Forums/Blogs and Online Resources

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At the web sites listed next, you'll find many helpful people willing to share their thoughts on your Final Cut Studio issues. In addition, you'll find how to articles, tutorials (video and print), reviews on software and hardware for use with Final Cut Studio. At the bottom of the list are two websites for Mac troubleshooting and finding all the latest software available for the Mac.

Ken Stone's Final Cut Pro: This website has an amazing amount of great information for users of Final Cut Pro and the other Studio applications and is helpful for new and seasoned users alike. There is a discussion forum for Final Cut and other applications, many articles, tutorials, software and hardware reviews. There may be more Final Cut related articles here than at any other FCP website. You can also sign up for Ken's weekly newsletter to know when new articles about Final Cut are posted.
http://kenstone.net

LAFCPUG: The Los Angles Final Cut Pro User Group. The largest user group of its kind in the world. There are monthly meetings, newsletters and the website contains several discussion forums, articles, tutorials, software and hardware reviews.
http://lafcpug.org/

Apple Discussions: Discussion forums on all the different Final Cut Studio applications and other Apple applications as well hosted by Apple. Includes forums on Final Cut Pro, Motion, Soundtrack Pro, Logic, Compressor, iTunes, QuickTime, iDVD (and many more).

Apple Discussions- Main: http://discussions.apple.com/index.jspa?categoryID=1
Apple Discussions- Final Cut Studio: http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=123

CreativeCow: Lots of post industry news and discussion forums on a wide range of post production platforms and software. Tutorials, reviews and more.
http://forums.creativecow.net/index.html

Apple's Pro OS X Tips: Here you'll find a lot of cool tips, shortcuts and workflows for getting the most efficiency (and fun while working) from OS X. Check this out!
http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/

REDUSER: Discussion forums and information about working with cameras and post production workflows for RED digital cinema cameras.
http://reduser.net/forum/index.php

Pro Video Coalition: Articles, information, reviews and discussion forums for working with digital cameras and post production workflows.
http://provideocoalition.com/

2-pop: Forums for cinematography and post production applications, interviews, articles and more.
http://www.2-pop.com/Default

Studio Daily: This website has a lot of varied content. From information on shooting, editing, audio, effects and more. Interviews, tutorials, product reviews, real world case studies from film and television projects and much more.
http://www.studiodaily.com/main/

Macfixit: Check here for all issues related to your Mac and any software that you run on it. The front page is updated daily with reports from the Macfixit staff and users that report in. There are also several forums for getting answers to you Mac problems. http://reviews.cnet.com/macfixit/?tag=bc

VersionTracker: Check here for all the latest software for your Mac, for pro apps and any other application- commercial, shareware and freeware. You can find new software as well as updates to all your favorite software. http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/