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A weekly roundup of buzzworthy tips, tricks, and topics from the Final Cut Studio community:

- The Weather Channel’

s new HDTV channel has been just launched, projecting that their 19 live studios hours per day will all be HD by October. And its core production infrastructure is based on FCP workstations and X-SAN. Check out the whole story here.

Digital Heaven's Automation is an automated graphic production and management plugin for Motion and FCP.

A weekly roundup of buzzworthy tips, tricks, and topics from the Final Cut Studio community:

- EditShare introduced Universal Media File, a new technology that creates a single media file which can be used in Avid and FCP. Finally, there's a way to use two distinctive systems without tying up ingest channels or creating multiple files of the same media.

A weekly roundup of buzzworthy tips, tricks, and topics from the Final Cut Studio community:

This recurring series looks at the communities that have sprung up to support Final Cut users. Big and small, near and far, users groups are a thriving part of the creative ecosystem.

• When did this user group start? In 2003.
• Who runs the group? 4 administrators : François Dumoulin, Mathieu Marano, Yves St-Jean and Marc-André Ferguson.

CoreMelt VeeYou 1.5 is a set of eight free plugins for Final Cut Studio, Motion and After Effects, which generate a wide variety of 2D and 3D Volume Unit level and EQ animations.

A weekly roundup of buzzworthy tips, tricks, and topics from the Final Cut Studio community:

- Check out Academy Award-winning sound editor Walter Murch ("The Conversation", "Apocalypse Now", "The English Patient") as he talks about the industry's transition from Avid to the mainstream usage of Final Cut Pro in the fifth part of a History of Editing Series.

For a limited time, Boris FX is offering a free, fully-licensed plug-in from Boris Continuum Complete 5 - Rays Cartoon, an innovative filter that creates light out of the user-defined "cartoon edges" of an image, available for Adobe CS3, Apple Final Cut Studio 2, and Avid.

Download Rays Cartoon now! This free filter expires July 1, 2008.

A weekly roundup of buzzworthy tips, tricks, and topics from the Final Cut Studio community:

- Editors are always looking for portable and easy-to-use workstations while on the road. HDV expert Heath McKnight explains different on-the-go scenarios that can be created using a MacBook or a MacBook Pro in his article Outfitting Your Final Cut Pro Workstation: You Can Edit On The Go!.

Red Giant Software has just released Primatte Keyer 4, which adds support for Apple's Final Cut Pro and Motion.

A weekly roundup of buzzworthy tips, tricks, and topics from the Final Cut Studio community:

This recurring series looks at the communities that have sprung up to support Final Cut users. Big and small, near and far, users groups are a thriving part of the creative ecosystem.

• When did this user group start? SBFinalCut - The Santa Barbara Final Cut User Group started officially on April 20th, 2003.
• Who runs the group? Final Cut Pro Master Trainer - Jeffery Morse.

RE:Vision Effects recently updated Twixtor, a plugin that enables users to "speed up, slow down or frame rate convert image sequences with visually stunning results."