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.>>

These Are a Few of My Favorite (NAB) Things

I’m sure everyone has heard the big news of the show which came from Red, Panasonic, Sony, Imagineer and Avid. Before speaking about two gems I saw from the show a few words about these. >>

The rest of my NAB and a strange Apple Encounter

I had the plan to do a quick update on the best stuff I saw for the day in and around NAB 2008. On Monday I wrote about Sunday’s Avid event. On Tuesday I posted a few quick thoughts on some cool stuff I saw on Monday. But on Wednesday I was laid up in bed with what I can only describe as food poisoning.