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My POV
Brian A. Wilson
Product Review
Final Cut Pro PowerStart 2 CD
from DVCreators.net $79.95
If someone could create a CD that would do for screenwriting what this CD does for editing, he'd be rich and we'd all be much better screenwriters.
What an amazing product.
Steve Martin and Josh Mellicker, the big Kahunas at DV Creators, have put together one of the best tutorials I've ever seen. Powerstart guides you through the creation of a video presentation for the fictional product Attracto Shades.
The instruction starts out very basic, intuitively builds one piece of information on top of the other, and concludes with very advanced compositing techniques. They introduce a bit of editing philosophy as well, but the emphasis is on bending Final Cut Pro to your will.
This powerful, complex editing software is fast becoming the standard by which all others are measured. It's one of the key components in the arsenal of indy filmmakers; with FCP, a DV cam and a Mac, you are a movie studio.
The Powerstart CD goes a long way toward demystifying the rich yet complex program that is FCP and making it a viable tool in the hands of filmmakers.
The real ship-in-the-bottle aspect to all this is, the entire, elaborate lesson, QuickTime movies featuring Messrs. Martin and Mellicker, a detailed menu and much more all fits on one CD. This makes for a smooth-running, no-fuss presentation.
And it makes you realize how little music record companies put on CDs for which they charge twenty bucks!
The lads charge a mere $79.95 for this info-packed creation. Even if you bill your time at only a modest rate, the CD should pay for itself in, oh, about 20 minutes.
Yes, it's that good.
Get it from dvcreators.net, and get going on your short film.
Pardon me. I have to go work on my Powerstart for Screenwriting CD.
Keep writing.
BW
LA
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