SEVEN new articles this week -- for both Apple and Adobe!  (The creative muse was running strong...)

First, though, in two weeks I'm doing a webinar looking at 3rd-party plugins for Final Cut Pro X. I'm open to suggestions on what to cover. Each webinar generally looks at about 15 plug-ins, so send me an email about what you want me to talk about. (Feel free to recommend a plug-in that you wrote.)

Plus, some cool Short Notes, a great Buzz interview and, as always, an update to all our Top 3 lists.

Effective February 1, we are removing our original Final Cut Pro X - Complete training from our store to prevent confusion with our current training.

This was, hands-down, our most popular training. And, now, you can SAVE $70 when you purchase either the download or the DVD before midnight, Feb. 1. (After that, it will only be available to subscribers.)

If you are holding off on the Final Cut upgrade (but still want to learn how FCP works), or just want a piece of history covering the launch of the original FCP X, enter LASTCHANCE as the Coupon Code during check-out and save $70 automatically on your own personal copy.

Here's the link to the FCP X Complete download.
Here's the link to the FCP X Complete DVD.

Normally, these tips are not released to civilians.... 

But, these tricks are so cool - and SOOO not obvious - that I just had to share them.

Just don't tell anyone where you heard them.

This week, Pond5 released a brand-new extension for Premiere Pro CS6 and CC that makes working with stock footage faster and easier than ever - all without leaving Premiere.

This is a "First Look" at what this new extension is, what it does and how it works.

If Premiere is your editing tool of choice, take a look at what Pond5 has to offer.

Media management is one of the most revised and confusing aspects of the latest version of Final Cut Pro X.

This video excerpt from last week's webinar looks at importing media and how to choose the right import preferences for your project.

This video goes into depth about managing media in Final Cut, as well as defining basic terms to help you understand what the application is doing.

This article sprang from a challenge a recent client gave me: Improve the quality of their audio, yet take less than 30 minutes per project.

Busses are a great way to get more control over all the tracks in your mix - but that's only true when you know how they work.

This article explains what busses are, how to create them, and how to export stems for both Adobe Premiere Pro and Apple Final Cut Pro X.

This was an article I wanted to write for a while and, this week, I finally had the time.

Trimming is the process of adjusting where two clips touch -- and the Primary Storyline makes trimming easy. But trimming connected clips is an entirely different story.

In this step-by-step tutorial, I show you how to trim connected clips, then explain the advantages of converting them into connected storylines for additional trimming there.

Plus, as a bonus, I showcase a very cool, but little-known, tip on how to use the Position tool in the Primary Storyline to create better timing between  clips.

This article includes techniques I use in almost every edit I do in FCP X.

Time to get back to media management again.

This video is an excerpt of last week's webinar on media management inside Final Cut.

In this short video tutorial, I show you how to create new libraries, how to find out what is stored inside a library, and how to manage your libraries.

This is the third of three videos this week looking at media management.

In this excerpt from last week's webinar on media management inside Final Cut, we look at how to create, copy, move and manage events inside Final Cut.

In this short video tutorial, I also explain the difference between managed and external media and which to use if you are sharing media between projects.

Here are the most popular articles, webinars, and audio interviews for the past seven days across all my websites.

Articles

We expanded this list to the Top 4 for more variety:

• New Mac Pro: Adobe Media Encoder vs. Apple Compressor 
• Media Management is the Biggest Change in Final Cut Pro X v10.1 
• Apple Releases Final Cut Pro X v10.1 
• FCP X 10.1: Backup and Restore 

For an index of all our articles, visit here.

 

Webinars

• #115: New Features in Final Cut Pro X 10.1 
• #116: New Features in Compressor 4.1
• #106: Effects Cookbook for Motion 5 

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   

• Josh Apter: Shooting Video on an iPad
• Noel Cordero: Way Too Many Pictures, Way Too Little Time
• Oliver Peters: Update on the "Best Editing" Oscar

For a list of all the audio interviews we've conducted on The Buzz, visit here. 

With the release of Final Cut Pro X v10.1, Apple also updated Compressor to version 4.1 An all new interface, improved compression settings and better monitoring. So much changed, in fact, that we went back and re-recorded all our training for the new version.

• Better organized
• More informative
• Tighter focus on making your images look great.

These days, everything we do ends 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 4.1.

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

Larry Jordan

Larry Jordan & Associates

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