital Video revolution. BOSFCPUG provides both advocacy and evangelism about Digital Video on the Macintosh.

BOSFCPUG shares ideas, creativity and concerns related to the use of Final Cut Pro and related software. BOSFCPUG will sponsor a website with information and tutorials devoted to the Final Cut Pro community (in progress).

BOSFCPUG provides outreach to those interested in learning more about purchasing and using Apple hardware and software and digital video gear in creating interactive digital video content for broadcast, broadband and DVD.