Here are all kinds of new goodies for you this week! But, first, for those distraught over the missing Command+E reported last week, never fear.... It has been FOUND! (Details in a minute.)

I'm trying something different with this Editing Master Class. Rather than concentrate on technology, I want to talk about story-telling, editing technique, and craft.

My Editing Master Class is Tuesday, May 14, in Thousand Oaks, California. The class is limited to 14 seats. Bring your projects and we'll work on them together.

Whether you use Final Cut, Adobe, or Avid, the goal is to improve our craft skills and make our stories better.

Click here to learn more.

Each week, I feature a different interview from the Digital Production Buzz. This week, I want to highlight Ron Hanks, comedy filmmaker

Ron is the producer and host of "Golden California," a web-series taking a light-hearted look at life in the Golden State.

In this interview, we talk about the challenges of creating and filming comedy, then keeping it fresh throughout the editing process.  I was very interested in what Ron had to say.

Listen to Ron's interview here.

Listen to the entire show here.

Last week, we added new Favorites and Watch Later tracking to our subscription service.  (Here's an article that describes how this works.)

I'm delighted that so many of you are using these new features - it makes all the development time worthwhile. If you haven't tried, it, read the article and give it a try.

By the way, do you want to know what the #1 Favorite movie is?  Webinar 88 - Final Cut Pro X Fundamentals, by a wide margin.


To learn what all the fuss is about - click here.
 

And, as always, I've updated our Top 3 lists.

In the old days, we had three frame rates: 24, 25, and 30 (rounding slightly). Today, there are almost ten!

How do you decide what's the right frame-rate for you? In this blog, I explain what changes as the frame rate changes, so you can decide what works best for your.

Every so often, I have a collection of cool things that don't deserve their own article, but are too interesting to ignore.

So, I gather them up into a blog and share them with you.

Read this blog to learn a bunch of totally unrelated, random, and interesting things about Final Cut Pro X.

With the release of the 10.0.6 update, Apple changed how Sharing works.

And they also changed the keyboard shortcut for Sharing.

In this article, I explain how to export a high-quality Master File and how to change the keyboard shortcut FCP X uses to flag the default setting.  (If you were worried that Command+E had disappeared forever, this is the article that explains where it went.)

Read the article here.

Last week, I wrote about problems exporting directly to YouTube from Final Cut Pro X.

This week, a couple more export problems popped up, so I've consolidated them all in one article.

Read the article here.

Here are the top three articles, webinars, and audio interviews for the past seven days.

Articles

• FCP X: 5 Tips to Faster Exports 
• FCP X: Native / Optimize / Proxy Media 
• FCP X: Manage Events & Projects 
• How to Start Your Editing Business    

For a list of all our articles, visit here.

 

Webinars

• #97: Advanced Audio in FCP X  
• #95: Create Killer Titles in FCP X 
• #96: Compressor 4: Advanced Compression    

This list is based on the webinars watched most often by our monthly subscribers. For a list of all our webinars, visit here.

 

Digital Production Buzz Audio Interviews 

• Philip Hodgetts: The Future of FCP X
• Stephen Nakamura: Color Grading "Oz the Great and Powerful"
• Ryan Neil Postas: Create a Personal Style as a Filmmaker  

For a list of all our audio interviews, visit here. 

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From subscriptions to individual downloads to free techniques and articles -- we've got your back.  And there's lots more to come.

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