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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 …

This week a vigilant member of our Final Cut Pro community alerted me to a video on YouTube that he thought might be mine – but wasn’t on my site. I clicked the link and went directly to a recently …

These thoughts have been bubbling around my head for the last few months, but developed into an article as I was trying to learn Mocha from Imagineer Systems. They were also the philosophy behind my recent book for Focal Press: …

I don’t need to tell you that times are difficult right now. Which means that finding, closing, and keeping clients is a key priority. The problem is that, for many of us, the business side of the business is much …

The Association of Video Professionals has invited me to speak at their annual conference February 5, 6, and 7 in Kissimmee, Florida. This event offers high-quality training for video professionals taught by some truly outstanding people in our industry: * …

One of the requests I got a lot during my recent PowerUP seminar tour was to make my seminars available to people that were unable to attend. While not everything in my seminars could be presented easily in a video, …

Two difficult editing concepts for many students to learn are “slip” and “slide.” Recently, August Miller sent me two pieces of animation along with this note: At our training center, we’ve noticed that, often times, students struggle to understand the …