Found 515 blog articles.
December 19, 2013 by Larry


A detailed description of media management in the new Final Cut Pro X 10.1.

December 18, 2013 by Larry


Apple today announced that, starting tomorrow (12/19/13), the new MacPro will be available for order; though they did not announce more specific pricing, configurations, or a ship date. Their press release states: CUPERTINO, California―December 18, 2013―Apple® today announced the all-new …

November 15, 2013 by Larry


Compressing video using WebM takes forever! Here is more information about why and some custom settings you can use to speed things up.

November 3, 2013 by Larry


An overview of the recent 7.1 update of Adobe’s Creative Cloud video applications.

October 27, 2013 by Larry


First, let’s be clear: The new MacPro is not yet shipping. So, like a group of blind folks describing an elephant, we are getting a lot of different opinions on what this new animal is. Second, the instant Apple revealed …

October 13, 2013 by Larry


I got an email from Tiziano this morning with an increasingly common question: I’m looking forward [to] buying the new Mac Pro later this year! My question is about the external disk to use for editing all formats from DV …

September 22, 2013 by Larry


[ Please read this for my disclosure statement on product reviews. ] In today’s world, the speed and capacity of our storage is far more important to the performance of our editing system than the speed of our computer. Virtually …

by Larry


[ Please read this for my disclosure statement on product reviews.] It’s been a while since I wrote about the Shuttle Pro from Contour Design – www.contourdesign.com. So, when Matt Ouellette, Account Manager for the Shuttle, asked if I wanted …

September 17, 2013 by Larry


Recently, at the Supermeet at IBC in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, I was asked by the show organizers to discuss: “Is Final Cut Pro X Ready For Professional Use?” In thinking about this topic, I realized that this answer is more …

September 10, 2013 by Larry


Products break. I accept that. However, reputable companies make it easy to figure out what the problems are and get them fixed. They also honor warranties. This does not seem to be true with the folks at iLok. And because …