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Speculation about NAB 2013 and the video industry from the Editor's Lounge

It's the night before NAB which gives us the perfect reason to show these videos from the recent Editor's Lounge Pre-NAB Discussion Panel. Lots of speculation across the board and NLE manufacturers, comments include 'Avid is 'stodgy' and 'FCPX will win the race.' Interesting.

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Adobe release Photoshop Touch for iPhones and Android

And you thought your first $4.99 spend of today would be a sandwich at lunchtime! Possibly not as everybody in the FCP.co office this morning has been busy downloading the new Photoshop Touch app onto their phones. It's going to be popular.

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Matrox announce a unified driver for Avid, Adobe and Final Cut Pro X on the MXO2 series

***Update on FCP7 driver news from Matrox***

Matrox have announced that a unified driver is available for Avid Media Composer & Adobe CS6 Production Premium for the PC. They will also add FCPX support in January for the Mac!

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Premiere Pro compatibility and more plugins for FCPX in FxFactory 4 from Noise Industries

The plugin management system FxFactory from Boston based company Noise Industries has been updated to version 4. The big news is plugin compatibility with Adobe's Premiere Pro CS6 for the Mac, but more plugins  have been upgraded for Final Cut Pro X as well.

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A year in the life of Final Cut Pro X and beyond...

This week on the 21st of June, Final Cut Pro X wil be one year old. We take a look back at that eventful year and take a look forward to the next 12 months of FCPX's life.

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Tiffen update their digital filter suite Dfx v3 for Final Cut Pro X and Motion 5

We're pretty sure we've used the London bus analogy here on FCP.co before, but products from different manufacturers do seem to be released in batches. This time it's Tiffen with an FCPX friendly upgrade to their award winning pack of filters.

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Win one of 2 new $59 Pro Versioner backup tools from Digital Rebellion for #FinalCutPro 7 and #FCPX

***Winners Announced***

The Autosave Vault in FCP 7 has saved our bacon many times, but what about wanting to go back to older versions of your edit in Final Cut Pro X? We have 2 copies of Pro Versioner from Digital Rebellion to give away that allow you to step back in time on any NLE.

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MOTU display their HDX-SDI with Thunderbolt running with FCPX

MOTO Inc is a relative stranger to the capture and playback market for video, so we thought we'd take a look at the new Thunderbolt equipped HDX-SDI.

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Adobe showcase Premiere Pro CS6 new GUI, new features and it looks very familiar!

At one minute past midnight EST, Adobe published details about their new version of Premiere Pro CS6. We had the pleasure of a sneak peek a few weeks ago.

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Adobe Photoshop CS6 Beta available for download. It edits video too

Adobe have announced that the latest version of Photoshop, CS6 is now in beta and available for free download. Yes the interface has gone dark and yes it can edit video too.

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The Conan editors take a humorous look at the new Premiere Pro

The Conan Editors who took that humorous look at Final Cut Pro X when it was released have had a sneak peak at the new version of Adobe's Premiere Pro. A funny infomercial? You decide.

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Adobe launch Photoshop Touch for the iPad

Accidentally launched on the App Store yesterday, withdrawn and now back up today, Adobe have released Photoshop Touch for the iPad at $9.99.

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Fotoshop by Adobé A brilliant take on beauty retouching

This video is just too good to hold back until Friday. A brilliant tongue in cheek look at the retouching of model shots, a behind the scenes video too.

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Win one of two free copies of Digital Rebellion's upgraded $99 Pro Media Tools

***Winners Announced***

Digital Rebellion have put more than 300 updates into their media management product, Pro Media Tools which is now at Version 1.1. They have also very kindly given us 2 copies to giveaway.

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GenArts release Sapphire V6 plugins for Final Cut Pro 7

GenArts have released Version 6 of their popular plugin pack Sapphire for Final Cut Pro 7. They seem to be moving away from compositing tools and going for the eye candy.

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Adobe asked Apple to shut down Final Cut

The title is complete linkbait, but shortly after Apple acquired Final Cut that's exactly what Adobe wanted. For the last fortnight, we've been reading John Buck's excellent book Timeline Volume 2, a history of editing.

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CoreMelt upgrade their plugins for FCPX and lower the price

CoreMelt Complete is now available for Final Cut Pro X and it's been reduced to half price. Also Red Giant show us why Magic Bullet won't be coming to FCPX just yet.

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'Avid is the Steinway of editing and Final Cut Pro is the Yamaha' Four editors discuss editing on the Mac

So you take the editor who cut Bohemian Rhapsody, two Apple trainers and MacVideo host Rick Young, sit them in front of an audience and get them to talk about editing on the Mac...

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EditCodes, an iPhone & iPad app containing a searchable database of common errors for Mac based video editing software

What a superb idea. Compile into a database all the common error codes you'll likely to come across on Mac based video editing software. Then wrap it all up into a searchable iPhone & iPad app for $1.99.

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Adobe buy into Automatic Duck. Why? Is this good news or bad news for FCPX?

The news yesterday that Wes Plate from Automatic Duck was moving to Adobe flashed around the internet pretty quickly. Is this good or bad news for Final Cut Pro X?

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