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This evening, I was speaking – remotely – with the Arizona Final Cut Pro Users Group. And I was asked, as happens often, “Does Apple still care about professionals?” This is a hard question, because the answer is changing. But …

I am a huge fan of keyboard shortcuts. For tasks that I do over and over, Bam!, hit it with a keyboard shortcut and, Poof!, it’s done. What’s not to like about keyboard shortcuts? Even if you prefer doing everything …

Apple updates Final Cut Pro, Motion, and Compressor. Here are the details.

Sal Guarisco sends in a personal story on how he configured an LTO-5 tape drive for media archiving on his Mac.

Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere, Photoshop… Composite modes work virtually every where. This video training shows you what they are, how they work, and how to create killer effects.

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 …

Some interesting news this morning. FIRST Apple has quietly notified developers that it is preparing to offer volume purchases for business customers via the App Store. MacNN has more about this. The significance of this is that volume purchases of …

‘TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE SUPERMEET I’m writing this at 9:50 PM from my hotel room at the 2011 NAB Show (National Association of Broadcasters) in Las Vegas, Nevada. In less than 24 hours, we will know what the next version …

It shouldn’t be this difficult. NOTE: This blog grew out of my webinar last week on how to archive Final Cut Pro projects. If you are interested in archiving, click here to learn more. The process of creating films and …

[ 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’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 …

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 …