Michelle Tofi

CrumplePop ShrinkRay X - Free for a week!

I love CrumplePop.  Despite having issues with their initial set of plug-ins not playing well with FCP7 (My fault, not theirs, and they refunded me!) I’ve been loving the releases they’ve put out for FCPX, the still much maligned follow-up to their old Final Cut system I’ve grown with and loved. Having people like them come aboard the FCPX love-train has helped me enormously to embrace the ‘X’, and with a killer promo like this one you’d be mad not to give them a go.

ShrinkRay X from CrumplePop on Vimeo.

Yup, those awesome folks over at CrumplePop are actually giving away the full version of ShrinkRay X - the FCPX friendly follow up to their awesome ShrinkRay for FCP7 - for absolutely free this week. You can read everything you need to over at this page but once you’ve read that price tag, what more could you need to know?  It’s already installed on my copy of ‘X’ and I’ve toyed around this morning with some old footage shot on high. So far, I love it. Of course everyone needs to eat so after the 23rd of November it’ll be back to its regular price of $75.  Seriously, grab it now, right here.

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I shot some footage for a music video on a rooftop in East London yesterday, as always shooting my raw footage using Technicolor’s excellent Cinestyle picture style for Canon DSLR’s.  I love the heck out of that little plug-in.  Above you can see what it does - drains your raw footage of its contrast and colour saturation enabling the editor/colorist to get the best out of the footage in post.  I hope you can appreciate which of the above is the raw footage and which has been coloured! 

Keep an eye out for the full track soon :)