June 2016 | Alex4D

Apple WWDC 2016 Announcements and Post Production

Every year at their Worldwide Developer Conference Apple presents some of their plans relevant to software and hardware developers at a

16th June 2016

Apple App Store Subscriptions and iMovie/Final Cut Pro X

Apple has announced that developers making apps for sale in the iOS, Apple TV and Mac app stores can now

9th June 2016

Blackmagic Fusion 8.1: A new VR video option for Avid users

This week Blackmagic Design announced a new version of Fusion, their high-end compositing application. The good news for Avid Media Composer

8th June 2016

Xsend Motion – Send Final Cut Pro X timelines to Apple Motion

For those who used Final Cut Pro Studio before 2011, a very popular feature request for Final Cut Pro X is the ability to send clips to Apple Motion. Motion can be used for the kind of more advanced motion graphics tasks. Post production file format translation supremo Wes Plate has made Automatic Duck Xsend Motion.

7th June 2016

Apple’s patent for applying effects to clips with specific roles

The name of patent 9,240,215 may be ‘Editing operations facilitated by metadata,’ but it is about applying effects to roles

7th June 2016

Apple’s structure editing patent

While editors wait for the next big Final Cut Pro X update, I hope the Apple ProApps team will implement

7th June 2016

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