The popular skin smoothing plugin Beauty Box from Digital Anarchy has been updated to version 3 and it's just been released. It's also at a discounted price until June 30th.

Idustrial Revolution started the ball rolling this morning with the simpler hashtag #freeeffectfriday. As everybody loves free plugin effects for Final Cut Pro X, we thought that we would carry the thought on. Lots to download!

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There are many people on the internet who express their opinion about Final Cut Pro X, but Erik Knudsen does it rather well and rather succinctly. In the wake of WWDC, it refocuses us on the app, not the hardware.

Yes we are well into June, but we have quite a few odd bits of news left over from May that we thought we would get out of the inbox to make space for WWDC. So in no particular order or ranking...

Run out of ways on how to present a client's logo to make it look sexy? MotionVFX has just released a second pack of logo animations for Final Cut Pro X and Motion5.

In this week's episode of MacBreak Studio, Steve and Mark take a look how to extend the functionality of the built-in Ken Burns picture moving tool. If you want a pause in the movement, then read on.

Mike Fernandes' article on using Final Cut Pro X on the Emmy winning George to the Rescue is one of our most popular ever posts. This next article from Mike looks forward to the future of FCPX and why Apple might already have the killer feature within their grasp already. We think the debate might be interesting on this one!

When we say that Crumplepop has upgraded their Grain35 Final Cut Pro X plugin, we really mean that they have started from scratch and built a new, better plugin. We've also got a $50 discount coupon on offer for the next few days.

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Diana Weynand's recent FCPX online course was very popular and she's now just announced a new three hour seminar that will concentrate on multicam editing. Of course, we also have a free place to give away to a lucky FCP.co reader!

Larry says your eyes lie to you and if you want to colour correct or grade properly, then you need to fire up the 'scopes in FCPX. That's exactly what he does and he also shares some great skin tone percentage range tips at the end too.