New Demo Reel Up
Saturday, May 10, 2008
I’ve gotten a sample reel of my work online. So take a look here. You’ll see a broad cross-section of styles so you can get a feel for my range. From motion graphics to narrative and everything in
 
Did you know? Kevin is in LA
Friday, May 9, 2008
After talking with a number of my colleagues at NAB, I found that many of them did not know that I have moved operations from San Francisco to Los Angeles over a year ago in order to take on higher
 
Preventing Motion Stalls in FCP Projects
Thursday, May 8, 2008
I love the flexibility of going back and forth from FCP to Motion to jazz up my sequences. The problem lies in the stalling of .motn files in your sequence. More often then not, you’ll get a “
 
Rendering in Motion: Oh the Pain!
Sunday, April 27, 2008
I’ve been creating lots of cool graphics in Motion lately, some quite complex. The only problem is after adding tons of layered effects, you’ve got quite the wait ahead if you render in Motion.
 
If
 
Demoing the Sony SRW-5800 HDCAM SR Deck
Saturday, April 26, 2008
I spent most of NAB demoing for Sony, so I can’t report on much else. I did get to know the Sony SRW-5800 HDCAM SR deck though. There are three cool things about this deck you should know:
 
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Prospect Trailer is Up
Sunday, March 30, 2008
In 2003, I edited a feature film entitled “Prospect”. Recently, I cut a trailer from footage ripped from the DVD for a trailer. I re-color corrected the takes in Apple “Color” and made some nice
 
Kevin Monahan to Demo for Sony at NAB
Friday, March 28, 2008
Sony has contracted me to a demo artist in their 1080P pavilion for the second year in a row. Thanks to the kind folks at Sony, I will be demonstrating Final Cut Studio, Sony Pro Video Monitors and
 
fcpworld Content
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Hi, I’m giving my home page a new blog like feel. I’m still hanging in there with iWeb for simplicity’s sake. Stay tuned for updated articles, and other musings. Hope you enjoy it. Drop me a line if
 
Welcome
This is fcpworld.com, the location for information about Final Cut Studio and post-production services by Final Cut Pro editor, Kevin Monahan.
 
 
Articles
There are some helpful articles about Final Cut Studio up in the articles section of the site. Check ‘em out.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Readers Choice
fcpworld is also the place where you can find out more about “Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro”, written by the owner of this site, Kevin Monahan.
 
“Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro” is one of the highest rated books about FCP, so be sure to pick up your copy today.
 
All projects files, techniques and examples are fully compatible with FCP 6.0.3.
 
Users of Final Cut Express HD will also find useful techniques in the book. To find out more about the book, go here.
 
To see sample movies of some of the effects you can make from the exercises, go here.
 
Amazon is down to their last few copies of MGE_FCP, so you will want to pick it up before they go out of print.
 
To buy the book, click here.
 
 
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