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Coming up on this episode of Pixil:
Today, we’ll look at how remote editing has become easier with the introduction of Final cut 7.Streaming draft previews is accomplished with the new iChat Theater option.

This very useful feature is great way to show off the latest cut to your clients. This option essentially  feeds your Final Cut Canvas screen to an iChat video message. Lets check out how the workflow I use in performing an iChat remote edit. When preforming a remote edit, it always helps to see a better frame rate. Editing across the net is never fun, but sometime necessary when completing deadlines.

When combined with remote access software, like logmein, iChat one can use a more powerful machine to edit off location! To do this we active the remote software on the remote computer. Offsite we log in and active iChat on both computers. Using two different iChat accounts we’ll message the control the host computer through Final Cut. We’ll start off by going into Final Cut

Under: View > iChat Theater > Start Sharing

Hit OK to active. While still in the remote account, go to the iChat buddy list and connect to the controller account. On the control computer, accept the invite. Using a second monitor, we can drag the iChat video screen over. Okay, and now we have a better frame rate to remotely edit to!

Okay and that’s how control final cut with iChat. This isn’t the best editing experience, but on a deadline it gets the job done. And that’s it for this episode of Pixil.info. I’m Pedro for Pixil.info See you next time!