Over the past four weeks, Stuart and I have had the opportunity to cut a few projects in the new FCP X and evaluate its strengths and weaknesses. I think the differences in our reactions are largely based on how familiar we were with the old version.
Software
Plot Device, and cheap VFX
Plot Device, a short film directed by Seth Worley (and funded by the Magic Bullet plugin folks) does a good job balancing story and how’d-they-do-that.
iMovie 09 is much better, still maddening
A few weeks ago, I expressed exasperation upon seeing demos of iMovie 09, which seemed to be working hard to fix exactly the wrong problems. Now that I have it installed, I’ve been able to spend a few days playing around with it. And you know what? It’s actually a lot better. Yes, that could […]
Trailer competition, second update
Just so you know, the radio silence around the trailer competition is not for lack of interest or intent. Stuff got very crazy, very quickly, and we had a hard enough time getting the real trailer finished up. (Plus there was other stuff going on.) We have all the clips ready to go, but we’re […]