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That’s FCP help for a newb and not a noob!

One common question that I heard after writing the What’s wrong with the young FCP editor? post here on the Studio Daily blog a while back was “where is a young FCP editor supposed to learn some of the things you are ranting about?” One great place to begin is with Shane Ross’ Getting Organized in Final Cut Pro. Shane’s DVD-ROM lays out a number of great orginazational tips and tricks that he uses to keep project sanity on longer-form projects and just any old FCP project as well. I met Shane in person (after conversing on the ‘net) at NAB 08 in the Matrox booth and we talked about a lot of the issues I brought up in the above linked blog post. We’ve even shared some horror stories of projects past that I might talk about later as well. The DVD is part of the Creative COW Master Series and it covers (among other things) [from the Creative COW site]:

• The basics of how FCP organizes captured footage
• How FCP connects to footage it imports
• Setting up your Scratch Disk
• Organizing a documentary or narrative project
• Working with multiple project files
• Organizing projects for multiple users using a SAN
• Using iTunes to track your audio
• Archiving

For my money, this disk is the best $49.95 spent at the Creative COW store for a new FCP editor. Learning these kind of organization skills will stay with you for the rest of your career and can help on pretty much any and every software platform to boot. Stay tuned for a full review coming to the Editblog soon.