Taking a sneaky peak at Cantemo Portal workflow for Final Cut Pro X
When Apple axed Final Cut Server, it left a void in the digital asset management (DAM) market. Possible replacement company Cantemo has published a sneak video preview on the FCPX and Cantemo Portal workflow.
Testing out the Hitachi 8TB G-Raid Thunderbolt Array Drive
In the FCP.co office we were looking at storage options as our new Macs all have Thunderbolt ports. When we found out there was over 30% off the G-Technology G-Raid 8 Terabyte Thunderbolt Drive, the credit card didn't stay in the wallet for long!
Edit your footage on the iPad 'retro style' with TouchEdit
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It has been shown at a few user groups this year, but this weekend TouchEdit for the iPad was finally released to the world. Will Dan Lebental's skeuomorphic heavy cutter make editing easier and more importantly, more fun?
Win one of 3 copies of Digital Rebellion's new CinePlay professional iOS video player
***Winners Announced***
Digital Rebellion have just released CinePlay, a professional video player application for the iPhone and iPad. There's a lot of features in the app such as guides and markers and we've also got three copies to giveaway.
The Promise Pegasus R4 Thunderbolt RAID user review
There has been a lot of debate on our Forum about the best RAIDs, configuration, speed, brands and so on. So it was very positive when we came across this excellent concise user review of the Promise Pegasus R4.
Sharpen your color correction skills with the Dale Grahn Color iPad app from Crumplepop
A new product from Crumplepop, not a plugin this time but a clever tool to sharpen your colour grading skills. They've teamed up with Dale Grahn, the color timer for Steven Spielberg, to develop an iPad app that teaches film color timing principles and techniques.
Top 5 Video Editing Speakers For Under $500
Carrying on our theme of top lists whilst nothing much is really happening in the industry, this time we look at budget audio monitoring. We welcome guest writer Conner Lambden from Conner Productions who has assembled a list of reasonably priced speakers you might like sitting in your edit suite.
Autodesk Smoke 2013 for the Mac ships, keeps its $3,500 price tag but gets a 20% discount for a month
A nice Christmas present if you can afford it, Autodesk has released Smoke 2013 for the Mac. Industry leading keying, nodal compositing, super-accurate tracking and 3D environments all in one app.
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!
Ripple launch 11 hours of DaVinci Resolve 9 Core Training for $89.99
If you need more colour correction or grading than FCPX or plugins will handle, the best way to go is out to Resolve. Blackmagic Design's grading program has come a long way since its acquisition and it continues to grow. Alexis Van Hurkman can show you more.
Will hybrid drive technology help speed up video editing? Toshiba launch two HDD + NAND drives
We all love SSDs, but they are expensive and are not up to the capacities we require for serious editing. So could a combined hard disk with built in quick response flash memory be the answer? Toshiba think so.
New Macedonian sync software WooWave SyncPro battles with PluralEyes at a third of the price
It's a morning of battles! New to the FCP ecosystem is the $49 multicam syncing software WooWave SyncPro that claims it's a lot more accurate than Singular Software's PluralEyes.
360,000 reasons why NLE manufacturers have to rethink their products and their pricing
A few people scoffed when we suggested that Lightworks would become a player again in the very competitive NLE market. Think again, 360,000 downloads on and a move onto Linux is real.
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- MXF ImEx Suite lets you import or export MXF in every QuickTime Application
- Share your media assets locally or on the cloud the simple way with Axle
- Digital Heaven launch Pro Player - A welcome replacement for QuickTime Player 7?
- Demoing the new DaVinci Resolve 9 with sample grades
- Mountain Lion OS X 10.8 is released by Apple
- Blackmagic Design acquires Cintel, famous for film scanning, grading and restoration products
- The art of colour correction with Blackmagic Design's DaVinci Resolve
