Publications

Peachpit line up their range of FCPX training books and videos

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Peachpit produce some of the best training books for software on the market, we've got a few of them on the shelves here on the FCP.co campus. They also produce the official books used for FCP certification.

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The unofficial graphic enhanced manual for FCPX

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***Updated with link to hard copy version***

What a brilliant idea from Edgar Rothermich, build a manual for Final Cut Pro X that is light on text and heavy on the graphics. We like this a lot because as Edgar correctly states with the phrase 'A picture is worth a thousand words.'

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Steve Martin & Mark Spencer talk FCPX projects, events and where did the scratch disk go?

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No guesses to which piece of editing software the boys are talking about here. They start right from the beginning with what will hopefully be a series on Final Cut Pro X.

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The Top Ten things to do after you've bought FCPX

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A few months on from the release of Final Cut Pro X, we thought we would take a look at what you can do or need once you've bought FCPX. Content, tutorials, books and videos all await.

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The second unofficial graphic enhanced manual is launched: Final Cut Pro X - The Details

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***Updated with link to hard copy on Amazon***

The reaction to Edgar Rothermich's first FCPX graphic manual was immense, it has sold many copies since the launch. Now he's produced a second book, Final Cut Pro X -The Details.

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Adobe asked Apple to shut down Final Cut

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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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An Awesome Guide to Final Cut Pro X -That's the title, not a review!

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You can tell Christmas is around the corner, first of all the decorations in shops have been up since the day after Halloween. Secondly it's the season to promote your book.

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Ken Stone on transitions and Televisual plug FCPX

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Two completely different articles from two completely different sources, both full of information on Final Cut Pro X.

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Digital Heaven republish the FCPX graphic manuals and add a free plugin

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We've been big fans of Edgar Rothermich's graphic manuals since their release, now they have been reformatted, combined, republished and come with a free plugin.

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The Top Ten Final Cut Pro X books

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***Updated***

There's now a lot of books published on Final Cut Pro X, so using Amazon as the rank provider, we thought we would publish the top ten FCPX books out there.

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Motion5 now gets a Graphically Enhanced Manual from Edgar Rothermich

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Edgar Rothermich's graphically enhanced manuals for Final Cut Pro X and Compressor have been hugely successful. He's now published a Motion5 manual that uses his graphic way of illustrating how an app works.

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