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While the world is obsessing about AI, media creators are more concerned about storage capacity and bandwidth. Storage, not our computer, is now the performance gate-keeper. To learn more, I interviewed Skip Levens, Product Marketing for Quantum.

CaptionX was designed to create captions for all the languages Adobe Premiere Pro does not support – 89 in all! In this interview, Jake Brown, Founder of CaptionX, describes what it is, why he created it and who it’s for.

Beat is a free Mac app for media creators where you develop the story, plan the production, long form or short, then, on the shoot day, Beat has all the information you need on set, including a dynamic shot list and production timer. Here’s an interview with Joao Lutz, its creator, to learn more.

Editor Client Engine helps you find work faster by giving freelance video editors one place to decide who to target, build a stronger offer, evaluate prospects, create personalized outreach and follow ups, handle replies, and keep opportunities organized. I interviewed CEO Highness Kiwia to learn more.

This guest post is a detailed explanation of how to prevent problems with SD cards, how to make sure your card is working properly and how to fix it if something goes wrong. These instructions apply to both still images and video on Windows and Mac.

Jason Bache founded Nerds Limited back in 2009. Recently, to support his daily podcast, he challenged himself to build a broadcast-quality studio that fits into two Pelican cases and delivers the same experience as a permanent studio. Here’s what he created.

IBC2026, in Amsterdam, is quickly approaching. This is a list of new products and services at the show, curated for independent media creators and sorted by company, with links to learn more. Updated daily.

DaVinci Resolve 21.0.3 adds new ease modes for retime speed and frame curves, as well as improved handling of interlaced media, keyframe editing, multicam audio and PSD imports. Here’s the complete list of changes.

Spellshot is a Final Cut Pro extension that connects AI agents to your projects. Spellshot makes editing faster while preserving the editor’s judgment, creative control, and ownership of the final result. Here’s an interview with Tony Ginart, Spellshot CEO, to learn how this works.

PostProAnalytics (PPA) is a Mac-based application for automatically analyzing working hours and project activities in DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Premiere Pro, and After Effects (more applications are coming soon). Its focus is on the business side of editing.

Stockfilm holds 162,000+ searchable clips scanned from 1,583 physical 8m and Super 8mm film reels spanning the 1930s to 1980s, all available for direct licensing. Here’s more about what it is and how it works.

Today, Apple announced in a Tech Note that encrypted HFS+ drives will not be supported in macOS 28 (releasing in Fall, 2027). Unencrypted drives and all APFS drives are NOT affected. Here’s what you need to know.

ShadowTag reads and writes every major audio metadata standard — ID3v2, Vorbis Comments, MP4 atoms, BEXT, iXML, XMP, and UCS (Universal Category System) — in a single application, and organizes files into playlists without moving or duplicating them on disk. Here’s news about the latest version.

ReelNotes is a stand-alone app that “is a media logging and note-taking workspace for filmmakers, editors, researchers, journalists, students, podcasters. It supports all Mac-based NLEs. Here’s an interview with its developer, Hassan Amini, to explain how it works and who it’s for.

On June 30, 2026, Apple released Final Cut Pro 12.3. Based on Apple’s Release Notes, here’s what’s new.

Last week, Blackmagic Design upgraded DaVinci Resolve to version 21.0.1. Here’s what’s new, based on a Resolve support document.

On June 23, Adobe released Premiere 26.3. Here’s a list of key features, all new features and bug fixes, plus two links to learn more.

“If your customer cannot explain, in their own words, why your price is what it is, your brand has a storytelling problem.” This is true for consumer brands and it is true for us. If we can’t explain how our skills will help the client connect with customers, we won’t get work.

Where do AI-powered tools fit in managing media? This question was sparked by a MediaValet article that I think misses the mark. Here are two different perspectives on where AI fits best.

Clip Sweeper is a macOS app that finds the unused footage in your Premiere or Resolve projects and helps you reclaim that drive space without the fear of deleting the wrong thing. Learn more here.