Tag Archives: Useful Tools

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Useful Tools for Editors: Pro Player

QuickTime Player X got you down? Then you might be interested in the brand new Pro Player from the folks at Digital Heaven. Pro Player is a lot like its name sounds. It's a simple application designed for playback of different … more »

Useful Tools for Editors: Tonalizer|VFX

Here’s an interesting color correction plug-in for Final Cut Pro X, Final Cut Pro 7 and Motion users: Tonalizer|VFX. Released last year by the Danish company Irudis, Tonalizer stands apart from all the other color correction plug-ins out there with … more »

Useful Service for Editors: Doodle

Doodle is a very nice, free service that makes online scheduling between a group of people very easy. It’s not necessarily just for editors, but since I’ve started another Useful Tools for Editors post, then this is where it goes. … more »

The Useful Tools from Automatic Duck Are Now Free

If ever there was some truly good Useful Tools news for editors, then this is it. All of the timeline translation tools that have been produced by Automatic Duck for over 10 years are now free for download. This comes … more »

Useful Tools for Editors: Project X27

In the ongoing saga of Final Cut Pro X comes one of the first third-party tools based on the newly released FCPX XML format. XML came to FCPX in the version 10.0.1 update just a month ago. Project X27 is a … more »

Useful Tool Updated: Post Haste 2.0

Way back in 2009 I posted about a useful tool called Post Haste. It was a little app designed by editor Paul Conigliaro that addressed his need to keep his post-production projects organized. That app has now been reborn and … more »

Useful Tools for Editors: e-Watcher

Way back in 2007 I speculated on what I thought would be a cool feature in Final Cut Pro  (via a Software from the Future post): the ability to designate a folder as a Watch Folder. The idea was that … more »

Useful Tools for Editors: DropCopy

I was happily installing the Mac OS 10.7 Lion update on my Mac Pro at home (Avid recently blessed Media Composer to run on 10.7) only to become somewhat less happy when I realized AirDrop, one of the features I … more »

Useful Tools for FCPX Editors: Event Manager X

One of the stranger things that Final Cut Pro X does during an edit is leave all your imported media online, all the time. Unlike most other NLEs out there FCPX keeps media (as in Events) separate from the editing … more »

A Few Free Useful Tools for FCPX Editors

If you’re digging in and learning/working with Final Cut Pro X, you might be interested in a few recent freebies that alex4d has placed online for us all to download and use. FCPX is built on a new effects architecture … more »