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Tired of searching around for a Final Cut Studio shortcut? Well, check out this document from Zak Ray. It has all of the keyboard shortcuts for Final Cut Pro, Motion, Soundtrack Pro, Color, DVD Studio Pro and Compressor.
Blow it up and wallpaper your studio with it. Call it a design element!

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I’ve always been a big fan of Noise Industries and their flagship software, “FX Factory” which has a ton of useful plug-ins for Final Cut Studio and Adobe After Effects CS4. FX Factory also supports 3rd party plug-ins from companies like Sugar FX and iDustrial Revolution .
The cool thing about Noise Industries (as well as [...]

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Over at kenstone.net, you’ll find a hardcore group of moderators that are hell-bent on being helpful and patient to all those learning Final Cut Studio.
One such person is Ronny Courtens. You can often find Ronny’s helpful comments peppered throughout Ken’s site.
Recently, Ronny created a tutorial for Apple Motion that is frequently asked for: animating [...]

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Cool tutorial on animating Photoshop layers in Z space using Apple Motion from Mark Spencer.
Check it out here >>>

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I love the flexibility of going back and forth from FCP to Motion to jazz up my sequences. The problem lies in the stalling of .motn files in your sequence. More often then not, you’ll get a “Preparing Video for Display” progress bar or a good old fashioned SBBOD (Spinning Beach Ball of Death). 
Since rendering [...]

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I’ve been creating lots of cool graphics in Motion lately, some quite complex. The only problem is after adding tons of layered effects, you’ve got quite the wait ahead if you render in Motion. 
If you’re like me, you’ll want to speed up the rendering process. The way to do this is to avoid rendering in [...]

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