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In Love with Final Cut Pro

This will be a story that is familiar to many. Joaquin has progressed from a very early…
In Love with Final Cut Pro

FCPX & Editing Tutorials

Motion & Graphics Tutorials

Podcasts & Live Shows

User Stories

How the Celebrity-filled Home Movie :The Princess Bride Was Edited on Final Cut Pro X

What do actors do when the Hollywood movie machine shuts down due to Covid-19? They make a home movie of course! Home Movie: The Princess Bride started off as an idea by Jason Reitman to raise money for the World Central Kitchen charity. It ended up being a…
How the Celebrity-filled Home Movie :The Princess Bride Was Edited on Final Cut Pro X

ONA: Better Care for a Lifetime

Following up on his article last week, Adam Schoales now posts about his latest project.…
ONA: Better Care for a Lifetime

In-Depth Tutorials

Demystifying Final Cut Pro XMLs by Philip Hodgetts and Gregory Clarke

XML is an acronym that gets used a lot in editing and the transfer of media in the FCPX ecosystem. But what exactly is XML?, how is it used and how can you begin to understand the power of the plain text language? Workflow experts Philip Hodgetts and Greg Clarke start with the basics of XML and…

We built a pool! Publishing animating Motion textures to Final Cut Pro X

Want moving textures in Final Cut Pro X? Plugin building expert Fox Mahoney shows us how to construct a moving water texture in Motion and publish it to FCPX. Great knowledge that will extend the capabilities of 3D text even further. Link to the free finished moving water texture generator plugin…
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Big Sur & Apple Silicon

Apple WWDC 2020

WWDC 2020 - Is It the Start of the Move to Arm-based Processors?

Where were you this time last year? We were waiting to go into WWDC to see the new Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR for the first time. This year? Nobody is attending, but we do have the Keynote livestream. Will we see the beginning of the transition from Intel to…
WWDC 2020 - Is It the Start of the Move to Arm-based Processors?

Mobile Creator

being a- cinematographer

We have to admit that this post has very little to do with Final Cut Pro. However, this Vimeo video has had us chuckling in the office this morning so we thought we would share.

video copilot AE

Yes this is a site about Final Cut Pro, but we think this sneaks in on merit of inspiration, entertainment and humour. The video is going viral, so grab a coffee and enjoy.

marty knapp

The big buzzword at NAB this year will be 4K. So when Logan Kelsey got in contact with us about his film that was shot on a Red Scarlet an edited in 4k on FCPX, we had to know more.

Final destination 5 vfx

This is slightly off topic and nearly a year old, but it's a fantastic side by side comparison video of camera originals next to the same shot with VFX added. We came across this video accidentally, but after watching it twice and pausing it many times, we thought that we would share.

old spice vimeo

It was very hard to write this post as... Well if you take a read and follow the instructions you'll find out why. A great use of browser technology and a lot of fun too. Unmissable.

pomplamoose video fcp7

Stop whatever you are doing and take three minutes to watch this amazing music video from Pomplamoose. We get tired even thinking about the amount of work that went into making it on FCP7! Very clever.

edit button 2 upgrade

Two years on from its initial release, Edit Button, the innovative edit application with the very, very simple GUI has been updated to version 2. New audio features, continuity fixers and err, a render block option.

rush davinci resolve 1

We think this is an excellent opportunity to remind everybody that we have access to some of the most powerful tools available to video and film producers. You can grade your production with exactly the same software that colour corrected Ron Howard's multi-million dollar film Rush.

RED 4K FCPX Logan Kelsey

A treat this morning. No new products, no plugins, not even a new lens flare pack, just some great examples of 4K RED work that has been post produced in FCPX. Grab a coffee (you will get thirsty) and enjoy!

dede allen LAFCPUG

An early Christmas present. Michael Horton from the LACPUG has found the tapes from a 2006 interview with the film editor Dede Allen. Two hours of industry insight behind the editing of some big Hollywood films.

  1. Industry guru Michael Kammes proposes to his girlfriend in 3D. Or should that be 4D?