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Apple - Color

Musings on Apple’s professional color grading application, Color.

Continuing Tales of an FCP Switcher - CS6 workflow, for now

Our third entry in the continuing tales of our switch from Final Cut Pro to anything else. (Catch up on Part 1 and Part 2 if you missed them) Today we’re talking Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 and the workflow we’ve developed for a current broadcast series. Before you read this, yep, it’s a [...]

BCM completes Season One of This American Land

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 5, 2011 BUFORD, GA Biscardi Creative Media (BCM) has completed post production for season one (13 episodes) of the new PBS television series, “This American Land.” BCM Principal, Walter Biscardi, Jr. is Managing Producer and Post Production supervisor of the series which is the first to come out of their [...]

Final Cut Pro 10: “There’s a Third Party App for That!”

There a great new article on Post Magazine’s website which you should read in its entirety. There’s some interesting statements in there about Apple’s thinking as they released and are now updating the software. Here are some of my takeaways from the article: Apple, for its part, wants it known that they are interested in [...]

Introducing the Tangent Design Element Control Surface

UPDATED WITH ACTUAL PHOTOGRAPHS AT THE BOTTOM! UPDATE 2 - New Photo showing relative size of the panel at the very bottom.   Thanks to Tangent Designs for letting me introduce this to you guys. I saw the prototype at NAB this past April as of today, Tangent introduces the new Element Control Surface. As [...]

Apple re-releases Final Cut Studio 3 (sort of)

By now most of you have heard that Apple has re-introduced Final Cut Studio 3 for sale after a lukewarm reception to Final Cut Pro X. Well, they sort of have re-introduced it. As stated in this MacRumors article, you must call the order directly in to Apple. It is not available through any standard [...]

Why you don’t want to miss the August Atlanta Cutters Meeting

Ok, so Digital Asset Management is the topic. Some of you might be thinking “well that’s not nearly as sexy as having the ‘four A’s’ on stage at the same time like you did last month.” No, quite honestly it’s not but if anything, this month is even MORE important to the stability and longevity [...]

Transitioning: Update on our search to replace FCP

We’re one week into our search to transition our facility away from Apple and Final Cut Pro so I wanted to bring everyone up to date on where we stand so far. This was a very busy week as you can imagine with both production work in the shop and many MANY requests for myself [...]

Apple “X” FAQs, confirmation our move away is the right one

In the wake of the scathing criticism surrounding the release of Apple Final Cut Pro X, Apple has released a FAQ that attempts to answer some of the questions. There are a few in particular that caught my eye. “Can I import projects from Final Cut Pro 7 into Final Cut Pro X? Final Cut [...]

Apple dropped the ball…

I’m seeing this all over the various forums, blogs and twitter feeds in one variant or another in regards to the big Final Cut Pro X reveal at the FCPUG SuperMeet in Las Vegas last Tuesday. “Hey, don’t knock down this product when it was just a SNEAK PEEK people! Sure there’s some questions out [...]

Should be an interesting NAB for Apple Color

So NAB is rapidly approaching and as par for the course, we know nothing about Apple’s plans for the event. We know they don’t have a booth planned but will they announce anything at all? Last year we had a completely underwhelming (you might say embarrassing) presentation by Apple at the SuperMeet. What will we [...]