Tag: Final Cut Pro X

New Media Center Software Training Sessions this week:

The New Media Center is located on the lower level of the library past the Technology Services desk, next to Media Services. The NMC conducts open workshops on a variety of topics related to multimedia production. These 20 to 30 minute sessions are open to all AU faculty, staff and students with all levels of … Continue reading “New Media Center Software Training Sessions this week:”

The New Media Center is located on the lower level of the library past the Technology Services desk, next to Media Services. The NMC conducts open workshops on a variety of topics related to multimedia production. These 20 to 30 minute sessions are open to all AU faculty, staff and students with all levels of multimedia production experience. There are usually four or five workshops held each week. Check the NMC calendar for the latest schedule. For more information, contact the NMC staff (202) 885-2560.


Sunday, 2/5 at 5pm – Advanced Photoshop
Monday 2/6 at 2pm – Final Cut Pro X: Advanced
Tuesday 2/7 at 12pm –Final Cut Pro X: Advanced
Wednesday 2/8 at 8pm – Advanced Photoshop
Thursday 2/9 at 4pm – Final Cut Pro 7 – Advanced
Friday 2/10 at 12pm – Intermediate Photoshop
Saturday 2/11 at 5:30pm – Get Started with Photoshop

See the complete Spring Training Schedule by date or by topic.

There is a wealth of multimedia training resources available online. AU faculty, staff and students have access to thousands of hours of free training at Lynda.com. Create a personal profile and get started. More information about resources can be found at Multimedia @ AU.

New Media Center Software Training Sessions this week:

The New Media Center is located on the lower level of the library past the Technology Services desk, next to Media Services. The NMC conducts open workshops on a variety of topics related to multimedia production. These 20 to 30 minute sessions are open to all AU faculty, staff and students with all levels of … Continue reading “New Media Center Software Training Sessions this week:”

The New Media Center is located on the lower level of the library past the Technology Services desk, next to Media Services. The NMC conducts open workshops on a variety of topics related to multimedia production. These 20 to 30 minute sessions are open to all AU faculty, staff and students with all levels of multimedia production experience. There are usually four or five workshops held each week. Check the NMC calendar for the latest schedule. For more information, contact the NMC staff (202) 885-2560.


Sunday, 1/29 at 3pm – Intro to Pro Tools
Sunday, 1/29 at 5pm – Intermediate Photoshop
Monday 1/30 at 2pm – Final Cut Pro X: Intermediate
Tuesday 1/31 at 12pm –Final Cut Pro X: Intermediate
Tuesday 1/31 at 8pm – NMC Equipment Training
Wednesday 2/1 at 8pm – Intermediate Photoshop
Thursday 2/2 at 4pm – Final Cut Pro 7 – Intermediate
Friday 2/3 at 12pm – Getting Started with Photoshop
Saturday 2/4 at 5:30pm – How to Make a Video

See the complete Spring Training Schedule by date or by topic.

There is a wealth of multimedia training resources available online. AU faculty, staff and students have access to thousands of hours of free training at Lynda.com. Create a personal profile and get started. More information about resources can be found at Multimedia @ AU.

New Media Center Software Training Sessions this week:

The New Media Center is located on the lower level of the library past the Technology Services desk, next to Media Services. The NMC conducts open workshops on a variety of topics related to multimedia production. These 20 to 30 minute sessions are open to all AU faculty, staff and students with all levels of … Continue reading “New Media Center Software Training Sessions this week:”

The New Media Center is located on the lower level of the library past the Technology Services desk, next to Media Services. The NMC conducts open workshops on a variety of topics related to multimedia production. These 20 to 30 minute sessions are open to all AU faculty, staff and students with all levels of multimedia production experience. There are usually four or five workshops held each week. Check the NMC calendar for the latest schedule. For more information, contact the NMC staff (202) 885-2560.


Tuesday 1/24 at 12pm – Final Cut Pro X: Beginner
Wednesday 1/25 at 8pm – Get Started with Photoshop
Thursday 1/26 at 4pm – Final Cut Pro 7 – Beginner
Friday 1/27 at 12pm – Basic Motion Graphics for Video – After Effects
Saturday 1/28 at 5:30pm – Final Cut Pro 7 – Beginner

See the complete Spring Training Schedule by date or by topic.

There is a wealth of multimedia training resources available online. AU faculty, staff and students have access to thousands of hours of free training at Lynda.com. Create a personal profile and get started. More information about resources can be found at Multimedia @ AU.

Final Cut Pro X users: Be sure your external drive is formatted for Mac

Any Final Cut Pro X users using their external drive in the lab should be sure it’s set for compatibility with Mac, or they risk losing (or being unable to open) their work. We’ve had a number of people come into the lab to work in Final Cut X, only to have their projects not … Continue reading “Final Cut Pro X users: Be sure your external drive is formatted for Mac”

Any Final Cut Pro X users using their external drive in the lab should be sure it’s set for compatibility with Mac, or they risk losing (or being unable to open) their work.


We’ve had a number of people come into the lab to work in Final Cut X, only to have their projects not work when they return to the lab a second time. As it turns out, FCP X will allow a Windows-formatted drive to create a new event/project, and it may look like it is saving when it’s actually not.

It is extremely important to make sure your external hard drives are properly formatted. Any NMC consultant can help you format your drive, but formatting erases anything on the drive at the time of the reformat.

So again; any Final Cut Pro X users using their external drive in the lab should be sure it’s set for compatibility with Mac, or they risk losing (or being unable to open) their work.

Final Cut Pro 7 or X?

Still struggling between Final Cut 7 and 10? Looks like some of Conan O’Briens team have already made the switch: Note: Video does not directly reflect the views of the New Media Center, as we have both and are ready to help you use both!

Still struggling between Final Cut 7 and 10? Looks like some of Conan O’Briens team have already made the switch:

Note: Video does not directly reflect the views of the New Media Center, as we have both and are ready to help you use both!

Why Apple Needs Adobe

Here’s a really interesting article that attempts to predict the future standard for video editing over the next few years. It makes a good case for new users to pick up Adobe Premier over Final Cut Pro X which is an issue that is often discussed here in the New Media Center. Article from Orcas … Continue reading “Why Apple Needs Adobe”

Here’s a really interesting article that attempts to predict the future standard for video editing over the next few years. It makes a good case for new users to pick up Adobe Premier over Final Cut Pro X which is an issue that is often discussed here in the New Media Center.

Article from Orcas Island TV

Famed editor Walter Murch discusses Final Cut Pro X

Final Cut Pro X has been slammed by many, so what’s the point in posting yet another article about it? Well, one question I’ve been asked a lot since the release of FCP X is, “I’m a student, what NLE should I learn?” Before, the answer was easy: Final Cut Pro. Now, not so much. … Continue reading “Famed editor Walter Murch discusses Final Cut Pro X”

Final Cut Pro X has been slammed by many, so what’s the point in posting yet another article about it? Well, one question I’ve been asked a lot since the release of FCP X is, “I’m a student, what NLE should I learn?” Before, the answer was easy: Final Cut Pro. Now, not so much. Should a student commit to FCP X, assuming it will become the future standard despite being woefully incomplete at present, or should they learn Adobe or Avid, assuming Apple’s role in the professional, wage-earning editing world as we know it is over? It’s a tough question, and I’m curious to hear your thoughts in the comments. In the meantime, here’s famed editor Walter Murch (The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, The Godfather II, and The English Patient among many others) talking about the X at the Boston Supermeet.
As seen on NoFilmSchool.

How to Import a Final Cut Pro 7 Project into Premiere Pro (Because You Can’t Open It in FCP X… )

Robbie Carman, co-author of the just-published An Editor’s Guide to Adobe Premiere Pro, presents a tutorial perfect for those editors switching from Final Cut Pro to Premiere Pro.As seen on the NoFilmSchool blog. Here’s how to do it: Importing a Final Cut Pro Project into Adobe Premiere Pro

Robbie Carman, co-author of the just-published An Editor’s Guide to Adobe Premiere Pro, presents a tutorial perfect for those editors switching from Final Cut Pro to Premiere Pro.
As seen on the NoFilmSchool blog.

Here’s how to do it:

Importing a Final Cut Pro Project into Adobe Premiere Pro

Managing FCP X Events & Projects with Disk Images

This RippleTraining.com tutorial by Steve Martin addresses issues you may stumble upon when moving Final Cut Pro X projects. It talks about creating a disk image using disk utility and creating new events within that disk image. When you want to move your project to another hard drive or computer, the article states that you … Continue reading “Managing FCP X Events & Projects with Disk Images”

This RippleTraining.com tutorial by Steve Martin addresses issues you may stumble upon when moving Final Cut Pro X projects. It talks about creating a disk image using disk utility and creating new events within that disk image. When you want to move your project to another hard drive or computer, the article states that you can simply drag the disk image to the new location and since the entire directory and meta data stay the same, you can seamlessly continue to work on your projects from the new location.

When one of our NMC consultants tested this method, he had this to say:

After following this tutorial there are a few points to remember:

1. When moving the disk image to your drive, it’ll show that the disk image is an alias (that’s the small, curved, black arrow pointing at the lower left corner of the disk image icon). This is does not cause a problem.

2. After connecting your external drive to a computer you have to double click the disk image to activate it. That way when you open Final Cut Pro X, the disk image and all its contents will show up.

To see the whole tutorial, go here.

Export workflow for faster and better web videos

Thanks to one of our NMC Consultants, this exporting trick is becoming a popular trend in the New Media Center. Instead of trying to convert to a web version within Final Cut (any version), it’s actually faster to export a file at current settings, then convert that single file to the web version using mpeg … Continue reading “Export workflow for faster and better web videos”



Thanks to one of our NMC Consultants, this exporting trick is becoming a popular trend in the New Media Center. Instead of trying to convert to a web version within Final Cut (any version), it’s actually faster to export a file at current settings, then convert that single file to the web version using mpeg streamclip. Final Cut could take 45 minutes or more to do this in one step, so by doing it in two steps, the whole process usually doesn’t take more than ten minutes.

The process:

When you’re ready to export your your movie, choose:

File–>Export–>Quicktime movie (not Quicktime conversion)

Leave “current settings,” rename the file and tell it where to save.

This makes a single Quicktime file of the finished film.

(in FCP X choose Share–>Export media, the rest of the process is the same).

Now drag the finished file into Mpeg Streamclip. Choose File–>Export to Quicktime. When the window appears, turn the quality to 100, and change the compression to “h.264”. Don’t worry about any other settings.

Since Mpeg Streamclip is designed to convert footage, and FCP is not, it will look better and work faster than trying to do this inside Final Cut. If the exported file is too large, or otherwise turns out to be not what you need, you can simply redo the last step, instead of having to wait 45 minutes for FCP to try again.