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As you may have noticed, LiveType is not included in the latest round of updates from Apple. I spoke with Richard Townhill, Director of Video Application Marketing at Apple about this and he told me that while the new version …

Because of all the news related to the new Final Cut Studio release, we are changing our coverage for the Digital Production Buzz tonight to focus on all the news. I just finished talking with Richard Townhill, Director of Video …

I got a note today from Gabe Cheifetz, head crumble at CrumblePop, about a new Final Cut filter that they’ve just released. Their press releases reads: CrumplePop today announced the availability of CrumplePop Reflector, a set of high quality reflection …

If persistence counts for anything, Michael Cinquin should get an award. By day, Michael is a free-lance editor and colorist. However, by night, he likes writing Final Cut utilities. Over the last couple of months he’s written me several times …

Ron Diamond, with EditGroove Software, sent me an email this afternoon. In addition to providing some free raffle prizes for my upcoming seminars, he is also offering a discount on it – more on that in a minute. If you …

As we all know, Snow Leopard was formally announced and demoed at the WWDC conference yesterday. So, today, Andreas Schmidt sent me this question: Yesterday Apple announced Snow Leopard and Quicktime X. Do you know or have an idea if …

I just upgraded one of my Final Cut Studio editing systems from 10.5.6 to 10.5.7 using the download from Apple’s website. Since then, I’ve discovered some problems with LiveType. I’m still looking for a work-around, but none of the usual …

Gabe, over at CrumplePop sent me the following note today: We’re launching a product today that might be interesting to the Final Cut Pro audience. The product is called CrumplePop, and it’s a suite of FCP Master Templates that make …

I’ve had the pleasure, over the last few months, of working with Smartsound to develop a new plug-in for Final Cut Pro that greatly simplifies the process of adding music to your Final Cut projects. But they wouldn’t let me …

Earlier today, I was reading some rumor sites speculating that Apple may be releasing a new version of Final Cut Studio at a media event on March 24. I don’t think these rumors are true and wanted to share my …

Philip Hodgetts has created an amazing utility (I saw it demoed recently at the LA Final Cut Pro User Group) that speeds the entire process of sync’ing double-system sound. It’s called Sync-N-Link, and Philip describes it this way: Sync-N-Link for …

This afternoon, Apple released the latest version of QuickTime — 7.6 — which includes updates for encoding quality, reliability, compatibility, and security enhancements. Media improvements include better single-pass H.264 encoding quality, better playback of Motion JPEG content, improved AAC encoding …

Last week, on the Digital Production BuZZ, we spoke with visual effects wizard Chris Zapara about how he creates his incredible effects – including winning two Emmy’s along the way. First, if you haven’t seen his work, check out these …

The folks at Peake Professional Systems sent me a notice about their new utility called: Final Cut Pro Assistant. One of the challenges of working with Final Cut is keeping track of all the different files it creates. Most of …

By now, you’ve probably read that I am not a fan of upgrading as soon as new software is released. The reasons for this can be found in the Color 1.0.3 release of a couple weeks ago, which broke Color’s …

Janet Swift, in PR over at Telestream, sent me a note this morning reminding me that last week, after two years of work, Telestream released the Windows version of Episode. Janet wrote: “Episode now supports cross-platform environments, PC and Mac. …

John Putch told me about this. Ptarmigan Designs, Inc., a Japanese iPhone developer, has released a file size and codec calculator for the iPhone. Its called “Codec Calc” and is available through the AppsStore, you can learn more about it …

This afternoon, Apple released updates to the following software: Final Cut Pro 6.0.5 Compressor 3.0.5 Color 1.0.3 Shake 4.1.1 Here is a link to the release notes: http://www.apple.com/support/releasenotes/en/Final_Cut_Studio_2.0_rn/ My suggestion is to wait a week or two before upgrading to …

Ron Diamond wrote me about a new Final Cut Pro Preference Manager that he’s developed that I wanted to bring to your attention. Ron writes: Take control of your Final Cut Pro preferences at last! EditGroove’s UserMatic(TM) solves FCP Preferences …