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Using Final Cut Pro 7To Optimise Videos for YouTube

Although Final Cut Pro X is out many users are still moving along with Final Cut Pro 7 it seems. Not sure why this is so but I am sure sooner or later they will come around. One of the things many of my Mac user friends have asked me repeatedly about is how to optimize videos for you tube using Final Cut Pro 7. Now doing this can be somewhat of a minefield for those with no idea of what they are doing. Here are a few of my top tips.

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Cartoon qualifications

I knew it would only be a matter of time before some of today’s universities and colleges responded to the massive video games market by launching their own courses aimed at creating the games designers of the future. The SQA or Scottish Qualifications Authority has become the first exam board to develop one of these courses, an HND in Computer Games Development. The location of this first video game of course isn’t really much of a surprise, considering that Edinburgh is home to the hugely successful Rockstar games developers, the creators of Grand Theft Auto and Max Payne, amongst others. There’s big money in developing the next big thing in gaming, including creating more realistic graphics – many of the latest games look so realistic they could be screened at the movies and mistaken for a new Hollywood action flick!

Of course, all those Rockstar games are the action-packed, super-violent variety. That’s what 14-year-old boys (and some adults) want to play, so there’s always a competition to come up with more shocking, more bloodthirsty games than your competition. I doubt the SQA course will include modules in weaponry, pimping and armed robbery, probably choosing to stick to more sedate animations such as a chess set, underwater scenes and amateur copies of other Pixar flicks.

I am insanely jealous that a course like this wasn’t around when I was trying to decide where to study and what courses to take. I think I could even have coped with living north of the border for such an exciting subject as Computer Games Development. As it was, the animation whizz-kids of my generation had to make do with studying dry, dull topics like Computer Programming, while we made our own fun animations at home, on our own time, and for no course credit. Those Scots don’t know how lucky they are!

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