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How 10 editors and 9 assistant editors edited a six hour documentary series for HBO in Final Cut Pro

Here's a video from Alex Lindsay’s Office Hours detailing the Final Cut Pro-based workflow of ‘Q: Into the Storm’ -

31st March 2022

Keep old Final Cut Pro templates for old timelines without allowing them in new timelines

If you make a custom plugin for Final Cut Pro using Apple Motion 5, your customer might ask for an

20th December 2021
Screenshot from Final Cut Pro showing a warning in the viewer that the current title isn’t compatible with the version of Final Cut.

Apple Motion 5 template too new for Final Cut Pro?

When collaborating with other editors, sometimes there can be problems getting their title, effect, transition or generator plugins working on

15th December 2021

From Office Hours: Apple Motion 5 feature requests

This excerpt from Office Hours is a short discussion about Apple Motion 5. I asked Alex Lindsay what features he would like to see in Motion that would appeal to those running live streaming events ([1:25:28] into this YouTube video).

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14th December 2021

Apple Motion 5 updates since October 2016

Here is a rundown of the new features added to Apple Motion 5 since 2016.

For details on stability improvements and issue fixes, visit Apple’s Motion release notes.

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13th December 2021

Stay in your creative flow with ‘Reading is Fundamental!’

Reading is Fundamental! is an application by Intelligent Assistance that adds a versatile document viewer to the Final Cut Pro

7th December 2021

Office Hours: The media and digital event community

Office Hours is a daily conversation on streaming events, technology and the future of media. It is currently streamed on

3rd December 2021
YouTube thumbnails of four of the videos listed in this roundup

Apple Motion 5: November 2021 tutorial roundup

Here’s a roundup of what happened in the world of Motion 5 – Apple’s $50 real-time motion graphics application – during November 2021:

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1st December 2021

Final Cut Pro updates since October 2016

Here is a rundown of the new features added to Final Cut Pro since 2016. For details on stability improvements and

19th October 2021

To the Apple Silicon Mac Pro and Beyond

In case you missed it, I wrote about how Apple might transition the Mac to Apple Silicon over the next

22nd February 2021

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