Interested in Final Cut Pro X? We got it. Premiere Pro CC? Check.  Compressor? Yup. 3rd-party plug-ins? We've got that, too. Whew...

Great stuff this week, including the final winners in our contest and probably the best set of Digital Production Buzz interviews we've done all year. It's all here.

I'm heading to Aspen, Colorado, for the next two weeks to teach at the Anderson Art Ranch. The first week is an in-depth look at Final Cut Pro X. The second is a week-long class in producing, shooting, and editing mini-documentaries.

This is my second year teaching there and us video folks are definitely in the minority. The entire campus is devoted to the fine arts. Entire buildings devoted to work-working, pottery, ceramics, painting and drawing. It is truly humbling to be surrounded by such  incredibly artistic talent.

Which is why I'm especially looking forward to my class on creating mini-docs. It's my hope to be able to share some of what happens there with you.  I'll have more on this in next week's newsletter.

  
Patrick Saxon, our social media wizard, asked me recently how many entries we got in our Editing Truths for Better Living contest. The answer is more than 300!
(And many of you submitted multiple entries in each email.)

Our contest ended July 28, but to give everyone a chance to be considered, I'm publishing the last set of winners this week. To review all winners - click here.
That's it. Done. Finished. Um, until the next time we need something to make us laugh. Thanks to everyone who submitted a Truth. This was fun.
 

I get all kinds of ideas from my email. But, most of the time, the tips are too small to turn into a complete article.

Thus, every so often, I collect all these very cool tips and techniques and publish them in a blog so I can share them with you.

From inside gossip to cool products to interesting work-arounds, there is lots of cool stuff in here.

When Final Cut Pro X was released, the mask effect was pretty lame. Along the way, though, Apple made  improvements.

So, I decided to write an article showing how to zoom an image inside a mask without changing the size of the mask. This is a simple technique, but it requires thinking about a mask in a different way.

This article was contributed by Greg Popp, who discovered a better way to merge double-system audio and video; which is a very common recording technique when you are shooting with DSLR cameras.

It's also a really good reason to consider adding third-party plugins to your editing system to accomplish tasks faster and better.

This article grew out of a comment from Bill Cole, a reader who was trying to figure out how to export a file with multichannel audio and compress it at the same time.

The short answer is that you use Roles to export multichannel audio, but the compression part is a lot more complex. This article walks you through the entire process.

Ultimately, all our projects end up on the web. Which means that if we don't know how to compress our video to make it look good, all our work during production and post is wasted.

In this in-depth, video training, Larry Jordan shows you how to make the most of Apple Compressor 4.

Whether you are a new or experienced editor, this training will help you make your media look and sound great!

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

Articles

We expanded this list to the Top 4 to add some more variety:

• FCP X: 5 Tips to Faster Exports  
• FCP X: Manage Events & Projects 
• FCP X: Native / Optimize / Proxy Media 
• FCP X: Compound Clip Secrets  

For a list of all our articles, visit here.

 

Webinars

• #106: Effects Cookbook for Motion 5  
• #88: Final Cut Pro X: Fundamentals 
• #105: Animation and Keyframes in Final Cut Pro X 

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 

• Rony Sebok: Low-Cost LTO for Archiving
• William Boodell: Editing "Sharknado"
• Philip Hodgetts: The Future of Final Cut Pro X

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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