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CTRL+Console Turns Your iPad into a Video Editing Control Surface

December 18, 2014 By Eric Reagan

CTRL+Console with MacBook

A couple days ago, I randomly got a download code for the CTRL+Console app and a couple modules because I went to the Supermeet at NAB this year. I don’t even remember seeing it there but I thought I would check it out because the demo video looked pretty slick.

I have been using it as a control surface for editing in Adobe Premiere Pro for a day or two now.

It is a very well designed app that allows your iPad to connect via Bluetooth to your Mac or Windows machine and serve as a control surface, complete with a jog wheel. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Final Cut Pro, Lightroom, Reviews, Video Production Tagged With: app, CTRL Console, FCP X, Final Cut Pro X, ipad, premiere pro

 

SmartSound Releases FCP X Plugin for Customizing Songs to Fit Your Sequence

February 4, 2014 By Eric Reagan

Sonicfire Pro Plugin for FCP X

SmartSound.com is a royalty-free audio library featuring tracks that can be customized with length, instruments and intensity using its proprietary Sonicfire Pro software. It’s pretty powerful stuff that offers timing control, mood mapping, custom length, variations on the tracks and the ability to search all of the tracks directly and make purchases without leaving the software application.

I’m a big fan and frequent user of Smartsound. All of the music from my recent short Nerfed and my intro segments from my CES videos were built inside Sonicfire Pro 5.8.3 and, ultimately, ended up in my final sequences in FCP X. Now, the company has extended the power of Sonicfire Pro with a plugin for Final Cut Pro X, which allows you to use a generator to create a custom length audio track and then select a track from Sonicfire Pro to send to a library within FCP X.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: apple, Final Cut Pro, Video Production Tagged With: final cut pro, SmartSound, Sonicfire Pro

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