Here are some Great FREE Final Cut plugins/filters. Too Much Too Soon Free Plugins, Stib's free plugins, Nattress Free Plugins, CGM Aged Film to name a few.

There are times when you are editing that you wish you had a diverse choice of footage. There are websites out there that do have free stock footage.

If you keep importing clips into Final Cut Pro 7 and try to add the SmoothCam video filter. But nothing happens. Try another video footage format.

If you have captured footage with really low audio levels. Then duplicate the audio levels over and over again which eventually works.

When using images directly in the timeline in FInal Cut. They can end up by default looking interlaced. Well there are some options to get around this.

If you keep trying to drag the Boris 3D Title onto the timeline from the viewer window. But it just moves the title in the viewer window.

You have just captured a whole tape non-stop. It is a long clip made up of several separate clips which you need to separate into individual shots.

If you want to jump forward and backward to the beginning or end of the timeline, or just the individual clip on the timeline. Here is how.

In some studios I find editors disable the snapping clips option, which means clips in the timeline move freely from left or right but don't lock.

Anybody trying to import mpg clips into Final Cut will notice the audio will disappear. This is due to the mpg clip probably being muxed. How to solve it?