Making Video Editing Plug-ins Smarter

I've known Jim Tierney of Digital Anarchy for over 1o years now - I see him at least once a year at NAB in Vegas in the famed Plug-in Pavilion. I've always admired his work, and now after all these years, we've found an opportunity to work together. Digital Anarchy has become well known in …

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Rampant Design + FCPX

This week Rampant announced it has released even more plugins specifically designed for the FCPX community. It's great news for FCPX editors as they now have a set of tools that make their lives that much easier. If you can remove tedium, if you can save some time, if you can do it with extremely …

Automatic Duck Xsend Motion for FCPX: Building Bridges, The Good Kind

At NAB 2016 during the FCP Exchange event, Wes Plate of Automatic Duck made a lot of Final Cut Pro X editors and Motion 5 artists very, very happy. He announced the development of a new product from the Duck - a product that effectively builds a bridge between Final Cut Pro X and Motion. …

NAB Roundup: Rampant Design Tools on PostPerspective

Stefanie and Sean Mullen of Rampant Design Tools also spoke with Randi Altman of PostPerspective at NAB 2016. These two are the hardest working people in VFX I know, and they were at NAB talking about 14 brand new products! In addition to that, they've homed in on the Final Cut X market with some …

Clean Up Your Audio? Give Me 5 Seconds…

Have you seen these plugins from CrumplePop? You need to. We all deal with echoey rooms, background noise, microphone hiss. It's annoying, and unless you're a sound editor, you probably don't have the time or the wherewithal to deal with it. Then there's CrumplePop EchoRemover and AudioDenoise. Check out these short clips. Trust me, you're …

Color Constancy for Video; 10 Years in the Making

"The Color Constancy algorithm on which Xe8472 is based, was first presented in 2002 for use with still images. It took more than a decade of R&D to perfect the technology and optimize it for professional video imagery. Xe8472 represents the world’s first presentation of this groundbreaking algorithm in a commercial product for professional filmmakers." …

Dear Editor, Part 3

Dear Editor, It's been a long day, that sequence is just taking too long. You have other things to do. Rampant Design Tools. Drag-and-drop Quicktime based Style Effects. Check them out for free here.  

Dear Editor, Part 2

Tight deadlines? Not sure where the time went? We found some for you. RampantDesignTools.com 

Dear Editor

  Rampant Design Tools feels your pain. This should help.

Automatic Duck is Back!

Today is a pretty exciting day. A nostalgic day, perhaps for the industry; for me personally. But mostly, it’s an exciting day for the industry.  Automatic Duck is back! A brief history. I launched my consultancy back in 2003. As with any small and growing business; it was a challenge. You rely on those first …