Recent content by Sam Mestman - WMM

Hey guys, For those of you out there interested in seeing real world examples of FCPX workflow, whether it's RED Dragon, Resolve, feature film, feature doc, commercial, broadcast, data asset management, or DCP, you may want to take a minute and step off the NAB floor and come to the FCPWORKS...

Hey guys, This Saturday we're holding a launch event for our new company FCPWORKS (www.fcpworks.com). Apple will be doing an official presentation of FCPX and the new Mac Pro, RED's going to be there too showing off Dragon workflow, and there will also be presentations from AJA, Quantum...

Haven't verified this firsthand yet (maybe next week), but according to Phil Hodgetts, he's getting real time full debayer playback for R3D's in FCPX with no rocket on the new Mac Pro... only one stream... but still cool... especially considering that the RED plugin isn't even optimized for the...

Hey guys, Posted a cheat sheet for 10.1 over on fcp.co this morning. Hope it helps with the transition: http://www.fcp.co/final-cut-pro/articles/1310-the-final-cut-pro-10-1-cheat-sheet Let me know if you guys have any questions about anything. The library model is pretty great, especially...

Noticed most people haven't been talking about it so I figured I'd mention in case anyone was curious... Dragon works fine in FCPX. Real time playback, etc. No dropped frames for me off a Retina with a full 6k .R3D in FCPX. I can only imagine that the new Mac Pro will bring a significant...

Hey Guys, There is some groundbreaking stuff in post happening these days... The age of dailies being a requirement that is necessary to begin editorial is coming to a close. On the latest installation that I'm currently doing for a $100 million dollar feature, using a combination of FCPX and...

Hey guys... we've got our FREE 4k Unplugged Event (Apple, FCPX, and Resolve centric) coming up this Saturday on The Lot in Hollywood if you're LA local. If you have any interest in 4k workflow with FCPX, this is the place to come and meet some likeminded individuals. We're trying to build a...

For those of you who crept back to the distant reaches of the South Hall at NAB, you might have seen the ExaSan booth where I was demoing real time playback of the same native 4k Epic timeline (not in proxy), referencing the EXACT same clips, in a seamless group workflow environment from the...

Hey guys, All 3 parts of my FCPX-RED Workflow articles have now been posted over at Moviemaker.com. Here's direct links to all 3: Part 01: project prep - http://www.moviemaker.com/diy/movies-better-fcp-x-red-feature-film-workflow-part-1/ Part 02: Editing -...

Hey guys, The first part of my FCPX-RED feature film workflow is up now on the Moviemaker Magazine site… the idea behind these is to give you a detailed crib sheet of how to get a feature film done in FCPX. I use it on my projects, it works, and I don't miss FCP7 at all. The hope here is...

Hey guys, Took a little longer than I hoped, but I finally got around to doing my FCPX-Resolve Tutorial. FYI, this isn't a Resolve tutorial so much as it goes into detail of what you can expect/not expect to transfer properly to/from Resolve from FCPX. Let me know what you think/and...

Hey guys, Figured I'd let you know I just posted a bunch of workflow tutorials on my site about the new features in FCPX. The one you'll probably be most interested in is: FCPX: Using Redcine-X Pro to Grade Your Red Raw in FCPX And if you want, you can find the rest of them here...

Hey guys, How's it going? Just wanted to let you know I've posted pretty in depth FCPX Red Workflow Tutorials on my site. Here's a list of the Red Centric Ones: FCPX Red Workflow parts 1 and 2 Using Redcine-X Pro To Grade Your RAW in FCPX FCP 7 to FCPX Red Workflow parts 1 and 2 You can...