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Making XDCam duplicates with correct timecode

Recently, I’ve had to make duplicates of XDCam Masters from a variety of different media- some XDCam, HDCam, DVCPro. Now, making XDCam masters is a pain, especially when you have 100’s of clips on a single disc. There’s no quick

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Visual Enhancement Pro Filter

I’d like to announce “Visual Enhancement Pro” filter. Visual Enhancement Pro in itself is not a revolutionary plugin- it simply is a reapplication of the state of the art technologies used by CSI units and top secret spy agencies. It

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Controlling Final Cut with your iPhone

Almost a year ago, Scott Simmons from The Editblog wrote a blog with suggestions for video apps for the iPhone. One caught my attention, and I’ve been working on it off and on ever since. And now, with a new

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Carnival of Errors

Carnival of Errors from Alan Dague-Greene on Vimeo. Synopsis: The fight for control of carnival land will pit clowns against mimes in a musical standoff that will tickle the funny bone and excite the senses. The Ben-Hur of single shot

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Quality of blank DVD media

You’ve heard warnings of bad DVD media, most likely. But how can you tell whether your stack of DVDs is a dud or good? Evidently, you can’t tell by a brand- you have to do some sleuthing to see if

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Follow all Followers Twitter Applescript

NOTE: Twitter has turned off the necessary API that allowed you to post from the command line, meaning this method no longer works. Looking to keep up with following your followers on Twitter without clicking through Twitter’s interface? I whipped

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FCPTutorials.com launched

I’ve been working on another site, over at http://www.fcptutorials.com. It’s an aggregate site, where I’ll be posting links to Final Cut tutorials from around the web. When I learned Photoshop, I did it through tutorials that I found through one

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Apps

ChinStr.apps is a niche hobbyist app development company, specializing in apps for birders and homebrewers and in making Big Data relevant. Read more about ChinStr.apps.