In this tutorial, Andy Neil shows how to create a custom designed lower third for Final Cut Pro X.

In this tutorial, Kevin P McAuliffe answers a viewer's question about the best way to multicam edit in FCPX when your main audio source is recorded as an audio only file.

In this tutorial, Kevin P McAuliffe shows you how, with the newest update to FCPX, to edit multicam inside of FCPX. See how to set up your clips into angles, and then quickly and easily edit them together to create a seamless edit in no time flat.

This is part two of a two-part tutorial on the new multicam feature added to the 10.0.3 update for Final Cut Pro X. In this part, Andy Neil shows off the custom sync controls, syncing using meta-data and how FCPX handles non-pro sources.

In this tutorial, I'll show you the INs and OUTs of the Roles feature. How they work when exporting projects as well as tricks on their use in editing and during import.

Douglas Trumbull looks forward; The Dog Days of 3D; David Boyd ASC talks about "The Walking Dead"; Cinema Verite with the Sony PMW-F3; Walter Biscardi looks at Avid, Apple and Adobe; Stephen Menick plans for a DSLR shoot.

Creative COW Magazine Special Edition, 'Free Your Mind: How Mac Users are Using the HPZ800 For Power and Profit.'

In part two of this tutorial, Andy Neil continues to explain secondary storylines, connected clips, and compound clips and how they are best used in your project. Along with it are some tricks to keep organized and move quickly when you're editing.

In this In and Out tutorial, Andy Neil shows off FCPX's Replace Edit feature: one that's quite a bit different from previous versions.

Final Cut Pro X has some amazing tools for organizing even large projects. Andy Neil shows you how to get the most out of your Event Browser and Library in this first tutorial series for FCPX.

Garageband is an extremely affordable and powerful music creation tool. In this tutorial we explore the basics of working with movies, loops, exporting, and FCP X.

In Part-2 of this three part investigative series, Contributing Editor and Final Cut Pro forum leader David Roth Weiss and his guest David H. Lawrence look even deeper into Final Cut Pro X as he reveals more of what's under the hood.

When you are just starting out, navigating through your timeline in a new NLE can be tricky enough. Let these two Final Cut Pro X Quick Tips help you speed up your workflow, so you're cuttin' like a pro in FCPX in no time flat.

In Lesson 2 of this Final Cut Pro X video tutorial series, Kevin P McAuliffe takes a look at more importing features, and the most important part of FCPX.....editing clips in your timeline.

This quick tip came from a viewer question about something that was seen in the "Animating with Keyframes" tutorial. A mysterious red rectangle appeared, and the question was asked...."What does that red rectangle do?" Here's the answer.

One of the most common effects that editors do on an almost daily basis is the "Ken Burns" effect. The panning and zooming of still images to create a powerful visual.

In Lesson 1, Kevin P McAuliffe takes a look at the new FCPX and covers some of the basics you'll need to get you up and running from the download and installation of the software - to your preferences - and finally to importing.

Creative Cow Contributing Editor David Roth Weiss delivers nothing but facts as he guides you through the steps necessary to partition your Mac system drive.

Creating the "ROCKY" video inside text look in FCP is almost as easy as it is to create inside of Avid's Media Composer, and there's no need to go into Apple's Motion to do it!

Are you stuck trying to figure out an easy way to import an image sequence into Final Cut Pro? In this quick tip, Kevin P McAuliffe shows you why QuickTime 7 will be your tool of choice for importing image sequences.

It is possible to achieve true broadcast safe using only the tools in Final Cut Pro if you follow the right steps. In this quick tip, Walter Biscardi, Jr. shows you how he has delivered shows to broadcasters worldwide using only the built in FCP filter.

There is much confusion about dpi vs. pixels when it comes to still images and video editing. In this short tip, Walter Biscardi, Jr. helps to take some of the mystery out of the process.

In the Fifth Anniversary Issue of Creative COW Magazine, we look at some of the people, stories, techniques, processes and workflows that took Creative COW Magazine from a fledgling publication to an industry leader in five short years.

Even though most people don't associate Soundtrack Pro with ADR, it has a set of powerful tools designed to record and edit looped dialogue. Sam McGuire explains the process of replacing dialogue using STP's loop recording, multitake editor, and audio.

In this Motion tutorial, Andy Neil will show how to create text that you can explode into a thousand bits. This is the first part of a two part Motion quick tip series.

In this Apple Motion video tutorial, Andy Neil gives a quick tip on how to animate your text as if it's being drawn with a pen.

In this Soundtrack tutorial, Sam McGuire looks at the infamous cell phone interference issue that can be a real nightmare for your audio. While several solutions are explored, the main point is emphasized that you'll need to make sure all phones...

This tutorial gives an overview of the tapeless ingest workflow using Log and Transfer in Final Cut Pro 7. It encompasses a handful of the supported formats that FCP works with... including XDCAM EX, P2 AVCIntra, P2 DVCPRO HD, AVCHD, and Canon DSLR...

In this video tutorial, Creative COW leader Shane Ross details how to export multiple channels of audio, both to tape and to a Quicktime movie. If you want to export more than just the standard two channels that Final Cut Pro is set up to do by default...

In this podcast tutorial, Creative COW leader Shane Ross details how to manage offline and online workflow with tapeless format.

In this episode of Final Cut Help, Richard Harrington takes a look at iChat Theater Review, a technique for online video review that allows you to share video with a team member, clients or partners.

In this Final Cut tutorial podcast, Richard Harrington discusses a problem that can occur when shooting video outdoors, backlighting.

In this Final Cut Pro podcast, Richard Harrington takes a look at using the elgato turbo.264 to speed up your compression process when exporting or rendering for iPod, iPhone, YouTube or other devices that you need to compress to.

In this Final Cut tutorial podcast, Richard Harrington along with Robbie Carman use Apple Color to teach how to use a stylized vignette sort of like a power window that will use tracking to follow a person around a scene.

In this Final Cut Help podcast, Richard Harrington does a place holder effect, roughing out a basic composite effect to then take to another application to finish off.

Instructor Richard Harrington shows you how to use Compressor to compress a video clip for use on a video iPod.

Instructor Richard Harrington shows you how to properly color correct a subject's skin tone with Final Cut Pro's 3-way color corrector. Brought to you by Creative COW.

Join Apple Certified Trainer Richard Harrington as he explains Final Cut Pro's vector scope and how to use it in color correction. Part 2.

Join Apple Certified Trainer Richard Harrington as he explains the best Final Cut Pro sequence settings for use with color correction.

Join Apple Certified Trainer Richard Harrington as he explains Final Cut Pro's vector scope and how to use it in color correction.

Join Apple Certified Trainer Mason Dixon as he shows you how to stylize text in Motion, in this third part of his text in Motion series.

Join Apple Certified Trainer Mason Dixon as he introduces how to achieve unique text effects with image masks in Motion.

Join Apple Certified Trainer Mason Dixon as he shows you how to create and adjust text in Motion, in this first part of his text in Motion series.

Join Apple Certified Trainer Mason Dixon as he shows you how to animate text with keyframes in Motion. Part 2 of 2.

Join Apple Certified Trainer Mason Dixon he shows you how to animate text in Motion. Part 2.

Join Apple Certified Trainer Chris Phrommayon as he shows you how to speed up your editing by trimming on the fly.

Join Apple Certified Trainer Chris Phrommayon as he shows you how to edit even faster in Final Cut Pro using the trim edit window. Part 2

Join Apple Certified Trainer Chris Phrommayon as he shows you how to remove footage from either side of an edit in Final Cut Pro by extracting the top and tail.

Join Apple Certified Trainer Abba Shapiro as he shows you how to add custom elements to your DVD menus in DVD Studio Pro. Part 1.

Join Apple Certified Trainer Abba Shapiro as he shows you how to make a menu in DVD Studio Pro. Part 2.

In this Final Cut Studio tutorial podcast Ben Scott shows you how to create a TV screen effect. using generators, masking, vector masks, behaviors and keyframing in Apple Motion.

In this Final Cut Studio tutorial Ben Scott shows how to get all your processors to work in Compressor by using Apple Qmaster distributed processing to improve rendering times.

In this Final Cut tutorial, Ben Scott shows you how to create a TV screen look, with more on keyframes with opacity and noise.

In this Final Cut Pro tutorial, Ben Scott shows you how to create a TV screen look, with effects, motion properties and key framing.

In this Final Cut tutorial, Ben Scott shows you how to export still images from Final Cut Pro, for printing in Adobe Photoshop.

In this Final Cut Studio tutorial, Ben Scott show you how to clean up your audio by using the Noise Print tool from Soundtrack Pro and bring the audio into Final Cut Pro.

In this Final Cut Studio tutorial, Ben Scott shows you how to use Apple Motion to create nicer text for your titles inside Final Cut Pro.

In this video tutorial, Ben Scott shows you how to use markers to sync sound and picture in FCP.

In this Final Cut tutorial, Ben Scott shows you how to do basic editing, including insert and overwrite editing, 3 point editing, and working with in/out points.