Splice Vine Links #11

iPhone

Before you buy the amazing storyboarding app Cinemek (formerly Hitchcock) you may want to check out Dream App. Besides creating a storyboard for your project you can also design a poster and write an outline. Check out this cool time-lapse demo of all these being created.

Plug-Ins
Luca, a video-maker and editor in London has a free bundle of plug-ins for FCP.

Reading

In case you missed Chris Fenwick's talk on media management at SFCutters last week you can go to his blog where he posted details from his presentation. He has a post on FCP Bin Structure and Finder Folder Structure. On the latter post he even has a zip file of his finder folder structure which includes a sample FCP project and bin structure. He is on a mission to iron out best practices and ultimately standards for Post Production in the Bay Area. If this catches on it will save producers money, editors sanity and everybody time. He will be doing a follow up at SFCutters in May on archiving.

And speaking of best practices, over on Pro Video Coalition Scott Simmons has a very informative interview with Jon Chappell, the brains behind FCS Maintenance Pack from Digital Rebellion. FCS Maintenance Pack is an indispensable suite of 15 utilities designed to diagnose and fix problems in Final Cut Studio. Jon offers great insight into the things that cause crashes and corrupt files in FCP and why.