iPhone

Adobe release Photoshop Touch for iPhones and Android

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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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Win one of 3 copies of Digital Rebellion's Editmote 2 with extra FCPX functionality & gestures

Editmote 2 released FCPX

***Winners Announced***

Controlling Final Cut Pro X from a iPhone or iPad isn't new. What is new however is Editmote 2 which gains added Final Cut Pro X support, gestures and more. We also have 3 copies to give away.

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Why Vuo based plugins might replace Quartz Composer plugins for Final Cut Pro

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Boy did we touch a nerve when we suggested that Apple wasn't interested in keeping Quartz Composer alive. What we didn't realise at the time was Kosada had already spent two years working on a replacement! So why is this news to FCPX editors?

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Larry Jordan has gone mobile with a free iPhone and iPad FCPX training app

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The popular Final Cut Pro guru has got right up to date and launched an iPhone and iPad app for training on FCPX. The downloadable app is free with more tutorials available for purchase.

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Now you can check how Final Cut Pro X works even when you're not in front of FCPX

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So here is the scenario. After a long week editing, you are having a well deserved drink at your local and you get a call from a producer who can't work FCPX. How do you guide them through the buttons & menus from memory? Don't worry, you have the Navigator app on your iPhone.

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Shotlister - The way to plan, schedule and check your shoot on your iPad or iPhone

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When software bills itself as 'The only truly professional shot listing app' it's worth a look to see if it lives up to the hype. Shotlister runs on your iOS device of choice and it's also half price at $9.99 for a week.

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Amazing $97 collection of iPhone, iPad, Facebook, OSX & Windows graphic templates

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Have you ever had to mock-up a webpage or iPad or iPhone screen to be included in a client video and spent hours recreating the graphics? We came across this awesome pack of graphic templates and thought they were too good not to share.

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Getting iMovie projects from an IPad or iPhone into Final Cut Pro X

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A thread appeared on our forum over the weekend on the possibility of taking iMovie projects off an iPad or iPhone and into FCPX. It's possible and we post the steps you'll need to take.

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Scribbeo The iOS App that lets you view, comment, draw and collaborate on video.

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Announced at the, erhem, Creative Pro User Group SuperMeet in San Francisco, Scribbeo is a $0.99 app that makes sharing notes and annotations on video easy.

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Ident and organise your rushes automatically into Final Cut Pro with QRSlate

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We have overlooked many instances of new clapperboard iPad apps being released as there's a lot of them out there. QRSlate is slightly different as it tags the footage with a QR code for automatic recognition and logging info matching later. Clever.

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Video Space an iOS disk space calculator from Digital Rebellion

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Digital Rebellion have launched Video Space for the iPhone and iPad, a disk space calculator for media storage.

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Ron Brinkman presents Cameras and our Future

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A fifteen minute presentation on the future of photography from Ron Brinkman, the guy who designed the interface for Shake. We enjoyed it a lot.

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

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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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Sony launch XMPilot an iPad app that lets you log shots as you shoot for direct ingest into Final Cut Pro bins

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So how can you ingest 40 hours of XDCAM material and have it all logged into FCP bins in 2 hours? With Sony's new XMPilot app for iOS or Android, you do the hard work on the shoot.

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Storyboard Composer HD now available for the iPad

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When the iPhone version of this storyboard creation app was launched, we thought it was pretty cool but maybe the size of the iPhone made everything a bit fiddly to work. Now Cinemek have released a version that also works on the iPad which gives the app a new lease of life with the extra real estate.

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What happens when you swap time and space whilst editing?

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Not really a question that we've asked ourselves before, but we are glad that Lastfutre found out the answer. Using Final Cut Pro and Motion, he swapped the two dimensions in the production of this video.

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Win a copy of the new iPhone app Editmote. Control FCP, Avid, Premiere or QuickTime from the couch!

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***Updated with winners***

You are probably familiar with Digital Rebellion's other products such as the excellent FCS Maintenance Pack and Cut Notes for the iPad. Their latest product is Editmote, a remote controller for FCP, Avid, Premiere or the QuickTime player for Mac. They've also given us two copies to give away.

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CollabraCam: Live multicamera switching on your iPhone or iPad

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So you want to do some live multicamera switching on location? As long as you've got wifi and four friends with iPhones or iPads then Collabracam makes it easy. We know the FCP question that will follow!

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Screen replace tutorial for Final Cut Pro using Mocha AE

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There are built in tools for tracking within Final Cut Studio, but there are times when you need something a bit more powerful. Just watch this fast demo of Mocha AE working with FCP to put images onto an iPhone screen.

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FCP tutorial: Getting that iPhone animation look

Another tutorial from Wes James. This time he replicates the scrolling animation you have on your iPhone. Everybody has an iPhone now right?

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