Final Cut Pro freebies for a better edit experience
Little things make a big difference
It seems no matter how mature and complex creative software tools
become, particularly non-linear editing systems, there always seem to
be the extra things you find yourself wishing for. The technology
trickle-down effect has seen enormous changes over the past decade
where the tools that were once the sole domain of high-end turn-key
systems - with appropriate astronomical price-tags - are now stock
standard. One need only look at the complexity of colour correction and
compositing options inside NLE's like Premiere Pro Vegas and Final Cut Pro to see functionality that simply did not exist at the
desktop level not all that long ago. But, big features aren't always
the most useful. Sometimes it's the little things that make a big
difference. Workflow, efficiency, automation, these are the elements
that are high on the agenda for day to day working editors.
Final
Cut Pro is an NLE that delivers a wide array of things it can do but
often seems lacking in efficiencies and pragmatism as to how it does
them or, moreover, is missing all-together simple things that would
make the editor's job easier. This is where the old adage of nature
abhorring a vacuum seems fitting as third-party tools and utilities
step in to fill the gap.
Love or hate FCP, its enormous
popularity means that with a lot of people using it there is invariably
a lot of people seeking to plug some of the holes in its boat. Below
are eight of my favourite free Final Cut utilities to make the FCP edit
more pleasant and productive.
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Posted at 12:00AM Nov 16, 2009
by Mike Jones in video |
