Apple denies the Pro Apps are for sale. Good. Now what?

This headline from TUAW caught my eye: TUAW: Apple re-affirms commitment to video apps. That headline says a lot. And now I say to Apple: prove it. It feels as if Apple’s commitment to the Pro Apps of late has been more of an effort to keep users quiet than innovating with the products and giving users what they have been asking for. Apple hasn’t been making huge version updates on a yearly basis in a while. >>

RED Los Angeles User Group

After only two meetings the RED Los Angeles User Group has become a great forum for exchange of ideas concerning all things RED.One of the goals of RED Los Angeles User Group is to educate and inform the professionals about pros and cons of this technology. >>

Useful Tools for Editors: Path Finder

Path Finder is the single most useful Finder replacement in OS X. You really don’t realize how limited the Finder is until you use something in its place. As an editor you often have to browse many different drives, many different directories and collect and move things from all over your Macintosh.

Final Cut and Avid go on tour

Both Apple and Avid are taking their NLEs on a bit of a tour.>>

Avid announces high performance RAID solutions

Avid announced two brand new RAID solutions, the VideoRAID ST and SR disk arrays. Available in either a 5 drive mini-tower (ST), as well as a 16 drive 3U rackmount chassis (SR), the arrays promise high performance and quality SATA-based direct attached storage solutions.>>

Help for a Final Cut Pro newbie

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.>>