![]() After some sorting to find the best photos, an import of the images and a scale to the music time it was nearly done.Īll the parameters you might need to tweak are right there in the Options pane. I had a 3 minute song to cover and a thousand photos from which to choose. What made FotoMagico perfect for this little job was the ease at which I was able to make a really nice slideshow in a very short period of time, just as should be the case with slideshow apps. While there is a storyboard mode I found the timeline the most useful way to work with the slides as it’s easy to time clips and adjust transitions. A search through my applications folder found FotoMagico. After looking around at some of my FCP7 plugins I remembered getting a license of some slideshow app quite a while back. Oh how all editors cringe at the thought of spending countless hours putting hundreds of slides to music but that was part of a recent job that I had to do. That is going to suck if they want you to re-buy everything to use the iPad version but I don’t see any way around it.įotoMagico from Boinx Software is another one of those applications that have been around for a while but I recently discovered how handy it can be for doing what it is intended: making slideshows. I really hope this iPad version will interface with your purchased desktop versions and not require buying another version of the app key set you already have. It was shown at NAB but isn’t shipping as of yet. While the app is free to download from the Mac App Store pretty much any app you’re going to want to use will be an in-app purchase.Īt $4 to $5 for most any post-production keyset you could easily spend a few bucks, especially if you’re just learning.Īpparently there’s going to be an iPad version of KillerKeys as well. ![]() Yet another helpful tool when learning an app with the help of KillerKeys VR. Keys that can have more than one function are noted by a dotted line. The KillerKeys VR window is resizable as well so stretching it out really big helps to see the text on the keys. There’s so many different keyboard shortcuts and keyboard combinations that being able to get them all in an easy to see context has been helpful to me. It’s been around for a while but I’m just discovering it so into the Useful Tools column it goes. It’s rather simple in concept but for learning keyboard short cuts I haven’t really seen anything quite the equal. I haven’t tried the $40 reLink reTooled yet but it’s certainly something worth keeping on the radar.īella Corporation is probably best known for their color coded hardware keyboards that many people use (though I personally believe one shouldn’t rely on them) in their edit suites but they also have a desktop app called KillerKeys VR that is a virtual keyboard that floats right on your desktop. ![]() This idea of taking the relinking process into an external app designed just for that task is an interesting one. In that case it would usually work but it could be scary nonetheless. If you’ve ever tried to relink / reconnect one timeline to another in FCP7 and got one of the dreaded File Attribute Mismatch errors that indeed doesn’t allow media to reconnect then reLink reTooled might be just the thing you’re looking for.Īll NLEs have some form of media reconnecting built in but FCP7 took the relinking task to levels of extreme frustration as you’d often get a mismatch warning when trying to relink to media you’d just copied to a new drive. I have no idea how well this solution might work but if you’re on PC then it’s at least an option. It uses the PC version of FFMPEG to handle the encoding tasks so that has to be installed as well. Think about it more as a way to produce deliverables or master files. This isn’t some magic solution that adds ProRes as an export option to all your Windows post-production applications but instead it creates a watch folder that encodes all files placed into the folder to ProRes. PRHelper for PC is a $15 utility that claims to do just that. There have long been complaints among editors that Apple’s unwillingness to allow Windows PCs to encode the ProRes codec is holding many of them back from moving to more powerful PC workstations since the MacPro is well …. ![]() PRHelper for PC – for encoding ProRes on PCs We talk PCs, relinking, keyboard emulators, slideshows and (of course) FxFactory. With that end to NAB let’s have a new entry into the Useful Tools for Editors category with our After NAB Edition. Another NAB has come and gone so things can begin to get back to normal.
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