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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner

@alex4d.com
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Broadcast Brand Designer · Adobe Premiere .mogrts · Final Cut plugins · Motion graphics · alex4d.com · Editor · British Film Editors Associate Governor · runs @BFEditors.bsky.social

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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner @alex4d.com · 06/12/2025
Apple Motion is used to make nearly all the effects, titles, generators and transitions in Final Cut Pro, both built-in and those made by others. They can be made responsive to the aspect ratio of the timeline they are used in. Here’s how: www.linkedin.com/pulse/making...
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Making Final Cut Pro tools respond to the aspect ratio of timeline they are used on
If you need your graphics and animations to scale and rotate in response to aspect ratio in Final Cut Pro, you can set this up in Apple Motion. In Motion there is the concept of Display Aspect Ratio s...
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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner @alex4d.com · 09/11/2025
My question for Mr. Diabaté: ‘How rare must an experience be for it to remain a luxury?’
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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner @alex4d.com · 09/11/2025
What will happen to the birth rate 9 months later? First, I expect children will be born into the collective. What number of humans suit Earth? What is the combined will of humanity? Will human knowledge increase exponentially? Is human speech needed? Are all species each collectives?
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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner @alex4d.com · 06/11/2025
I had to do the same for the BBC News Persian service a few years ago. Having to make a pixel perfect recreation meant I got to know the After Effects to Premiere template workflow very well.
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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner @alex4d.com · 06/11/2025
Signs of stagnation in post production: 1. App monocultures mean lack of competitors driving innovation. ProTools for sound After Effects for compositing and motion graphics Premiere for editing 2. Post in 2025 wouldn’t be surprising to people from 2010.
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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner @alex4d.com · 01/11/2025
“You’ll be part of the new(s) services initiative team”… jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail...
jobs.apple.com
Pro Apps Acquisition Business Lead - Jobs - Careers at Apple
Apply for a Pro Apps Acquisition Business Lead job at Apple. Read about the role and find out if it’s right for you.
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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner @alex4d.com · 31/10/2025
The steady inexorable growth of services. Adobe Creative Cloud isn’t a cloud-based service. Creativity apps as a service? Pixelmator Final Cut Motion Logic How soon until Apple includes Apple Create? For humans and AI agents.
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Let me tell you a story (before the ship explodes):
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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner @alex4d.com · 24/10/2025
An upside that is not worth the downsides. An abstraction that could be countered with role-based effects. If Apple wanted to seem to care.
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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner @alex4d.com · 24/10/2025
Seeing Apple market Resolve as the Apple Immersive Video app for Apple Vision Pro is frustrating for me as someone that sees track-based NLEs as quaint. Seeing demoing how you need to use a Fusion patch to carry out simple compositing tasks for AIV gives me hope for Final Cut and Motion.
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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner @alex4d.com · 11/10/2025
What a pity. In 2017 was the first editing app that transcribed what you said and showed the words in sync with your footage on screen. Two years later CapCut included the same feature in China, in 2020 for US users.
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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Shooting 9 pages/23 shots/15 setups tomorrow. With a crew of 1. And new lights & camera we’ve never used. And also I don’t know any of the lines. And I don’t like what I wrote. It’s ineloquent and unfunny. Let’s do this!
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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner @alex4d.com · 30/09/2025
Should basketball basket heights be set depending on an equation based on the heights of the opposing team?
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Random idea while watching Nick Folk: If your kicker is over 40 years old, field goals should be worth 4 points Over 45? 5 points Over 50? 8 points
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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner @alex4d.com · 09/09/2025
Apple announces Final Cut Camera 2.0 and mentions… “upcoming releases of Final Cut Pro 11.2 and Final Cut Pro for iPad 2.3, editors gain control over iPhone ProRes RAW footage, with direct adjustments for exposure, color temperature, tint, and demosaicing.” www.apple.com/newsroom/202...
Screenshot of new app with this text overlaid: "Final Cut Camera 2.0 Press Release Mentions next versions of Final Cut Pro"
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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner @alex4d.com · 05/09/2025
This feature of Apple Motion has amazed my clients at the BBC for years. It has made me seem clever. For graphics that work in any aspect ratio (100:1 to 100:1 and beyond) I only need to include a maximum of 4 Display Aspect Ratio snapshots. #postsky
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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner @alex4d.com · 04/09/2025
Check it out at www.lucavisualfx.com/product/text...
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Text Shards
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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner @alex4d.com · 04/09/2025
This new Final Cut Pro title ‘Unshatters’ the font, size and colour and text of your choice. Get ‘Text Shards’ from Luca Visual FX now. #fcpx
Faint text shows shards of text far apart on a black backgroundWhite text shows shards of text closer together on a black background - the word 'Vanished’ is recognisable.White text shows shards of text closer together on a black background - the words ‘The’ ‘Day’ and 'Vanished’ are recognisable.White text on a black background: "The Day Eva Vanished"
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Jeff Roy @pulpjedi.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Aww, man… no 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝘂𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗼 Creative Summit for 2025 😭 I was already pre-approved by my work to go. The good news is it’s still happening in the spring, instead. Unfortunately that’s my busiest time and could prevent me from attending. Damn it. fcpcreativesummits.com
Final Cut Pro creative summit website message:

“Sometimes the best projects need a little more time in the edit bay. That’s why we’re remastering the Final Cut Pro Creative Summit for its new Spring 2026 release.

We’re using this extra time to go frame-by-frame, adding new content, polishing every session, and ensuring the final export is our most inspiring event ever. The first look at our new timeline drops this December!”
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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner @alex4d.com · 20/08/2025
£126 for an Thunderbolt 5 enclosure that can hold 8TB of NVMe M.2 SSD with “up to 3,151 MB/s real-world performance”
amazon.co.uk
OWC Express 1M2 Portable NVMe Thunderbolt (USB-C) SSD USB4 Ultra Fast External SSD Drive with Aluminum Heat Sink Enclosure (Enclosure Only) : Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories
Buy
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Florian Duffe @flowdefoe.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Oh yes. Now waiting for the next Sci-Fi project to bring it to use.
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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner @alex4d.com · 14/08/2025
Watching the first episode of #AlienEarth inspired me to make a free Final Cut Pro title template that emulates the MU-TH-UR chat user interface, and also on-screen titles. alex4d.com/final_cut_pl... It’s about time I got back into making free tools for Final Cut users!
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Alex4D Interface 2038 | Alex4D
A free Final Cut Pro for Mac title that emulates text seen in Alien (1979) and in Alien: Earth (2025). […]
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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner @alex4d.com · 14/08/2025
Next: a time and space viewer. Choose any location on Google Maps and go back in time. Move in 3D through imagery captured 15 years ago. Add historical photography and maps… visit 1925. Paintings, illustrations and contemporary descriptions: 1525 Archaeology: 2025BC Geology: 200,000BC
deepmind.google
Genie 3: A New Frontier for World Models
Today we are announcing Genie 3, a general purpose world model that can generate an unprecedented diversity of interactive environments. Given a text prompt, Genie 3 can generate dynamic worlds...
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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner @alex4d.com · 13/08/2025
Warning for those on the ‘Adobe Creative Cloud All Apps’ plan When your renewal comes around, Adobe will automatically ‘upgrade’ you to a different plan: the new ‘Creative Cloud Pro’ plan. Upside: 4,000 generative credits. Downside: Big price difference. In UK: 25% #postsky
Screenshot from Adobe site showing that Creative Cloud Pro plan costs £100 a month, £774 a year.Screenshot from Adobe site showing that Creative Cloud Pro plan costs £80 a month, £596 a year.
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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner @alex4d.com · 12/08/2025
Blackmagic Design’s Content Creator Ecosystem event Wednesday 3 September, London “Whether you're a filmmaker, YouTuber, TikToker, or creative agency pro, you'll learn how Blackmagic’s cinema cameras and DaVinci Resolve can supercharge your workflow” cvp.com/events/shoot...
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CVP.com - Shoot, Edit, Deliver: Blackmagic Design’s Content Creator Ecosystem - From the first shot to the final export, discover how Blackmagic Design empowers creators to bring their vision to life - faster, better, and with cinematic precision.
From the first shot to the final export, discover how Blackmagic Design empowers creators to bring their vision to life - faster, better, and with cinematic precision.
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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner @alex4d.com · 01/07/2025
Golang developer and Final Cut Pro user Andrew Arrow has made a library in Golang that Claude Code can use to generate #fcpx sequences. More about ‘Cutlass’ fcp.cafe/news/20250627/ Available on GitHub #postchat
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News - 27th June 2025
Andrew Arrow writes:
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John Buck @hellojohnbuck.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
The reaction to FCPX always felt like entitled rage. 12 years of 32-bit FCP that birthed millions of businesses (including me). Bank it, upgrade, move on. I know Jobs spoke to Randy Ubillos (Premiere & FCP/KeyGrip) about the "Vertigo" aka FCPX launch and they agreed. 64-bit or nothing. @gruber.foo
Inventing the Future John Buck
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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner @alex4d.com · 30/06/2025
News! New Final Cut Pro plugin for Krock, a post production organisation and review system that competes with FrameIO, Shotgrid, Boords and Ftrack. Includes • Overlay mode: to check for image differences • Auto-compare mode highlights visual differences with colour krock.io/finalcut-int...
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Final Cut Pro integration - KROCK.IO
Collaborate on video projects directly in Final Cut Pro with the Krock.io extension. Import feedback, sync comments, and keep your editing workflow focused.
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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner @alex4d.com · 24/06/2025
The Media Composer Transcript Tool gets you to a timeline quickly. Pity you have to muck about with track targeting and edge selection while considering clip collisions and what clips are on what tracks. Editors wasting brain space supporting technical implementation instead of feeling the story.
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Chris Hocking @latenite.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Transfer Toolbox v1.4.0 is out now on the Mac App Store! 🥳 Adds support for Final Cut Pro 11.1.1 (for Mac) and Final Cut Pro 2.2.1 (for iPad). You can also buy it in a LateNite bundle! transfertoolbox.fcp.cafe
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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner @alex4d.com · 17/05/2025
There’s so much metadata in Final Cut Pro. This tool can add that info to any shots you want on your timeline. Don’t worry, you can choose which fields are shown! #fcpx #postsky
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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner @alex4d.com · 12/05/2025
Generate PDFs of the frames you mark in Final Cut Pro
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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner @alex4d.com · 11/05/2025
Consider that the Interoperable Mastering Format is the way for a single database to be able to generate hundreds or even thousands of masters of a movie. Final Cut would be the perfect NLE to create IMFs. A database editor with a new metaphor for time.
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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner @alex4d.com · 11/05/2025
Track-based editing requires that the editor knows what each track is used for. The NLE doesn’t encode the editor’s creative intention. That’s why turnovers from track-based NLEs are tough. A human needs to make special version of the timeline, because the NLE can’t do that automatically.
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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner @alex4d.com · 11/05/2025
The section of your books from 1991-1999 was what helped me prepare for my interview of Randy Ubillos on stage 10 years ago… alex4d.com/notes/item/b...
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Back to 1.0: Interview with Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro and iMovie developer Randy Ubillos | Alex4D
If you spent time trying out interesting new Macintosh software in the early 90s, you might recognise the name Randy […]
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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner @alex4d.com · 11/05/2025
Firstly, thank you for your books on on editing! Second, Apple never fully explained that Final Cut Pro X’s magnetic timeline and metadata-based way of thinking made it the the NLE suited to the future of editing. Apple dropping the ball means all other NLEs are stuck in a 90s way of thinking.
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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner @alex4d.com · 11/05/2025
In this article in which @siracusa.social calls for a change of leadership at Apple, the botched launch of Final Cut Pro X is mentioned: “The precipitating events could be […] as trivial as releasing an unsatisfying new version of an application” Final Cut: was an opportunity to dent the universe
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Apple Turnover
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British Film Editors BFE @bfeditors.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
The art of editing animation is very different from editing other forms. Here’s an in-depth discussion featuring Jeremy Reuben, an editor of Bob’s Burgers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-Q9...
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TV and Film Animation Editors in Conversation - BFE Cut Above Awards 2022 special
YouTube video by British Film Editors
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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner @alex4d.com · 26/04/2025
How George Lucas celebrated the investiture of the new pope* back in 2005: youtube.com/watch?v=pP1rmsCPbQU&pp=0gcJCdgAo7VqN5tD Voiceover by Adam Buxton. *of Kozzoq
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A NEW POPE (2005)
YouTube video by Adam Buxton
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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner @alex4d.com · 11/04/2025
Premiering right now: A detailed tutorial from Post Professionals that will get you interested in the Final Cut Pro 11.1 update. youtube.com/watch?v=RnWg... It’s great how their videos use new features to explore parts of #fcpx few people know. #PostSky
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The Ultimate Final Cut Pro 11.1 Update Tutorial
YouTube video by POST-PROfessionals-E
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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner @alex4d.com · 10/04/2025
I see no reason to take Apple seriously on video editing - including the Mac. The Mac isn’t used by editors because of Apple editor affinity. It’s just faster than the rest. What was Apple’s last video editing hit? Final Cut Pro X? Clips? ProRes RAW? Cinematic Video? 🤡 #PostSky
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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner @alex4d.com · 09/04/2025
A roundup by @funwithstuff.bsky.social of immersive video news from #NABshow - such as the forthcoming immersive video camera and DaVinci Resolve update from Blackmagic Design: www.provideocoalition.com/immersive-ne... Plus how Apple’s Pro Immersive Video Workflow preserves quality. #PostSky
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Immersive news at NAB by Iain Anderson - ProVideo Coalition
Since it was announced by Apple last year, immersive-minded filmmakers have been waiting for the arrival of the Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive. While it’s available for preorder (now US$32,995/UK£25,0...
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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner @alex4d.com · 07/04/2025
Good: Final Cut Pro X dropped the idea that editors should use up brain space operating technology (now which tracks should I target/lock… which edges of which edit points do I now need to select… ). Bad: Apple didn't explain 21st century editing, just hoped editors would get it. Then gave up.
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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner @alex4d.com · 07/04/2025
Sadly, the reason why Resolve and Premiere are almost as stuck in the past as Media Composer is that Apple stopped competing in 2010. So we get 15 years of gimmicks slathered over a quaint user interface metaphor stuck in 20th century thinking.
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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner @alex4d.com · 04/04/2025
In Blackmagic Design’s NAB 2025 Update… www.youtube.com/live/wLw1UU3... …at [2:13:21] there’s a video about the new features in DaVinci Resolve 20. There’s a lot to see here! #postsky
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NAB 2025 Update
YouTube video by Blackmagic Design
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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner @alex4d.com · 04/04/2025
Impressive! strada.tech wised up. After months building advanced AI analysis of footage stored on clouds for high-end collaboration, they changed direction. For TV and film collaboration, you no longer need the cloud: youtube.com/watch?v=8ki5...
strada.tech
Strada | AI Search
The AI Search Platform eliminating the time it takes to find and share any moment.
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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner @alex4d.com · 04/04/2025
??? longer than the height of something ??? Might as well as measure in lengths of London Buses: in this case “1/108th of the length of a London Bus.” Evel Kenivel measured bike leaps in buses.
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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner @alex4d.com · 04/04/2025
Mars Bar?
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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner @alex4d.com · 04/04/2025
Apple’s Developer Relations team looking for someone to support developers who make apps and services for high-end post workflows: jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail... “Apps are changing the world and enriching people’s lives, driven by developers creating experiences that delight customers.” #PostSky
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Creative Pro Team Manager, Worldwide Developer Relations - Jobs - Careers at Apple
Apply for a Creative Pro Team Manager, Worldwide Developer Relations job at Apple. Read about the role and find out if it’s right for you.
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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner @alex4d.com · 03/04/2025
The TV Emmys award season has started. That means Behind the Scenes videos. In this one, the editor is given the opportunity to talk about every creative decision they made when making a four part TV series. So few BTS videos show what editors can contribute. Hoping for more videos like this.
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