Being an editor I was aware of the controversy with the new software and the features that are lacking with this “update.” But i had no idea that the devil was in the mix. With the release of the new Final Cut Pro X i took a trip over to Apple’s App store. According to the app store Final Cut pro X has the mark of the beast. If you look closely in the photo below, the 1 star rating has 666 comments… coincidence? You decide. Maybe AVID is looking good again.

Just the other week a friend of mine send me a link to a video contest for Wright-Patt Credit Union. Myself, Matt Mulchahey & Alex Mangen made an entry. Turn around was really fast and the film isn’t as polished as I’d like it to be but at least we made it in on time. The video stars the great Charlie Clark.

We shot the video in the North River Coffee House in Dayton and all the green screen of Charlie in my condo. We used some Kino lights and a small Arri kit to light everything. We used an HDV workflow that I converted to Apple Pro Res 422 HQ on ingestion and it seemed to work just fine between Final Cut Pro and After Effects.

Watch the video then follow this link and vote for the video “Web Banners.” Vote everyday until Feb. 15th!!

vimeo password is “de-oh_wpcu”

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Writer/Director Trevor Hollen has recently finished two music videos, one for Atomic Johnny‘s “Galaxy Girl” and the other for Captain of Industry‘s “Healthy Spines.” csDM did the effects on both videos… the film effects, both video and audio, on Galaxy Girl as well as all the effects and editing for Healthy Spines.

Both videos were edited in Final Cut Pro and all effects were completed using After Effects CS3 and other 3rd party plugins and/or presets.

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*NOTES*
The CoI video had a bunch of those “invisible” effects in it. One of them was the elevator door. Since Trevor needed to watch the band perform, the door had to be open. This forced us to add the door in post. Since the elevator was shaking all around while they were performing during filming, I had to motion track the elevator door to the performance shot as well.

The elevator shot is a cropped letterbox and used a Sony PD-170 and the Century Optics .3X Ultra Fisheye Adapter.

The VHS look was added after the film was shot on a Panasonic AG-DVX100B. We added some bad video effects to the raw footage after we had a picture lock, then exported it to a VHS tape. We then dubbed it back and forth to another tape then sucked it back in the computer. FYI… a dub of a dub 10x looks terrible.

Good times.
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CAST/CREW

Healthy Spines___________________________________

Captain of Industry is:
Nathan Peters – boards, guitar and vocals
John Lakes – percussion and vocals
Kevin Oldfield – guitar, percussion and electronics
Ian Sperry – bass and vocals
Tommy Cooper – guitar

Cast:
Man – Nathan
Saddeste Robotte – Kelsey Hopkins

Crew:
Writer/Director – Trevor Hollen
Cinematographer – Joe Telich
Editor/Effects – Chris “biZo” Stevens
Producer – Christa Bloede

Galaxy Girl______________________________________

Atomic Johnny is:
NAPALM 69: Vocals & Farfisa
MISSION 13: Guitar & Vocals
RAYGUNN 138: Expresso Drums

Cast:
The Galaxy Girls were The Gem City Roller Girls & The Ohio Roller Girls as themselves.

Crew:
Writer/Director/Editor – Trevor Hollen
Effects – Chris “biZo” Stevens
Cinematography/Camera – Joe Telich & Chance Madison