After a long hiatus, I’m back. Work/travel has been hectic and prevented me from more timely updates. But I had an opportunity over the long weekend to pick up the video tools again. I needed that.

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We had a fantastic fourth, and again, hung out with The Davis Family over in Hillsboro. It was food, fun, friends, and of course, fireworks.   The event started with a good ’0l fashioned water balloon fight.  I managed to not get nailed with the camera too badly, but I don’t believe there was a dry person afterwards.

Then it was food:  burgers, hot dogs, and way too many munchies.

Water Balloon Fight

Grillmaster

Goofy

Blue Eyes

More Goofy Faces

Reed, Bob, Randy

The Davis Family

This was also my first video with the new Final Cut X, Motion 5, and Compressor 4.  The tools retain many of the “isms” that made the tool great, altho, it’s a totally new codebase, and not everything is there in the first version of the rewrite.  Still it worked pretty well for me.   No major glitches, I’m happy to report.

Here are a couple of screen captures of Final Cut and Motion tools:

Motion 5

Final Cut X

There are some nice time-saving features built into this rev of the tool, and I’ll post more on my experience when I get a sec.

And of course, there’s video here!

Hope your holiday was great too!  Drop me a note and let me know how you’re doing!