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Apple release the 10.0.4 update to Final Cut Pro X

***Motion & Compressor get updates***

Timed for the week before NAB, Apple have published the latest update to Final Cut Pro X, 10.0.4

What's the first thing you should do on your Mac after the Easter break?

The answer is to check for a virus. Yeup you read right, your machine could be infected with the Flashback OSX Trojan. Won't happen to you? A good friend of FCP.co got hit.

Creating signed installers to get your plugins and effects into Final Cut Pro X

Distributing templates and effects around different machines and editors can be made easy by using installers. Digital Rebellion's Pro Maintenance Tools gets an update that can build installers for custom plugin effects. Good job too as things are going to get even more complicated under Mountain Lion!

Apple publish a 10 point 'Troubleshooting Basics' help document for Final Cut Pro X

Apple have published a document with a lot of help links that are designed to troubleshoot the basic problems you might get with FCPX. One we would definitely bookmark.

Promoting your film or video was made with Final Cut Pro

We recently set up a section in our forum labeled 'Made with Final Cut Pro' which led us on to think about whatever happened to the Apple approved practice of being able to add the information onto your film or video?

Mirroring your Final Cut Pro X screen now to AppleTV without using Mountain Lion

***Update - New version now allows second display out from FCPX***

When the preview of Mountain Lion was announced, everybody thought how cool it would be in the future to mirror your FCPX desktop to an AppleTV. You don't have to wait until after the summer or later for the new cat, we show you how to do it now.

Apple give us a sneak peak of features in the new Mountain Lion OS

Apple today previewed Mountain Lion, the new version of the Mac operating system. If you're not a developer you are going to have to wait until the end of the summer for the new cat to arrive.

Best practices for using Final Cut pro X with Xsan

One of the big stumbling blocks for the acceptance of Final Cut Pro X with professional editors has been its use on shared storage. Apple have published a white paper of Xsan Best Practices, it makes interesting reading.

FCPX 10.0.3 A roundup of all the third party product news -There's lots!

What a day yesterday was, the 10.0.3 update for Final Cut Pro X set the Internet alight. We thought we would take a look at the third party announcements that might have been overshadowed by the news from Cupertino. News from AJA, Blackmagic Design, Intelligent Assistance, Marquis, GenArts, Red Giant and more.

Apple update Motion to 5.0.2 and Compressor to 4.0.2

Tweets and posts everywhere today about the new Final Cut Pro X update to 10.0.3. Don't miss that Motion and Compressor get an upgrade too.

Apple release a free update to Final Cut Pro X - 10.0.3 New features and more

We knew it was coming in the beginning of this year, Apple have released the free update to FCPX, 10.0.3. Multicam editing, a better keyer and a beta broadcast output.

Does Thunderbolt slow down when daisy chained with an extra display?

Nick Militello, one of our readers emailed us to say he was having problems with Thunderbolt speeds when using an extra monitor in the chain. We investigate.

The Top Ten FCPX articles on FCP.co in 2011

First of all we would like to wish a very Happy New Year to all our readers. Secondly we thought it would be a good time for a brief look back at the most popular articles of 2011.

Apple made a 64bit Final Cut Pro 8 and then decided to kill it

***Updated***

Wow, another video that smacks us over the head with a piece of information about FCP & FCPX that leaves us stunned. Looks like Apple thought their completed 64bit FCP8 was a dead end.

Apple updates Final Cut Pro X to 10.0.2

A small update, but an update no less, Apple have posted Final Cut Pro 10.0.2 online. The update is available on the Mac App Store

Adobe asked Apple to shut down Final Cut

The title is complete linkbait, but shortly after Apple acquired Final Cut that's exactly what Adobe wanted. For the last fortnight, we've been reading John Buck's excellent book Timeline Volume 2, a history of editing.

'Avid is the Steinway of editing and Final Cut Pro is the Yamaha' Four editors discuss editing on the Mac

So you take the editor who cut Bohemian Rhapsody, two Apple trainers and MacVideo host Rick Young, sit them in front of an audience and get them to talk about editing on the Mac...

The Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson, on sale today and half price at Amazon

One Christmas present already sorted out, the biography of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson has been released for sale today.

Steve Jobs 1955-2011

We had a long conversation about Steve this morning with Philip Johnson of HDWarrior, should we post an article or not? It is very sad news, but have we anything to add? Then one line of a quotation summed up the enormity of his achievements and we thought we would share.

A beginners guide to the new Final Cut Pro XML

With the recent update of Final Cut Pro X to 10.0.1, an XML import & export feature became available.This article might be a very good place to start from to get an understanding of this flexible tool.