Apple quietly announced a ground-breaking feature: the ability to refocus video during editing in Final Cut Pro. Coming soon from an iPhone 13 Pro. Learn more.
Take a deep breath. Just because a new version of the macOS is released doesn’t mean you need to upgrade… yet.
Elon Musk wrote 11 rules to improve business communication and workflow, as reported by Inc. magazine in their June 14 issue. Here are his 11 points.
Apple announced it is discontinuing support for key legacy codecs in the next version of the macOS. This is a VERY BIG DEAL – here’s what you need to know. This article has been updated MULTIPLE times since its first release with info from Adobe, Apple, Avid, and Blackmagic Design.
… and Motion and Compressor Apple today updated all three of their professional video applications: Final Cut Pro Motion Compressor These updates fix significant bugs, but did not add any new features. FINAL CUT PRO X (v.10.1.3) Here’s what’s new: …
This morning, Apple updated Final Cut Pro X, Motion 5, and Compressor 4. According to Apple’s website, here are the changes. Final Cut Pro X — What’s New in Version 10.1.2 Optimized, proxy, and rendered media can be stored at …
A series of highlights on what’s happening in the media industry two days before the start of the 2014 NAB Show.
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 …
I get emails almost every day from readers suggesting tips and tricks for Final Cut Pro X. Most are questions about how to do things, which form the basis of the articles I write for my newsletter every week. However, …
This evening, Adobe released their Creative Cloud update to all their audio and video products. You can learn more here: http://www.adobe.com/products/creativecloud.html This release is a big deal for several reasons: Adobe’s shift to a subscription pricing model for all its …
This afternoon as part of the 2013 Adobe MAX, Adobe held a press conference featuring Adobe CEO Shatanu Narayen and Adobe SVP and General Manager of Digital Media David Wadhwani.
Here’s a collection of short ideas that are not worth a complete article, but can still improve working with Final Cut Pro X.
Of all the questions I am asked each day, this is the most popular: “When will Final Cut Pro X be ready for professional use?” Sigh… Right now! Final Cut Pro X is ready for professional use today. Editors have …
One of the web mailing lists I that I read regularly is IMUG – a great resource for anyone involved in media production or post. This morning, Paul Isbicki asked “…do any video pros REALLY believe that APPLE will make …
One of the problems with writing a weekly newsletter is that, while it is easy to write detailed articles of a single subject, it is hard to write about interesting things that don’t require a lot of space. But every …
This morning, Apple updated Final Cut Pro X, Motion, and Compressor, with a variety of bug fixes. Probably the bug fix that would be most valuable to many people – based on the number of emails I received on this …
A question I get asked frequently is: which of the current Macs should be used for video editing. So, I wrote a blog about it and posted it on Post Magazine. You can read it here: Are the New Macs …
What are RAIDs, SSDs, or The Cloud? And how do you use them to get the best performance from your editing system? This article explains what you need to know.
The ink was barely dry in the web browser of my post on being a great interview guest, when Michael Cox wrote a reply on how to be a great interviewer. While I don’t agree with all his suggestions – and I’ll let you know my concerns at the end – this is a good list that I wanted to share with you.
There’s a segment of videographers that can easily migrate to the power of Final Cut Pro X: iMovie users. Let me show you how this works.
I posted a brief video on YouTube, “Polishing edit skills and books for editors & directors” in which I recommend some books about editing and directors. Perhaps because I was thinking about the recent release of my own book, “Final …
Apple released a 10.0.2 update to Final Cut Pro X late Wednesday.
Improve the performance of your Final Cut Pro X system, and some common trouble-shooting tips.
Tom Keith’s voice was magical … summoning helicopters, gonzo moose, a startled cow, a man falling sixteen stories into tapioca pudding… it was a voice that created magic out of puffs of air.
With one eye firmly on the existing Final Cut Pro 7 user base, Avid today announced Media Composer 6 using the phrase “Committed to the Professional.” When Avid CEO Kirke Arnold opened the press conference this morning, her opening remarks …
With the release Tuesday of Final Cut Pro 10.0.1, Apple added the ability to import and export XML files. While not a direct benefit to FCP X editors, indirectly, this is huge. Let me explain why. Video, and film, editing …
[Updated Sept. 21 with a few extra details and the link to the free trial.] [Updated with a link for the QuickTime update.] [Updated with more information on Roles, and clarification on Davinci and AutoDesk.] [Updated with clarification on XSAN.] …
According to MacRumors, and confirmed by two other sources, Apple is now offering FCP 7 (and the entire Final Cut Studio (3) suite) for sale. You can read MacRumors here. While only available on an 800 number – 800-MY-APPLE – …
We are all looking forward to the release of Lion on Wednesday this week. So I thought I’d dust off a few thoughts from operating system upgrades from year’s past – just to prevent any problems. First – and most …
Final Cut Pro X is released – and Larry Jordan has a first look.
I was happily answering questions from my latest Final Cut Studio newsletter which released this morning – you can sign up for it here – and getting ready for NAB, when, WHAM! The ProVideo Coalition publishes a rumor that Apple …
A tribute to Bernie Gribble, ACE, from Julian Semilian.
[ The following article was taken from my FREE Final Cut Studio newsletter for February. Subscribe here. ] The release of any new hardware is exciting; as we saw last week with the release of the new MacBook Pros. However, …
… and it’s a jaw-dropper. Last week, Apple invited a few folks, including me, to a short meeting in Cupertino where they previewed the up-coming version of Final Cut Pro. While I am under NDA and can’t talk about what …
I get a ton of press releases every day. Many I post to the Latest News section of the Digital Production Buzz, so that you can keep up with what’s going on in our world. Others I just trash. But …
The good folks at Accusys sent me an 8-drive RAID to test recently. (You can read my review of their ExaSAN A08S-PS unit in the next issue of my newsletter; coming out later this month.) However, what I want to …
A year or so ago, I wrote about a problem of digital media slowly "evaporating" when a hard drive is powered down and stored on a shelf. You can read the first article here. The solution is to refresh the …
MUSING: LOOKING BACK TO LOOK AHEAD NOTE: I first wrote about this in my blog, but got so many favorable comments, I want to share this with you here. Also see my blog for more comments about this. In wrapping …
Last week, on the Digital Production Buzz, we interviewed Evelyn McLellan, a professional archivist for Artefactual Systems. (You can hear her interview here — 14 minutes, MP3 file.) I found the interview to be an excellent orientation to getting our …
This Wednesday, July 14 at 7:00 PM, I am presenting at the LAPPG (Los Angeles Post-Production Group). This is a great user group, if you haven’t had a chance to attend a meeting, check out their website – www.lappg.com. This …
In a recent newsletter, I invited readers to send in their favorite iPhone apps for production or post. I thought you might be interested in some of their replies: Ian Hart I find Movie*Slate very handy as I often need …
John Bogdanovich sent me the following note: I just released my 10 DVD series on making concert classical guitars. The project took two years to complete and due to the tiny budget available I was only able to hire a …
Here’s another technical question that came in recently. Sourabh asks: I am a huge fan of your newsletters. I see you mention in quite a few newsletters burning an AVCHD disc (on a standard DVD) using FCP 7 that will …
I’m trying to catch up on the backlog of technical questions I get asked each month for my Final Cut Studio Newsletter. So, I’m hoping to address a number of them here in my blog. This question is typical of …
Just a very quick note – as it is now about 11:58 PM – that our podcast, the Digital Production Buzz is located on the trade show floor at the 2010 NAB Show as the official podcast. We are right …
As many of you may know, I write a monthly newsletter covering Final Cut Studio. (Sign-up for your FREE subscription here.) We are now in our sixth year of publishing, each issue generally runs around 40 pages. For many years, …
Often, the best new gear is hidden in the corners and back areas of a trade show. As I was walking the aisles of the Broadcast Video Expo in London last week, I discovered a company called Hocus Products. They …
I’m spending the week at Broadcast Video Expo 2010 in London (well, Kensington Square, if you want to be specific.) This is the UK’s largest show focused on video production gear. If you listen to the Digital Production Buzz tonight …
I’m getting ready to head to Scotland, England, and Ireland for a two-week series of Final Cut Studio seminars. (You can read about where I’m going and what I’m discussing here.) When I’m in London, in addition to speaking at …
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