Final Cut Pro X Tutorial - Advanced Title Creation / Design | Husky Film Title

In this Advanced HD Voice tutorial for Apple Final Cut Pro 10 we learn how to combine advanced effects and title customisations in FCPX to create advanced and specialised title designs that would normally only be achievable in other motion graphics applications such as Adobe After Effects and Apple Motion 5. We look at advanced compositing and keying filters such as stencilled and silhouetted luma and alpha masks to add textures and picture overlays on our text and titles, and then how to use compound clips to add motion and interesting effects to the clip, in this instance, mirroring the title design i made for my award winning short film 'Husky' in which the rough-looking brown text slices in half and falls away at an angle. we use the transform and crop tools also to achieve this effect

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Final Cut Pro X Tutorial |Quick Tip| - How to fill blank audio channels - Stereo to mono conversion

In this basic quick tip HD Voice tutorial for Apple Final Cut Pro 10 I explain how to fill in blank / empty / null audio channels. For example, if you had a stereo recording but one of the left or right channels / waveforms was blank, you could use the tip to mute the blank channel and use just either the left or right channel to fill in the empty one, thus how to convert stereo audio recordings (in this case the zoom h1 and h2) to single mono sounds that play through both speakers / headphones / audio channels.

Celebrity portrait photographer Brian Smith shares the lessons he's learned over the past 30 years capturing the faces of the famous and infamous as a top magazine portrait photographer. Brian will discuss his approach to editorial and commercial assignments from concept to final images, and detailing his approach to lighting and problem solving on productions both small and large. Smith will also share secrets about how to quickly capture the personality of the people you photograph and he will also discuss how personal projects can be used to generate editorial and commercial assignments, and allow your personal style to evolve and grow while generating assignments you love to shoot. Smith will share celebrity portraits of from his new book 'Secrets of Great Portrait Photography' to show ways that you can make everyone you photograph look and feel like a star. Learn More