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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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Many people do not use Motion Blur because they do not know in which instances to use it. One really great thing you can do with Motion Blur is smoothing out any slow motion effects that have signs of strobing. If you do not want to jump over to Motion to create an optical flow [...]

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Zoom-in provides training for Final Cut Studio artists and offer free tutorials on their site. Pretty cool! The latest one shows you all about how to add fades to tracks quickly.
Apple Certified Instructor Jem Schofield is your host. See the tutorial here.

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Tools and workflows for filmmaking and the iPhone are starting to converge. Since filmmaking is now a global enterprise, many pieces of the puzzle are scattered around in remote locations. Viewing dailies is one of those things that can be done over the web and on the iPhone. In this article from Panasonic you can [...]

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Meet Kevin Monahan at the next meeting of the Los Angeles Final Cut Pro Users Group, affectionately known as the LAFCPUG (say Laugh-See-Pug) on October 22 beginning at 6:45 PM. He will be on the “Stump The Gurus” panel for the meeting. Stop by the meeting and have your stumper ready for Kevin.
Michael Horton, the [...]

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If you are a Final Cut Pro student and you are looking to prepare for you certification exam, check out this page. Here you’ll find flash cards that will help you prepare for the exam. For those that have taken the exam and failed, you’ll find these babies will get you back up to speed [...]

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Avid 3.0.5 has a cool new tracks forward tool selection, something FCP has had for years. With this tool, you can move down a whole slew of tracks to create a gap to add material to. Read more about it here.

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The snapping behavior in FCP 6 has had me absolutely flustered. I thought that “auto-changing to snap” was a new feature and I just had not found a way to turn it off. After cruising through the boards this morning, I found that one of Ken Stone’s readers has stuck gold and I thought that [...]

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I completed another color correction job for Threshold Studios in Santa Monica. This was a live concert video featuring Moby for Nissan Live Sets, a concert series which you can see on Yahoo! and MHD, MTV’s HD music channel. Take a look at the above video or click here, to see this stripped down version [...]

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