OS X Lion

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.

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.

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 gets its first upgrade to 10.0.1

We've been expecting it for a while, Apple have released a free update to Final Cut Pro X. New features are included and some features announced for the future.

Controlling FCPX via speech commands in Lion OSX

It might not be the Minority Report 'air GUI' but you can control a lot of the features within Final Cut Pro X with just your voice. Could you do a complete edit without having to touch the keyboard?

FCPX - What it can do by Steve Kanter

Nice to see somebody showing off what Final Cut Pro X CAN do instead of slamming it all the time. In these four videos from the recent LAFCPUG meeting, Steve Kanter runs through the positives.

FxFactory updated to version 2.6.1 brings Lion with FCPX compatibility and two new plugins

Noise Industries were the only plugin company to have products that worked with FCPX on the day it was released. The new version of FxFactory is ready for that Lion OS X 10.7 and Final Cut Pro X combination. Tutorials after the break.

Lion OS is released

We've been patiently waiting for it but it is finally out, the next OS after Snow Leopard, Lion

How to sync FCPX effects across multiple machines

How do you keep all your custom Final Cut Pro X and Motion 5 effects synchronised across multiple machines? Turner Hall sent us this handy tip.

Final Cut Pro X Secrets: Past and future features

What do you do when you've just downloaded a new app? Doesn't everybody open the package contents and have a look at the internal frameworks and resources? Alex Gollner kindly put together this summary of his detective work for FCP.co.

Win a copy of Digital Rebellion's new Pro Maintenance Tools worth $139

***Winners announced***

Digital Rebellion have upgraded and renamed their very successful FCS Maintenance Pack to Pro Maintenance Tools. More supported apps, more features, Lion compatible and we have two copies to give away.

Upgrading multiple installs from the Mac App Store

We all know that we will be able to download OS X Lion from the Mac App Store in July. But what if you have multiple seats that need upgrading and would a possible volume licence apply to other (ahem) downloadable apps in the future?