Author: Oliver Peters
Wild Plug-ins from Safari Pedals
This post is by Oliver Peters from digitalfilms Audio plug-ins typically come in one of two styles: graphical displays with curves, sliders, and numeric values; or skeuomorphic designs meant to emulate certain vintage hardware. However, if you are guitarist or bass player, your tone is enhanced with small, physical effects pedals, aka “stomp boxes” that…
Premiere Pro’s Transcript-Based Editing
This post is by Oliver Peters from digitalfilms The single best Premiere Pro improvement that Adobe has introduced in recent versions is the text and transcription function, including text-based editing. If you edit with Premiere Pro and don’t know how to use these, you’d better get cracking! These features let you edit from a transcript,…
Analogue Wayback, Ep. 22
This post is by Oliver Peters from digitalfilms Jimmy Buffett If you enjoy music, then you probably have a soundtrack to your life. Mine includes the many songs of Jimmy Buffett, who entered my consciousness with the release of Come Monday. I was hooked ever since, so the news this past Saturday of his passing…
PixelTools hueShift
This post is by Oliver Peters from digitalfilms There are myriads of audio and video plug-in developers on the market that make products for all the leading NLEs and DAWs. While many of these products work fine in DaVinci Resolve, few are specifically designed to work natively with Resolve. One exception is PixelTools, headed up…
Do you really need all of those plug-ins?
This post is by Oliver Peters from digitalfilms That question might seem disingenuous considering that I’ve reviewed a lot of plug-ins in the past and will continue to do so in the future. I do have a lot of plug-ins installed on my system. These include purchased, free, trials, some that came with gear, and…
VEGAS Pro 21
This post is by Oliver Peters from digitalfilms Vegas Creative Software has been part of MAGIX since 2016. Unlike similar corporate acquisitions, the VEGAS team has been able to continue to invest in R&D and expand the product line. This month they launched version 21 of what is now one of the longer-running nonlinear editing…
The Future of Avid, Round 2
This post is by Oliver Peters from digitalfilms Back in May I opined about the future of Avid Technology, in response to a Reuters report that Avid was pursuing a sale of the company. Yesterday (Aug. 9, 2023) that came to fruition as Avid announced an agreement to sell to STG, a private equity firm.…
New FxFactory Audio Effects
This post is by Oliver Peters from digitalfilms FxFactory has been known as a platform for video effects and motion graphics templates, primarily focused on Final Cut Pro. Of course, many of their products do support more editing applications on the Mac than just FCP. Maybe less known is the fact that the catalogue also…
New FxFactory Video Effects
This post is by Oliver Peters from digitalfilms One of the unique benefits of Apple’s Final Cut Pro ecosystem is the wide range of third-party effects, transitions, and motion graphic templates that are available. One of the best resources for these continues to be FxFactory. Noise Industries initially developed FxFactory for the FCP market, but…
The 1073
This post is by Oliver Peters from digitalfilms Many brands and products become iconic and highly sought after. In the world of music, you can count Fender and Gibson guitars, Marshall amps, and other such products in that group. However, when it comes to audio mixing and studio gear few names are as prominent as…