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New iMacs Arrive with Thunderbolt

Apple today announced updated iMacs that include a CPU upgrade to the quad-core Intel Core i5 and i7 processors. It’s nice to go all quad-core, but the big news is the inclusion of Thunderbolt on the new iMac. This was … more »

FCP Editors: Time to Add Avid to Your Edit Mix?

Regardless of what you think about the soon-to-be-released Final Cut Pro X, if you’re a Final Cut user, there are still some things you’d like to do faster or better with your current setup. Need to share project files across … more »

Useful Tools for Editors: Pro Media Tools

Back in August of 2009, Digital Rebellion released a really useful tool for Final Cut Pro editors called FCS Maintenance Pack. That thing has probably saved quite a lot of headaches since its inception. Just in the last couple of … more »

As NAB Nears, Lots of Useful Tools Get Updated

This is not a blog post about fixing what ails Final Cut Pro. It’s about useful tools for FCP! Here’s a quick round-up of the previously featured Useful Tools that have gotten recent updates prior to NAB: Digital Heaven’s Final Print, … more »

Apple Wields Its Hammer, Smashes SuperMeet

If news broke that Apple was finally going to attend the annual Final Cut Pro User Group SuperMeet to announce a brand new version of Final Cut Pro, you might think it would be cause for celebration. Apple has periodically … more »

Free Useful Tools for Editors: CoreMeltFREE

So here’s a nice little package of free effects, transitions and plug-ins that I totally missed a few weeks ago when it came down the tubes. CoreMeltFREE is a set of 33 plug-ins for Final Cut Pro, Motion and After … more »

A Discussion on Tape, Tapeless and Shooting Ratios

There’s a great post over at the blog Little Frog in Hi Def prompting a discussion that needs to be had, about an issue that everyone in post-production is surely experiencing right now. As film and tape have given way to … more »

The NLE as a Modular Product

Here we sit just a few short weeks from NAB, right after another upgrade to Avid Media Composer and possibly on the verge of what might be the biggest Final Cut Pro upgrade ever. Add to that what will probably … more »

Media Composer 5.5 Ships

Earlier today (Tuesday, 3/8/11) Avid began shipping the next update to Media Composer, 5.5. The software was recently announced and we discussed the news here, as did StudioDaily editor Beth Marchant on StudioDaily’s main page. It’s available immediately from the Avid store. … more »

Beware of (Some) YouTube FCP Tutorial Videos

A couple of weeks ago I came across a YouTube Final Cut Pro tutorial about how to edit a music video. It popped up in my RSS feed, as the “tutorial” was embedded on a website. As one who often … more »