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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner
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Broadcast Brand Designer · Adobe Premiere .mogrts · Final Cut plugins · Motion graphics · alex4d.com · Editor · British Film Editors Associate Governor · runs @BFEditors.bsky.social
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Apple announces Final Cut Camera 2.0 and mentions…
“upcoming releases of Final Cut Pro 11.2 and Final Cut Pro for iPad 2.3, editors gain control over iPhone ProRes RAW footage, with direct adjustments for exposure, color temperature, tint, and demosaicing.”

www.apple.com/newsroom/202...
Screenshot of new app with this text overlaid: "Final Cut Camera 2.0 Press Release Mentions next versions of Final Cut Pro"
September 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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This new Final Cut Pro title ‘Unshatters’ the font, size and colour and text of your choice.

Get ‘Text Shards’ from Luca Visual FX now.

#fcpx
Faint text shows shards of text far apart on a black background White text shows shards of text closer together on a black background - the word 'Vanished’ is recognisable. White text shows shards of text closer together on a black background - the words ‘The’ ‘Day’ and 'Vanished’ are recognisable. White text on a black background: "The Day Eva Vanished"
September 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Warning for those on the ‘Adobe Creative Cloud All Apps’ plan

When your renewal comes around, Adobe will automatically ‘upgrade’ you to a different plan: the new ‘Creative Cloud Pro’ plan.

Upside: 4,000 generative credits.

Downside: Big price difference.
In UK: 25%

#postsky
Screenshot from Adobe site showing that Creative Cloud Pro plan costs £100 a month, £774 a year. Screenshot from Adobe site showing that Creative Cloud Pro plan costs £80 a month, £596 a year.
August 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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I won’t be at #NABShow 2025, but at least if I attend tomorrows live stream from @BlackmagicDesign.bsky.social - I'll know what many at the show will be talking about.

blackmagicdesign.com

Starting in under 1 day and 3 hours.

I hope BM start leading, not just adding Resolve rooms
#PostSky
Screenshot of countdown from Blackmagic Design website showing that live stream will be starting in 1 day, 2 hours, 49 minutes and 7 seconds
April 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Looking forward to Season 2 of #Severance starting today on tv+

For Season 3, dare I suggest that @hamburgerwaiter.bsky.social explores two kinds of Fractional Personality Disorder?
1. two people share a single personality tinyurl.com/yneva9ha
2. a person has less than one whole personality
Screenshot of book showing this text: MPD challenges these presumptions from one side, but we can also imagine a challenge from the other side: two or more bodies sharing a single self! There may actually be such a case, in York, England: the Chaplin twins, Greta and Freda (Time, April 6, 1981). These identical twins, now in their forties and living together in a hostel, seem to act as one; they collaborate on the speaking of single speech acts, for instance, finishing each other's sentences with ease or speaking in unison, with one just a split-second behind. For years they have been inseparable, as inseparable as two twins who are not Siamese twins could arrange. Some who have dealt with them suggest that the natural and effective tactic that suggested itself was to consider them more of a her. Our view countenances the theoretical possibility not only of MPD but FPD (Fractional Personality Disorder). Could it be? Why not? I'm not for a moment suggesting that these twins were linked by telepathy or ESP or any other sort of occult bonds. I am suggesting that there are plenty of subtle, everyday ways of communicating and coordinating (techniques often highly developed by identical twins, in fact). Since these twins have seen, heard, touched, smelled, and thought about very much the same events throughout their lives, and started, no doubt, with brains quite similarly disposed to react to these stimuli, it might not take enormous channels of communication to keep them homing in on some sort of loose harmony. (And besides, how unified is the most self-possessed among us?) We should hesitate to prescribe the limits of such practiced coordination.
January 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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How do you make rectangles in Motion 5 have hard edges?

In the Shape:Style:Fill, set Feather to -0.1 and the Falloff to -1000.

Here's the difference between a 2x2 pixel rectangles with default Feather and Falloff and these values in Motion:
Close up of screen recording showing two squares being dragged in Motion.
December 13, 2024 at 1:49 PM
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Apple Music?

I have over 8,000 tracks in my audio library not available on streaming.
Screenshot showing Apple Music Smart Playlist showing how many tracks have been uploaded to Apple Music for library sync
December 9, 2024 at 11:58 AM
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Final Cut Pro 2014-2024:

Skating to where the puck was.

Eventually.

Other players?
No longer inspired.
Working on perfecting a 2000s game in the mid-2020s.

AI?
Irrelevant.
Where the soccer ball is going to be.

#postsky
Photo of Steve Jobs on stage. On a big screen next to him is a quote: "I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been."
December 8, 2024 at 1:57 PM
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Record Cinematic options on iPhone 16 Pro
December 2, 2024 at 3:46 PM
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Early example of product placement: The Twitter bird logo in 1933’s She Done Him Wrong starring Mae West and Cary Grant.
britannica.com/topic/She-Do...

Product placement was banned in the advent of the Motion Picture Production Code which was applied to feature films released from 1934 to 1968.
Black and white still from ‘She Done Him Wrong’ showing Cary Grant standing but leaning on a side table looking at Mae West who is sitting on the other side of the side table, holding a cigarette in her left hand. Her black dress shows four embroidered Twitter bird logos across the front from her lower left to the upper right of the the dress.
November 30, 2024 at 12:30 PM
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Like subscribing to an app?
Like paying a single lifetime fee?

Jumper is priced both ways.

Jumper is a powerful AI search engine for your footage.
No clouds. No uploads. All on device.

Final Cut Pro & Premiere now.
Avid & Resolve soon.

fcp.cafe/news/20241106/
Screenshot showing you can subscribe to Jumper for $15 a month or $250 for lifetime access (including updates for a year).
November 29, 2024 at 5:09 PM
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My two commercial packs of Final Cut Pro plugins are available this week for 25% off if you use BLACKFRIDAY on checkout.

Instantly animate with one of 120 Animation Transitions
fxfactory.com/info/animati...

Effects for 360º video production
fxfactory.com/info/360effe...

#fcMac
#fcpx
Image showing icon of product and name: Alex4D Animation Transitions on a red to white vertical gradient Image showing icon of product and name: Alex4D 360º Effects plus this text: ‘VR Video plugins for Final Cut Pro X’ on top of a darkened screenshot of the icons of each effect in a browser
November 28, 2024 at 10:51 AM
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Final Cut Pro tip: There is a command you can assign a keyboard shortcut to that is helpful when editing captions:

‘Join Clips or Captions’

Wouldn't it be useful if you could split and join titles in the same way you can do with captions?

#fcMac
#fcpx
#postsky
Screenshot from Final Cut Pro Command Editor with ‘caption’ entered into the search, so showing all commands including the word 'Caption. ‘Join Clips or Captions’ is highlighted in blue.
November 26, 2024 at 4:52 PM
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Go to Settings:Privacy and Security:App Passwords and you get a temporary one off password to put into useful tools like Porto
November 21, 2024 at 12:25 PM
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The Brutalist

Very unpredictable!

In cinemas 24 January
Photo of Alex standing at an angle in front of a screen showing a poster of The Brutalist - which features text at an angle and a picture of the Statue of Liberty upside down Photo of blurred people walking in front of the closing credits of the film. The credits being at 30°
November 19, 2024 at 10:46 PM
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Compressor 4.9 new features:
• Transcode stereoscopic video files to spatial video for editing in Final Cut Pro and playback on Apple Vision Pro
• Export spatial video encoded files to Photos to automatically share with Apple Vision Pro
(1/2)
#fcpCreativeSummit
Screenshot of new features list from Mac App Store.
November 14, 2024 at 1:39 AM
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Final Cut Pro 11 for Mac Spatial Video editing.

There are no spatial titles, generators, effects or transitions.
(Motion hasn't been updated to make them)

If you add a title or generator to a spatial timeline, the Transform, Crop and Distort panels are disabled.

(1/2)

#fcpCreativeSummit
#fcpx
Screenshot from documentation showing panels in the inspector, showing some disabled, the Steroscopic panel enabled
November 14, 2024 at 12:13 AM
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Final Cut Pro 11 on Sequoia can use third parties video decoders to work with footage. Including the ability to have a format-specific button to bring view or adjust properties.
Such as RAW parameters.

support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/...

#fcpCreativeSummit
#fcMac
#fcpx
Screenshot from documentation showing screenshot from Final Cut 11 showing two decoders and an 'Edit RAW Properties' button.
November 14, 2024 at 12:01 AM
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Motion v5.9 is available

More of a ‘5.8.1’ - if you don't consider '5.8' actually more like version 5.6.8

A bugfix update
With feature to do with codecs
No spatial template features

At least they didn't discontinue it

#fcpCeativeSummit
Screenshot of almost empty list of new feature in Motion 5.9: "Media Extensions Install third-party video decoders to support playback and compositing of more video formats. (Requires macOS Sequoia or later.)"
November 13, 2024 at 11:40 PM
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Final Cut Pro 11 for Mac is available in the UK.

Search for it directly, then you'll see an update button.

#fcpCreativeSummit
Screenshot from Mac App Store showing 'What's New’ text: Final Cut Pro 11 is faster and smarter than ever. Leverage new Al-enhanced tools, work faster with time-saving workflow improvements and edit spatial video. • Expand your creative freedom with the revolutionary Al-powered Magnetic Mask, and isolate people, objects and shapes in any footage without a green screen or time-consuming manual rotoscoping. • Use Transcribe to Captions to automatically create captions from spoken audio in the timeline with a powerful Al language model built for speed and accuracy. (Requires a Mac with Apple silicon and macOS Sequoia or later.) • Import and edit spatial video clips from Apple Vision Pro or iPhone 15 Pro or later; add titles, colour correction and effects; and share captivating spatial projects that can be viewed on Apple Vision Pro. (Requires a Mac with Apple silicon.) • Reduce clutter in the browser by automatically hiding original clips when creating synced clips or multicam clips. • Use Vertical Zoom to Fit to scale clip heights to fit in the timeline. • Speed up your creative flow with new Picture in Picture and Callout effects. • Create amazing visual reveals with new Modular transitions. • Increase efficiency with new keyboard shortcuts for common tasks in the browser and timeline. • Install third-party Media Extensions to support playback and editing of more video formats. (Requires macOS Sequoia or later.)
November 13, 2024 at 11:27 PM