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There are some tools I use to make my life easier. YMMV and there may be other software that works better for you. If so, leave a comment on what you think is better and share your favourite time savers (or wasters)
Just yesterday, I left a long export of a quicktime movie to go with [...]

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Here’s a bit of software for those of you that need a little PIP (Picture in picture)  action.
It only does quarter screen PIP, but it’s free and beats manually doing it in the motion tab.

http://web.mac.com/piero.fiorani/PieroF_FCE_Effect/Quarter_PIP.html
Here are some other useful free plugins available.
stibs’s
Too Much Too Soon Free Plugins
50 point Bezier Matte
Andy’s Plugins for Final Cut Pro
Digital [...]

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I was trained on the Avid Meridien platform and my first time using FCP was on my very first job which I took on part-time while I was in my final year at Film, Sound and Video in Ngee Ann Polytechnic.
My employer at that time had a G4 running FCP v1.2.
It was slow, unstable, crashed [...]

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Multiple Versions of FCP
I keep with me on my portable harddisk, at all time these copies of FCP application files.

v5.0
v5.0.2
v5.1
v5.1.2
v5.1.4
v6.0
v6.0.1
v6.0.3

There are many reasons for doing so.
Recently, I encountered an error for FCP v6.0.2, which I covered in the end of this post (Be Replaceable, Have a Life).
Essentially, what I needed was to use v6.0.1 instead [...]

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I thought you all might be interested to know how I’ve managed to use Automator’s new “Watch Me Do” feature to automate a rather complex sequence of events.
It’s pretty useful for repetitive tasks like the one I’m doing now which is replacing a set of 4 pictures in a simple animated sequence.
The steps executed are [...]

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If you’ve ever searched on a bittorrent search engine for a tv programme, you’ll notice their filenames are always in a certain format.
Part of the reason for this, is that programs like TvShows, ted (Torrent Episode Downloader),
and others rely upon standardized filenames to find and automatically download these torrents as soon as they’re released.
What the [...]

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Get Fast fast
Let’s get one thing straight.
Being fast does not make you a good editor.
There are certain situations in which speed is the premium, either due to deadlines, workload or budget,
but in the long run, being fast isn’t quite enough.
Bearing that in mind, speed is still an important part of your arsenal.
What gets you on [...]

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