A grab-bag of goodies is my Christmas gift to you; including  new blogs, new articles, new interviews, and a way to save money.The team in our office is taking several days off this week to spend time with their families, so if you have questions, it may take us a bit of time to get back to you.

Which reminds me at this time of celebration to tell you how much I enjoy working with you. I truly love all your questions, comments, suggestions, and ideas on what we can do to help you improve your skills.

Next week, I'll take a look back at the past year, and give you a sense of where I think we are headed.

For now, this is a time to spend with friends and families and celebrate how important they are in our lives.  It's a time to look back and remember. And a time to look forward to what the new year will bring.

ANOTHER CHRISTMAS GIFT FROM US

I learned a long time ago that training is not something people buy as a Christmas gift; well, not very often.

Still, training is the best thing you can give yourself to get ready for new challenges in the new year.

So, from now till the end of the year, save 25% on everything in our store. Enter Coupon Code SAVE25 during checkout. (Offer expires midnight 12/31/2012.)

NOTE: This discount does not apply to subscriptions, because, at this point, our subscription software is unable to recognize pricing discounts.

"ASK LARRY ANYTHING" WEBINAR


FEATURED AUDIO INTERVIEW

Last week on the Digital Production Buzz, David Lewandowski joined us to talk about creating world-class animation. (He did the animated graphics for Tron: Legacy and Oblivion.) If you are interested in motion graphics, or design, or just listening to a very talented artist, give yourself a treat and listen.

Listen to David Lewandowski's interview here.

Listen to last week's Buzz episode here.

Whether you are interested in new products, ideas for Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro X, or Audition, there's a whole lot of ideas all crammed into a single blog.

I've wanted to write this for a long time - I finally found the time.

Post Magazine just released another of my blogs. This one looks at the factors that slow down what you think is a fast hard drive.

Before you spend more money on storage, read this to make sure you are spending your money in the right place.

The latest updates to Final Cut Pro X brought with them the ability to export clips from the Event Browser.

This finally gave us the ability to export clips from the Event Browser with burned-in source timecode.

This article shows you how.

Read the article here.

This started as a simple question from a reader. But it turned into something much more complex.

Did you know that Final Cut Pro X doesn't have a countdown clock? Well, once you read this, it will.

  1. Product Review: Twixtor for FCP X

2. FCP X: Native vs. Optimize vs. Proxy Media

3. FCP 7: Compressing Video for YouTube


Top 3 Webinars

1. Webinar 85: Multicam Editing in Final Cut Pro X

2. Webinar 82: Final Cut Pro X: New Features

3. Webinar 84: Audio Mixing in Adobe Audition

The Top 3 webinars are based on the videos subscribers watched over the last week. To learn more about subscription, click here.

Top 3 Digital Production Buzz Interviews

1. Philip Hodgetts: The Future of Final Cut Pro X

2. David Newman: GoPro Goes Pro

3. Mario Blandini: Drobo Announces New Gear

The Top 3 Interviews are based on what visitors to the Digital Production Buzz website have listened to over the last seven days.

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