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In Love with Final Cut Pro

This will be a story that is familiar to many. Joaquin has progressed from a very early…
In Love with Final Cut Pro

FCPX & Editing Tutorials

Motion & Graphics Tutorials

Podcasts & Live Shows

User Stories

2017: A Year in Moving Images

If 2017 made you want to run into a movie theatre and hide, you aren't alone. Luckily,…
2017: A Year in Moving Images

In-Depth Tutorials

Demystifying Final Cut Pro XMLs by Philip Hodgetts and Gregory Clarke

XML is an acronym that gets used a lot in editing and the transfer of media in the FCPX ecosystem. But what exactly is XML?, how is it used and how can you begin to understand the power of the plain text language? Workflow experts Philip Hodgetts and Greg Clarke start with the basics of XML and…

We built a pool! Publishing animating Motion textures to Final Cut Pro X

Want moving textures in Final Cut Pro X? Plugin building expert Fox Mahoney shows us how to construct a moving water texture in Motion and publish it to FCPX. Great knowledge that will extend the capabilities of 3D text even further. Link to the free finished moving water texture generator plugin…
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Big Sur & Apple Silicon

First Reviews of the M1 iMac

It's been a while since the new M1 iMac was announced, but the first YouTube reviews are in.
First Reviews of the M1 iMac

Mobile Creator

Post Production Beginner’s Mind

As Final Cut Pro X lets beginners cut high quality media from the moment they open the app, do they look at the software learning process any differently to established editors? Steve Bayes visits the recent Vlog University and Smartphone Studio Workshop to…
Post Production Beginner’s Mind

Something completely different: Recording and mixing the Transformers: Dark of the Moon soundtrack

Peter Wiggins
Written by: Published: 05 July 2011
Category: Videos
Top BlogReading time: 00:33
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We had a post on the forum that maybe we were getting a bit too FCPX centric. We agree and hopefully this will be a little break from the stream of Final Cut Pro news from the last fortnight. The Transformers: Dark of the Moon might not be Oscar material but boy do these sound guys have fun!

We thought all post production sound people sat in dark rooms in front of large mixing consoles. No, they also get out to fire big machine guns to record original audio. Jealous? maybe. This video from SoundWorks Collection shows what goes in to making a big Hollywood action soundtracks come alive.